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More COVID Shot Bad News: Cumulative Cardiotoxicity, 1 in 3 Suffer Neurological Effects, & DNA Contamination Could Reach Fetus

https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/concerns-over-cumulative-cardiotoxicity?

Concerns over Cumulative Cardiotoxicity with mRNA Injection

Troponin Measurements Before and After 4th Shot Give Clues

PETER MCCULLOUGH, MD
OCT 31, 2023

The field of pharmacovigilance and drug safety is loaded with regulatory structure and milestones. One of the exercises a new drug must go through is “cumulative toxicity” testing. If a drug is harmful, one dose may not be enough to bring out a side effect. However after 5 or more does, many times problems will emerge. It is usual and customary to count all adverse events for 30 days after a drug is stopped because it may have accumulated in the body or have induced lingering effects.

We have learned COVID-19 vaccines are very long lasting in the body, and since the start of the worldwide mass vaccination campaign, our public health agency sponsors have never mentioned cumulative toxicity as a concern.

Levi et al published an analysis in the European Journal of Heart Failure that appeared to make the COVID-19 vaccines look “safe.” But on the surface there are problems. 324 healthcare workers had cardiac troponin (test for cardiac damage) blood testing before and after the 4th injection. The authors focus on one unfortunate soul who had chest pain, a pathologic rise in troponin, and had to undergo more blood testing, ECG’s, echocardiography, and cardiac MRI. One out of 324 is far to many to have this problem with a routine vaccination!

What authors may have revealed in the cohort is cumulative cardiotoxicity. These patients were ~147 days after the last shot. Among healthy persons, we should be concerned over troponin elevated BEFORE the fourth shot.  (See link for article)

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Important points:

  • as many as 14.81% cumulatively sustained damage from shots 3 and 4
  • all small prospective cohort studies have found one or more cases indicating cardiac damage: Mansanguan, Beurgin, and now Levi
  • 75% of people in the U.S. took one or more shots

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https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/nearly-1-in-3-covid-19-vaccine-recipients-suffered-neurological-side-effects-study

Nearly 1 in 3 COVID-19 Vaccine Recipients Suffered Neurological Side Effects: Study

The people included in the study suffered from headaches, tremors, muscle spasms, insomnia, sleepiness, vertigo, and difficulty in concentration.

10/30/2023

Almost a third of individuals who received a COVID-19 vaccine suffered from neurological complications including tremors, insomnia, and muscle spasms, according to a recent study published in the journal Vaccines.

The study analyzed 19,096 people who received COVID-19 vaccines in Italy in July 2021, out of which 15,368 had taken the Pfizer vaccine, 2,077 had taken the Moderna version, and 1,651 took the AstraZeneca version.

While both Pfizer and Moderna are mRNA vaccines, AstraZeneca, being an adenovirus vaccine, uses a different mechanism to trigger the immune response.

The study found that about 31.2 percent of vaccinated individuals developed post-vaccination neurological complications, particularly among those injected with the AstraZeneca jab. Different vaccines had a different “neurological risk profile.”  (See link for article)

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Important points:

  • females faced an “increased risk of developing neurological complications”
  • a primary female sex steroid called estradiol triggers a specific immunity process to produce “antibodies against infections.”
  • “Caution should be used when administering COVID-19 vaccines to vulnerable people, such as to those who suffer from allergies,” the study stated. “We strongly believe that our findings are relevant for public health regarding the safety of vaccines in a large cohort.”
If you are a Lyme/MSIDS patient YOU ARE VULNERABLE.

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https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/pfizer-vaccine-dna-pregnant-mother-fetus/?

DNA Contamination in Pfizer Shots Could Transfer From Pregnant Mom to Fetus, Experts Suggest

According to a panel of experts, led by Steve Kirsch, regulators are ignoring proof that Pfizer intentionally concealed the presence of contaminants in its COVID-19 vaccines. Those contaminants could threaten unborn babies whose mothers receive the vaccine, the experts said in a recent video.

