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Public Health Vaccine & Treatment Fraud

https://popularrationalism.substack.com/p/how-fauci-and-grady-lowered-the-standards

How Fauci and Grady Degraded the Standards of Ethical Requirements for Clinical Research in the US Compared to the Rest of the World

In reading Nuremberg, The Belmont Report, and now the Helsinki Declaration, I can say that up to 2020, US had far lower ethical standards for human subjects research than WMA. Now? None.

James Lyons-Weiler
Excerpts:

Both WHO and the US HHS suffer from a form of ethical blindness when it comes to vaccine research. Foregoing long-term vaccine safety studies in favor of retrospective analysis of real-world data, these agencies fail to recognize that post-marketing (and post-EUA) studies are de facto uncontrolled, non-randomized prospective clinical trials conducted without proper consenting procedures.

If you’ve read the Nuremberg Code, the Belmont Report, and the Declaration of Helsinki, you’d know that protections are supposed to be in place not for some people undergoing some clinical studies, but instead are considered to be required to be in place for all people undergoing any clinical studies.

Where the US had departed (prior to 2020) from the rest of the countries that backed Helsinki (WMA) and participated in its updates included, according to Kimmelman et al. (2009) included:

  • Disclosure of conflict of interest
  • Public disclosure of study design
  • Benefit for populations in which research is conducted (beneficence)
  • Reporting of accurate results and publication of negative findings
  • Access to treatment after research has been conducted
  • Restriction of use of placebo in a control group where effective alternative treatment is available

The departure formally came when issues related to HIV clinical trials run in less wealthy countries seemed to depart from Helsinki standards. Rather than work to reconcile differences with Helsinki, US companies, and the US government came up with a different international standard called “Good clinical practice” – standards in place in the EU (codified as Directive 2001/20/EC), and the US (enforced as policy by NIH), all backed by Pharma.

The departure of the US and the EU from the countries that continue to abide by Helsinki serves to empower those running clinical trials at the expense of those individuals taking on the risk of new drugs and vaccines – both in the risk of poor efficacy and in the risk of potential safety issues.

Well, it turns out that Fauci was at the forefront of the war on ethical research, arguing against the requirement of the use of placebos in HIV drug trials in Africa.

Fauci’s insistence on no placebo arm in HIV drug trials in Africa is an example of bluster and posturing on morality to hide the negative consequences (harm) of the drug AZT. We’ve seen this bluster and posturing all along with COVID-19 vaccines, and Fauci’s denial of the efficacy of early treatment. He rolls over so many of the principles of medical research ethics – and ethics of care – those that were meant to be sacrosanct to protect the interests and well-being of individuals, as outlined in Nuremberg, Helsinki, and the Belmont Report.

Medical hubris has been the modus operandi of Fauci well before COVID-19.

It’s time to revisit why and how it came about that the pharmaceutical companies are able to write the rules by which they conduct clinical research.

(See link for article)

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Please see Jeremy R. Hammond’s antidote to government and mainstream media’s disinformation:

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https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/fda-moderna-bypass-covid-vaccine-safety-standards-documents/

FDA Colluded With Moderna to Bypass COVID Vaccine Safety Standards, Documents Reveal

According to Alexandra Latypova, an ex-pharmaceutical industry executive, documents obtained from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine suggest the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Moderna colluded to bypass regulatory and scientific standards used to ensure products are safe.

fda moderna covid vaccine safety

Excerpts:

After analyzing 699 pages of studies and test results “supposedly used by the FDA to clear Moderna’s mRNA platform-based mRNA-1273, or Spikevax,” Latypova told The Defender she believes U.S. health agencies are lying to the public on behalf of vaccine manufacturers.

“It is evident that the FDA and NIH [National Institutes of Health] colluded with Moderna to subvert the regulatory and scientific standards of drug safety testing,” Latypova said.

“They accepted fraudulent test designs, substitutions of test articles, glaring omissions and whitewashing of serious signs of health damage by the product, then lied to the public on behalf of the manufacturers.”

(See link for article)

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https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/biden-pharma-fda-officials-covid-booster-timeline

Biden, Pharma Pressured Top FDA Officials to Approve Booster Timeline, Emails Reveal

Judicial Watch today announced it received 112 pages from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that show top officials being pressured by “companies and for that matter the administration, who try to impose timelines [sic] that make no sense.”

