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The Tension Between Public Health & Patents In The Era Of COVID-19

https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/14/patents-public-health-tension-covid-19/

The tension between public health and patents in the era of Covid-19

By CHRISTOPHER MORTEN and CHARLES DUAN

APRIL 14, 2020

Bayer Cipro patents
After credible threats of bioterrorist anthrax attacks following 9/11, Bayer eventually conceded to 50% discount and ramped up production of ciprofloxacin, the only approved anthrax treatment on which it held a patent. JASON KIRK/GETTY IMAGES
The Covid-19 pandemic, devastating as it is, is producing some triumphs of collaborative research and innovation, as everyone from the World Health Organization to national laboratories, pharmaceutical companies, and Facebook groups of engineers race to fight the virus. But lurking behind this remarkable work is a threat: Some individuals or companies may exploit patents to profiteer off the crisis and could slow these innovative efforts to a crawl.

In this time of crisis, lawmakers must be wary of patents and be flexible and proactive in using the many legal tools available to check their harmful use. (See link for article)

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**Comment**

Great reminder of an all important topic Lyme/MSIDS patients are all too aware of: conflicts of interests slowing or even stopping true scientific progress.

Recently, regarding COVID-19, I posted that the Chinese are trying to patent the anti-viral, Remdesivir:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/04/17/live-video-chat-remdesivir-data-chicago-hospital-seeing-rapid-recoveries-patients-discharged-in-less-than-a-week/There is currently a clinical trial for Remdesivir in which they are finding:

rapid recoveries in fever and respiratory symptoms, with nearly all patients discharged in less than a week.

A similar effect was found in rhesus monkeys:  https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/antiviral-remdesivir-prevents-disease-progression-monkeys-covid-19

Regarding Lyme/MSIDS, microbiologist Tom Greer recently wrote an excellent letter outlining this problem of conflicts of interests and patents: https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/04/19/letter-to-chronic-lyme-denialists-from-a-microbiologist/

A while back, I too wrote an article highlighting the problems with the faulty research that continues to be done – ignoring an entire LARGE subset of people who have remaining symptoms:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/02/22/why-mainstream-lyme-msids-research-remains-in-the-dark-ages/  The authorities continue to fixate on the acute stage of the disease as well as insist upon having positive blood serology when research has proven Lyme tests relying upon antibodies to be worthless. They also insist that patients have the EM rash to enter studies, when research also shows many never get a rash.

For more on Lyme testing: https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/10/12/direct-diagnostic-tests-for-lyme-the-closest-thing-to-an-apology-you-are-ever-going-to-get/

Excerpt:

The 1994 serodiagnostic testing guidelines predated a full understanding of key B. burgdorferi antigens and have a number of shortcomings. These serologic tests cannot distinguish active infection, past infection, or reinfection.

Category:

Activism, Lyme, Testing, Treatment

Letter To Chronic Lyme Denialists From A Microbiologist

To The Chronic Lyme Denialists

By Tom Grier

I am not writing to champion “chronic-Lyme-disease” or the many charlatans that create imaginative cures for vague symptoms, I am here to point out a couple facts that are always missing from articles criticizing chronic Lyme disease.

First of all, from the very beginning when Lyme disease was first discovered to be caused by the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi, the Medical-Experts based all of their conclusions on serology tests.

At that time the patents for the ELISA serology tests from the CDC were held by seven top level CDC administrators, a clear financial conflict of interest in my eyes when stated were mandated to use the CDC tests that lasted the full length of their PATENTs and only ended when their patents expired. Odd coincidence???

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All the serology tests for Lyme disease are based on B-31 lab strain of Borrelia burgdorferi we now have 19 Lyme disease Borrelia species and only Bb is detected with these tests. Also Borrelia myamotoi (a TBRF), which is found in the same tick as Lyme disease is transmitted in just 20 minutes. So the theory that Lyme disease can’t be transmitted within 36-48 hours (Yale Medical Report by Marc Voortman) is allowing an undetectable Tick-Borne-Relapsing-Fever to enter the patients and despite Lyme-like symptoms the patients will always test negative on a Lyme disease ELISA test.

The medical experts got many things wrong since 1982:

  • No transplacental transfer (Gary Wormser and E. Shapiro)
  • Is not intracellular (Alan Barbour) 
  • Lyme ELISA tests are 99 % accurate (CDC website) 
  • Erythema-migrans Lyme rash must be the size of a basketball or bigger (Dr. Johann Bakken 2016 IDSA President) 
  • No one dies of lyme disease
  • Two-Tiered testing is better than a single test
  • Many more inaccurate statements continue to be propagated by the Lyme disease experts of yesteryear. Graphic shows more:

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So to find the truth, our group and others turned to PATHOLOGY as the gold standard, and what we found warrants the need for an International Multi-Center Tax-Payer funded Brain Autopsy Study to detect all Borrelia species in the deaths of Chronic Lyme patients, MS patients and dementia brains.