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Activism, Heart Issues, Pregnancy, vaccines, Viruses

Vaccine Awareness Week: ‘Great Awakening Underway’

https://www.vaccineawarenessweek.org/?wix-vod-video

Vaccine Awareness Week

Oct. 29-Nov. 4

In the top link you will learn the story of Barbara Loe Fisher’s (and other’s) journey to safeguard vaccine safety and champion informed consent.  In short, her bright, healthy two and a half year old son suffered a reaction to his fourth DPT shot.  Instead of accepting what happened to her son she joined with other parents of DPT injured children and then co-authored a book on pertussis and the pertussis vaccine that was the first major critique of the U.S. mass vaccination system.  Forty one years ago she began the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) to help parents obtain referenced information on vaccine history, science, policy, law and ethics to facilitate educated vaccine decision making and encourage active citizen participation in the public policymaking and legislative process

She has been a voice of reason and compassion in the vaccine safety debate, defining and defending the human right to informed consent to vaccination.

NVIC has operated a Vaccine Reaction Registry since 1982 and provides a public forum for reporting of vaccine reactions and failures on The International Memorial for Vaccine Victims and the Vaccine Failure Wall. On the Cry for Vaccine Freedom Wall, NVIC provides a public forum for describing first person experiences of harassment and sanctions by physicians, government officials and employers when Americans attempt to exercise voluntary informed consent to vaccination.

  • NVIC also maintains an up-to-date list with links to vaccine laws, requirements and exemptions, for all 50 states.
  • It also publishes two free digital periodicals – the monthly NVIC Newsletter and weekly journal newspaper, The Vaccine Reaction emailed to more than 65,000 subscribers.
  • NVIC’s publication program also features vaccine information guides, brochures, posters, and in-depth special reports downloadable from the Ask 8 Information Kiosk and many may be ordered in print form by contacting us.
  • NVIC operates a free online advocacy communications network, the NVIC Advocacy Portal, to educate and empower citizens at the grassroots level in every state to secure and defend informed consent protections in U.S. vaccine policies and laws.
  • Every day, NVIC serves many new followers on Twitter, MeWe, Gab, Minds, Telegram, and Rumble.
  • NVIC produces vaccine education video briefs and longer written referenced video commentaries. NVIC provides downloadable podcasts of longer commentaries on Sound Cloud, iTunes and through NVIC.org.
  • Check out the NVIC website for much, much more.

Over the past 40 years, Barbara has seen a disturbing shift in public conversations about vaccination, health and autonomy, especially since the declaration of a coronavirus pandemic in 2020. Parents of vaccine injured children and anyone defending the legal right to make voluntary vaccine decisions are being demonized, persecuted, sanctioned and censored in the digital public square. Her voice and the information that NVIC researches and publishes online has been scrubbed from social media platforms and is being stifled by Internet search engines. While NVIC has faced persecution for 15 years, go here and read an important article on how there’s been a new concerted effort to control information about vaccines and countering vaccine hesitancy.  The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) is itself a hate group and has discredited and demonized anyone who questions vaccines. It has been publicly called out for blatantly lying to create false narrative.

‘Memes, Magnets and Microchips: Narrative Dynamics Around COVID-19 Vaccines,’ by the Virality Project, put out by the Stanford International Observatory, the NYU Center for Social Media Politics, the University of Washington Center for an Informed Public and Graphika found weaponization against its citizens by the government as the federal government, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of State, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Defense and more, joined with businesses and institutions in society, particularly universities, to create what is known as ‘the censorship industrial complex,’ or ‘the disinformation industrial complex.’

Fisher will present a report to the U.S. House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, CISA, and Big Tech against Americans.  She urges everyone to share this report with friends and family.  She also states the NVIC has been ghosted and would appreciate donations.

