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Royalties & Profits Over Patient Care Part 2

Go here for Part 1.

https://www.change.org/p/the-us-senate-calling-for-a-congressional-investigation-of-the-cdc-idsa-and-aldf

Patent royalties and pharmaceutical profits over lifesaving care? (Part 2)

Carl Tuttle

Hudson, NH, United States

JAN 12, 2023 — 

We have been shouting from the rooftops for decades!! No one listened.

Now through the current pandemic the rest of the world is waking up to a False Public Health Narrative.

What you are about to read set the stage for “Safe and Effective”

-Manipulated diagnostic tests

-Suppression of the truth, facts, and scientific references

-Persecution of doctors who did not conform to published IDSA treatment protocols

-False Public Health Narrative; “Hard to catch and easy to treat”

After experiencing Covid, Now do you believe us?

Patent royalties and pharmaceutical profits over lifesaving care? Sound familiar?

2nd letter to Dattwyler (See previous update for part1)

——— Original Message ———-
From: CARL TUTTLE <runagain@comcast.net>
To: “Raymond_Dattwyler@nymc.edu” <Raymond_Dattwyler@nymc.edu>
Cc: “npjvaccines@nature.com” <npjvaccines@nature.com>, “abarrett@utmb.edu” <abarrett@utmb.edu>, “R.W.Titball@exeter.ac.uk” <R.W.Titball@exeter.ac.uk>, “mgomesso@uthsc.edu” <mgomesso@uthsc.edu>
Date: 01/11/2023 10:46 AM
Subject: Re: The year that shaped the outcome of the OspA vaccine for human Lyme disease
Dr. Dattwyler

As a follow-up to my inquiry questioning patent royalties and pharmaceutical profits over lifesaving care, you failed to mention in your manuscript that Western blot reporting criteria was manipulated in 1995 to facilitate vaccine development. (Dearborn Conference)

That manipulation led to a reduction in diagnostic success rate to 31% as reported by Dr. Paul Fawcett during the 1995 Rheumatology Symposia:

1995 Rheumatology Symposia Abstract# 1254 Dr. Paul Fawcett et al.

See full Abstract here

Dr. Fawcett has been the head of the research and clinical immunology laboratories since 1986. In addition, he serves as Chair of the IACUC and is a member of the IRB.
Source: https://www.nemoursresearch.org/snap/node/11969

Even more significant is Dennis Parenti’s 1998 vaccine presentation (Lyme.org at 1 hr 9 minutes). Dr. Parenti, medical director of the vaccine trial – the largest Lyme trial in history, discusses the research findings of seronegative Lyme. At 36% it is a common presentation. This proves that a negative western blot is meaningless. Since their patients were culture positive and/or DNA positive for Borrelia infection and western blot negative. Those patients would never get treatment because of the false standard. Despite the CDC knowing this, HHS knowing this, physician harassment continued unabated. This means that our own government was cherry-picking scientific findings to force false science on public health and block the public from getting the medical care they needed.

Once again, patent royalties and pharmaceutical profits over lifesaving care.

Slide from Dennis Parenti’s 1998 vaccine presentation:

See slide here_________________________________________________________

Seronegative Lyme does not prove:
1. A vaccine prevented disease:
2. A patient does not have Lyme disease;
3. Malpractice by doctors who treat them for disease;
4. An antibiotic has eradicated the disease;
5. A relapse is not occurring.

Seronegative Lyme is another clue of how the pathogen disables the patient’s immune system. That is the message by the bacterium to researchers, not that the patient does not have Lyme disease.

“Every research study that uses and article referencing seronegative Lyme to indicate any of the above is fraudulent and should not be used. Almost all protocols ignore this fact!!!” -Karen Vanderhoof-Forschner, Lyme Disease Foundation (founded in 1988)

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The pursuit of patent royalties and pharmaceutical profits has caused unimaginable pain and suffering all across America!
Carl Tuttle
Hudson, NH

Cc: Alan D.T. Barrett, PhD Editor-in-Chief

Rick Titball, PhD, DSc, Deputy Editor

Lyme Disease Foundation
Willy Burgdorfer
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Another Shocking Lab Investigation of COVID “Vaccines. Doctors Told to “Zip It” Regarding Vax Injuries. Pentagon Officially Rescinds COVID Vax Requirement For the Military

https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/shocking-lab-investigation-of-covid-vaccines_4955787.html

Shocking Lab Investigation of COVID Vaccines

Jan 1 2023

Finally, an unbiased pathologist has taken a vaccine into the lab to demonstrate exactly what’s causing ‘the mystery of the rubbery clots.’