Excerpts:

The records were produced to Judicial Watch in response to a February Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) that was filed after HHS failed to respond to a Sept. 3, 2021, FOIA request for records of communication from the former director and deputy director of the FDA’s Office of Vaccines Research and Review, Dr. Marion Gruber and Dr. Philip Krause, respectively (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (No. 1:22-cv-00292)).

Drs. Gruber and Krause reportedly resigned during the White House’s push to approve the COVID-19 vaccine “booster shots.”

(See link for article)

The FOIA requests and lawsuits uncover a substantial amount of info on many COVID issues including a FBI inquiry, NIAD’s money and grants to EcoHealth Alliance and Wuhan for bat coronavirus research, Fauci emails citing ties between Wuhan and EcoHealth, Gates’ involvement with the Chinese government, HHS records showing a grant application for “gain of function” research on bat RNA, viruses, and genetic manipulation of SARSr-CoV WIV1 strain, HHS records showing the Pfizer lipid nanoparticles were found in the liver, adrenal glands, spleen, and ovaries of test animals 8-48 hours after injection, safety lapses at U.S. biosafety labs, and HHS records showing NIH officials tailored confidentiality forms to China’s terms.

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HFDF ANNOUNCES LEGAL ACTIONS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH DAILYCLOUT

Leslie Manookian, HFDF President, has partnered with Dr. Naomi Wolf, DailyClout CEO, to hold the FDA accountable for its unscrupulous and unlawful approval of remdesivir for all patients, and COVID injections for young children.

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Activism, Treatment, vaccines

We Should Not Have to Fight So Hard For Lyme Care

https://www.lymedisease.org/monica-white-wg-comments/

To TBDWG: We should not have to fight so hard for Lyme care

Monica White's comments to TBD Working Group

Monica White delivered the following public comments to the Tick-Borne Disease Working Group on July 19.

My name is Monica White. I’m president/co-founder of Colorado Tick-Borne Disease Awareness Association. I’ve lived with chronic Lyme, co-infections and conditions for nearly 16 years, due to lack of an early diagnosis and treatment.

Formerly a fully functional wildlife biologist and wildland firefighter for the US Forest Service, I am functional now only with repeated courses of combined antibiotics, antimicrobial, and immune therapies.

I recently relapsed with tick-borne illness after a period of no treatment. And again, even with current positive lab results in hand, I was met with dismissal from mainstream medicine.

When I had an enlarged liver and spleen during another extended hospital stay, the infectious disease doctor wrote in my report–and I quote–“I highly doubt this is in anyway related to either Lyme disease or babesiosis.”

I again left hospital care without a diagnosis. And I’ve again made improvements in my health only with re-treatment for tick-borne diseases. This dismissal of TBDs in the differential diagnosis is commonplace for TBD patients, especially those with chronic or persistent disease.

Though persistence of pathogens is shown in multiple studies conducted by respected researchers in the community, some on this panel–and is found in both animals and humans–findings have thus far been ignored or disputed by many members of this panel each year. It is past time to settle the science on this issue for:

  • patients that don’t get early accurate diagnosis and treatment.
  • patients that fail short course single antibiotic/antimicrobial therapies;
  • patients that are overlooked for have co-infections or tick-borne conditions,
  • and patients that do not respond to currently available therapies.

Maternal-fetal transmission

Maternal-fetal transmission of many TBDs is a fact, but research is lacking in diagnostics and treatment before irreparable damage has occurred. My own children acquired Lyme and co-infections congenitally, and both suffered from delayed diagnosis and treatment, as well as from multiple relapses of disease.

The resources available to patients have been… and continue to be…. INADEQUATE. Our medical system is failing these patients. This has ramifications that go so far beyond my individual story.

We should not have to fight as hard as we have… for as long as we have…to get government funded reliable direct diagnostics and curative treatments for acute and persistent disease!

Individuals…families…OUR children have been losing EVERYTHING for DECADES due to the lack of attention to the seriousness and the debilitation that Lyme, other TBDs and conditions have on those infected or exposed.

There is no excuse for patients having to spend months, years, or decades seeking accurate diagnosis and treatment, with crippling physical health, mental health, financial burdens, loss of careers, and relationship stresses beyond what many families can endure.

No one should suffer the way I have suffered…the way my children have suffered… and the way that the patients I share a voice for…have suffered.

Patient’s needs MUST be the priority of the Working Group for this final phase of the panel!

