Ticks and tickborne diseases have been recognized as threats to the health of humans and domestic animals for more than a century in the United States. However, as outlined in the following series of papers, the nature of this threat has evolved over time in response to changes in the natural environment, tick and wild animal populations, and human land use. Another major factor in this still unfolding story is our continuously improving capacity to detect and characterize tickborne disease agents.
Some of the most notable developments in the history of ticks and tickborne diseases in the United States include the following:
The seminal work published by Smith and Kilborne in 1893, documenting for the first time experimental transmission of a disease agent—the parasite now called Babesia bigemina, which causes Texas cattle fever—via the bite of a blood-feeding arthropod, the cattle tick now called Rhipicephalus annulatus (Say);
The demonstrations in 1906 and 1924 of experimental transmission by the Rocky Mountain wood tick, Dermacentor andersoni Stiles, of the agents causing Rocky Mountain spotted fever and tularemia in humans (Ricketts 1906, 1909; Parker et al. 1924; Parker and Spencer 1926);
The incrimination in the late 1970s and early 1980s of the blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis Say (including the junior synonym Ixodes dammini), as the vector of both a parasite causing human babesiosis (Spielman 1976) and a spirochetal bacterium causing Lyme disease (Steere and Malawista 1979, Burgdorfer et al. 1982);
The recognition in the 1990s that the human-biting lone star tick, Amblyomma americanum (L.), is an important vector of bacterial agents causing human ehrlichiosis (Walker and Dumler 1996, Childs and Paddock 2003).
As a result of these and other developments, the focus of research on ticks and tickborne diseases in the United States has shifted dramatically over the last century. Up to the early 1970s, research focused primarily on human-biting Dermacentor ticks—the Rocky Mountain wood tick, D. andersoni; the Pacific Coast tick, Dermacentor occidentalis Marx; and the American dog tick, Dermacentor variabilis (Say)—and their associated pathogens, including spotted fever group rickettsiae, the tularemia agent Francisella tularensis, and Colorado tick fever virus (Sonenshine et al. 1972, Hopla 1974, Jellison 1974, Burgdorfer 1977). Bites by D. andersoni and D. variabilis also were associated with tick paralysis caused by a toxin in the tick saliva (Gregson 1973, Gothe et al. 1979). The emergence of Lyme disease in the 1980s led to a very strong focus on this human illness and the two species of Ixodes ticks that serve as the main vectors of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto to humans in North America: the blacklegged tick, I. scapularis; and the western blacklegged tick, Ixodes pacificusCooley & Kohls (Burgdorfer 1984, Spielman et al. 1985, Lane et al. 1991, Spielman 1994, Piesman and Gern 2004). Several factors contribute to a continued strong focus on I. scapularis, including the still ongoing geographical expansion in the range of this tick in the eastern half of the United States to place new human populations at risk, a steady rise over the last 30 yr in reported Lyme disease cases, more recently documented increases in two other I. scapularis-associated diseases, anaplasmosis and babesiosis, and transmission by this tick of an encephalitis virus (Powassan virus, including the deer tick virus subtype) which is a growing concern (Ebel 2010, Eisen et al. 2016, Schwartz et al. 2017, Eisen and Eisen 2018, Rosenberg et al. 2018, Sonenshine 2018).
