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ACTION ALERT: FDA Trying to Ban CBD

https://www.paintreatmentdirectory.com/posts/the-fda-is-trying-to-ban-cbd-supplements

The FDA is Trying to Ban CBD Supplements


The FDA is Trying to Ban CBD Supplements


Editor’s note: The following article and call to action about the FDA’s efforts to ban CBD supplements is being reprinted from the Alliance for Natural Health website. This is not the first time the FDA has tried banning natural treatments relied on by millions of Americans, but part of a long and corrupt history. The FDA has also been trying for several years to ban kratom, an herb being successfully used by millions of Americans to treat pain, opioid addiction and withdrawal, anxiety and more. Recently, the FDA has also taken action against homeopathy, a safe, natural system of medicine used worldwide since its development in 1810. The FDA has been trying to get stronger regulatory authority to take vitamins and other supplements off the market. It seems the FDA is leaving no stone unturned in its efforts to protect the profits of the pharmaceutical industry instead of protecting the health of the public.

The FDA Misleads on CBD Safety

…providing further evidence that the agency is trying to engineer a ban on affordable CBD to protect drug industry profits. Action Alert!

As the evidence of CBD’s myriad health benefits continues to pile up, it increasingly looks to us like the FDA is preparing to issue a ban on CBD supplements. We must support bills in Congress that take the issue out of the FDA’s hands by allowing the sale of CBD in supplement form.

Lawmakers do appear to be taking this issue seriously. In addition to the bill introduced by Representative Morgan Griffith (R-VA), another similar bill has just been introduced by Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR), Rand Paul (R-KY), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), and Representative Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) to allow the sale of CBD in supplements. Additionally, Congress is holding a hearing on July 27 during which members will formally scrutinize the impact of the FDA’s failure to develop a regulatory pathway for the sale of CBD in supplements and food. Let’s show the FDA the scale of our opposition to its unjustified plan and demonstrate the huge level of grassroots support for CBD supplements ahead of the hearing.

We want to make it crystal clear what we face if we don’t stop the FDA in its tracks. CBD, or cannabidiol, is one of over 100 natural compounds called cannabinoids found in a wide range of plants, most notably the hemp plant. The cells of our bodies are laced with cannabinoid receptors that form part of the endocannabinoid system that is essential to life and to robust health. We produce cannabinoids internally (endocannabinoids) and we also consume them in some foods (exocannabinoids). Most of these cannabinoids, including CBD, are not psychoactive – THC being an exception – but they all offer profound benefits. CBD is one of the most well researched non-psychoactive cannabinoids and it has an incredible array of health benefits, with evidence showing that has profound anti-inflammatory and immune modulating effects and can help with painanxietydepressioncertain cancers, and even heart health.

Let that sink in for a moment. The opioid epidemic is killing an astonishing number of Americans every year; rates of anxiety and depression are reaching new highs, particularly among young people; heart disease is the leading cause of death for adults in the US. CBD has been found to help with all of these conditions, but instead of working to make this compound more widely available as a supplement, which is the way it should be sold according to the Dietary Supplement and Health Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA), the FDA wants to stop all supplement sales of CBD. The FDA’s justification is the protection of the profits of one pharmaceutical company that has a CBD drug that will cost patients a stunning $32,500 per year. It will also mean citizens who have been benefiting from low-cost health support from CBD supplements since they became widely available a few years ago will have no further access to the supplements they have relied on. There is something deeply wrong with this picture.

How did we get here? For starters, the FDA says that CBD can’t be a supplement because it has approved a drug version of CBD called Epidiolex that is used to treat two rare forms of epileptic seizure, Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS) or Dravet syndrome, in children over 2 years. This ability for FDA to rule in favor of drug companies has to do with the FDA back-channel that we’ve written about many times before. In short, if a substance is studied as a drug (i.e. a drug company has made an Investigational New Drug application) before there is evidence it was sold as a supplement (i.e. evidenced by a supplement company’s New Dietary Ingredient notification), then the drug company can ask the FDA to ban the supplement form of that compound.

Yet, as pressure mounts from Congress and a variety of stakeholders to make CBD more widely available, the FDA has been reviewing scientific information on CBD. Earlier this year, the agency released a statement explaining that the “existing regulatory framework” for foods and supplements is not appropriate for CBD and that a new regulatory pathway is needed.

