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The Future of Lyme & TBDs: Prevention, Diagnosis, & Treatments – FREE Event With Dr. Horowitz

https://tommoorcroft.com/livestream/

FREE LIVESTREAM EVENT

Sunday, February 13, 2022 at 8:15pm EST
Lyme disease is the #1 vector-borne infection in the United States. And, tick-borne illnesses are on the rise, in large part due to climate change leading to an ever-expanding range for the ticks that carry these pathogens.I invite you to join us on Sunday, February 13, 2022 at 8:15pm EST as we host a live presentation The Future of Lyme and TBD’s: Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment Options by internationally recognized Lyme and tick-borne illness expert Dr. Horowitz.

In this 90 minute presentation, Dr. Horowitz will be focusing on how global climate change is impacting us all, leading to the spread of infectious diseases, including Lyme, tick-borne co-infections and viral illnesses, and what we need to do to change the fate of our planet.
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**Comment**
Please understand that an infected, independent tick researcher who doesn’t depend upon government grant money has completely dismantled the “climate change” myth regarding ticks.

Research has been hijacked by the highest bidder and researchers clearly understand they must ‘toe the line’ and repeat accepted narratives in order to obtain grant money.  “Climate change” is one such narrative.  This is happening in every single area of research, but particularly with Lyme/MSIDS. Patients will only get answers from independently funded researchers without conflicts of interest.

Unfortunately, many doctors innocently perpetuate the accepted narrative. You can always tell when something is an accepted narrative when debate is thwarted completely and bullying tactics are used against anyone who disagrees.  This is happening prolifically with “climate change.”  Similar to COVID policies, we are told to blindly believe despite evidence to the contrary.

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/08/14/canadian-tick-expert-climate-change-is-not-behind-lyme-disease/

Excerpt:

John explains, “The climate change range expansion model is what the authorities have been using to rationalize how they have done nothing for more than thirty years. It’s a huge cover-up scheme that goes back to the 1980’s. The grandiose scheme was a nefarious plot to let doctors off the hook from having to deal with this debilitating disease. I caught onto it very quickly. Most people have been victims of it ever since.”

“This climate change ‘theory’ is all part of a well-planned scheme. Even the ticks are smarter than the people who’ve concocted this thing,” he says.

“Climate change has nothing to do with tick movement. Blacklegged ticks are ecoadaptive, and tolerate wide temperature fluctuations. On hot summer days, these ticks descend into the cool, moist leaf litter and rehydrate. In winter, they descend into the leaf litter, and are comfortable under an insulating blanket of snow. Ticks have antifreeze-like compounds in their bodies, and can tolerate a wide range of temperatures. For instance, at Kenora, Ontario, the air temperature peaks at 36°C and dips to –44°C, and blacklegged ticks survive successfully.

“Ticks are marvellous eco-adaptors. They will be the last species on the planet. Do you see how silly this theory of climate change is as a way to rationalize what’s happening. It’s all a red herring to divert your attention,” he explains.

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Activism, Lyme

Reminder: Feb. 2022 Lyme Support ZOOM Meeting

Don’t forget our upcoming support group meeting on Feb. 12, 2022. For more info:

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2022/01/24/february-lyme-support-zoom-meeting/

Also, don’t forget to check for future meetings by clicking the “meeting” tab in the upper right hand corner on the website.  Check the website for any cancellations.

 

 

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COVID Cases Inflated For Profit: Multiple Gunshot Wound Victim Coded as COVID, Car Wreck Victim Sedated Against His Will & Put on a Vent, & Medical Kidnapping Increasing

https://www.projectveritas.com/news/covid-cases-inflated-for-profit-the-guy-went-in-for-multiple-gunshot-wounds/  Video Here (Approx. 10 Min)

COVID Cases Inflated for Profit: ‘The Guy Went in for Multiple Gunshot Wounds and he was Coded as COVID’