Parallel with research on Ixodes ticks and their associated disease agents, there has been an increased focus on Amblyomma ticks since the 1990s due in large part to the recognition of the role of A. americanum as a vector of Ehrlichia chaffeensis and, more recently, of the Gulf Coast tick, Amblyomma maculatum Koch, as a vector of a human-pathogenic spotted fever group rickettiae (Rickettsia parkeri) (Childs and Paddock 2003, Paddock and Yabsley 2007; Goddard and Varela-Stokes 2009; Paddock and Goddard 2015, Eisen et al. 2017). Both of these Amblyomma species are expanding their ranges northward (Springer et al. 2014, Paddock and Goddard 2015, Sonenshine 2018, Molaei et al. 2019) from their historical distribution in the southeastern United States, and there is mounting evidence to suggest that bites by A. americanum may be associated with an allergic reaction (Alpha-gal syndrome) to consumption of red meat (Commins et al. 2011, Crispell et al. 2019, Mitchell et al. 2020). The most recent notable developments in the history of ticks and tickborne diseases in the United States include (1) the recognition of the brown dog tick, Rhipicephalus sanguineus sensu lato, as a vector of the Rocky Mountain spotted fever agent (Rickettsia rickettsii) (Demma et al. 2005, Drexler et al. 2014); (2) the discovery of new human-pathogenic viral agents (Bourbon virus and Heartland virus) associated with A. americanum (McMullan et al. 2012; Lambert et al. 2015; Godsey et al. 2016, 2021; Savage et al. 2017; Brault et al. 2018); and (3) the establishment and spread of the invasive Asian longhorned tick, Haemaphysalis longicornis Neumann, along the Eastern Seaboard (Beard et al. 2018, Rainey et al. 2018).
Bearing in mind the successive addition of species of ticks and tickborne pathogens described above to the overall negative impacts that ticks have on human health and well-being, it is not surprising that tickborne infections now account for more than 75% of all reported vector-borne disease cases in the United States (Rosenberg et al. 2018). In 2017, a record number of cases (n = 59,349) of all notifiable tickborne diseases was reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (Beard et al. 2019). With 42,743 cases reported in 2017, Lyme disease was the sixth most common of all notifiable infectious diseases and conditions in the United States. Moreover, it has been estimated that >450,000 Lyme disease cases occur annually in the United States (Kugeler et al. 2021).
As described in more detail in the following series of papers, progress is slowly being made to increase awareness of the public health significance of ticks and tickborne diseases. Although there is substantial work to be done to reverse the trend of increasing tick-related health threats, significant advances have been made in recent decades. Recent efforts to survey existing national tick surveillance capacity and invest in improved tick and tickborne pathogen surveillance have allowed us to better monitor changes in the distribution and abundance of ticks and the presence and prevalence of tickborne pathogens (Eisen and Paddock 2021, Mader et al. 2020). Diagnostic technologies have improved to identify tickborne organisms of medical and veterinary importance and to differentiate them from nonpathogenic organisms found in ticks (Tokarz and Lipkin 2021). Understanding how ticks and tickborne pathogens have evolved and adapted to changing host, environmental and climatic conditions, or how landscape modification or host composition impacts human encounters with infected ticks provides foundational knowledge on risk factors that can be used to disrupt transmission cycles and ultimately prevent human illness (Barbour and Gupta 2021, Diuk-Wasser et al. 2021, Ogden et al. 2020, Tsao et al. 2021). A wide range of tick and pathogen suppression methods have been developed and evaluated in small-scale studies, and efforts are underway to determine which of these are affordable, acceptable, and effective enough in reducing human tick bites and preventing human illness to ultimately be implemented at broad scales to reverse the trend of increasing incidence of tickborne diseases (Eisen and Stafford 2021). However, without immediate and sustained advances in these fields, the alarming trend of increasing tickborne diseases is likely to continue.
The articles in this special Forum issue have been written by some of the leaders in the field of ticks and tickborne diseases, and highlight key accomplishments, significant information gaps, insights into trends and drivers, and identification of high priority needs. There have been, in fact, a number of thoughtful and comprehensive review articles written in recent years on many of these areas of concern. The primary purpose of this series of papers is to provide an update on the situation, a platform to reach back to earlier contributions, and a renewed call to action. The 1989 classic movie Field of Dreams is famous for the quote “If you build it, he will come.” The purpose of this series of articles is to build a compelling and urgent case for addressing the growing problem of ticks and tickborne diseases, which is by some accounts the most significant vector-borne disease challenge we have ever faced in the United States (Rochlin et al. 2019), in hopes of attracting the interest and investment necessary to turn the tide.
See top link for references
Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Entomological Society of America 2021.
This work is written by (a) US Government employee(s) and is in the public domain in the US.
WHO IS MORE LIKELY TO FAIL LYME DISEASE TREATMENT?
