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FBI Pressured U.S. Customs to Ditch Plan to Question Key Fauci Aide on Return Trip From Wuhan

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FBI Pressured U.S. Customs to Ditch Plan to Question Key Fauci Aide on Return Trip From Wuhan

The FBI intervened to prevent U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents from questioning “virus hunter” Peter Daszak, Ph.D., on a return trip from Wuhan, China, according to documents released this week by Sen. Rand Paul. Three days before Daszak was scheduled to arrive in New York, a CBP Joint Terrorism Task Force liaison wrote, “Please be advised FBI New York requested we do not stop the subject.”

by Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D.

July 23, 2026

This article was originally published by The Defender — Children’s Health Defense’s News & Views Website.

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The FBI intervened to prevent U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents from questioning “virus hunter” Peter Daszak, Ph.D., on a return trip from Wuhan, China, according to documents released this week by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.).

The documents show that in February 2021, Daszak, a key aide to Dr. Anthony Fauci and then-president of the EcoHealth Alliance, traveled to Wuhan as part of a World Health Organization (WHO) investigation into the origins of COVID-19.

CBP planned to stop and question Daszak on his return to the U.S. that month. But in an email dated Feb. 2, 2021 — three days before Daszak was scheduled to arrive in New York — a CBP Joint Terrorism Task Force liaison wrote, “Please be advised FBI New York requested we do not stop the subject.”

The CBP Tactical Terrorism Response Team was prepared to question Daszak about the business he conducted in China, his contacts at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and whether he collected or was carrying any samples of viruses or other pathogens.

One document states that CBP viewed Daszak as “an extremely high person of interest” due to his longstanding ties with the Wuhan laboratory.

A Jan. 11, 2021, CBP email flagged Daszak’s participation in the WHO’s team investigating the pandemic’s origins in Wuhan as a potential “conflict of interest.”

A Feb. 2, 2021, email noted that much of the funding Daszak was receiving was “put toward gain of function research.”

Notably, a U.S. Department of Homeland Security email contained within the documents, which provided background information on Daszak’s research activity, referenced an article The Defender published in January 2021.

Paul released the documents as part of his ongoing congressional investigation into the origins of COVID-19. In a post on X earlier this week, he said the documents challenge the narrative that a lab leak was implausible.

“The American people can finally judge the evidence for themselves,” Paul wrote.

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Speaking to The National Desk on Tuesday, Paul said the documents showed that figures in the federal government “wanted to protect” the narrative that COVID-19 originated in, and escaped from, a lab, so they “used whatever means necessary to do it.”

“It’s no surprise that they would use the law enforcement enterprise to achieve that,” Paul said.

Jeffrey Tucker, president and founder of the Brownstone Institute, said the documents confirm the “worst versions of what we’ve suspected” and provide “more empirical evidence than ever” of a concerted effort by figures in the federal government to conceal a lab leak in Wuhan.

“There was a high-level plan to protect the virus creators as part of a longer-term scheme to deploy both pathogens and countermeasures, likely for the purpose of political manipulation, as incredible as that sounds,” Tucker said.

NIH asked Daszak to bring SARS-CoV-2 specimen to the U.S.

The documents contained evidence that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) asked Daszak to obtain the original type specimen of SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, and bring it to the U.S.

According to those who believe COVID-19 leaked from a lab, the virus was likely produced through gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab, and later escaped.

Gain-of-function research increases the virulence or transmissibility of viruses and is often used in vaccine development.

Fox News reported that Daszak and EcoHealth Alliance had collaborated with the Wuhan lab for over 15 years, including with the lab’s lead researcher, Shi Zhengli, Ph.D., widely known as the “bat lady.”

Daszak was also principal investigator on NIH grants that funded bat coronavirus research at the Wuhan lab.

The documents were released just days before Fauci is set to testify before the U.S. Congress on July 29, as part of Paul’s investigation.

The document release also came a month after two NIH researchers with ties to Daszak and EcoHealth Alliance were arrested and charged with smuggling mpox samples into the U.S.

Documents Paul released last month revealed that Fauci received a U.S. intelligence report in August 2021 suggesting that SARS-CoV-2 was developed in Chinese and U.S. labs as a bat vaccine, that it later leaked from the Wuhan lab and that it contained characteristics that would make it resistant to mRNA vaccines.

In May, a CIA whistleblower testified before Congress that Fauci led a multi-agency cover-up of COVID-19’s origins and that “Dr. Fauci’s role in the cover-up was intentional.”