Feb. 2, 2022

  • Jeanne Stagg, a whistleblower who worked in Inpatient Utilization Management, approached Project Veritas after seeing cases coded as COVID-19 that she says should not have COVID-19 listed as the “primary diagnosis.”
  • Stagg: “I’ve tried to raise awareness to my leadership and even with the Fraud, Waste, and Abuse Department, and it just kind of fell on deaf ears.”
  • The Chief Medical Officer for United Healthcare of Louisiana (Medicaid) opined in a recorded phone conversation that the Medicaid rate for reimbursement of COVID-19 patients, which is faster and significantly higher, could be the motivation for the improper “primary diagnosis” codes.
  • “Oh, yes. Yeah. I would think that there’s some motivation that it’s driving higher rates of reimbursement or quicker reimbursement, or something, because otherwise there’s no reason to put, you know, something like that as a leading diagnosis in an asymptom– basically asymptomatic patients,” said Dr. Morial, Chief Medical Officer for United Healthcare of Louisiana.
  • The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals has suspended utilization review which is the process of determining whether health care is medically necessary for a patient or an insured individual. The whistleblower says this could be a major contributing factor to spikes in COVID numbers, which then influence public health decisions.

[Baton Rouge, La. – Feb. 2, 2022] A source who works for United Healthcare of Louisiana’s Inpatient Utilization Management Department is blowing the whistle on COVID-19 cases possibly being inflated for financial incentive. The brazen instance of such potential abuse was a patient who had multiple gunshot wounds with his primary diagnosis listed as COVID-19.

United Healthcare of Louisiana is the states’ Medicaid arm, and as the whistleblower Jeanne Stagg points out in a conversation with the Chief Medical Officer of United Healthcare of Louisiana, Dr. Julie Morial, there are several financial incentives for hospitals to prefer to code patients as COVID-19 hospitalizations.

“Well maybe that’s… maybe that’s driving some of the motivation,” said Dr. Morial before stating that the Medicaid rate for reimbursement of COVID-19 patients is both higher and faster.

Project Veritas also published footage of a leadership call within United Healthcare of Louisiana wherein the whistleblower’s attempt to discuss the improper primary diagnoses she is seeing was dismissed.

A major element of this story is the fact that recent actions by public officials have allowed the problem to persist, and the whistleblower believes erroneous codes could be the cause of COVID-19 spikes which influence major public health decisions.   

A health plan advisory, which announced that all utilization management for all medical hospitalizations [including but not limited to initial service authorization and concurrent reviews], must be suspended was the action taken — which is in question.

“Now, this is not specific to COVID-19. This is every single hospital admission. We’re not allowed to do medical necessity review. So, it gives the hospitals free reign to admit anything they want. Code it however they want,” says the whistleblower, Jeanne Stagg.

United Healthcare of Louisiana’s Dr. Morial was contacted for comment on this story and said, “When I see a patient, and if a patient is presenting other symptoms that aren’t suggestive of a COVID infection, even though they may test positive for COVID, that’s not my primary diagnosis.”

Project Veritas is a registered 501(c)3 organization. Project Veritas does not advocate specific resolutions to the issues raised through its investigations. Donate now to support our mission.

Victim of Car Accident Sedated Against His Will & Put on a Vent – Diagnosed as a COVID Patient

To demonstrate how this is happening, a man has just come forward to give his testimony in public about how he was in a car accident, where EMS ambulance services arrived on the scene and sedated him against his will, air lifted him to a hospital allegedly in Tucson, Arizona, and he woke up 8 hours later on a ventilator because he was diagnosed as a “COVID” patient.

He was all alone in his room when he woke up, so he took himself off of the ventilator, removed the IV and catheter, and demanded to be released from the hospital.  He considers himself lucky to be alive today.  This is on our Bitchute channel, and also on our Telegram channel.  (Fast forward to 10:06 to hear his testimony)

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Medical kidnapping has been going on unabated from the beginning.  I posted an article on it back in September, 2021, complete with numerous heart-breaking examples.

https://www.ntd.com/attorneys-report-spike-in-calls-for-help-from-families-of-patients-hospitalized-with-covid-

Attorneys Report Spike in Calls for Help From Families of Patients Hospitalized With COVID-19

Nanette Holt Feb 2, 2022

Attorneys around the country report an alarming uptick in calls for help from families of patients hospitalized with COVID-19.