In a recent article entitled “Risk Factors and Outcomes of Treatment Delays in Lyme Disease: A Population-Based Retrospective Cohort Study,” Hirsch and colleagues described which Lyme disease patients were more likely to fail treatment.¹
Investigators reviewed questionnaires from 778 Lyme disease patients treated at the Geisinger Clinic, a health system in Pennsylvania. The authors determined the length of time a patient was ill before seeking medical attention, and the length of time between seeking care for Lyme disease and receiving lyme treatment.
They found that the amount of time between a patient’s initial symptom onset to treatment ranged from 0 days to 15 years.
• Nearly 3 out of 4 patients were treated within 1 month of symptom onset;
• More than 1 in 4 patients were treated more than 1 month after the onset of symptoms;
• 9% were not treated for at least 6 months after symptoms started.
Symptoms misdiagnosed
Some of the Lyme disease patients mistakenly attributed their symptoms to another condition including, the flu or virus, bug bite, allergy, skin problem, muscle or joint strain/injury, arthritis or bursitis, dehydration, overexertion, stress, and old age.
A self-reported diagnosis of chronic fatigue also increased the odds of delay. “Considering the similarity in some symptoms in the two conditions, health care providers may not have initially recognized the onset of Lyme disease symptoms as a new condition, resulting in delayed treatment,” the authors explain.
Some of the Lyme disease patients were diagnosed with other illnesses including, flu or other viral conditions, skin rashes, allergic reactions, shingles, muscle or joint injury, cellulitis or other skin conditions and insect bites.
Socioeconomic status affects treatment
Socioeconomic barriers impacted treatment. “Uninsured individuals in our study were more likely to delay contacting a medical professional for their symptoms than were individuals with private insurance.”
The delayed treatment was more likely to occur when patients were consulting with a primary care doctor versus visiting an urgent care center or emergency room.
Individuals with delayed treatment were more likely to suffer from Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome (PTLDS). PTLDS patients suffer from pain, impaired cognitive function, fatigue and poor function. The authors stressed the need to reduce the risk of treatment delays to prevent PTLDS.
Editor’s perspective:
Several of the factors associated with treatment failure are amenable to prevention. I remain opposed to the term “PTLDS” until we have a reliable test to exclude a persistent infection.
Hirsch AG, Poulsen MN, Nordberg C, et al. Risk Factors and Outcomes of Treatment Delays in Lyme Disease: A Population-Based Retrospective Cohort Study. Front Med (Lausanne). 2020;7:560018. doi:10.3389/fmed.2020.560018
MN toddler hospitalized with tick-borne Rocky Mountain spotted fever
May 26, 2021
One-year-old Gino Pahl has been under sedation in the intensive care unit of a Minnesota hospital for the last week. He’s fighting Rocky Mountain spotted fever, an infection transmitted by a common wood tick.
“It’s so new a lot of the people we meet [at the hospital] say they have never seen a case here,” said Gino’s mother, Shelby Pahl.
The infection is most common across the central U.S. from the Carolinas to Kansas, but it is suspected Gino picked it up in a new development in Buffalo, which also happens to be his backyard.
Click below to watch the story, from KSTP-TV reporter Jessica Miles.
Another great example that ticks are in places they shouldn’t be spreading diseases they should have. I predict we will only see more of this. Doctors need to quit looking at entomology maps to diagnose people. Birds and other animals drop ticks everywhere.
https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/08/16/new-tick-causes-epidemic-of-rmsf/ RMSF, normally transmitted by the American dog tick and the closely related Rocky Mountain wood tick, has also been spread by the brown dog tick — a completely different species. And here, we discover it’s been found in the Asian Longhorned tick and is capable of being transmitted within ticks through ova.
Explore key questions and answers about the efficacy and safety of COVID-19 vaccines.
Physicians for Informed Consent Updates Its Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine Risk Statement for Healthcare Providers and Families
Educational document highlights Pfizer clinical trial finding that 1 in 9 vaccinated adolescents suffered a severe adverse event
NEWPORT BEACH, CALIF. – June 8, 2021
Physicians for Informed Consent (PIC), an educational nonprofit organization focused on science and statistics, recently published an update of its Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine Risk Statement, which includes key questions and answers about the clinical trial data. The Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine is the first COVID-19 vaccine to receive expanded emergency use authorization (EUA) for adolescents; however, the vaccine is still not FDA-approved.
