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New Year Rings in JN.1 As Dominant Omicron Subvariant & Vocal Cord Involvement

https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/new-year-rings-in-jn1-as-dominant

New Year Rings in JN.1 as Dominant Omicron Subvariant

Mass Vaccination Extends Pandemic into its Fourth Year

JAN 12, 2024

By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH

The Spanish Influenza pandemic was over with in two years 1918-1919. There was an insignificant attempt at mass vaccination and largely the outbreak ran its course affecting one third of the world’s population.

With SARS-CoV-2 being engineered in the Wuhan Institute of Virology intentionally as a human biologic threat coupled with with a global, planned mass vaccination campaign by the Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex, the COVID-19 pandemic is extending into its fourth year.

The CDC Nowcast system indicates as of December 23, 2023, that 44% of the Omicron subvariants are JN.1

Yang et al recently published observations that JN.1 has a unique mutation in the receptor binding domain of the Spike protein making it an immune escape artist.

“In summary, JN.1, by inheriting BA.2.86’s antigenic diversity and acquisition of L455S, rapidly achieved extensive resistance across receptor binding domain class 1, 2, and 3 antibodies, and showed higher immune evasion compared with BA.2.86 and other resistant strains like HV.1 and JD.1·1, at the expense of reduced human ACE2 binding. This evolutionary pattern, similar to the previous transition from BA.2.75 to CH.1.1 and XBB, highlights the importance of closely monitoring strains with high human ACE2 binding affinity and distinct antigenicity, like BA.2.86 and BA.2.75, despite their unremarkable immune evasion capabilities. Such strains could survive and transmit at low levels since their antigenic difference would allow them to target distinct populations compared with dominant strains and have the potential to quickly accumulate highly immune-evasive mutations at the cost of human ACE2 binding capabilities.”

The JN.1 subvariant which is likely to breakthrough natural and vaccine immunity with ease, is all the more reason to be armed and ready…..  (See link for article)

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**Comment**

According to this, JN.1 patients are presenting two the two distinct symptoms of headache and diarrhea.  The other symptoms are very similar to previous Omicron variants and include fever, fatigue, sore throat, and even runny nose, congestion, muscle aches, and other GI issues like nausea and loss of appetite.

I recently had another bout of something.  What was unique this time was vocal box involvement giving me Laryngitis.  This eventually moved into my chest causing severe coughing.  This drug on and on until I finally requested antibiotics (clindamycin) which set me straight again.  I also used Dr. Levvy’s food grade hydrogen peroxide nebulizer treatment as well as ivermectin, vitamin C, and the usual immune helps.

I found this interesting:  https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/potential-covid-induced-vocal-cord-paralysis-in-adolescents  The case of a 15-year old presented within is severe and I did not have difficulty swallowing or shortness of breath but this patient also had a history of asthma and anxiety. Adults have also had vocal fold paralysis or weakness with COVID as well, and the paralysis can be temporary or permanent.

So it appears this vocal chord involvement is now being seen more.

Category:

Activism, Treatment, Viruses

Big Pharma: Influences Diagnoses & Treatments & More Than Half of CDC Employees End Up Working For It

https://thevaccinereaction.org/2024/01/pharma-influences-diagnoses-and-treatments-in-bible-of-psychiatric-disorders/

Pharma Influences Diagnoses and Treatments in “Bible” of Psychiatric Disorders

by Barbara Cáceres

Published January 16, 2024

Article Excerpts:

A new study published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) found that 55 of the 92 American doctors who determine what diagnoses and treatments are included in the American Psychiatric Association’s (APA) most recent edition of their Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) collectively received more than $14 million in previously undisclosed industry funding.1

The APA’s manual is often referred to as the “bible” of psychiatric disorders because of its enormous influence on clinical practice, affecting such disparate domains as jurisprudence and insurance claims. The APA also produces and disseminates clinical-practice guidelines directly tied to DSM diagnoses.2  The DSM’s fifth edition, the DSM-V, was published in May 2013; a text revision was published in March 2022 as the DSM-5-TR.