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

  • A recent laboratory investigation by The Highwire reveals the only consistent thing about the COVID shots are their inconsistency. There is no quality control. Some appear clear like saline, while others are loaded with contaminants
  • In August 2021, Japan rejected 1.63 million doses of Moderna’s mRNA shot due to contamination. Last year the European Medicines Agency (EMA) also expressed concern over vials that were only 50% to 55% pure
  • The vials also contain massively inconsistent amounts of polyethylene glycol (PEG). PEG can cause anaphylactic shock in some people. PEG also gets in the way of proper immune response
  • If you are unfortunate enough to get a vial that is loaded with PEG, your risk of adverse effects such as anaphylactic shock and dysregulated immune response is greater than if you get a vial with lower amounts
  • According to Dr. Ryan Cole, a pathologist, what looks like microchips or nanotechnology in the liquid are actually stacked cholesterol, sugar and salt crystals, and what has been described as parasites are stellate trikons, found on the bottom of leaves. They’re likely a contaminant picked up at some point during the lab investigation

December 12, 2022, The Highwire posted1 a fascinating and shocking lab investigation of the COVID shots. Del Bigtree begins by reviewing some of the many alleged findings by organizations looking at the shots using various technologies. For example, some claim to have found graphite in the vials, while others have discovered what looks like nanotechnology and parasites.  (See link for video and article)

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There have been other labs looking into the vials and all are finding numerous contaminants.

Summary of video on COVID shot lab findings:

  • Some may be getting fragmented RNA as opposed to complete RNA, which can have unforeseen consequences.
  • Using mass spectronomy, metallic particles including aluminum, silicon, magnesium, sodium chloride, calcium, titanium, and iron were found.
  • While Cole admits no graphene was found in any of the 100 vials he tested; manufacturing processes result in wildly varying contents and it has been found by other researchers.  In fact, one group found around 747 nanograms of graphene oxide which means 99% of the tested Pfizer shot was made up entirely of graphene oxide, which one expert describes as nano-razors.
  • Two harmful things he did find was the lipid nanoparticle (hyper-inflammatory & toxic) and a gene sequence that forces your body make a foreign protein.
  • The injections were meant to be given once. Studies giving it more frequently have not been done so cumulative toxicity is unknown. (This is also true that the cumulative effect of ALL vaccines is unknown)
  • The more of this gene that gets into cells that continue to make a spike protein with known countless side-effects the worse the outcome.  Go here to see data on how the boosted are worse off than the unvaccinated, as well as a growing body of research that has detected negative vaccine effectiveness after a period of time and a higher likelihood of getting infected among people with more doses.
  • Cole took a drop of Bigtree’s unvaccinated blood and added a drop of the COVID injection.  In the area touched by the COVID shot, the red blood cells look like they’d evaporated.  The hemoglobin was wiped out causing the cells to turn white. The cells were also clumping toward the outside of the drop with many folding together with echinocytes clearly visible.

“It instantly changed the pH of the interior. These are little blobs of protein on the membrane of the red cell, because the red cell has involuted … All these little fingers, that is not spike protein. That’s another myth.

But that’s fascinating, because that instantly changed the pH of the interior of the cell. And it caused a massive outflow of fluid from the interior of the cell causing all that cell membrane folding. That’s wild.

It was almost instantaneous, and it is everywhere. Those red cells are now nonfunctional red cells. Those aren’t going to carry a whit of oxygen. Now your body has to decide what to do and has an inflammatory reaction, because now it has to gobble those up.”

Cole warns that ‘the powers that be’ want to try do do lipid nanoparticles with influenza, RSV, and other shots going forward when the current COVID injection program has failed and is harmful technology. Humans were not created to make foreign toxic proteins.

Cole states that not only do the COVID shots need to be stopped, but the entire platform as well.