Some say they’ve talked to family members who were arrested after trying to visit a loved one or to speak with a doctor after communications with the hospital were cut off.  (See link for article)

Summary of what attorneys are calling abuse:

  • hospitals preventing family visits
  • failing to provide nutrition and fluids
  • coercing patients to agree to treatments they’ve already refused multiple times, like remdesivir and ventilation
  • hospitals refusing to release patients making it impossible to get off the COVID express
  • hospital attorneys ask judges to seal documents that would reveal their arguments
  • arresting family members for simply requesting a visit with their loved one or a conversation with the doctor
  • hospitals become immediately combative when treatment questions arise
  • an attorney with a client who works in hospital billing told her that hospitals receive a federal bonus payments for:
    • $17K for every patient confirmed to have COVID
    • another $37K for patients put on ventilators.

An attorney’s sage advice:

“Stay out of the hospital, no matter what. And if it happens that you’re admitted, have a medical power of attorney immediately written up to say no to remdesivir.”

Hospitals often ask patients being admitted to sign a health-care directive or living will indicating, in advance, decisions about whether or not to be put on life support.

“I advise clients against this,” Forgét said. Signing one of those documents “vests your physician with authority that supersedes your spouse, or other family members. This can yield tragic results!”

Giving a physician that power means he or she can remove life support without consulting family, he says. “Signing that gives your physician permission to kill you!”

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Activism, Viruses

Cannabidiol Inhibits SARS-CoV-2 Replication Through Induction of the Host ER Stress and Innate Immune Responses

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abi6110

Cannabidiol inhibits SARS-CoV-2 replication through induction of the host ER stress and innate immune responses

Long Chi Nguyen https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4637-2331Dongbo Yang https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8343-5477Vlad Nicolaescu https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6347-0232Thomas J. Best https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0654-6250Haley Gula https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8475-7435Divyasha SaxenaJon D. GabbardShao-Nong Chen https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0748-0863Takashi Ohtsuki[…]Marsha Rich Rosner
Authors Info & Affiliations
Science Advances • 20 Jan 2022 • First Release • DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abi6110
Abstract

The spread of SARS-CoV-2 and ongoing COVID-19 pandemic underscores the need for new treatments. Here we report that cannabidiol (CBD) inhibits infection of SARS-CoV-2 in cells and mice. CBD and its metabolite 7-OH-CBD, but not THC or other congeneric cannabinoids tested, potently block SARS-CoV-2 replication in lung epithelial cells. CBD acts after viral entry, inhibiting viral gene expression and reversing many effects of SARS-CoV-2 on host gene transcription. CBD inhibits SARS-CoV-2 replication in part by up-regulating the host IRE1α RNase endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress response and interferon signaling pathways.
In matched groups of human patients from the National COVID Cohort Collaborative, CBD (100 mg/ml oral solution per medical records) had a significant negative association with positive SARS-CoV-2 tests. This study highlights CBD as a potential preventative agent for early-stage SARS-CoV-2 infection and merits future clinical trials. We caution against use of non-medical formulations including edibles, inhalants or topicals as a preventative or treatment therapy at the present time.
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research, Treatment, Viruses

Ticks Bite Leads to GBS

https://danielcameronmd.com/tick-bite-leads-to-guillain-barre-syndrome/

Tick bite leads to Guillain-Barré Syndrome

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Welcome to another Inside Lyme Podcast with your host Dr. Daniel Cameron. In this episode, Dr. Cameron will be discussing the case of a 71-year-old woman who was initially diagnosed with Ehrlichia, a tick-borne illness but later developed Guillain-Barré Syndrome.

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The study, entitled “Case of ehrlichiosis induced Guillain-Barre Syndrome in a 71-year-old female,” was published by Malhis and colleagues in the journal IDcases.¹

The woman’s initial symptoms occurred over a 3-week period and included: generalized weakness, dizziness, visual changes, chills, a fever, neck and abdominal pain.

After presenting to the hospital, she was diagnosed with Ehrlichia, a tick-borne illness, based on a low platelet count, elevated liver function tests, an insect bite, a positive Ehrlichia test by PCR, and absence of another illness.

The woman was treated with doxycycline and her symptoms improved.