Thank you.

In addition to co-founding the Colorado Tick-Borne Disease Awareness Association, Monica White has served on a subcommittee of the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group, and on other governmental panels.

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**Comment**

Fighting “hard” isn’t nearly as important as fighting “smart,” and the Lyme/MSIDS community continues to work with the very people and organizations behind the corruption, denial, and fraud.

Time to support independent scientists who are not being gagged and who are not biased and part of the machine.

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Activism, Lyme

Who Owns Big Pharma & Big Media? You’ll Never Guess

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/blackrock-vanguard-own-big-pharma-media/

Who Owns Big Pharma + Big Media? You’ll Never Guess.

BlackRock and the Vanguard Group, the two largest asset management firms in the world, combined own The New York Times and other legacy media, along with Big Pharma.
Big Pharma and mainstream media are largely owned by two asset management firms: BlackRock and Vanguard.

Story at-a-glance:

  • Big Pharma and mainstream media are largely owned by two asset management firms: BlackRock and Vanguard.
  • Drug companies are driving COVID-19 responses — all of which, so far, have endangered rather than optimized public health — and mainstream media have been willing accomplices in spreading their propaganda, a false official narrative that leads the public astray and fosters fear based on lies.
  • Vanguard and BlackRock are the top two owners of Time Warner, Comcast, Disney and News Corp, four of the six media companies that control more than 90% of the U.S. media landscape.
  • BlackRock and Vanguard form a secret monopoly that own just about everything else you can think of too. In all, they have ownership in 1,600 American firms, which in 2015 had combined revenues of $9.1 trillion. When you add in the third-largest global owner, State Street, their combined ownership encompasses nearly 90% of all S&P 500 firms.
  • Vanguard is the largest shareholder of BlackRock. Vanguard itself, on the other hand, has a unique structure that makes its ownership more difficult to discern, but many of the oldest, richest families in the world can be linked to Vanguard funds.

What does The New York Times and a majority of other legacy media have in common with Big Pharma? Answer: They’re largely owned by BlackRock and the Vanguard Group, the two largest asset management firms in the world. Moreover, it turns out these two companies form a secret monopoly that owns just about everything else you can think of too. As reported in the featured video:

“The stock of the world’s largest corporations are owned by the same institutional investors. They all own each other. This means that ‘competing’ brands, like Coke and Pepsi aren’t really competitors, at all, since their stock is owned by exactly the same investment companies, investment funds, insurance companies, banks and in some cases, governments.

“The smaller investors are owned by larger investors. Those are owned by even bigger investors. The visible top of this pyramid shows only two companies whose names we have often seen …They are Vanguard and BlackRock.

“The power of these two companies is beyond your imagination. Not only do they own a large part of the stocks of nearly all big companies but also the stocks of the investors in those companies. This gives them a complete monopoly.

“A Bloomberg report states that both these companies in the year 2028, together will have investments in the amount of 20 trillion dollars. That means that they will own almost everything.’”

Who are the Vanguard?

The word “vanguard” means “the foremost position in an army or fleet advancing into battle,” and/or “the leading position in a trend or movement.” Both are fitting descriptions of this global behemoth, owned by globalists pushing for a Great Reset, the core of which is the transfer of wealth and ownership from the hands of the many into the hands of the very few.

Interestingly, Vanguard is the largest shareholder of BlackRock, as of March 2021. Vanguard itself, on the other hand, has a “unique” corporate structure that makes its ownership more difficult to discern. It’s owned by its various funds, which in turn are owned by the shareholders. Aside from these shareholders, it has no outside investors and is not publicly traded. As reported in the featured video:

“The elite who own Vanguard apparently do not like being in the spotlight but of course they cannot hide from who is willing to dig. Reports from Oxfam and Bloomberg say that 1% of the world, together owns more money than the other 99%. Even worse, Oxfam says that 82% of all earned money in 2017 went to this 1%.

“In other words, these two investment companies, Vanguard and BlackRock hold a monopoly in all industries in the world and they, in turn, are owned by the richest families in the world, some of whom are royalty and who have been very rich since before the Industrial Revolution.”

While it would take time to sift through all of Vanguard’s funds to identify individual shareholders, and therefore owners of Vanguard, a quick look-see suggests Rothschild Investment Corp. and the Edmond De Rothschild Holding are two such stakeholders. Keep the name Rothschild in your mind as you read on, as it will feature again later.