The PIC Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine Risk Statement (VRS) answers important questions such as:
• How effective is the vaccine in children, adults, and the elderly? • Is the vaccine effective in preventing hospitalizations and deaths? • Is the vaccine effective and safer than the COVID-19 virus? • Does the vaccine prevent the spread of the virus?
The updated document indicates that for children 12 to 15 years of age, the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial found the
overall incidence of severe adverse events during the two-month observation period to be 10.7% or 1 in 9 in the vaccinated group
the incidence of COVID-19 in the unvaccinated group was 1.6%; therefore, there were almost seven times more severe adverse events observed in the vaccinated group than there were COVID-19 cases in the unvaccinated group
Furthermore, since only about 1,100 vaccinated children 12 to 15 years of age were observed in the clinical trial, there were not enough children included in the trial to be able to prove the vaccine is safer than the disease in children 12 to 15 years of age.
The chance of a child 0-17 years of age contracting SARS-CoV-2 & dying from COVID-19 is
1 in 290,000.
Anyone considering the COVID-19 vaccine must be informed of known and potential benefits and risks, and the extent to which benefits and risks are unknown. For example, the clinical trial did not have enough statistical power to measure the vaccine’s ability to prevent hospitalizations and deaths, and did not assess if the vaccine prevents asymptomatic infection or spread (transmission) of the virus.
“PIC is committed to making the available data more accessible to everyone researching COVID-19 vaccines,” said Dr. Shira Miller, PIC founder and president. “Our concise, reader-friendly document assists healthcare providers and parents in making informed decisions for the children in their care.”
Physicians for Informed Consent’s body of physicians, scientists, statisticians and healthcare workers is trusted by both patients and practitioners for providing scientific data on infectious diseases and vaccines. To download your copy of the VRS “Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine: Short-Term Efficacy & Safety Data,” visit physiciansforinformedconsent.org/covid-19-vaccines.
PIC’s educational documents were developed with data from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial, Moderna COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial, and Janssen (Johnson & Johnson) COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial.
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**UPDATE**
Martin Makary MD, MPH,Editor-in-Chief, MedPage Today states:
Think Twice Before Giving the COVID Vax to Healthy Kids
— Based on the data to date, there’s no compelling case for it right now
The CDC reported that through June 4, 2021, there were 5,165 deaths (0.0017%) and 294,801 adverse eventsreported to VAERS following injections of the three experimental, non-FDA approved, COVID-19 injections. Recent reports indicate a plausible causal relationship between the J&J/Janssen injection and a serious adverse event – blood clots with low platelets– which has caused deaths, but the CDC says the benefits outweigh the risks.
By comparison, during the same time period VAERS received reports of 83 deaths following flu vaccines.
Please remember that only 1% of vaccine reactions get reported, so the numbers being maimed and killed from these injections is much, much higher.
Also, important to know: vaccine makers are destroying long-term safety studies by unblinding their trials and giving the control groups the active vaccine, claiming it is “unethical” to withhold an effective vaccine. By doing this they make it virtually impossible to assess long-term safety and effectiveness as well as benefit vs cost. Ironically vaccine mandates are being justified on the premise that the benefit to the public is more important than an individual’s risk of harm.
VAERS is under attack,not for the severe under-reporting, but due to the thousands of adverse events recently reported on the COVID-19 injections. This information just doesn’t fit the accepted narrative that “vaccines are safe and effective.” Now, Politifact, while brushing off the reports of reactions and deaths, accuse “anti-vaccine groups & activists” of filling up the system with “unverified, incomplete numbers to advance far-reaching claims.” It doesn’t take a brain surgeon to see where this is headed.