Transparency is Not the Answer

After the 1994 release of DSM-4, the APA instituted a policy requiring expert advisors to disclose drug industry ties. But the move toward transparency did little to cut down on conflicts of interest, with nearly 70 percent of DSM-5 task force members reporting financial relationships with pharmaceutical companies—up from 57 percent for DSM-4.7

(See link for article)

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A few points:

  • The study used info only from Open Payments which doesn’t include payments to doctors based outside the U.S. so the problem is worse.
  • Panel members with Pharma ties have introduced new diagnoses and revisions to treatment which have lacked scientific evidence but helps industry.
  • In 2019, 1 in 6 Americans over age 18 took medication for a psychiatric disorder.
  • The Institute of Medicine (IOM) is recommending that only independent experts without commercial ties be involved in clinical guideline decision-making.
One would hope this last point would be common practice, but alas, it isn’t.
As always, “Follow the money.”

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https://thevaccinereaction.org/2024/01/more-than-half-of-cdc-employees-end-up-working-for-pharma/

More Than Half of CDC Employees End Up Working for Pharma

by TVR Staff

Published January 14, 2024

Article Excerpts:

A study conducted by researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) and Harvard University and published in the journal Health Affairs found that 54 percent of the staff members, who were employed at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and left the federal health agency during 2004-2020, went on to work for the pharmaceutical industry.1 2 3

According to the study:

Exiting staff went to not only biopharmaceutical and device manufacturers, but also health insurers, information and communication technology firms, real estate firms with medical property portfolios, and consulting firms.1

Current Laws and Regulations Have Little Impact on CDC/Pharma Conflicts of Interest

Current federal laws and regulations, which were supposed to reduce conflicts of interest that arise from the revolving door between the CDC employees and pharma, do not appear to adequately address the “pre- and post-departure risks.” Study authors Kanter and Carpenter cited 18 U.S. Code Section 207, which imposes a one- to two-year “cooling-off period” on former officials within the executive branch of the federal government and prohibits them from lobbying the government on behalf of private organizations.1 3

Kanter said that the cooling off period laws “do not cover much lobbying related to federal agency decision making, like regulations and drug authorizations, so they don’t necessarily deter that behavior.”3

Revolving Door Between CDC and Pharma a Serious Problem

The “sheer scale” of the revolving door between the CDC and other DHHS agencies, such as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), is apparently serious enough that Kanter and Carpenter described it as a “troubling” and one that “merits further scrutiny.”1

For  more:

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**Comment**

Speaking of treatment “guidelines” and sordid history, investigative journalist Kris Newby uncovered the fact that a majority of those determining the Lyme treatment guidelines also had financial conflicts of interest with Big Pharma.

It’s important to note that these guidelines have remained frozen in time for over 40 years despite new science and reality.  This of course means the controversy continues making doctors too frightened to treat patients and depart from the accepted narrative.

Category:

Activism, Psychological Aspects, research

Study: Non-Live Vaccines Increase Risk of All-Cause Mortality & Autopsy Shows COVID Shot Induced Myocarditis

The following article demonstrates the false premise that is currently pervading our culture.  The premise is that all vaccines are safe and effective.  They often aren’t, and the thousands of vaccine injured can attest to this simple, verifiable fact.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/vaccines-can-impact-long-term-survival-from-other-diseases-study

Vaccines Could Impact Mortality and Risks of Other Diseases: Study

A recent review found non-live vaccines tend to increase a person’s risks of all-cause mortality, as well.
1/8/2024

Apart from potentially preventing a particular disease, vaccines may cause persistent nonspecific effects that can affect a person’s lifetime survival.

In a review published on Dec. 26 in Vaccine, researchers found that non-live vaccines like influenza, COVID-19, hepatitis B, and diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTaP) tend to cause adverse nonspecific effects (NSE), increasing a person’s risks of all-cause mortality and the potential risk of infections from diseases they are meant to protect against.

A live vaccine contains a weakened form of the pathogen, which is less virulent but capable of replicating in the body, thus mimicking the actual disease progression. Non-live vaccines use inactivated viruses, fragments, or genes of the pathogen to trigger an immune response without pathogen replication.

Live vaccines elicit a much stronger immune defense, typically requiring only one shot, while non-live vaccines result in a weaker response, often necessitating multiple shots.

So far, research has identified several non-live vaccines that cause adverse nonspecific effects, namely DTaP and Tdap, influenza H1N1, malaria, hepatitis B, inactivated polio, and COVID mRNA vaccines.