The article ends by stating if you already got one of more shots, stop now and take no more.  He points you to the Frontline COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance’s (FLCCC) post-jab injury protocol.

http://Approx. 4 min

Doctors Told to “Zip It” About ‘Vaccine’ Injuries

GB News

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/10/politics/military-covid-vaccine-rescinded/index.html

Pentagon officially rescinds Covid-19 vaccine requirement for troops

 A US Marine prepares to receive the Moderna coronavirus vaccine at Camp Hansen on April 28, 2021, in Kin, Japan.
CNN — 

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has officially rescinded the military’s Covid-19 vaccination mandate for troops after President Joe Biden signed the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act, requiring its dismissal.

“Section 525 of the NDAA for FY 2023 requires me to rescind the mandate that members of the armed forces be vaccinated against Covid-19, issued in my August 24, 2021 memorandum … I hereby rescind that memorandum,” Austin said in a memo on Tuesday night.

Excerpts:

According to Austin’s memo, no service members currently in uniform who were pending approval for a religious or medical exemption to getting the mandate will be separated from the military. Austin also directed the services to update individuals’ military records and remove “any adverse actions solely associated with denials of requests” from their files.

As for those who have already been removed from service for their refusal to get the vaccine, which fell under failing to obey a lawful order, Austin said in the memo that the DOD is “precluded by law from awarding any characterization less than a general (under honorable conditions) discharge.” General discharges are a step down from an honorable discharge, and are typically for troops that had satisfactory service but had minor misconduct.

Service members who received that discharge because of their refusal to get the vaccine can petition their individual branch for a correction of their records, Austin said.

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**Comment**

Unfortunately, this too is too little, too late.

Reports of injury and death in military members continue to roll out. For instance, this 22 year old soldier had to be hospitalized 9 times after the shot. This 21 year old Air Force Academy football player dies suddenly.  18 year old Marine recruit collapsed and dies during basic training.  Military whistleblowers (who have been fired on the spot for speaking out) have come forth showing that the DOD has edited the medical database to hide COVID shot injuries.

For more:

Switzerland To Destroy Millions of mRNA Doses While U.S. & UK Buries Their Heads in the Sand

https://www.eugyppius.com/p/switzerland-slated-to-destroy-millions

Switzerland slated to destroy millions of mRNA vaccine doses in 2023, as even the olds have stopped caring, and nobody in the developing world wants the surplus either

Also open thread.

Jan 7, 2023
Excerpts:
Switzerland, home to less than 9 million people, is one of the biggest mRNA vaccine customers in the world relative to population. The’ve already received a staggering 33 million Covid vaccine doses, only a little over half of which were ever administered.
Vaccine credulity may still be the mainstream, politically acceptable position, but revealed preferences show that enormous majorities everywhere are done with mass vaccination. Pharmaceutical executives can sing their doubtful hymns to the miraculous safety and efficacy of their jabs, but the quiet worldwide rejection of their garbage products is a stinging rebuke, suggesting that billions across the world harbour unexpressed scepticism towards the mRNA Covid vaccines.

The Swiss Confederation is set to destroy the doses nobody wants.

(See link for article)

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https://healthimpactnews.com/2023/the-u-s-government-does-not-want-you-to-know-the-truth-about-how-the-covid-shots-are-killing-and-injuring-people/

The U.S. Government Does not Want You to Know the Truth About How the COVID Shots are Killing and Injuring People

1/9/23

by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News

With almost half of the American public now convinced that the increase in “sudden deaths” is linked to the COVID-19 shots, it is time to understand that the U.S. Government does NOT serve and protect the people, but instead serves and protects the interests of Big Pharma, Big Tech, and the rest of the Wall Street Billionaires and bankers.

The evidence now is overwhelming that the U.S. Government completely violated the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States that allows for dissenting information and the right to criticize those in public office, by partnering with the Big Tech companies that control Social Media, such as Google/YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter to censor information about the COVID-19 “vaccines” that contradicted the U.S. Government’s propaganda.

These are criminal actions that have led to the deaths and injuries of millions of people.

And this was not an accident.

This was premeditated murder, as the U.S. Military funded and operated the entire campaign of unleashing weapons of mass destruction on their own citizens, all in the name of “population control” and “saving the planet.”

In a free society where truth is actually valued, there is NEVER any reason for a government that claims to represent and protect the public to censor dissenting voices.