Dr. Anthony Fauci — whose expertise has been held as indisputable by mainstream media since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic — is now facing mounting scrutiny and critique as correspondence obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request reveals he’s lied both to the public and the U.S. Senate on a number of issues
Emails show Fauci supported the kind of dangerous research that likely created the COVID-19 pandemic, and that he helped cover up the lab origin theory
Fauci, until very recently, exclusively promoted the natural origin theory. We now find he assisted in the creation of a paper in Nature Medicine that came to underpin the entire natural origin theory, all while being informed of the fact that there were indications the virus had engineered features
The FOIA documents also show Fauci has lied about masks being an effective form of protection
Fauci has also failed to acknowledge that natural immunity is acquired when you recover from COVID-19, which makes vaccination completely unnecessary, and has yet to oppose recommendations to vaccinate recovered COVID-19 patients even though they’re immune and appear to be more prone to vaccine damage
Saint Anthony’s halo is tarnishing and hanging more crooked by the day. Dr. Anthony Fauci — whose medical expertise has been held as indisputable by mainstream media since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic — is now facing mounting scrutiny and critique as correspondence obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by Buzzfeed reveals he’s lied both to the public and the U.S. Senate on a number of issues.
The emails were released to the public in the early-morning hours of June 2, 2021. All 3,234 pages of emails can be found on Document Cloud.1 News media pounced on the release, with each reporter offering their own spin on what the fallout of the emails might be.
In the video above,2 “The Next Revolution” host Steve Hilton details how Fauci and National Institute of Health director Dr. Francis Collins have both repeatedly lied about the origins of SARS-CoV-2.
‘Utter Fraudulence’
In a no-holds-barred monologue Wednesday, June 2, 2021, Fox News host Tucker Carlson (above) called for a criminal investigation of Fauci in the aftermath of the release of thousands of emails, exchanged in the early days of the pandemic between Fauci and numerous individuals, including Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and billionaire Bill Gates.
Carlson blasted Fauci for what he said was “utter fraudulence” that should put Fauci under criminal investigation. After previously hosting him on many Fox newscasts, including Carlson’s own, the emails show Fauci is “just another sleazy federal bureaucrat — deeply political and often dishonest,” Carlson said.
What’s worse, the emails implicate Fauci “in the very pandemic he’d been charged with fighting.” While Fauci has denied funding gain-of-function research, emails now reveal he did indeed support “the grotesque and dangerous experiments that appeared to have made COVID possible,” Carlson said, adding that the emails are so damning that “in retrospect it looks a lot like perjury.”
Sen. Rand Paul apparently agrees. In a recent Fox News interview (below), Paul said the released emails reveal a “disturbing picture” that “should preclude [Fauci] from the position that he’s in.”
Fauci Lied About Not Funding Gain-of-Function Research
Some of the emails show Fauci, early in 2020, was concerned that Americans might think the virus came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in China. Why would he be concerned about that? As noted by Carlson, this makes perfect sense if he knew he had funded the very research that now looked like the source of the pandemic.
January 31, 2020, Kristian Andersen, a virologist at the Scripps Research Institute in California, emailed Fauci stating that “The unusual features of the virus make up a really small part of the genome (<0.1%) so one has to look really closely at all the sequences to see that some of the features (potentially) look engineered.”
He later wrote that he and his team “all find the genome inconsistent with expectations from evolutionary theory.” Interestingly, some six weeks later, Andersen published a paper in which he and his team insisted the virus could not have been created in a lab. I’ll have more to say on this later, as the email cache also reveals Fauci had a hand in the creation of that paper. On a side note, four days after the release of the emails, Andersen deleted his entire Twitter account.3
The next day, Fauci sent an urgent email to Dr. Hugh Auchincloss, the principal deputy director of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), titled “IMPORTANT.” “It is essential that we speak this AM,” Fauci wrote. “Keep your cell phone on … Read this paper as well as the e-mail that I will forward to you now. You will have tasks today that must be done.”
Attached to the email was a file titled “Baric, Shi et al – Nature medicine – SARS Gain of function.pdf.” This paper was written by Ralph Baric, Ph.D., a virologist in the U.S., and Shi Zhengli, a researcher at the WIV who specializes in bat coronaviruses.
May 11, 2021, Fauci testified before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee.4 During an exchange with Sen. Rand Paul, Fauci insisted that “the NIH has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.” He also insisted that Baric does not engage in gain-of-function research. This is the same Baric whose paper Fauci sent to Auchincloss, clearly marked as “SARS gain-of-function.”