14th Annual Vaccine Awareness Week

October 29 – November 4, 2023

Sunday, Oct. 29

A video interview with Dr. Joe Mercola and NVIC co-founder and president Barbara Loe Fisher will kick off VAW week

Wednesday, Nov. 1

A special report about the silencing of NVIC’s voice in the digital public square will be published and accompanied by Barbara’s video commentary.

Thursday, Nov. 2

NVIC’s 2023 Annual State Vaccine Legislation Report will be published.

Friday, Nov. 3

The featured film Plandemic 2 will be shown on the Mercola.com website.

Dr. Mercola is generously matching the first $100,000 in donations to NVIC during this event. Your Donation Can Make Twice the Difference

Your donation is making a real difference! Thanks to your support for NVIC’s work, we can:

1. ADVOCATE to make vaccine safety and the legal right to exercise voluntary, informed consent to vaccination a national priority.

2.  DEFEND freedom of thought, speech and conscience and other civil liberties in America. 

3.  CALL for more and better quality science to anchor public health policies and laws 

4.  RESEARCH AND PUBLISH well referenced information on vaccine science, policy, law and ethics to empower individuals to make educated decisions about vaccination and health.

5.  ORGANIZE grassroots support for securing strong informed consent protections in state and federal government vaccine policies and laws. 

Every contribution brings us one step closer to living in a world where everyone can make informed vaccination decisions voluntarily without fear of being coerced or punished by anyone for the decision made. Together, we’re creating a brighter and healthier future. Thank you for being a part of this vital mission.

Since 2010, NVIC and Mercola.com have co-sponsored Vaccine Awareness Week to prioritize vaccine safety and informed consent in the U.S. Join us in spreading vital information on vaccines and informed consent during this critical time in our nation’s history.

Committed to transparency and accountability

NVIC has a small staff of part time employees and volunteers who operate the organization on a day-to-day basis. NVIC has an independent audit conducted every year and is a highly rated non-profit charity committed to transparency and accountability. More information about NVIC can be obtained on GuideStar.

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Activism, vaccines

CDC Now Lists Lyme As Infection That Can Cause Chronic Symptoms – Don’t Expect Much From This

https://www.lymedisease.org/cdc-chronic-lyme-iaccpac/

CDC now lists Lyme as infection that can cause chronic symptoms

A new page on the CDC website is headlined Chronic Symptoms Following Infections.

It goes on to say: “Infections can sometimes leave people with symptoms that last for weeks to months or longer, even after appropriate treatment.”

(I quibble with their use of “appropriate.” But I’ll leave that alone for now.)

Look what the CDC web page says next–and notice what’s at the top of the list:

Some disease agents that have been linked to chronic symptoms

Some people with chronic symptoms following infections may not know which infection triggered the symptoms, or even recognize that they had an infection before their chronic symptoms began. People with chronic symptoms and unknown preceding infection may be diagnosed with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome.

Why is this significant?

For years, the CDC and others in the medical establishment have been loathe to acknowledge that Lyme disease can turn chronic.

For a long time, the agency openly endorsed the IDSA Lyme treatment guidelines, which flatly deny that chronic Lyme exists. Even when the CDC removed the link to the IDSA guidelines from their website and softened some language, there was little support for the concept of persistent symptoms of Lyme disease.

Then along came COVID…

COVID-19 changed all that. Soon after the beginning of the pandemic, so many people began experiencing long-term symptoms of the illness that the term “long COVID” entered the national lexicon. Among the most prominent symptoms of long COVID were debilitating fatigue and brain fog–two symptoms also common in people with persistent Lyme disease, ME/CFS, and a host of other chronic conditions.

According to a 2022 CDC survey, nearly 18 million Americans have suffered from long COVID at some point since the pandemic began, and almost 9 million did at the time of the survey.

Those numbers were too big to ignore–and it opened the door for looking at other chronic conditions that shared symptoms with long COVID.

In June 2023, the National Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM), brought together high-level health officials, academic researchers, and knowledgeable patient advocates to look at the question of “infection-associated chronic illnesss.”