One of the main issues raised by the FDA is that of safety. The agency claims that CBD presents various safety concerns, specifically the potential for harm to the liver and the reproductive system and concerns for vulnerable populations such as children and pregnant women.

These views are articulated in a review article authored in part by FDA staff. To support the assertion that CBD can pose threats to the male reproductive system, the authors cite a 1981 animal study in which monkeys were administered 30, 100, or 300 milligrams per kilogram of body weight per day (mg per kg bw/day) of CBD orally. But consider that 300 mg per kg bw/day for a human weighing 154 pounds would be 21,000 mg, or 21g, of CBD—far, far more than anyone would ever take as a supplement!

This is emblematic of a larger problem we’ve discussed before: the deeply flawed risk assessment models used by federal bureaucrats to prevent us from utilizing natural medicines to stay healthy. These types of models have been used by European regulators to set absurd limits on supplement dosages (known as tolerable upper limits, or ULs). ANH’s founder and Executive and Scientific Director, Robert Verkerk, PhD, has published several papers critiquing this approach that was originally developed by the Institute of Medicine (now the National Academy of Medicine), pointing to a fundamental flaw: in trying to restrict vitamin or other micronutrient dosages in this way, regulators completely ignore the fact that risks vary greatly depending on the form and dose of a nutrient used, and for most populations you’ll find overlap in the doses that cause health benefits for the majority and risks for a few. So if you then create a law that aims to eliminate a potential risk for everyone, you actually deprive the vast majority access to the micronutrient and all the benefits it offers.

Bringing it back to CBD: the fact that the FDA is, in part, using a decades-old animal study in which an absurdly high CBD dose was used to demonstrate that CBD has safety concerns once again demonstrates that the federal approach to assessing risk and benefit is fundamentally broken. It’s based on a defunct toxicological model that should have no place in modern day food or supplement law-making. The agency is also not giving proper weight to the incredibly favorable safety record of CBD used as a supplement or the multitude of benefits we can get from using CBD as a supplement. Instead, the FDA has chosen to focus on old evidence of harm that was only found when absurdly high doses were taken experimentally. To us, it seems like the agency is simply grasping at any information it can to demonstrate harm so it can justify its proposed ban on CBD supplements. The driver? Nothing less than preventing competition for the pharmaceutical drug version of CBD, given its the drug companies that are the FDA’s principal paymasters.

And, indeed, the FDA’s view on CBD’s safety is not supported by experts in the industry and elsewhere. A 2020 meta-analysis looked at human trials to assess CBD efficacy and safety. The authors concluded that most studies reported no adverse events with acute administration of CBD and mild to moderate effects with chronic administration, with the most common side effects being tiredness, diarrhea and changes of appetite/weight. Again, these side effects must be weighed against the benefits of CBD use for combatting opioid misuse, heart disease, anxiety, and depression. Harvard Health Publishing, the publication of the Harvard Medical School, states simply that, for adults, “CBD appears to be very safe.”

We cannot allow the FDA to cater to the drug industry at the expense of public health.

Action Alert! Write to Congress in support of bills that allow the legal sale of CBD in supplements. Please send your message immediately.

The FDA has said that they will not be allowing CBD to be in food or supplements, explaining that the “existing regulatory framework” for foods and supplements are not appropriate for CBD. The agency denied three Citizens Petitions requesting the agency issue a regulation that would allow CBD to be sold as a supplement. Clearly the FDA is more interested in protecting Big Pharma profits than with promoting consumer access to a product that can benefit their health. We need Congress to take the issue out of the FDA’s hands to create a legal pathway for CBD supplements.

Write to Congress and tell them to support the Hemp and Hemp-Derived CBD Consumer Protection and Market Stabilization Act of 2023 and the Hemp Access and Consumer Safety Act to protect access to CBD supplements.

Sign the Petition Here

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**Comment**

The FDA wants patients between a rock and a hard place.  On one hand they state extended antibiotics are not to be used for Lyme/MSIDS because they are unsafe, and then they also want to remove important supplements that help us, but when the agency is alerted to the fact doctors have never witnessed so many “vaccine”-related injuries and VAERS reports are higher than any other vaccine in its history, after the mRNA gene therapy injections……crickets.