As reviewed in “The Biggest Flip-Flop Ever — Who’s Going to Jail?” the kind of research Fauci funded has long been referred to as gain-of-function, yet now he’s trying to redefine what’s covered by that term.
As noted by Carlson in his June 2, 2021, report, social media platforms aggressively censored and deplatformed people for the “crime” of talking about the possibility of SARS-CoV-2 being a lab creation that got loose, and they did so largely based on the word of Fauci himself. Fauci said it wasn’t so, and that became the gospel repeated by fact checkers everywhere.
Now all of a sudden, there appears to have been a coordinated U-turn. The question is, why did they lie to us for so long? In the video report above, Carlson reveals part of the answer: Scientists were afraid to lose their funding, funding which, by the way, comes from the American taxpayers.
Fauci Lied About the Origin of the Virus
In an April 17, 2020, White House press briefing, Fauci lied again, when he said the science was “totally consistent with a jump from an animal to a human.” Yet “what he asserted as conclusively known could not have been known,” Carlson points out.
Two days after this press briefing, EcoHealth Alliance president Peter Daszak, Ph.D., wrote to Fauci thanking him for his help in deflecting the lab origin theory. The email reads:
“As the PI of the R01 grant publicly targeted by Fox News reporters at the Presidential press briefing last night, I just wanted to say a personal thankyou on behalf of our staff and collaborators, for publicly standing up and stating that the scientific evidence supports a natural origin for COVID-19 from a bat-to-human spillover, not a lab release from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”
Who is Daszak? He’s none other than the middle-man between Fauci’s NIAID/NIH and the WIV. EcoHealth Alliance received several NIH grants for millions of dollars involving gain-of-function research on coronaviruses, which were then farmed out to Zhengli and others at the WIV. So, Daszak certainly had cause to want to deflect attention from the lab leak theory.
He was also well aware of how risky this research was. In 2015, he spoke at a National Academies of Science seminar on reducing risk from emerging infectious diseases, warning of the danger of experimenting on “humanized mice,”5 meaning lab mice that have been genetically altered to carry human genes, cells or tissues.
That same year, Daszak also published a paper in which he warned a global pandemic might occur from a laboratory incident and that “the risks were greater with the sort of virus manipulation research being carried out in Wuhan.”6
January 2, 2020, he sent out a tweet announcing he’d successfully isolated SARS coronaviruses “that bind to human cells in the lab,” and that the work of other scientists show some of these viruses have pandemic potential as they can infect humanized mice.7
Yet, from the get-go, Daszak did everything he could to dispel discussion about SARS-CoV-2 being anything but all-natural. He went on record dismissing the lab-origin theory as “pure baloney.”8,9
He was also the mastermind behind the publication of a scientific statement published in The Lancet10 condemning such inquiries as “conspiracy theory,”11,12 which was then relied on by the media to “debunk” theories and evidence showing the pandemic virus most likely originated from a laboratory.
To further ensure the lab-leak theory would die out, Daszak was chosen to be on two separate commissions charged with investigating the origin of SARS-CoV-2, one by the World Health Organization13 — which, of course, dismissed the lab theory out of hand — and one by The Lancet.14
‘Hidden Hand’ Behind Natural Origin Theory Revealed
Now, finally, all these efforts to obfuscate the truth are falling apart. Fauci’s role in the obfuscation is also becoming much clearer. In the documentary “Plandemic — Indoctornation,” Dr. Meryl Nass stated there had to have been “a hidden hand behind the Nature Medicine paper”15 that became the basis for the natural, zoonotic origin theory.
This paper is not to be confused with the other Nature Medicine paper cited earlier, published by Baric and Shi. The paper Nass is referring to was created by Scripps researcher Kristian Andersen who, in January 2020, told Fauci that some of the features of the genomic sequence “(potentially) look engineered.”
Andersen’s paper “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2”16 — published March 17, 2020, and co-written by Andrew Rambaut, Ian Lipkin, Edward Holmes and Robert Garry — became the preeminent “proof” that SARS-CoV-2 had a natural origin and couldn’t possibly come from a lab.