And just this past week, patient advocates that have joined IACCPAC–the Infection-Associated Chronic Conditions Patient Advocacy Coalition–held an online webinar introducing the coalition and its goals.

These are the groups currently involved in IACCPAC:

LymeDisease.org’s Lorraine Johnson was among the panelists at the IACCPAC workshop. She emphasized that patients can’t wait for decades-long studies to determine which treatments are best. It’s essential to accelerate research now.

The various conditions listed above are different in many ways, but they share many unique challenges. By working together, we’ll be able to accomplish things that are much harder to do individually.

I believe things are starting to shift. Stay tuned.

TOUCHED BY LYME is written by Dorothy Kupcha Leland, President of LymeDisease.org. She is co-author of When Your Child Has Lyme Disease: A Parent’s Survival Guide, and of Finding Resilience: A Teen’s Journey Through Lyme Disease. Contact her at dleland@lymedisease.org.

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**Comment**

The only reason the CDC changes anything is if it benefits their bottom-line and their vested interests. Admitting diseases can be “chronic,” “persistent,” or “long haul” will assist their “vaccine” narrative – particularly using the mRNA platform.  Rather than finding safe, cheap, repurposed drugs to help patients, or accurate testing, it will all be used for lucrative “vaccine” research and development.

I don’t expect much to happen from this, other than many Lyme advocates will continue to support government agencies that have only gas-lit and ignored patient suffering.

If you click on the Lyme link, it leads you here with the infamously biased title Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome.  While it at least states that some experts believe it’s an auto-immune response while others hypothesize that PTLDS is from persistent but difficult to detect infection, while yet others believe it’s due to other causes unrelated to Borrelia burgdorferi infection, here’s the kicker: 

Studies funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have found that long-term outcomes are no better for patients who received additional prolonged antibiotic treatment than for patients who received placebo. Long-term antibiotic treatment for Lyme disease has been associated with serious, sometimes deadly complications, as described in the links below.  Patients with PTLDS usually get better over time, but it can take many months to feel completely well.

This right here means nothing is going to change. While long-term antibiotics may not be the answer for every Lyme/MSIDS patient, they saved my life, my husband’s life, and the lives of countless others, but due to this unchanging threatening verbiage – no mainstream doctor will dare to prescribe the very thing that could save lives.

I’m not a negative person, but I am a realist.  A pig with lip-stick on is still a pig.

Don’t expect much from this other than gad-loads of money continuing to be spent on the wrong things – including “climate change.”

Just like Fauci told the government NOT to do autopsies on COVID deaths, and just like they made it illegal to analyze what was in the COVID injections, the very thing that could end the Lyme wars are chronic Lyme post-mortem studies, but mark my words: these will not be done.

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Activism, Lyme

Podcast: When a Family Has Lyme

https://www.lymedisease.org/podcast-when-multiple-members-of-your-family-have-lyme-disease/

PODCAST: When multiple members of your family have Lyme disease

By Fred Diamond

10/16/23

It’s hard enough managing your own or just your child’s persistent Lyme symptoms, but what do you do when multiple people in your family have Lyme and other tick-borne illnesses? What kind of support do you need and where do you get it?

On this week’s Love, Hope, Lyme Podcast, I talk with Jessica Snajder, founder of Partner in Lyme, a non-profit that distributes funds to families in Connecticut for medical care. She discusses how her family coped when she was diagnosed with Lyme three years after they started caring for her teenage daughter.

“I founded Partner in Lyme based on the experience my oldest daughter had with her diagnosis, the complications of treating Lyme, and the financial aspects of treating Lyme and I felt that something good had to come out of our family’s experience,” she said. “I have also become a patient. I was diagnosed with Lyme and have been in treatment myself. It has evolved from my daughter’s care to a nonprofit and then to a family experience.”

“Partner in Lyme was really born out of that desire to make something good come out of a really bad situation. We give financial support to Lyme survivors in Connecticut to spend on anything that falls under the wellness umbrella that helps them heal in their body, spirit, and soul.”