All pseudo-science aside: Lyme patients deserve better science and better studies based on PATHOLOGY not SEROLOGY.
Do the Brain Pathology first, then make your conclusions.

Thomas Grier, Study Administrator
Dr. Paul Duray Pathology Fellowship (A volunteer organization)

218-216-5670 / donatebrain@gmail.com

tomgrier@gmail.com

 

 

 

 

Category:

Activism, Lyme, Testing

Swedish Epidemiologist: Lockdowns Are Not Evidence Based

 Approx. 8 Min, By UnHerd

Why Lockdowns Are The Wrong Policy

Swedish Expert – Professor Johan Giesecke
Professor Johan Giesecke, one of the world’s most senior epidemiologists, advisor to the Swedish Government (he hired Anders Tegnell who is currently directing Swedish strategy), the first Chief Scientist of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, and an advisor to the director general of the WHO, lays out with typically Swedish bluntness why he thinks: 
UK policy on lockdown and other European countries are not evidence-based
The correct policy is to protect the old and the frail only – This will eventually lead to herd immunity as a “by-product”.
  • The flattening of the curve is due to the most vulnerable dying first as much as the lockdown

This 8 minute extract is from the longer version (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfN2J…).

Johan Giesecke says that this conversation (about criticisms of the Swedish model) should happen one year from now.  Other countries are merely dodging the virus. Please see:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/04/09/epidemiologist-coronavirus-could-be-exterminated-if-lockdowns-lifted/

They can’t escape it for ever. Johan Giesecke has three criticisms of Western scientists: 

  • they are not taking an evidence-based approach 
  • Neil Ferguson’s model is terrible + not even peer reviewed 
  • mortality from the virus is much, much lower than 2%

Johan believes that in the end deaths in most options will be very similar but the damage done to societies by lockdowns would be in some cases irreversible. See http://swarnabharat.in/pandemic for a group in India’s evidence-based and risk-based approach that is consistent also with liberty and human rights.

For more:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/03/19/revealed-basic-math-error-likely-cause-of-global-coronavirus-panic/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/03/30/how-deadly-is-the-coronavirus-its-still-far-from-clear-everything-is-set-up-to-show-high-numbers/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/03/27/a-fiasco-in-the-making-as-the-coronavirus-pandemic-takes-hold-we-are-making-decisions-without-reliable-data/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/04/11/hospitals-paid-extra-to-list-patients-as-covid19-3x-as-much-if-the-patient-is-on-a-ventilator/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/04/04/experts-and-models-can-they-show-us-their-math/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/04/13/seven-silver-linings-of-the-pandemic-the-grand-farce-of-social-distancing/

Category:

Activism, Viruses

Facebook ‘Fact Checker’ Worked At Wuhan Biolab; Ruled Out Virus-Leak While ‘Debunking’ Articles

https://www.zerohedge.com/health/conflict-interest-facebook-fact-checker-worked-wuhan-biolab-ruled-out-virus-leak-while

Facebook ‘Fact Checker’ Worked At Wuhan Biolab; Ruled Out Virus-Leak While ‘Debunking’ Articles

A Facebook fact checker who has ‘debunked’ articles suggesting that COVID-19 may have leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) has a giant conflict of interest; she worked at the institute– which is now suspected of accidentally leaking the hyper-virulent virus which has killed over 130,000 people and cast the global economy into chaos.

Danielle Anderson, who works at Duke University’s NUS Medical School lab in Singapore, also contributes to Science Feedback – which Facebook has been using to slap “False Information” labels on articles claiming that COVID-19 may have originated at the Wuhan institute – where Anderson worked with bat coronavirus.

A quick search of Anderson’s publications reveals no fewer than nine collaborations with Dr. Peng Zhou – a Wuhan scientist experimenting on bat coronavirus (the mention of whom may result in a Twitter ban). (See link for article)

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Video by Truth in Media

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**Comment**

Important quote:

Anderson further peddled the now-debunked wet-market theory in a paper she co-wrote in The Lancet…
The plot thickens daily.

Category:

Activism, Viruses

Peaceful Protest – Sunday WI State Capital

Peaceful Protest This Sunday – Protesting Stay At Home Order

  • April 19, 2020
  • Wisconsin State Capitol
  • 12:00-2:00pm

Meet on the corner of Pinckney and Main Streets, then take a peaceful walk around the Capitol Building.

The recommended social distance of 6 feet from one another will be followed. But we will also maintain our civil liberties.

There will be suggestions for ensuring your walk remains as respectful, peaceful, and valuable as possible. Details to follow.

For more:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/04/06/wheres-the-evidence-supporting-the-drastic-measures-against-covid-19/

Category:

Activism, Viruses