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The Emergency That Will Not Die: Kill the Prep Act

https://popularrationalism.substack.com/p/the-emergency-that-will-not-die-do?

The Emergency That Will Not Die: Do Not Relent

HHS Begins Cutting the COVID EUA Knot. The PREP Act Liability Wall Still Stands. Tell Your Legislators: Tear Down This Wall.

James Lyons-Weiler, PhD

Jul 01, 2026

HHS announced today that Secretary Kennedy signed determinations terminating the COVID-19 EUA declarations for drugs and biological products and for medical devices, because HHS determined that the circumstances justifying those emergency authorities no longer exist. HHS says the drug/biologic declaration ends after a 12-month notice period, while the device declarations end after 180 days.

The Federal Register public-inspection notices give the exact effective dates: June 29, 2027 for COVID-19 drugs and biological products, and December 26, 2026 for the three device declarations covering in vitro diagnostics, personal respiratory protective devices, and other medical devices.

This is an essential first step toward reversing the regulatory capture by Pharma over public health, medicine and our bodies.

The COVID emergency did not merely authorize medical products. It reorganized accountability. Here’s how, and what comes next.

The Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act, the PREP Act, created the liability architecture. The statute granted a covered person immunity from suit and liability under federal and state law for claims of loss caused by, arising out of, relating to, or resulting from administration or use of a covered countermeasure when HHS issues a declaration for that countermeasure. The same statutory section extends that immunity to claims causally related to design, development, clinical testing, manufacture, labeling, distribution, marketing, promotion, sale, purchase, donation, dispensing, prescribing, administration, licensing, or use. That is not ordinary product regulation. That is an extraordinary legal shield.

COVID policy went askew because the federal government placed emergency countermeasures inside that shield, then allowed public agencies, employers, hospitals, universities, schools, pharmacies, and media institutions to behave as though the shielded products had entered civic life under ordinary conditions. They had not. The public encountered campaigns, recommendations, employment pressure, access restrictions, and moral messaging. The manufacturers and administrators operated inside a liability regime that ordinary medical products do not enjoy.

That is the first distortion: the burden moved downward. Manufacturers received insulation. Program planners received insulation. Administrators received insulation. Injured individuals moved into a narrow administrative channel, and they carried the burden they never agreed to carry.

The PREP Act also created the covered-countermeasure compensation process. The statute establishes a fund for eligible individuals with covered injuries directly caused by administration or use of a covered countermeasure, but the process does not replicate ordinary civil litigation. HRSA’s own comparison of the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program and the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program states that CICP has a one-year filing deadline, does not pay attorneys’ fees or costs, resolves requests through an administrative process, allows one administrative reconsideration step, and permits no judicial appeal. VICP proceeds through the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, uses Special Masters or judges, and permits judicial appeal.

That is the second distortion: injury claims did not enter the legal system the public imagines when it hears the word “compensation.” They entered CICP…… (See link for full article)

The third distortion came from the Emergency Use Authorization structure.

FDA states that an EUA declaration under section 564 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act differs from and does not depend on a public-health emergency declaration under section 319 of the Public Health Service Act. FDA also states that an EUA may remain in effect beyond the end of the section 319 public-health emergency if the statutory conditions remain satisfied. If the HHS Secretary terminates an EUA declaration, EUAs issued under that declaration cease to be effective, with limited transition exceptions, and FDA may no longer issue EUAs for products covered by that declaration.

That separation turned emergency law into a maze. The public-health emergency could end while the emergency product channel continued. The visible emergency could recede while the legal machinery remained in place. The public could hear that the crisis had ended while COVID products, tests, devices, and therapeutics continued through emergency pathways.

With the termination of the EUA, HHS has now started cutting that maze apart. This is not a small administrative cleanup. It is the first formal admission that the COVID emergency-use structure no longer fits the regulatory facts.

Here is the policy indictment: the government allowed emergency authority to outlive the emergency conditions that justified it.

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Important excerpt:

The PREP Act wall still stands. The twelfth PREP Act amendment extended the time period of PREP Act coverage through December 31, 2029, and it expressly extends liability protections for specified covered countermeasures and qualified persons, including licensed pharmacists, pharmacy interns, and qualified pharmacy technicians administering COVID-19 vaccines to individuals aged three and above through December 31, 2029.

That is the remaining knot.

Weiler recommends a full HHS audit of every vestige of the COVID ’emergency,’ including the liability cord the PREP Act still allows.

Weiler also shows how surfaced NIH emails reveal superficial comprehension of how outbreaks become epidemics and pandemics, and it has nothing to do with transmission – it began with institutions and future trigger for financing, platforms, boards, intellectual property, liability shields, and global coordination. It was all about apparatus.

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For an excellent read by France’s long-time vaccine policy chief, Professor Christian Perronne, on the stupidity of the entire COVID debacle from a scientific perspective: https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2021/08/19/covid-policy-is-completely-stupid-unethical-states-frances-vaccine-policy-chief-who-was-recently-fired-for-stating-this/

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Activism, Treatment, vaccines, Viruses

‘Bad Batch’ Vaccine Study: Some Batches Drove 80X Adverse Reactions

https://drdrew.com/2026/new-vaccine-study-some-batches-drove-80x-bad-reactions-says-danish-md-rare-diseases-expert-ask-dr-drew/

‘Bad Batch’ Vaccine Study: Some Batches Drove 80x Adverse Reactions, Says Danish MD & Rare Diseases Expert – Ask Dr. Drew

  • June 25, 2026

with Dr. Vibeke Maniche, Michael Pack & Rand Courtney

A new peer-reviewed study of nationwide German data finds suspected adverse-event reports for COVID-19 vaccines were sharply elevated in the earliest weeks of rollout, then fell suddenly. The authors call it a possible batch-dependent safety signal. Danish physician Dr. Vibeke Manniche, the study’s lead author and the only Danish doctor to speak out publicly against lockdow’ns from the start, joins to break down the findings.