I asked her if everyone in Connecticut understands the disease, since it was named for a city in the state.

She said that it is not the case.

“Residents of Connecticut still are operating under such misconceptions about what Lyme disease is and what it is not. Not enough doctors are screening proactively at yearly checkups. Pediatricians are not looking for signs. There’s a lot of missed opportunity to catch people early on in treatment and it’s very hard to find a doctor to work with and afford.”

What Do Those Who Love a Persistent Lyme Survivor Need to Know?

Jessica said Lyme survivors might need emotional, physical, and financial support.

“No matter who that person is, they need emotional support. Chronic Lyme is isolating, it’s physically debilitating, and it impacts who you are. There’s a grief process that the person with Lyme goes through.  You’re going to mourn the things that you can no longer participate in, and how your life has changed through no desire of your own.”

She also said that sometimes physical support takes precedence and can be different from person to person.

“Everyone in my family has had different physical issues. One of us has had more neurological issues, which has resulted in them not being able to drive. Someone else has mobility issues and that has led at times to wheelchair use or spending days on the couch until a flare passes,” she said.

“For myself, it was a little bit of both plus memory issues. My family thought I was multitasking or maybe on my phone when they were speaking to me. They would get frustrated with me when I wouldn’t respond, but once they realized that this wasn’t me not paying attention, this is my mind being affected by a bacteria, then it was easier to say, ‘all right, I’ll repeat that for you,’ or, ‘I won’t get aggravated if I think that you’re just not listening to me.’

Not surprisingly, financial support is often needed.

“Unless you are a wealthy individual, it’s almost impossible to do all the things that you would like to do and that your doctor may advise you to do,” she suggested.

She said that people don’t understand you just cannot go to your primary care physician for chronic Lyme. She estimated that the average patient spends about $50,000 out of pocket a year, if they can. Since most people cannot afford that, they’re not getting the treatment that they need, which means they need even more emotional support and even more physical support, because their bodies are not getting what they need to heal.

Complications When She Got Lyme Disease

Jessica said she was diagnosed with Lyme three years after her daughter was diagnosed.

“My oldest daughter was diagnosed in 2018, after seeing 10 doctors and struggling for about a year and a half to figure out what was wrong with her. That affected her senior year of high school into college. There was a lot of support that had to be given just to get her to finish school. I was driving her to college, waiting for her to finish her classes, and then driving her home.”

Jessica said being a caregiver was deeply entrenched in her day-to-day life and helped her process her own diagnosis. “I had the benefit of understanding this disease deeply. I was one of those classic long COVID cases but because I knew enough about Lyme, I knew it was not normal that my joints were hurting too.”

“My biggest takeaway was just the heartbreak for wanting things to go back the way they were and knowing that they can’t easily, and they may never go back. It’s reframing your life. As a 50-year-old woman, it’s easier for me to do that than as a 20-year-old young person,” she observed. “My heart just broke a bit more for her when I realized how significantly this takes a toll on your mental health. Looking for joy, trying to experience joy in a different way.”

Her Suggestion for Caregivers

When I asked her for advice for people who want to support Lyme survivors, Jessica said to avoid generalizing.

“When you share that you have Lyme, inevitably someone will say to you, “Oh, so-and-so had Lyme and they did X, Y and Z and they’re better. It’s no big deal. Well, yes, it’s a big deal. There are lot of misconceptions about how to treat Lyme and how not to treat Lyme. When you share these anecdotal stories of someone’s friend of a friend of a friend, it’s not received well.”

She advised not to minimize it and to try to think of it as if this person in your life was diagnosed with cancer. “Just cut off cancer and put in Lyme because the similarities between those two diseases are very strong and the quality of life for someone with Lyme consistently rates lower than someone who has been diagnosed with cancer.”

The biggest thing is to empathize with them. To not take anything that happens personally.