Something doesn’t smell right.

If the FDA had their way we’d just all die already.

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The FDA has a long & sordid history of attempting to ban anything it views as competition to its lucrative drugs & vaccines due to its vested interests with Big Pharma.

NIH Funds PTLDS Research: More Deception?

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

NIH awards will fund Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome research

Carl Tuttle

Hudson, NH, United States

JUL 31, 2023 — 

We are DONE with the JUNK SCIENCE previously financed by the CDC and NIH. Is this yet another deceptive attempt to avoid chronic Lyme disease and make it look as if our public health officials are listening to the disabled Lyme patient community?

Before we start focusing on persistent symptoms, we need to first rule out ongoing infection/co-infections and understand how Lyme disease disables its victim.  Then we need find a cure for all stages of disease.

It is time we get on the bandwagon here and make sure this is not another big waist of time and taxpayer dollars. Please contact Dr. Hugh Auchincloss, Acting NIAID Director and respectfully demand an answer to my inquiry below:

Contact info:

Dr. Hugh Auchincloss    Hugh.Auchincloss@nih.hhs.gov
Sherri DePollar Staff Assistant  Sherri.Depollar@nih.hhs.gov

Image of Dr. Auchincloss was found here:

https://www.niaid.nih.gov/sites/default/files/styles/image_style_33_width_xs/public/Auchincloss-Hugh.jpg?itok=35FyZGfW

Email to Dr. Auchincloss with Cc: to the five researchers receiving grants:

——— Original Message ———-
From: CARL TUTTLE <runagain@comcast.net>
To: “Hugh.Auchincloss@nih.hhs.gov” <Hugh.Auchincloss@nih.hhs.gov>
Cc: “bjutras@vt.edu” <bjutras@vt.edu>, “mtal@mit.edu” <mtal@mit.edu>, “linden.hu@tufts.edu” <linden.hu@tufts.edu>, “jaucott2@jhmi.edu” <jaucott2@jhmi.edu>, “nwoodbury@asu.edu” <nwoodbury@asu.edu>
Date: 07/30/2023 9:37 AM EDT
Subject: NIH awards will fund Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome research

NIH awards will fund Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome research
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-awards-will-fund-post-treatment-lyme-disease-syndrome-research

“The new NIAID awards for PTLDS, which will total approximately $3.2 million in first-year funding, will support work on possible causes of persistent PTLDS symptoms for five years.”

July 30, 2023

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
5601 Fishers Lane
Rockville, MD 20892
Attn: Hugh Auchincloss, M.D., Acting NIAID Director

Dear Dr. Auchincloss,

In reference to the five grants looking into “Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome,” what diagnostic methods are you recommending to rule out ongoing infection and or coinfection(s) with other tick-borne diseases in the Lyme disease patient population expected to be evaluated in these five studies?

This step is crucial as evidence of persistent infection despite the CDC’s claim that chronic Lyme does not exist has been suppressed for decades.

For example:

I would like to call attention to the following study recently identifying chronic Lyme disease in twelve patients from Canada.

1. Persistent Borrelia Infection in Patients with Ongoing Symptoms of Lyme Disease
http://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/6/2/33

All patients were culture positive for infection (genital secretions, skin and blood) even after multiple years on antibiotics so there was no relief from current antimicrobials. Some of these patients had taken as many as eleven different types of antibiotics.

2. In 1991 B. burgdorferi had been isolated in culture from Vicki Logan’s CSF (CDC’s laboratory in Fort Collins CO.) despite prior treatment with 21 days of IV cefotaxime and 4 months of oral minocycline as identified in the following letter to past CDC Director Barbara Fitzgerald: (culture report included)

Letter to CDC Director Barbara Fitzgerald (personal Dropbox storage area)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xaul84dqmqgbre0/Brenda%20Fitzgerald%20MD%20Director%20CDC.docx?dl=0

3. Per the following 1995 publication, the patient received thirteen spinal taps, multiple courses of IV and oral meds, and relapsed after each one, proven by CSF antigens and/or PCR. The only way this patient (said to be a physician) remained in remission was to keep her on open ended clarithromycin- was on it for 22 months by the time of publication.