The video above also identifies the Italian Orsini family, the American Bush family, the British Royal family, the du Pont family, the Morgans, Vanderbilts and Rockefellers, as Vanguard owners.

BlackRock/Vanguard own Big Pharma

According to Simply Wall Street, in February 2020, BlackRock and Vanguard were the two largest shareholders of GlaxoSmithKline, at 7% and 3.5% of shares respectively. At Pfizer, the ownership is reversed, with Vanguard being the top investor and BlackRock the second-largest stockholder.

Top owners of Pfizer Inc.

Keep in mind that stock ownership ratios can change at any time, since companies buy and sell on a regular basis, so don’t get hung up on percentages. The bottom line is that BlackRock and Vanguard, individually and combined, own enough shares at any given time that we can say they easily control both Big Pharma and the centralized legacy media — and then some

Why does this matter? It matters because drug companies are driving COVID-19 responses — all of which, so far, have endangered rather than optimized public health — and mainstream media have been willing accomplices in spreading their propaganda, a false official narrative that has, and still is, leading the public astray and fosters fear based on lies.

To have any chance of righting this situation, we must understand who the central players are, where the harmful dictates are coming from, and why these false narratives are being created in the first place.

As noted in Global Justice Now’s December 2020 report “The Horrible History of Big Pharma,” we simply cannot allow drug companies — “which have a long track record of prioritizing corporate profit over people’s health” — to continue to dictate COVID-19 responses.

In it, they review the shameful history of the top seven drug companies in the world that are now developing and manufacturing drugs and gene-based “vaccines” against COVID-19, while mainstream media have helped suppress information about readily available older drugs that have been shown to have a high degree of efficacy against the infection.

BlackRock/Vanguard own the media

When it comes to The New York Times, as of May 2021, BlackRock is the second-largest stockholder at 7.43% of total shares, just after The Vanguard Group, which owns the largest portion (8.11%).

In addition to The New York Times, Vanguard and BlackRock are also the top two owners of Time Warner, Comcast, Disney and News Corp, four of the six media companies that control more than 90% of the U.S. media landscape.

Needless to say, if you have control of this many news outlets, you can control entire nations by way of carefully orchestrated and organized centralized propaganda disguised as journalism.

BlackRock-and-Vanguard own the media.

If your head is spinning already, you’re not alone. It’s difficult to describe circular and tightly interwoven relationships in a linear fashion. The world of corporate ownership is labyrinthine, where everyone seems to own everyone, to some degree.

However, the key take-home message is that two companies stand out head and neck above all others, and those are BlackRock and Vanguard. Together, they form a hidden monopoly on global asset holdings, and through their influence over our centralized media, they have the power to manipulate and control a great deal of the world’s economy and events, and how the world views it all.

Considering BlackRock in 2018 announced that it has “social expectations” from the companies it invests in, its potential role as a central hub in the Great Reset and the “build back better” plan cannot be overlooked.

Add to this information showing it “undermines competition through owning shares in competing companies” and “blurs boundaries between private capital and government affairs by working closely with regulators,” and one would be hard-pressed to not see how BlackRock/Vanguard and their globalist owners might be able to facilitate the Great Reset and the so-called “green” revolution, both of which are part of the same wealth-theft scheme.

BlackRock and Vanguard own the world

That assertion will become even clearer once you realize that this duo’s influence is not limited to Big Pharma and the media. Importantly, BlackRock also works closely with central banks around the world, including the U.S. Federal Reserve, which is a private entity, not a federal one. It lends money to the central bank, acts as an adviser to it, and develops the central bank’s software.

BlackRock/Vanguard also own shares of a long list of other companies, including Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Alphabet Inc. As illustrated in the graphic of BlackRock and Vanguard’s ownership network below, featured in the 2017 article “These Three Firms Own Corporate America” in The Conversation, it would be near-impossible to list them all.

In all, BlackRock and Vanguard have ownership in some 1,600 American firms, which in 2015 had combined revenues of $9.1 trillion. When you add in the third-largest global owner, State Street, their combined ownership encompasses nearly 90% of all S&P 500 firms.

Blackrock and Vanguard ownership

A global monopoly few know anything about

 

To tease out the overarching influence of BlackRock and Vanguard in the global marketplace, be sure to watch the 45-minute-long video featured at the top of this article. It provides a wide-view summary of the hidden monopoly network of Vanguard- and BlackRock-owned corporations, and their role in the Great Reset. A second much shorter video (above) offers an additional review of this information.