“If you are willing to set yourself aside and be selfless in your expression of how you love that person, whether you’re loving them as a friend or as a spouse, it’s humbling to set yourself aside and give that person what they need. It is a lesson in what love really is. Being compassionate, being kind, being selfless, seeking someone else’s well-being above your own.”

Learn more about Partner in Lyme here.

Click here to listen to all episodes of the Love, Hope, Lyme Podcast or on YouTube.

Fred Diamond is based in Fairfax, VA and can be contacted via Facebook. His popular book, “Love, Hope, Lyme: What Family Members, Partners, and Friends Who Love a Chronic Lyme Survivor Need to Know” is available on Amazon. The e-version of the book is always free to Lyme survivors. Send Fred a private message on Facebook for your copy.

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**Comment**

We spent about 15K per person about 10 years ago; however, our LLMD doesn’t test much as he just doesn’t feel they are accurate – plus they cost a lot of money. We stuck primarily with low cost antibiotics and when they were expensive we ordered from a Canadian pharmacy which gets most of these drugs from India making them much cheaper.  You have to plan a month in advance to do this successfully.  That said, we had to supplement with many things and supplements are rarely cheap.

The last I checked, an herbal treatment program runs about $300 a month per person unless you get the ground herb in bulk and make your own.

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Lyme, Treatment

There’s Hope: People Starting to Question the COVID Narrative & Nobody Wants The Clot Shots

https://drtesslawrie.substack.com/p/starting-to-question-the-covid-narrative?

Starting to question the Covid narrative?

When you are ready, the World Council for Health is here for you

OCT 27, 2023
By Dr. Tess Lawrie

At some point you may decide to act on the nagging thoughts that won’t go away and start exploring. Once you start on this journey it will become impossible to un-know what you find out.

It is nearly four years now since the arrival of a Covid 19 – a watershed event that ruptured society along new fault lines. Governments around the World agreed on a common response and we were subjected to lockdowns, masks, and inoculations to combat a deadly virus. We were encouraged to comply with official guidelines by appealing to our virtuous natures: our respect for authority, trust in professionals, sense of responsibility, compassion for the vulnerable, and willingness to sacrifice our individual needs for the ‘greater good’.

While most people went along with what the World Health Organization decreed through national governments, a variety of experts and many others were skeptical, expressing concern about the draconian and unscientific measures imposed and their likely impacts on all aspects of human life. Despite their honorable intentions, dissident voices were roundly criticized for being selfish, uncaring, and a danger to society.

For these sceptics, most of the official guidelines made no sense at all. But instead of their well-researched concerns being taken seriously and debated, they were quickly denounced. The Covid caravan kept rumbling along, ignoring contradictory evidence and ethical concerns.  (See link for article).  This article was co-written by Alice Ashwell, Charlie Efford and Tess Lawrie.

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The World Council for Health (WCH) is one of a number of communities of people whose lives were turned upside-down by the Covid crisis. We have all seen many things we cannot ‘un-see’, and have been learning, growing, and becoming stronger together as we pursue our mission to empower health, freedom, and sovereignty.

We would love you to join our community, which you can do by signing up to our newsletter and participating in our regular Monday Better Way Live livestreams, where we keep up to date with the latest developments relating to our mission.

The WCH website and Substack are full of empowering resources to help you navigate these challenging times, improve your general health, heal from Covid-related injuries, and participate in campaigns that aim to create ‘a better way’ for all of us.

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https://standforhealthfreedom.com/cdc-oct-meeting/

ACIP Annual Review Was a Bust

The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) met October 25-26, 2023, for their annual review of the childhood and adult schedules, as well as updates on changes to come.

Much of the discussion revolved around how complicated the schedule is because it’s growing so quickly. Chair Grace Lee made the comment,

“I can see we’re going to need a bigger refrigerator for all the vaccines.” And Matt Daley observed, we’re “going to run into the situation where we can’t fit the schedule on one page.”