“Our analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus,” the paper states.17 The email cache now identifies who comprised the “hidden hand” behind this paper. They were none other than Fauci himself, NIH director Collins and Jeremy Farrar, head of the Wellcome Trust.
In the email on page 2,401, dated March 6, 2020, Andersen thanks Fauci, Collins and Farrar for their “advice and leadership” on the paper. His four co-authors are cc’d, along with the Salk Institute’s communications director, Chris Emery.
Fauci, Collins and Farrar — A Tag-Team of Coverup Artists
This is huge. “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2”18 was the scientific underpinning of the natural origin claim, and now we find out Fauci himself was involved in its creation. Farrar and Collins are also neck-deep in this cover-up.
Farrar cosigned the scientific statement in The Lancet,19 which turned out to have been orchestrated by Daszak, as mentioned earlier. Farrar was also involved in the WHO Solidarity Trial,20 which poisoned patients with toxic doses of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ). In this trial, which was clearly designed to prove HCQ was “dangerous,” they used a cumulative dose of 8,800 mg over 10 days.
Meanwhile, doctors across the world who reported success with the drug were using standard doses around 200 mg per day for just a few days. Farrar, having spent 18 years leading a clinical research unit in Vietnam,21 would have (or should have) been aware that such high doses of HCQ — a widely used anti-malaria medication — would be toxic.
As for Collins, he promoted the cover-up by publishing a March 26, 2020, blog post22 in which he said Andersen’s Nature Medicine paper proved a natural origin, and to ignore rumors to the contrary. What’s more, after Fauci unconvincingly tried to claim that the NIAID/NIH has never funded any gain-of-function research, Collins came to his rescue with a public NIH statement23in which he backed Fauci’s claim.
Bombshell Emails on What Fauci Knew
In a June 3, 2021, report, Carlson reviewed Fauci’s “surreal” media appearances following the release of the emails. As just one example, he simply laughed off the question of why so much of a particular email between him and Collins was redacted.
In the unredacted part, Collins warns Fauci that a “conspiracy theory” about the virus’ origin is gaining speed. Why, exactly, was this email redacted? What did the remainder of the email say? Fauci claims ignorance on the matter, and the mainstream media are letting him off the hook.
Now, when a document is redacted, a classification is assigned, explaining why parts must remain secret, and in this case, those classifications are interesting indeed. Redacted emails between Fauci and nongovernment individuals such as Zuckerberg and Daszak bear codes such as:24,25
(b)(4), which refers to information that would impair the application of state-of-the-art technology within a U.S. weapon system
(b)(6), which refers to information, including foreign government information, that would cause serious harm to relations between the U.S. and a foreign government, or to ongoing diplomatic activities of the U.S.
(b)(7), which refers to information that would impair the current ability of U.S. government officials to protect the president, vice president and other protectees for whom protection services, in the interest of national security, are authorized
Fauci Lied About Masks
The email cache also shows Fauci lied about other things, including masks and vaccines. In one email, Fauci explained that surgical masks don’t work against viruses because the viruses slip right through the material, which is the truth. But when it comes to his public statements about masks, Fauci has been a serial liar.
He started off saying Americans shouldn’t wear them because they offer little to no protection — which is true — and the benefits are mostly psychological, as it might make you feel safer. Then he changed his mind, urging everyone to wear a mask all the time. When confronted about this U-turn, he said he lied about masks not being effective because he wanted to make sure there would be enough for frontline workers.
Well, in reality, he lied about lying, because he told the truth that first time. Everything since then, however, has been one fib after another. One mask wasn’t even sufficient. Fauci started recommending two. Then he insisted people had to keep wearing them even after they get vaccinated. There’s no scientific rationale for this at all, and Fauci knows it.
Fauci Still Has Not Told the Truth About Natural Immunity
Fauci has also been dishonest about the need for COVID-19 vaccination. In early March 2020, a former Obama official emailed Fauci asking if people who recover from COVID-19 can expect to be immune thereafter. Fauci replied, “No evidence in this regard, but you would assume that their [sic] would be substantial immunity post infection.”