Click top link to watch a video discussing Ehrlichia-induced Guillain-Barre Syndrome 

However, approximately one week later, she returned to the hospital with worsening symptoms and “numbness and areflexia in her lower extremities which progressed since her first encounter,” the authors write.

She developed an unsteady gait, which required a walker and had tingling in her feet and difficulty urinating. She required a straight foley catheterization.

“Although ehrlichiosis is not a common cause for GBS, the pathogenesis is like Lyme disease or Campylobacter jejuni,” the authors write.

“This patient had clinical symptoms that were like tick-borne illness yet as her disease progressed, it illustrated the need for an expanded differential diagnosis.”

The woman was diagnosed with an acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, often referred to as Guillain-Barré Syndrome.

There was no evidence of another tick-borne illness including Lyme disease, Babesia, Heartland or Bourbon Virus.

The patient improved significantly with IVIG and was discharged to a rehabilitation center.

“Although ehrlichiosis is not pathognomonic for Guillain-Barre, it is important to not rule out as a cause,” the authors point out. “With the COVID-19 outbreak, there have been reported cases of GBS induced by COVID. It too can cause an immune response to the nervous system.”

Bourbon virus

“There have been reported cases of tick-borne illness that have not recovered despite tetracycline treatment,” reports Kosoy et al.2

They cite the case of a 50-year-old male from Eastern Kentucky who was found to have several tick bites, enlarged Lymph nodes, a macular papular rash, low platelets, low white count, and complaints of nausea, vomiting and diarrhea, followed by fever, myalgias, headaches and arthralgias.

The patient’s labs were negative for known tick-borne pathogens and he failed tetracycline treatment.

“Multiorgan failure developed, and he died 11 days after illness onset from cardiopulmonary arrest,” the authors write.

The man was later diagnosed with the Bourbon virus, a newly recognized tick-borne illness.3

Guillain-Barré Syndrome

 Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) is an acute autoimmune demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy that induces rapid and progressive flaccid weakness, according to Malhis.1 GBS can be life threatening if it progresses to involving the diaphragm.

 There are a number of causes of GBS. Respiratory and gastrointestinal infections can lead to GBS.  Lyme disease, tick-paralysis, HIV, and West Nile Virus can also lead to GBS.  There is also a very slim chance (1 in a million) that a flu vaccine can lead to GBS.

Treatment for GBS includes intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) therapy or plasma exchange. Steroids have not been helpful in treating the condition. An estimated 85% of patients recover their independent ambulation.

The authors conclude: “It is important to keep a broad differential as sometimes common syndromes do not always come from common pathogens and with the COVID-19 pandemic having similar results, we are learning new things that may potentially be new standards in medical education.”

The following questions are addressed in this Podcast episode:

  1. What is the Guillain-Barré Syndrome?
  2. What is the treatment for Guillain-Barré Syndrome?
  3. What is the Bourbon and Heartland virus?
  4. Why are there concerns for individuals with COVID-19?

Thanks for listening to another Inside Lyme Podcast. Please remember that the advice given is general and not intended as specific advice to any particular patient. If you require specific advice, please seek that advice from an experienced professional.

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References:
  1. Malhis JR, Mahmoud A, Belote A, Ebers A. Case of ehrlichiosis induced Guillain-Barre Syndrome in a 71 year-old female. IDCases. 2021;26:e01301. doi:10.1016/j.idcr.2021.e01301
  2. Kosoy OI, Lambert AJ, Hawkinson DJ, et al. Novel thogotovirus associated with febrile illness and death, United States, 2014. Emerg Infect Dis. May 2015;21(5):760-4. doi:10.3201/eid2105.150150
  3. Hearland and Bourbon Virus Disease. CDC. https://www.cdc.gov/ticks/tickbornediseases/heartland-virus.html Last accessed 12/12/21.

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**Comment**

This article states that COVID can also induce GBS, which begs the question – why would Dr. Cameron believe and encourage Lyme/MSIDS patients to get the COVID injections?  The article admits that COVID can cause an immune response to the nervous system, which Lyme/MSIDS patients are already struggling with.  Illogical.

Please read and understand the risks of the COVID injections – and there are many:

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Ehrlichiosis, research, Ticks, Viruses