Top takeaways:

  1. The schedules are now for “vaccines and other immunizing agents,” because of the addition of nirsevimab, a monoclonal antibody, aimed at preventing RSV in infants. This is an unwelcome expansion of what can go on the table.
  2. The Mpox vaccine was put on the childhood schedule, even though the vaccine is not licensed for children. It is recommended for use in at-risk adolescents at the age of 18, with acknowledgement that the recommendation could change once data from trials in 12-18-year-olds is available. The committee voted for federal purchases of the Mpox vaccine through the Vaccines for Children (VFC) program. Mpox is the second non-licensed, EUA vaccine added to the schedule. This addition is notable for School-based Health Centers (SBHCs) as well, as the addition to the schedule would trigger the ability for children to be given the drug without parental knowledge or consent.
  3. The Adult Immunization Schedule is expanding in tandem with the childhood schedule, and the drumbeat for a “Vaccines for Adults” financing program to mirror VFC sounded loudly throughout the two days.
  4. The RSV vaccine was added to both the adult and childhood schedules for pregnant mothers, but as of publication, RSV is not covered by the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. People anticipate that it will be, but since RSV vaccines will be new to “vaccine court,” additional regulatory steps must be taken.
  5. Expect meningococcal (“meningitis”) vaccine recommendations to mutate as Pfizer’s new “pentavalent” vaccine was licensed. Though the ACIP wasn’t in lockstep yet about how to recommend three different meningococcal shots (one with five strains, one with four, and one with only one), they did all agree an update was necessary and that Pfizer’s new product should be paid for by taxpayers through VFC.
  6. Immunization manufacturers have a blank check for adding to the schedule on a rolling basis, as a new addendum has been added as a placeholder for anticipated changes or additions to the schedule. (We know the GBS vaccine for pregnant mothers is very close to the end of the pipeline.)
  7. A common talking point through many presentations were the shortcomings of “commercialization” through sales of the drugs directly from manufacturers, rather than a public health program of massive purchases and subsequent distribution. In other words, the government claims they’re better at getting people to take vaccines than the private sector is. Let’s keep an eye on where the rubber meets the road on this: Will we see an acceleration of public-private partnerships? Will the government become more of a market player as stock prices drop from their astronomical COVID heights?
  8. There was considerable discussion about the rush for the ACIP to publish recommendations after the FDA grants a new or expanded license. The 21st Century Cures Act mandates that the ACIP move along quickly, but one of the members also made a telling comment about the role of the ACIP in comparison to the practice of medicine: “No recommendation means people will have to make up what they’re going to do with no guidance.” That mentality reflects the fact that the “practice” of medicine (with the federal government at the helm) has become following directions, rather than individualized and thoughtful care.
  9. Injury claims in the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP) for COVID products are at 12,233; 9,221 of which are from the jab.
  10. Saved the best updates for last: As the number of recommended shots in pregnancy increases, uptake decreases. To address that, multiple presentations cited new propoganda statistics about how safe and effective flu shots during pregnancy are.
  11. The government’s National Immunization Survey showed 7.1% of adults and 2.1% of children self-reported getting the new 2023-2024 COVID shot. These numbers are higher than reality, because the data comes from people who are willing to answer a government survey, giving a very slanted picture.

If you’re feeling gloom and doom, be uplifted by the comment made by David Kimberlin from the American Academy of Pediatrics, who was stuttering in disbelief at the low numbers of people vaccinated with the latest COVID shot and the high number of people who say they don’t plan on it for themselves or their children. 

“Um… Two percent of children have received the current version of the vaccine, and 40% of parents say they’re not going to get their children vaccinated. Seven percent of adults have received the current vaccine; forty percent or so say they’re not going to get vaccinated. Uh, this is…I don’t even really have words for this…I-I-I-I-I appreciate everything that, you know, the AAP is doing, that-that ACIP is doing, CDC and so forth to, to make recommendations, but the recommendations are not being heard.”

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Activism, vaccines, Viruses