How can we tie BlackRock/Vanguard — and the globalist families that own them — to the Great Reset? Barring a public confession, we have to look at the relationships between these behemoth globalist-owned corporations and consider the influence they can wield through those relationships. As noted by Lew Rockwell:

“When Lynn Forester de Rothschild wants the United States to be a one-party country (like China) and doesn’t want voter ID laws passed in the U.S., so that more election fraud can be perpetrated to achieve that end, what does she do?

“She holds a conference call with the world’s top 100 CEOs and tells them to publicly decry as ‘Jim Crow’ Georgia’s passing of an anti-corruption law and she orders her dutiful CEOs to boycott the State of Georgia, like we saw with Coca-Cola and Major League Baseball and even Hollywood star, Will Smith.

“In this conference call, we see shades of the Great Reset, Agenda 2030, the New World Order. The UN wants to make sure, as does [World Economic Forum founder and executive chairman Klaus] Schwab that in 2030, poverty, hunger, pollution and disease no longer plague the Earth.

“To achieve this, the UN wants taxes from Western countries to be split by the mega corporations of the elite to create a brand-new society. For this project, the UN says we need a world government — namely the UN, itself.”

As I’ve reviewed in many previous articles, it seems quite clear that the COVID-19 pandemic was orchestrated to bring about this New World Order — the Great Reset — and the 45-minute video featured at the top of the article does a good job of explaining how this was done. And at the heart of it all, the “heart” toward which all global wealth streams flow, we find BlackRock and Vanguard.

Originally published by Mercola.

The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of Children’s Health Defense.

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WHO Declares Monkeypox Outbreak a Global Health Emergency After Only 5 Deaths & A Vaccine-Derived Polio Case in NY

https://www.theblaze.com/news/monkeypox-global-health-emergency-who

WHO declares monkeypox outbreak a global health emergency after 5 deaths worldwide

Paul Sacca

July 23, 2022

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the monkeypox outbreak a global health emergency.

“I have decided that the global monkeypox outbreak represents a public health emergency of international concern,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced on Saturday morning during a briefing in Geneva.

Members of an expert committee met on Thursday to decide if the current monkeypox outbreak should be escalated to a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC). Of the virologists, vaccinologists, epidemiologists, and health experts, nine voted against declaring monkeypox a PHEIC, and six voted in favor, according to Reuters.

The International Health Regulations Emergency Committee were “resolved by consensus to advise the WHO Director-General that at this stage the outbreak should be determined to not constitute a PHEIC.”

“However, the Committee unanimously acknowledged the emergency nature of the event and that controlling the further spread of outbreak requires intense response efforts,” according to the WHO. “The Committee advised that the event should be closely monitored and reviewed after a few weeks, once more information about the current unknowns becomes available, to determine if significant changes have occurred that may warrant a reconsideration of their advice.”

(See link for article)

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SUMMARY:

  • Tedros overrode the committee & gave monkeypox the highest level of alert.  So much for having experts and a committee.
  • The big takeaway is the designation gives the WHO authority to raise public awareness to raise funding and resources from member nations.  In short, this is a great moneymaker and we don’t want to miss out on that.
  • This is the 7th alert declared since 2007.  The other six were:
    • H1N1 influenza pandemic of 2009 (the fast-tracked H1N1 vaccine increased miscarriages, narcolepsy, and febrile convulsions in 1 in every 110 in Australia). The WHO by May, 2006 stated H1N1 only killed 100 people. H1N1 is another scam.
    • Ebola outbreak in West Africa from 2013 to 2015 (Please read Dr. Rowan’s successful experience with ozone in Sierra Leone.
    • Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 2018 to 2020
    • Zika outbreak in 2016. (Please read this showing they took TWO tissue samples from TWO fetuses containing Zika to “prove” causation.  Rather than taking years to complete lab work, they took ONE paper & plopped it into Shepherd’s criteria where it only met 3 of the 7 criteria, to establish a causal link).  Zika was another scam.
    • poliovirus that started in 2014
    • COVID-19 pandemic.  A complete and utter scam.
  • Tedros admits the outbreak is concentrated in gay men, particularly those who have multiple partners.
  • There is a total of FIVE monkeypox deaths worldwide
  • Predictably, BARDA has purchased a total of 6.9 million monkeypox vaccines through mid-2023.
  • Experts are warning that using a small pox vaccine to prevent monkeypox could cause a global smallpox (vaccinia) epidemic.