European Neurology 1995

Seronegative Chronic Relapsing Neuroborreliosis
https://www.karger.com/Article/Abstract/117104

Lawrence C., Lipton R.B., Lowy F.D., Coyle P.K.d

Abstract

We report an unusual patient with evidence of Borrelia burgdorferi infection who experienced repeated neurologic relapses despite aggressive antibiotic therapy. Each course of therapy was associated with a Jarisch-Herxheimer-like reaction. Although the patient never had detectable free antibodies to B. burgdorferi in serum or spinal fluid, the CSF was positive on multiple occasions for complexed anti-B. burgdorferi antibodies, B. burgdorferi nucleic acids and free antigen.

And then there is this recent announcement:

Paralyzed by Lyme, they were helped with combo treatments [long-term antibiotics]
https://www.lymedisease.org/remission-from-lyme-paralysis/

So once again Dr. Auchincloss I ask the question:

What diagnostic methods are you recommending to rule out ongoing infection and or coinfection(s) with other tick-borne diseases in the Lyme disease patient population expected to be evaluated in these five studies? (Or is this step strictly prohibited as a condition of accepting grant money from the NIH?)

Any study that does not rule out active infection is disingenuous.

A response to this serious inquiry is requested.

Respectfully submitted,
Carl Tuttle
Independent Researcher
Hudson, NH

Cc:
Brandon Jutras, Ph.D. Grant: 1 R01 AI178711-01
Michal Tal, Ph.D. Grant: 1 R01 AI178713-01
Linden Hu, M.D. Grant: 1 R01 AI178725-01
John Aucott, M.D. Grant: 1 R01 AI178726-01
Neal Woodbury, Ph.D. Grant: 1 R01 AI178727-01

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The Great COVID Charade: Biden Suspends Funding to Wuhan Lab As Secret Chinese-Linked Lab Discovered in CA: 20 Infectious Agents Found Including COVID & Malaria

https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/the-great-sars-cov-2-charade?

The Great SARS-CoV-2 Charade

The U.S. government continues to ignore the crucial role of American scientists, institutions, and companies in creating the virus that causes COVID-19.

MAY 21, 2023

By JOHN LEAKE

Author’s Note: The following is Chapter 1 in a four-part series about the true origin of SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of COVID-19 illness. Chapters 2 and 3 have already been posted (see links below). Chapter 4: Ending the Great Charade/ A New Path to Truth & Justice, remains a work in progress.

Chapter 1: Background and Context

Chapter 2: Events Between 2015 and 2020

Chapter 3: Catastrophe, Coverup, and the Great Charade.

(See link for article)

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Go here to watch a brief blast from the past clip on why we can not trust anything this man says.

https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/biden-admin-suspends-funding-to-wuhan

Biden Admin. Suspends Funding to Wuhan Lab

The Great SARS-CoV-2 Charade quietly winds down.

JUL 19, 2023

By JOHN LEAK

Excerpt:

This morning a friend sent me a brief, rather muted report that was just published in the New York Times about the Biden Administration’s suspension of funding to the Wuhan Lab. I wasn’t surprised to see this, as it is consistent with how I suspect the U.S. government is going to handle the disaster—that is, take quiet steps to distance itself from the scientists who created the biotechnology, and from the Chinese laboratory that used and augmented it to create SARS-CoV-2.

The U.S. agencies that supported the development of the biotechnology—most notably USAID and the NIH—want the story to go away. Other institutions and people who participated in the cover-up—who insisted that the Lab Leak Hypothesis was a wild conspiracy theory—also want this story to go away.  (See link for article)

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https://www.theblaze.com/news/secret-biotech-lab-california-covid

Secret Chinese-linked biotech lab uncovered in California with nearly 1,000 mice, 20 potentially infectious agents, COVID tests, and human blood

Following a months-long investigation, local and federal officials uncovered a secret biotech lab with nearly 1,000 mice and 20 potentially infectious agents, according to authorities.

Fresno County authorities discovered an “unlicensed laboratory” inside a warehouse in Reedley, California. The secret lab was owned by Prestige BioTech – a company registered in Las Vegas, Nevada. Prestige BioTech claimed it moved assets to the warehouse from the now-defunct Universal Meditech Inc.