And while the Government has been censoring dissenting voices on the topic of vaccines for decades now, it reached a whole new level starting in 2020 with the emergency use authorized COVID-19 shots.

Here is some of the recent media coverage about this criminal censorship that violated the First Amendment and led to death and destruction for millions.

AGs Slam White House Over Multiple Examples Of Big Tech Collusion To Censor Dissent

by ZeroHedge News

At least two state Attorneys General have slammed the White House for colluding with social media companies to censor dissent.

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey highlighted this effort in a Friday Twitter thread, noting how the Biden White House directed Twitter and Facebook to censor Robert Kennedy Jr., Tucker Carlson and Tomi Lahren.

In another example, YouTube assures a government employee that they use machine learning to ‘reduce the recommendations’ of wrongthink.

Meanwhile, Louisiana AG Jeff Landry slammed the Biden White House over the Tucker Carlson censorship.

As Tom Ozimek of The Epoch Timesnotes;

Landry shared the document—an email exchange between White House Director of Digital Strategy Rob Flaherty and an unidentified Facebook employee—in a Jan. 7 post on Twitter, with the comment: “Rob Flaherty tells facebook to censor” Tucker Carlson.

“Since we’ve been on the phone—the top post about vaccines today is [T]ucker Carlson saying they don’t work. Yesterday it was Tomi Lehren [sic] saying she won’t take one,” Flaherty reportedly said in the message to the Facebook staffer, whose name and email address have been redacted.

“This is exactly why I want to know what ‘Reduction’ actually looks like—if ‘reduction’ means ‘pumping our most vaccine hesitant audience with [T]ucker Carlson saying it doesn’t work’ then … I’m not sure it’s reduction!” Flaherty continued, per the document shared by Landry.

Signaling action regarding the request, the unidentified Facebook employee then reportedly wrote: “Running this down now.”

Schmitt on Jan. 5 was sworn in as a U.S. senator and has been replaced in his role as Missouri attorney general by Andrew Bailey.

Bailey took to Twitter on Jan. 7 to say that when he took the oath of office, he swore he would protect the Constitution and explained “why.”

“We now have hard evidence that President Biden’s Administration colluded with social media companies to censor differing viewpoints and silence ‘misinformation’ that was later deemed true,” Bailey wrote in a series of posts.

Bailey shared a screenshot of an email from White House COVID-19 Digital Director Clarke E. Humphrey to an unidentified Twitter employee with the subject line “Flagging Hank Aaron misinfo” and requesting the Twitter staff to “get moving on the process for having it removed ASAP.”

In her request, Humphrey provided a link to a Twitter post by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a known critic of the Biden administration’s narrative on COVID-19 vaccines.

The offending tweet links to an article on the website of the Children’s Health Defense, an activist group chaired by Kennedy Jr. that left-leaning Wikipedia labels as “one of the main sources of misinformation on vaccines.”

The article, from Jan. 22, 2021, says Aaron died 18 days after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine of an “undisclosed cause” and cites Kennedy Jr. as saying that his “tragic death is part of a wave of suspicious deaths among elderly closely following administration of COVID vaccines.”

About a week later, the Fulton County Medical Examiner released Aaron’s cause of death as “natural causes” and that he didn’t have any COVID-19 symptoms, with his medical history listing prostate issues and hypertension.

Besides requesting action on Kennedy Jr.’s tweet, Humphrey also added a request to “keep an eye out for tweets that fall in this same genre,” per the screenshot shared by Bailey.

‘The Truth No Longer Matters to the White House’

Bailey also shared screenshots of several other messages that he said show collusion between Big Tech and the government to suppress free speech, including another message from Flaherty to an unidentified Facebook employee in which the White House official demands “assurances” that the social media company is taking actions “to ensure you’re not making our country’s vaccine hesitancy problem worse.”

“The truth no longer matters to the White House,” Bailey captioned the post.

“These emails confirm what we’ve known all along,” Bailey wrote. “The Biden Admin. has been colluding with social media companies to stifle opposing voices.”

“I will continue to push back against this blatant attack on the 1st Amendment with every tool at my disposal,” he added.

Read the full article at ZeroHedge News.

Not only is the U.S. Government working together with Big Tech to censor any negative information regarding the COVID shots, they are also working with Big Tech to track dissenters.