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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-york-polio-case-revives-questions-about-live-oral-vaccine/

New York Polio Case Revives Questions About Live Oral Vaccine

An unvaccinated person became infected with the virus, which can be traced to a live, weakened virus commonly used in the oral polio vaccine abroad
By William Petri, The Conversation US on 
New York Polio Case Revives Questions About Live Oral Vaccine
TEM of Polio viruses: the causative agent of poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis). Although rounded in shape, each virus has a cubic symmetry. They are RNA picornaviruses. RNA genetic material occurs in the core of each virus, surrounded by a protein coat (blue). Credit: Eye of Science/Science Source

Excerpt:

The New York patient reportedly contracted a form of polio that can be traced back to the live, but weakened, poliovirus used in the oral polio vaccine. This version of the vaccine has not been used in the U.S. since 2000. Health officials said the virus affecting the male patient, who has muscle weakness and paralysis, likely originated somewhere overseas, where oral vaccines are still administered.

(See link for article)

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**COMMENT**

The article misleadingly states that vaccines introduce a harmless version of a pathogen to your body to train your immune system to fight off the real germ if you ever encounter it.

This is the narrative we’ve been told ad nauseum, yet people are damaged and killed by vaccines daily.

For a great read on the biological mechanisms of vaccine injury please read part 1 and part 2.  This reality is similar to the reality of chronic Lyme/MSIDS. It just isn’t discussed, believed, or acted upon by mainstream medicine.  And similarly, according to mainstream medicine, both topics (Lyme/MSIDS & vaccines) state everything is rare, even when it isn’t.

Regarding polio, many believe routine vaccination may have replaced one disease with another and that acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) outbreaks – a polio-like disease- have been recorded on a biennial basis.

For decades, it’s been known that under certain conditions a phenomenon referred to as “provocation polio” can occur after injections, including injections of vaccines. Yet this issue is being largely, if not entirely, ignored in today’s discussions about AFM.

And while we all envision frightening posters of kids in iron lungs, the very contagious enterovirus infection usually causes mild flu-like symptoms or no symptoms at all, and most people recover from polio without lasting health problems (nonparalytic polio).

While the global poliovirus eradication effort appears to have been successful, the consequences of routine use of OPV are not fully known. In 2009, the World Health Organization warned that live polio vaccine may be responsible for a rise in vaccine strain polio termed Vaccine Derived Polio Disease (VDPD).

Not only has live vaccine strain poliovirus been found to cause paralytic disease in some cases, but evidence also shows that mutated vaccine-derived viruses are responsible for some outbreaks.15,16 As reported by NPR in 2017:

“For the first time, the number of children paralyzed by mutant strains of the polio vaccine are greater than the number of children paralyzed by polio itself. So far in 2017, there have been only six cases of ‘wild’ polio reported anywhere in the world …  Source

We are always given part of the truth – not the whole enchilada. Vaccines have always come with risks and always will.  
The polio case might be a foreshadowing of smallpox in the future.

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Activism, vaccines, Viruses

COVID Risks May Be Heightened by History of Lyme Disease

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20220717/COVID-19-risks-may-be-heightened-by-history-of-Lyme-disease

COVID-19 risks may be heightened by history of Lyme disease

By Dr. Sanchari Sinha Dutta, Ph.D.
Jul 17 2022
Reviewed by Benedette Cuffari, M.Sc.

In a recent study published on the preprint server Research Square*, researchers report that individuals with a history of Borrelia infection, otherwise known as Lyme disease, caused by tick bites are at a higher risk of severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

Study: Correlation between COVID-19 severity and previous exposure of patients to Borrelia spp. Image Credit: Kateryna Kon / Shutterstock.com

(See link for article)

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SUMMARY:

  • Serological testing is not sufficient to differentiate between recent and past infections because antibodies persist in the blood – even after treatment.  What the article doesn’t say is that THIS, RIGHT HERE, is why current CDC 2-tiered testing should never be used solely to diagnose patients and why doctors need to be educated to make correct clinical judgments. 
  • What started the whole ball of wax is a case report of a patient infected with Lyme who was unsuccessfully treated with one round of antibiotics and who then got COVID.  The patient’s Lyme was suppressed (lower IgG test) due to the anti-COVID meds (umifenovir, hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin, and ceftriaxone).
  • The study included:
    • 31 severely ill & hospitalized patients who were either required non-invasive or invasive ventilation.
    • 28 COVID positive patients who had either mild or asymptomatic cases who were either treated at home or unaware of infection.
    • 28 seronegative controls
  • Serum samples were collected for COVID and Borrelia infections
    • A multi-antigen microblot-array utilizing 19 antigens revealed Lyme in all hospitalized COVID patients. 
    • Of the 28 mild or asymptomatic patients, 19 had Lyme, whereas in the control group of 28, 8 had Lyme.
    • Severe COVID patients also had significantly higher levels of antibodies targeting Anaplasma.
  • Regarding seropositivity for IgM antibodies (1st antibodies to show up after infection that stay for a short period of time):
    • 24 of the 31 hospitalized patients had Lyme antibodies
    • 13 of the 28 mild/asymptomatic patients had Lyme antibodies
    • 15 of the 28 in the control group had Lyme antibodies
  • Risk of COVID-related hospitalizations increased with each positive IgG (antibodies produced later on in infection and can remain after infection resolves. Having high IgG can be indicative of chronic Lyme), but was not observed for IgM.
  • Post-hoc analysis of selected antigens (Osp proteins, p41, and VlsE) was also
    included; multivariate analysis showed that odds of hospitalization increased with increasing levels of:
    • IgG antibodies targeting OspB, OspC B. burgdorferi sensu stricto, and OspC
      B. spielmanii
    • For IgM antibodies, the same association was observed for antibodies targeting OspC B. spielmanii and OspE
  • Interestingly, the authors state that they observed in many patients antibodies targeting different species (e.g. B. burgdorferi sensu stricto, and at the same time
    B. afzelii, and/or B. garinii) which may reflect cross-reactivity but also may result from coinfections with more than one species.
  • Previous exposure to Lyme and other tick-borne diseases can increase risk of severe COVID and this is the first observation that suggests links between Lyme disease and COVID-19 prognostics.
  • The authors state that screening of anti-Borrelia antibodies in COVID patients could identify high-risk patients and improve their management.
Journal reference:
  • Szewczyk-Dabrowska, A., Budziar, W., Harhala, M., et al. (2022). Correlation between COVID-19 severity and previous exposure of patients to Borrelia spp. Research Square. doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-1799732/v1.

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**Comment**

This is a very interesting study but I come up with slightly different take-aways.  The first of which is – don’t let this article frighten you.  1) there are cheap, effective, safe treatments for COVID.  Far safer & cheaper than Lyme/MSIDS treatment! 2) it only makes logical sense that those with Lyme/MSIDS are sitting ducks for pretty much everything including highly contagious viruses (if that’s what this even is). Lyme/MSIDS patients already struggle with EBV, Herpes, cytomegalovirus, and much, much more.  You are not a hopeless, helpless victim. There are answers and actions you can take to protect yourself and treat yourself should you contract COVID.:

  • The case study states that the person’s Lyme was suppressed due to anti-COVID meds, yet list antibiotics (ceftriaxone & azithromycin) that are used often for Lyme – which would explain the suppression.  Suppression doesn’t mean the Lyme goes away, it just means it isn’t being picked up on the test – a common, well-known problem patients deal with on a daily basis.
  • HCQ was used, which is also used for Babesia, a coinfection they didn’t look for but is known to cause much more severe Lyme for a greater duration IF the patient has both infection concurrently.
  • And Umifenovir is a broad‐spectrum antiviral, which while it doesn’t treat Lyme directly, could assist by beating back other viruses like herpes, EBV, and others – all of which are big players in Lyme.  Treating Lyme/MSIDS is a balancing act.  Giving appropriate treatment to beat back infections and supporting your immune system to handle what’s there without freaking out is more in line than a “cure” of erradicating everything within you.  We are covered in germs/viruses and most are held in check by our immune system.  A tick/insect bite changes that balance (or other modes of transmission such as congenital or sexual, etc)
  • They looked for 19 antigens which is unheard of for average folk!
  • They found Lyme (antibodies) in nearly everyone – even the controls!  This, to me, is the real finding. 
  • Their suggestion to “screen for anti-Borrelia antibodies in COVID patients” to identify potential “high risk” patients only has one flaw:  testing sucks and is not to be trusted!

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