On March 3, a code enforcement officer reportedly noticed a garden hose attached and coming out of a wall in the back of the warehouse.

Reedley City Manager Nicole Zieba told KSEE, “Frankly, we knew that should not have been there and when she went to investigate, she found that there was activity or operation or something happening within that building.”

The Fresno County Public Health Department obtained search warrants and made the shocking discovery on March 16.

“Certain rooms of the warehouse were found to contain several vessels of liquid and various apparatus,” court documents stated. “Fresno County Public Health staff also observed blood, tissue and other bodily fluid samples and serums; and thousands of vials of unlabeled fluids and suspected biological material.”

(See link for article)

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**Comment**

Why send money overseas when you can just send it down the street via U.S.P.S.?

According to Fresno County authorities, they found hundreds of mice bioengineered “to catch and carry the COVID-19 virus.”

Go here for Dr. Judy Mikovitz’s explanation of this mysterious lab. She first gives a history of her own take down by Dr. Fauci for discovering a mouse retrovirus in vaccines that cause chronic illness.  Dr. Mikovits says the company behind the biolab is not Chinese. The fact the lab is located next to a U.S. military base is nothing new and that the samples in the lab came from Reno, Nevada.

The FBI likely raided the lab to cover up and control the narrative.

A few points:

  • The medical industrial complex knows the public is now watching their every move and no longer trusts them.
  • Tony Fauci knew the blood supply was contaminated but called it “chronic lyme disease” instead.
  • Forces within the American government are responsible for biolabs located across the nation.
  • The biolab in Fresno was storing the cell lines that had been isolated from people with diseases like cancer and autism.
  • American taxpayer dollars have been used to create pathogens that have been released onto the public.
  • This was done to make the public life long customers of Big Pharma.

Another important point here is the discovery of malariaPlease go here to learn how Spanish researchers point out that interstitial pneumonia & Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) are not causing the death of COVID patients, which proves why ventilators have killed up to 70% of patients. These patients are really suffering from disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) – a medical term for blood clotting causing a lack of oxygen.  The mRNA shots have also caused thrombocytopenia and microscopic blood clots that will build over time and explain the frightening clots embalmers are finding in the deceased who were “vaccinated,” as well as all the cases of myocarditis.

Guess what else causes hypercoagulation/thrombosis/blood clotting?  Yep.  Malaria.

This is why things like HCQ, zinc, aspirin, ivermectin, and azithromycin work.

Lyme/MSIDS patients, please take note here: Lyme and numerous coinfections can also also cause thrombosis, and Babesia is a cousin to malaria.

A criminal investigation by federal agents is ongoing.

Well, that makes me feel worlds better.

I’m sure the wolf will find the hen-house in perfect order.

German Study: “The Vaccination Was and Is a Disaster and Under No Circumstances Good” But New Head of CDC Pushes It Anyway

https://www-manova-news.translate.goog/artikel/die-kontrollgruppe?

The control group

Thanks to the unvaccinated people, a health comparison can be made between people with and without injections two and a half years after the start of the campaign.
Excerpts from article:

Did the vaccinated get better or the unvaccinated?

Those who have been vaccinated have more and more severe complaints. The factor 2 in the overall complaint severity is a clear result. Twice as many and strong complaints, that’s quite a lot.

According to the available data, did the vaccination protect against Covid?

Ultimately not. We asked whether you had a symptomatic Sars-CoV-2 infection and in fact the number of complaints reported was higher in the control group, i.e. the unvaccinated, in 2021. In short: in 2021 there seemed to be some protection, at least in terms of the number of Covid diseases. In 2022, it got closer and closer, was then very close and finally turned around, so that vaccinated people contracted Covid 18 percent more often, and – this is shown even earlier – also more severely.

What were the differences?

The difference in persistent symptoms was even greater than in the severity of the symptoms. The severity of the persistent symptoms was 2.5 times higher in the vaccinated. We also asked if a doctor or therapist had diagnosed a new illness. And here, too, the number of vaccinated was around 2.5 times higher than that of the unvaccinated. Of course, the unvaccinated also had a number of ailments, but the really severe ailments are found in the vaccinated.

Was the vaccination – at least in some cases – beneficial to health?

The vaccination was and is a disaster and under no circumstances good: In all age groups, the vaccinated were worse off than the control groups.