Covid-related tech was exploited for mass surveillance, just as we were warned

Various governments across the world have co-opted digital tracing for use by police and intelligence services

by RT.com

New revelations show that the Covid pandemic has allowed for governments and Big Tech to expand the surveillance-industrial complex that tightens the state’s grip on thought and movement.

A recent batch of Twitter internal documents released by Elon Musk via journalist David Zweig on the platform itself reveals that one of the first meetings that the Biden Administration requested with Twitter executives was on the topic of Covid vaccines and specific high-profile accounts that deviated from the official narrative.

“Twitter did suppress views – many from doctors and scientific experts – that conflicted with the official positions of the White House. As a result, legitimate findings and questions that would have expanded the public debate went missing,” Zweig wrote.

He added that “with Covid, this bias bent heavily toward establishment dogmas,”  and cited examples of various experts, including prominent epidemiologists, whose views were censored as a result of being qualified by the non-scientists at Twitter as Covid “misinformation.”

We’ve also learned from previous Twitter file releases under Musk of the cozy relationship between government officials – including those working for the Pentagon, CIA, and FBI – and big US social media outlets like Twitter, which routinely cooperated on various government priorities and agendas ranging from framing of foreign wars to promoting certain narratives about geopolitical competitors (like Russia) under the guise of fighting “disinformation.”

All of this in an ostensibly democratic country that’s supposed to value free speech and debate.

Read the full article on RT.com.

This kind of censorship has been happening for years, and as far back as 2016 we reported here at Health Impact News that the World Health Organization (WHO) wanted to label “vaccine hesitancy” as a disease.

Is “Vaccine Hesitancy” a New Mental Disease to be “Cured”?

So it is no surprise that the WHO is attacking those who refuse vaccines again, this time labeling us as “terrorists.”

WHO: Anti-Vaccine Activism is Deadlier Than Global Terrorism

by Summit News

The World Health Organization shared a video on Twitter promoting the claim that anti-vaccine activism is deadlier than global terrorism, nuclear proliferation, and gun violence.

Yes, really.

The video quoted Baylor College of Medicine’s Dr. Peter Hotez, who stated, “We have to recognize that anti-vaccine activism, which I actually call anti-science aggression, has now become a major killing force globally.”

Hotez went on to assert that 200,000 Americans died from COVID because they refused to get the vaccine, a claim that isn’t backed up by any source.

“And now the anti-vaccine activism is expanding across the world, even into low and middle income countries,” added Hotez.

Once again with providing any source for his dubious claims, Hotez asserted that “anti-science now kills more people than things like gun violence, global terrorism, nuclear proliferation or cyber attacks.”

The doctor went on to complain about how anti-vaccine skepticism had now become a “political movement” linked to “far-right extremism” in both the United States and Germany.

Hotez ominously called for “political solutions to address this.”

Read the full article at Summit News.

Conclusion: We’re at War! Truth is our Best Defense – Do NOT be Intimidated

There are many of us who were never fooled by the COVID scam, and we warned everyone at the beginning to resist the emergency measures, such as wearing masks. We warned you that if you complied with mask wearing, that this would just embolden them and soon you would need their vaccines to participate in society.

Many did not listen, and are now dead or crippled because they complied with vaccine mandates.

As has almost always been the case throughout human history, the side of TRUTH is almost always the minority side, and to take a stand for TRUTH is to sacrifice oneself for the cause of liberty.

The compliant ones are the ones who are now dead or crippled, the defiant ones are the ones still standing and telling the truth.

The U.S. Government is not on your side. They are your enemy, because they serve Big Pharma and Big Tech, not you.

The plans for the next stage are already laid, and I don’t think it is exaggeration to state that the fate of the U.S., and most of the world, will depend upon just how many people RESIST.

TRUTH is always worth fighting for, even if it means you give up your life. You always have a choice: you can die free, or live as a slave.

And this is a non-partisan issue. It would be foolish to blame all of this on Biden and the Democrats. This censorship on the dangers of the COVID-19 shots started in 2020, with the doctors who tried to tell the world that COVID-19 was not that dangerous, and that there were existing older drugs in the market that were successful in treating it.

But they were ALL censored, and that happened under Trump’s watch, and the Republicans. Here is a deleted tweet that has resurfaced from Ivanka Trump in January of 2020, bragging about how her dad worked with Moderna to produce the COVID-19 vaccine, before COVID was even a public health emergency in the U.S.