Here, it’s fairly safe to make assumptions because it’s a well-established medical fact that when you recover from a viral infection, you are immune, and that immunity can be lifelong in many cases. It would be quite unusual if immunity were not incurred after recovering from a viral infection. As noted by Carlson, that robust immunity occurs post-COVID-19 has also been confirmed in studies over the past year.
Now, if you have natural immunity against an illness, you do not need to be vaccinated. Period. Yet to this day, Fauci has never admitted this publicly, and he has not publicly opposed recommendations to vaccinate those who have recovered from COVID-19, even though there’s evidence to suggest such individuals are at higher risk of vaccine injury. Not even those who can prove they have antibodies are excluded from the vaccine push.
Fauci Tried to Derail Florida
Other emails from March 2020, discussed in The Beltway Report,26 show Fauci also promised to put pressure on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to close down gyms, bars and beaches.
The recipient of this email exchange was a Florida HIV specialist named Doug Brust, who wrote, “I’m the HIV doc here. I’m it … I am putting my life on the line so folks can go pump iron, drink beer, have a burger, and get a tan.” In response, Fauci wrote, in part:27
“Regarding the bars and beaches, I have been screaming on TV 2 to 5 times per night to tell the younger generation to start taking this seriously … I am very surprised that Gov. DeSantis has not completely closed the bars, even if they serve food. Take out only. I will bring this up at the Task Force meeting tomorrow.”
Fauci’s Book Release Scrubbed Amid Backlash
In light of Fauci’s rapidly waning star power, his book, “Expect the Unexpected: Ten Lessons on Truth, Service, and the Way Forward,” slated for release in November 2021, has now been scrubbed from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. We found an archived copy of the original Amazon listing, but even the cached version disappeared within a week. If you search for the book on either of these book vendors now, you won’t find it. As reported by Just the News June 2, 2021:28
“The scrubbing of the book comes after backlash from critics who accused Fauci of profiting off of the deadly pandemic the U.S. response to which he has overseen.
Among those criticizing Fauci is Fox News Channel contributor Joe Concha, who compared him to New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo signing a seven-figure book deal about his efforts during the pandemic, which resulted in a high number of death among assisted-living residents.
‘If you look at the numbers again, you had Cuomo profiting off a pandemic, a government official,’ said Concha, also a media reporter for The Hill newspaper. ‘Now we have Fauci doing it as well. I think this is appalling.’
Daily Caller writer Greg Price slammed Fauci for ‘publishing a book and [becoming] the highest paid federal government employee while you lost your business and had your kids out of school for a year.'”
Truth may be slow to surface, but eventually, the truth usually breaks through. And that certainly appears to be the case here. The truth about the lab leak theory — that it’s actually the most plausible and not a wild goose-chase — is now emerging just about everywhere. I’m sure many of you remember we have been exposing this information since early last year.
Even Vanity Fair29 has an in-depth article detailing the drama. The theory that mere weeks ago was derided as debunked hogwash conspiracy theory, if acknowledged at all, is now suddenly getting the level-headed attention it should have, and probably would have, received all along, had it not been for Fauci and his co-conspirators. This case ought to establish one thing, and that is that “conspiracy theories” are not automatically untrue.
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**UPDATE**
GreatGameIndia just reported that Fauci’s emails reveal he threatened Indian scientists who discovered the COVID jabs are engineered with AIDS like insertions, which Nobel Prize winner Dr. Montagnier also asserts.
There is also evidence from another email showing that Fauci was told last March precisely how the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) “was created.” Research partner Adam Gaertner gave Fauci a play-by-play and still Fauci stood before the world and lied about everything for an entire year.
Fauci was also told by leading infectious disease expert Kristian Andersen that the Indian studies exposing the AIDS-like features of the Chinese Flu did, in fact, make a strong case about its bioengineered nature. Fauci proceeded to ignore both of these men while peddling the fake narrative that the virus came from bats at a wet market.
The following YouTube video (Approx 6 min) reveals another horror from Fauci’s emails.
Fauci Tied to Scandal Involving Human-Animal Hybrid Experiments with Aborted Fetal Parts