Not even with the vulnerable, which we also interviewed.

What is the future of your study and the data?

We have completed the data collection – as planned – for the time being. Because we will probably not be able to present them in the form of studies and articles in specialist journals, we will process our considerations and findings in book form. This also offers the possibility of not having to concentrate solely on individual aspects, as is the case with articles in specialist journals. We are also considering continuing data collection. It is said that we are primarily concentrating on the question of infertility.


Editorial note: This text was published on July 1, 2023 in the 138th edition of the printed weekly newspaper Demokratischerwiderstand (DW) (4). Hendrik Sodenkamp asked the questions.


Sources and Notes:

(1) https://diekontrollegruppe.de/
(2) https://www.blautopf.net/index.php/politik/politik-corona/item/648-diekontrolle-gruppe-de-erste- Answers-auf-lange- asked-questions
(3) https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/Infekt/Sentinel/Grippeweb/grippeweb_node.html
(4) https:// Demokratierwiderstand.de/

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https://www.infowars.com/posts/new-biden-cdc-head-pushes-annual-covid-vaccines/

New Biden CDC Head Pushes Annual Covid Vaccines

by Steve Watson

“I was literally suspended from Twitter for predicting this”

The new Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Mandy Cohen has announced it is expected that COVID vaccines will become annual like flu shots, prompting critics to point out that they were suspended from social media for predicting the same thing two years ago.

Cohen, who become CDC Director at the start of the month told Spectrum News, “We’re just on the precipice of that, so I don’t want to get ahead of where our scientists are here and doing that evaluation work, but yes we anticipate that COVID will become similar to flu shots, where it is going to be you get your annual flu shot, and you get your annual COVID shot.”

“We’re not quite there yet, but stay tuned,” she continued, adding “I think within the next couple of weeks, month we’re going to hear more from our experts on COVID shots.”

(See link for article)

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**Comment**

The New York Post cited videos showing Cohen “gloating about implementing COVID lockdowns, inconsistently following her own mitigation guidelines and forcing public schools to have students masked indoors regardless of vaccination status.”

She was on the wrong side of every pandemic public health intervention, failed to recognize early therapeutics and natural immunity, and to date has not acknowledged the safety disaster unfolding with the COVID-19 mass, indiscriminate, vaccination program.” ~ Dr. Peter McCullough

In a June 2021 video Cohen referenced “definitive data” from the CDC claiming the COVID shots prevented infection or transmission.  She also stated:
“Vaccinations are our way out of the pandemic. Don’t wait to vaccinate.”
Unfortunately, cognitive dissonance and mass psychosis is now prolific as the shots weren’t even tested for preventing transmission and the efficacy study is fraudulent.

Not only do the shots not prevent transmission, they have been found to be less than 1% effective when absolute risk is taken into account, and they are connected to more reports of adverse events and death than any other vaccine in the history of VAERS.  The group Doctors for COVID Ethics declares: the experimental vaccines are needless, ineffective and dangerous.

Not to be undone, Cohen threatened legal action against a school district that wanted to drop quarantines and contact tracing after COVID’s lack of risk to children became apparent.

28 lawmakers sent a letter to President Biden opposing her selection to head the CDC.

According to the letter,

“Dr. Cohen is unfit for the position. Throughout her career, Dr. Cohen has politicized science, disregarded civil liberties, and spread misinformation about the efficacy and necessity of COVID vaccinations … and the necessity of masks” and “has a history of engaging in partisan left-wing politics.”

“Dr. Cohen was a proponent of unnecessary, unscientific COVID restrictions on school children,” the letter added.

The Washington Post reported that “Some CDC staff and alumni bristled … at reports of her planned selection, lamenting that her career had been more focused on managing health programs such as Medicare and Medicaid than on traditional public health.”  Source

Sounds like she will fit in perfectly.

Documentary: Why Am I Still Sick? The Silent Role of Biofilm “Culturing Methods Detect Less Than 5% of all Known Bacteria”

http://  1 hour 30 min

The Silent Role of Biofilm in Chronic Disease

This film explores bacterial biofilm infections and how they cause debilitating illnesses for tens of millions of Americans. People with “sub-clinical infections” suffer for months, years or even decades; others will lose life or limb because of the failure to treat chronic wounds or hospital acquired infections. More than 550,000 patients lose their lives annually because of hospital infections and twice that number will acquire sepsis. The majority of hospital infections involve bacterial biofilms and affect every area of specialized medicine and every part of the human body.