There is only one way forward now to stop these wealthy criminals. RESIST!

Keep telling the truth. Do NOT fear their intimidations!

When the masks and lockdown mandates come back, RESIST!

Because if we don’t resist, a LOT more people are going to die, including children.

I have made my choice. I would rather die for standing on the Truth, than die at the hands of my oppressors laughing at me as I cower in fear and comply with their edicts in this Medical Police State that we now live under.

At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other, and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people. Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, but he who stands firm to the end will be saved. (Matthew 24:10-13)

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UK Also Buries Its Head in the Sand

The UK is also burying its head in the sand through censorship and denial as Tory MP Andrew Bridgen used parliamentary privilege to allege a cover-up between Big Pharma and the research facilities and charities he claims are in its pocket as up to 86% of the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) funding is from Big Pharma.  (Sound familiar?)

Bridgen followed up his speech by providing a full list of references for the number of allegations he made regarding suppression by the pharmaceutical industry of adverse side effects linked to the Covid-19 vaccines, including the claim that an additional 14,000 cardiac arrests had occurred in Britain in 2021 following the nationwide vaccine rollout in 2020.  He has also called for their complete suspension. His comments got him suspended for spreading “misinformation.”  A formal investigation is planned.

For more:

More Bots Pushing COVID Shots

http://  (Approx. 11 Min)

FAKE Doctors Caught Pushing COVID “Vaccine” in Psy-Op Campaign

Redacted With Clayton Morris

Jan. 9, 2023

Dr. Fauci is trying to get out front of the Twitter files that have to do with him and his role in the pandemic. Or so it seems because he is doing the media rounds about the Covid vaccine and adverse events. Isn’t he supposed to be retired? His allies are quickly disappearing on Twitter because they were fake accounts.

This is not the first time Bots pushed a narrative.  Back in Aug. 2021, bots within social media algorithms were used to not only identify and eliminate certain facts and truths, but these AI systems are also being used to promote certain types of propaganda, to brainwash the public into accepting falsehoods as if they are popular messages of truth. To make matters worse, unscrupulous operatives are using vaccine propaganda BOT FARMS to catapult Big Pharma’s lies across social media, to instill fear in the public and advocate for more government and corporate control over lives. The latest bot farm was caught spreading lies about the unvaccinated to garner public support for vaccine passports and a system of segregation against healthy, naturally-immune people.  The BOTS did the following:

  • Personalized messages are being sent en masse & verbatim across several media platforms using fake bots
  • These are fake accounts not sent by real healthcare professionals
  • There may be paid internet trolls involved
  • Bot farms can be controlled from a single computer, hooked up to multiple phones & social media accounts
  • This deceptive propaganda is being used to gain acceptance for lockdowns, shame and segregate the unvaccinated, discourage and demoralize people from speaking out and taking action and to give the impression that a lie is a universal truth accepted by many
  • Do not engage these bots as they are programmed to defend an agenda
  • One such fake message as seen from top graphic states:

“I just left the ER. We are officially back to getting rushed by COVID-19. Delta Variant is running rampant and it’s MUCH more transmissible than the original virus. 99% of our ICU admits did NOT receive a vaccine.”

Our government is also involved by censoring and disinforming the public due to conflicts with Big Pharma.

Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome & Language Fluency Deficits

https://academic.oup.com/acn/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/arclin/acac095/6955887?

Language Fluency Deficits in Post-treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome

Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, acac095, https://doi.org/10.1093/arclin/acac095
Published:  22 December 2022

 

Abstract
Objective

Recent neurocognitive studies of patients with post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome (PTLDS) find consistent deficits in memory and processing speed. Language fluency deficits are observed as well but may be secondary to poor memory and slowing rather than an independent deficit.

Method

This study performed a secondary analysis of data presented previously, including individuals with PTLDS and comparison samples of healthy volunteers (HC) and patients with major depressive disorder (MDD), to determine if language fluency deficits could be accounted for by poor performance in these other neurocognitive domains.

Results

Basic verbal abilities, memory, and processing speed were all significantly associated with fluency performance. MDD patients’ fluency deficits relative to HC were accounted for by these covariates. However, PTLDS patients’ poorer fluency performance relative to both other groups was not.