Published in the International Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine, the analysis covers the first three and a half years of Germany’s vaccination campaign. For one product, early-rollout reporting rates were roughly 80 times higher than the rates seen just weeks later.

Dr. Manniche also makes the case for why the US could learn from Denmark’s childhood vaccine schedule. Filmmaker Michael Pack, president of Palladium Pictures, discusses their new WSJ Opinion documentary “The Lockdown Dissidents.” Director Rand Courtney speaks on “La Lucha: Getting Schooled in America,” which follows five teens through poverty, trauma, and a broken school system. Dr. Drew is featured in the film.


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Activism, research, vaccines

Why You Still Feel Sick After Standard Lyme Treatment

Why You Still Feel Sick After Standard Lyme Treatment

Dr. Jaquel Patterson

June 10, 2026

Lyme disease rarely travels alone, and unaddressed co-infections like Bartonella, Babesia, Ehrlichia, Anaplasma, Mycoplasma, and Rickettsia are some of the most common reasons chronic Lyme patients don’t recover. In this video, I walk through how each co-infection is distinct, why standard Lyme antibiotics don’t cover them, and what a truly comprehensive testing and treatment approach should look like. Learn more: https://www.fairfieldfamilyhealth.com

CHAPTERS

00:00 Why Lyme Treatment Often Isn’t Enough

01:32 What Tick Borne Co-Infections Actually Are

02:54 Bartonella, Babesia, and Why They Get Missed

06:55 Why Standard Lyme Testing Fails to Catch Co-Infections

08:46 The Clinical Patterns That Point to Hidden Infections

09:55 What Comprehensive Tick Borne Testing Looks Like

11:37 Treatment Protocols for Each Co-Infection

14:29 Final Takeaways for Chronic Lyme Patients

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**Comment**

And this, right here, is why many patients are not better and never get better. Further, testing absolutely sucks. ALL of it. Pathogens working together create a severe clinical picture. Many of these pathogens require completely different medications. Mainstream doctors are clueless on all of this and have furthered an antiquated, unscientific case definition and treatment protocol for over 40 years.

It is far, far more complex than most doctors are aware. They spend very little time studying this in med school and what they do study is completely wrong.

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Activism, Lyme, Testing, Treatment

Study: COVID Shot During Early Pregnancy Linked to Major Birth Defects

https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-study-covid-19-vaccination-fd6

BREAKING STUDY: COVID-19 Vaccination During Early Pregnancy Linked to Major Birth Defects

Babies born to mothers vaccinated during the first trimester suffered higher rates of atrioventricular septal defects (holes in the heart) and cleft palate.

Jun 18, 2026

by Nicolas Hulscher, MPH

A newly published registry-based cohort study has reported higher rates of certain congenital anomalies among babies born to mothers who received a COVID-19 vaccine during the first trimester of pregnancy.

They analyzed 1,352 pregnancies and compared women vaccinated during the critical organogenesis period (conception through 11 weeks and 6 days) with women who were either unvaccinated or vaccinated later in pregnancy.

The study found that atrioventricular septal defects (AVSD)—a serious congenital heart defect involving holes between the heart’s chambers—were observed in 2.3% of babies whose mothers were vaccinated during the first trimester, compared with 0% among babies of unvaccinated mothers.

They also found cleft palate in 0.8% of babies exposed during the first trimester, compared with 0% among babies of unvaccinated mothers. (See link for article)

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**Comment**

In a sane world they would have yanked these suckers off the market years ago.

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Activism, Heart Issues, vaccines

U.S. Strikes Medical Fraud

https://popularrationalism.substack.com/p/us-strikes-medical-fraud?

U.S. STRIKES MEDICAL FRAUD

June 23, 2026 takedown announcement shakes medical fraudsters to the core

James Lyons-Weiler, PhD

Jun 24, 2026

June 23, 2026 takedown: 455 defendants, 90 licensed medical professionals, over $6.5B in alleged false claims, HHS/CMS/OIG participation, CMS suspensions/revocations, and Sec. Kennedy’s statement on HHS collaboration with law enforcement. (Department of Justice).

The Department of Justice has announced an historic national health care fraud takedown involving 455 defendants, charging 90 physicians and other licensed health care professionals, in alleged schemes totaling more than $6.5 billion in false claims.

Federal authorities reported cases across 56 federal districts and 45 states and territories, participation by 50 state Medicaid Fraud Control Units, and seizure of more than $182 million in cash, luxury vehicles, jewelry, and other assets.

The announcement describes the largest health care fraud takedown in Department history, but its significance lies in what the cases reveal about the operating environment in which modern medical fraud can scale. These were not merely clerical irregularities or disputed interpretations of billing rules. The cases described by DOJ involve alleged kickbacks, medically unnecessary services, false diagnoses, prescription-drug diversion, hospice fraud, wound-care billing schemes, Medicaid exploitation, and patient harm, including death. (See link for article)

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**Comment**

Remember “trust the science?” Well here we are……not trusting science or those who tell us to ‘trust the science.’

Best quote:

“The American people do not need lectures about trust. They need institutions that earn it. On June 23, 2026, federal law enforcement and HHS gave the country a glimpse of what earned trust requires: not deference to credentials, not blind faith in systems, and not public-relations medicine, but accountability.”

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Activism