Paradoxically, the applications of biofilm eradication methods are slow to propagate into the many silos of western medicine. With patients and doctors in the dark about what is truly causing chronic diseases, millions of people remain undiagnosed and are denied effective treatments for their medical problems.

This ground-breaking documentary explores a new disease model on a scientific and human level. This film leverages interviews from top clinical experts with patients affected by bacterial biofilms to reach as wide an audience as possible. By breaking down complex topics of biofilm infections to a human level, showing staggering statistics, and using high quality animations, the message becomes accessible, compelling and obvious: biofilm infections are a gargantuan problem that has been overlooked by American society, and we as a nation are paying a terrible price.

However, with the advent of new molecular diagnostics, and a new way to understanding disease, Americans can effectively catalyze credible healthcare change by sharing this information that helps eliminate needless suffering, save lives and reduce the costs of health care.

Why Am I Still Sick? https://whyamistillsick.com/

Please donate to our foundation: https://www.adrsupport.org/donations/

John G. Thomas, MS, Ph.D. International Educator and Global Microbiologist Professor, WVU Dept. of Pathology, School of Medicine Clinical Professor, WVU Dept. of Periodontics, School of Dentistry Director(s) WVU High Complexity Laboratory & Biofilm Research Laboratory for Translational Studies

J. William Costerton, Ph.D. “The Father of Biofilms” Director, Microbial Research, Department of Orthopedics, Allegheny General Hospital Director, Biofilm Research, Center for Genomic Sciences, Allegheny-Singer Research Institute

Dr. Randy Wolcott, MD CWS Medical Director, Southwest Regional Woundcare Center Founder, Pathogenius Laboratories Timothy K. Lu, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor Synthetic Biology Group MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science MIT Synthetic Biology Center

Wilmore C. Webley, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Microbiology University of Massachusetts Amherst

Vincent A. Fischetti, Ph.D. Professor and Chairman Laboratory of Bacterial Pathogenesis and Immunology The Rockefeller University

Michael Wilson, GRSC, MSc, PhD, DSc, FRCPath Professor of Microbiology Eastman Dental Institute, University College London

David C. Kennedy, DDS Past President International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology

Doyle Williams, DDS Chief Dental Officer Delta Dental of Massachusetts

Eva Sapi Ph.D. Associate Professor and University Research Scholar Director of Lyme Disease Program Department of Biology and Environmental Science University of New Haven

Rodney M. Donlan, Ph.D. Research Microbiologist Biofilm Laboratory Clinical and Environmental Microbiology Branch Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

L. Clifford McDonald, MD Senior Advisor for Science and Integrity Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Shirley Gutkowski, RDH, BSDH, FACE Oral Healthcare Expert Founding Member American Academy of Oral Systemic Health

Trisha E. O’Hehir, RDH, MS Editorial Director of Hygienetown Magazine President of Perio Reports Press

Nicolas G. Loebel, Ph.D. Chief Technology Officer & President Ondine Biomedical Inc.

Kris Koss, D.V.M. Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Carlene Patterson, D.V.M. Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Sheep Meadow Animal Hospital Thomas Webster, Ph.D. Associate Professor Division of Engineering and Orthopedic Surgery Director of Nanomedicine Laboratory Brown University

Carolyn Cross Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Ondine Biomedical, Inc.

Steve Holland, MD Chief, Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases Chief, Immunopathogenesis Section National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Garth D. Ehrlich, Ph.D. Executive Director, Center for Genomic Sciences Allegheny-Singer Research Institute

John P. Kennedy, R. Ph., Ph.D Assistant Professor South University, School of Pharmacy Savannah, Georgia

Dr. “Lon” H. Jones, D.O Retired Osteopathic Family Physician Founder, Xlear, Inc. Author, No More Allergies, Asthma or Sinus Infections Tom Masterson Operations Manager Ondine Biomedical, Inc.

Scot E Dowd, Ph.D. Molecular Microbiologist & Microbial Geneticist Molecular Research LP

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