The Vaccine study singled out DTaP, influenza, malaria, hepatitis B, and COVID mRNA vaccines.  (See link for article)

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Important points:

  • The innate immune system can be trained as it learns from its previous battles.
  • The article quotes an author of the study (Dr. Christine Stabell Benn) who states that while non-live vaccines cause negative NSEs, administering a live vaccine after a non-live one neutralizes negative NSEs. She uses studies evaluating measles vaccine safety for this rationale and the fact that when the measles vaccine is given after the DTP, there is an overall positive effect, whereas if the order is reversed there is a negative effect.
  • Demonstrating that girls are at a greater risk of adverse nonspecific effects:  Girls who took the DTaP vaccine had a 50 percent higher risk of dying than boys who got it. Compared to girls who were DTaP-unvaccinated, vaccinated girls’ risk of dying was over 2.5 times higher.
  • Benn states substituting live vaccines with non-live vaccines poses a risk to general immunity as it becomes less trained and “lazy.”
  • Benn believes that the “risk of getting the real disease with the live vaccines has been seen as a bigger threat than I think it deserves.”  (I completely disagree with this as well as the continued insistence that everyone should be vaccinated)
  • Benn’s research has been largely unacknowledged by academia.  She feels this is due to the fact that it shows some vaccines may sometimes be harmful.
  • Benn argues further that these live vaccines are no longer patented, making them very cheap to make.
  • Immunologists now largely agree that some vaccines cause nonspecific effects, but how these effects should be quantified remains controversial.  (Tell that to the CDC, FDA, and NIH!)
  • At the end of the article Benn mentions that live vaccines may induce the actual disease they were intended to eradicate.  (Polio and measles come to mind).  Go here to learn important history rarely mentioned today.
  • COVID vaccines are associated with adverse events due to the presence of highly toxic spike proteins, which studies now link to long COVID and vaccine injuries.
In the medical textbook “The Immune Response,” the authors wrote that, in isolated cases, live viral strains administered to individuals can regain virulence, causing disease in recipients. Additionally, there is a risk of contamination with other viral strains during manufacturing.
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**Comment**

No matter how you cut it, vaccines can be and are dangerous to many people and there are some people who should NEVER be vaccinated.  For some reason this idea is no longer accepted, when it used to be a simple tenant of medicine that was respected by most doctors and laypeople alike.  The fact it is no longer respected says something about the current state of affairs that once again, ‘the powers that be’ are controlling globally every, single person on planet earth by putting us all in a four-cornered box despite the implications.
The continued denial of vaccine harm is hurting untold numbers of people.  In a perfect example of this, the FDA just violated agency guidelines by promoting the illogic off-label use of COVID shots to treat long COVID when research has shown they can cause it.
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Despite not having randomized trial data, The American College of Cardiology gave an unprecedented position statement on COVID, which is outside their field, published the ACC Expert Consensus Decision Pathway on Cardiovascular Sequelae of COVID-19 in Adults that stated
“The ACC has long supported vaccination as a vital protective measure against dangerous illness and for personal and community health. There is no question that the benefits of COVID-19 vaccination generally outweigh the risks.”
They must now eat their own words.

Autopsy findings in cases of fatal COVID-19 vaccine-induced myocarditis

Nicolas Hulscher1*, Roger Hodkinson2, William Makis2,3and Peter A. McCullough2,4,51
ESC Heart Failure (2024)
Published online
Abstract
COVID-19 vaccines have been linked to myocarditis, which, in some circumstances, can be fatal. This systematic review aims to investigate potential causal links between COVID-19 vaccines and death from myocarditis using post-mortem analysis. We per-formed a systematic review of all published autopsy reports involving COVID-19 vaccination-induced myocarditis through 3July 2023. All autopsy studies that include COVID-19 vaccine-induced myocarditis as a possible cause of death were included. Causality in each case was assessed by three independent physicians with cardiac pathology experience and expertise. We initially identified 1691 studies and, after screening for our inclusion criteria, included 14 papers that contained 28 autopsy cases. The cardiovascular system was the only organ system affected in 26 cases. In two cases, myocarditis was characterized as a consequence from multisystem inflammatory syndrome. The mean age of death was 44.4 years old. The mean and median number of days from last COVID-19 vaccination until death were 6.2 and 3 days, respectively. We established that all 28 deaths were most likely causally linked to COVID-19 vaccination by independent review of the clinical information presented in each paper. The temporal relationship, internal and external consistency seen among cases in this review with known COVID-19vaccine-induced myocarditis, its pathobiological mechanisms, and related excess death, complemented with autopsy confirmation, independent adjudication, and application of the Bradford Hill criteria to the overall epidemiology of vaccine myocarditis, suggests that there is a high likelihood of a causal link between COVID-19 vaccines and death from myocarditis.

**UPDATE**

There is now an obvious concern about receiving a blood transfusion using COVID ‘vaccinated’ blood.  This article based on a Twitter post relays an important patient case of a COVID ‘vaxxed’ blood transfusion causing blood clotting and pericarditis.  Another unfortunate example of this is the death of a baby who died of blood clots after the hospital gave him a blood transfusion using “vaccinated” blood against the parents’ wishes. The hospital somehow managed to “lose” the specially donated unvaccinated blood by a family friend, so have an advocate with you if you are in the hospital.

Similarly to the redacted pages and blind refusal to admit the injections are even causing widespread blood and heart problems, researchers are carefully toeing the narrative by stooping so low as to compare the potential for life-altering health issues to a historical example of denying blood based upon race (the old race card).  There is quite a difference between the two when you consider the potential life-altering damage or even death from COVID ‘vaxxed’ blood. It’s simply easier to call it all ‘misinformation.’

You be the judge.
Go here to learn how to obtain mRNA ‘vaccine’-free blood.
For more:

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Activism, Heart Issues, vaccines, Viruses

British Soap Opera to Feature Lyme Disease Story Line

https://www.lymedisease.org/british-soap-to-feature-lyme-story/

British soap opera to feature Lyme disease story line

“Coronation Street” is a popular British TV soap opera. Next week, one of its characters is diagnosed with Lyme disease.

Here’s more from the website of Lyme Disease UK:

Some months ago we were approached by the research team from the popular soap opera Coronation Street about a possible story line featuring a child who contracts Lyme disease.

Julia Knight, our Press and Community Outreach Manager, worked with the researchers to put together a credible story line, resulting in the recent story about Joseph Brown, age 12, son of Chesney, contracting the infection during a camping trip.

Next week, Joseph’s mysterious illness is diagnosed as Lyme disease. After weeks of worry, trips to the doctors and his step-mum, Gemma being removed from the house by social services under suspicion of deliberately poisoning the youngster, things take a dramatic turn when he collapses at home.

Joseph is rushed to hospital where doctors tell his worried parents and grandparents that he has Lyme disease, probably contracted from a tick bite whilst on a camping holiday.

Julia says “It has been my great pleasure to work with the Coronation Street script writers to give them advice and pointers so that they could produce a story line that is both realistic and engaging. Lyme disease can easily be overlooked if a person only shows viral-type symptoms initially, as in the storyline.

“Raising awareness of the disease and giving people the information about how to prevent it is essential. With knowledge, bites can be prevented, and awareness of possible symptoms means that people who do contract the disease can seek medical advice promptly.”

How to watch “Coronation Street” in the US

The streaming channel BritBox offers Coronation Street and other British shows as soon as they have aired in the UK. You can access it through Amazon Prime (though you’ll have to pay extra for the service).

If you have Hulu, you can watch episodes of Coronation Street for free. But you’ll have to wait until two weeks after they have aired in the UK.

Kudos to Lyme Disease UK for taking their Lyme Awareness activities to a new level. I’m looking forward to watching the show.

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

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Activism, Lyme

Lyme Disease Test Lawsuit Settled & Dismissed

https://www.masslive.com/news/2024/01/lawsuit-over-at-home-lyme-disease-test-gets-dismissed-after-settlement.html

Lawsuit over at-home Lyme disease test gets dismissed after settlement

By Greta Jochem | gjochem@repub.com

SPRINGFIELD — A class action lawsuit alleging that an at-home Lyme disease test is faulty was voluntarily dismissed last week in U.S. District Court in Springfield after a settlement.

Moira Kerans, a Dalton woman, and TruthCures, a Kansas-based nonprofit group, filed a lawsuit in June against LetsGetChecked, arguing the company’s home Lyme disease tests are deceptive and inaccurate.

On Dec. 28, the plaintiffs filed to voluntarily dismiss the case with prejudice, meaning it can’t be brought again.  (See link for article)

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**Comment**

The class action lawsuit alleges that the LetsGetChecked test is not accurate.

Sadly, this can be said about ALL testing for Lyme, particularly the FDA “cleared” 2-tier CDC testing, which was rigged for vaccine purposes by leaving out two highly specific bands.

As with most settlement cases, the terms are confidential so we will never know what went on behind closed doors.  The only thing that was brought to light was that the company will never again sell these tests directly to consumers.

The complaint asked for $5 million in damages and a jury trial. In the end, each side paid its own costs and attorneys fees, according to the voluntary dismissal paperwork.  Evidently the amount of money in the agreement was “minimal.”

Category:

Activism, Lyme, Testing