In 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) suspended all funding for EcoHealth Alliance after finding the organization failed to monitor risky coronavirus experiments.

Last year, Daszak became president of Nature.Health.Global — a nonprofit organization that performs research on public health and pandemic prevention. The group employs Dr. David Morens, a former top aide to Fauci.

In April, a federal grand jury indicted Morens on charges related to conspiracy to hide federal records on COVID-19’s origins.

This article was originally published by The Defender — Children’s Health Defense’s News & Views Website under Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Please consider subscribing to The Defender or donating to Children’s Health Defense.

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Batch-Dependent Safety Signal: Nationwide Analysis of Suspected Adverse Events After COVID Shot in Germany

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/09246479261453789

Batch-dependent safety signal: Nationwide analysis of suspected adverse events following COVID-19 vaccination in Germany

Vibeke Manniche vibeke@vibekemanniche.dk, Vít Karásek https://orcid.org/0009-0007-1638-2778, […], and Peter Riis Hansen https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9056-535X+3View all authors and affiliations

Abstract
Background

Preliminary reports have suggested a batch-dependent safety signal for COVID-19 vaccines. It is important to establish if these findings can be replicated.

Methods

We used publicly available nationwide data from Germany spanning the first 3.5 years of the vaccination campaign to calculate weekly rates of spontaneously reported suspected adverse events (SAEs) per 1000 administered vaccine doses.

Results

SAE rates ranged between 2.2 and 22.8 per 1000 doses and women accounted for 72% of all SAEs. Crucially, SAE rates for Comirnaty (Pfizer-BioNTech), Spikevax (Moderna), and Vaxzevria (AstraZeneca) were very high in the initial phase of vaccination rollout and hereafter declined precipitously. For example, SAE rates in weeks 1–4 of 2021 were 8.2, 50.8, and 620.9 per 1000 doses of Comirnaty, Spikevax, and Vaxzevria, respectively, but fell to 4.4, 11.6, and 7.4 per 1000 doses in weeks 12–16 of 2021.

Conclusions

SAE rates in Germany were highly elevated in the initial phase of COVID-19 vaccination rollout and then fell precipitously, a pattern compatible with a batch-dependent safety signal. Furthermore, there was a considerable overrepresentation of women with SAEs. These preliminary results call for more definitive studies of batch-dependent COVID-19 vaccine safety

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The Emergency That Will Not Die: Kill the Prep Act

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The Emergency That Will Not Die: Do Not Relent

HHS Begins Cutting the COVID EUA Knot. The PREP Act Liability Wall Still Stands. Tell Your Legislators: Tear Down This Wall.

James Lyons-Weiler, PhD

Jul 01, 2026

HHS announced today that Secretary Kennedy signed determinations terminating the COVID-19 EUA declarations for drugs and biological products and for medical devices, because HHS determined that the circumstances justifying those emergency authorities no longer exist. HHS says the drug/biologic declaration ends after a 12-month notice period, while the device declarations end after 180 days.

The Federal Register public-inspection notices give the exact effective dates: June 29, 2027 for COVID-19 drugs and biological products, and December 26, 2026 for the three device declarations covering in vitro diagnostics, personal respiratory protective devices, and other medical devices.

This is an essential first step toward reversing the regulatory capture by Pharma over public health, medicine and our bodies.

The COVID emergency did not merely authorize medical products. It reorganized accountability. Here’s how, and what comes next.

The Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act, the PREP Act, created the liability architecture. The statute granted a covered person immunity from suit and liability under federal and state law for claims of loss caused by, arising out of, relating to, or resulting from administration or use of a covered countermeasure when HHS issues a declaration for that countermeasure. The same statutory section extends that immunity to claims causally related to design, development, clinical testing, manufacture, labeling, distribution, marketing, promotion, sale, purchase, donation, dispensing, prescribing, administration, licensing, or use. That is not ordinary product regulation. That is an extraordinary legal shield.

COVID policy went askew because the federal government placed emergency countermeasures inside that shield, then allowed public agencies, employers, hospitals, universities, schools, pharmacies, and media institutions to behave as though the shielded products had entered civic life under ordinary conditions. They had not. The public encountered campaigns, recommendations, employment pressure, access restrictions, and moral messaging. The manufacturers and administrators operated inside a liability regime that ordinary medical products do not enjoy.

That is the first distortion: the burden moved downward. Manufacturers received insulation. Program planners received insulation. Administrators received insulation. Injured individuals moved into a narrow administrative channel, and they carried the burden they never agreed to carry.

The PREP Act also created the covered-countermeasure compensation process. The statute establishes a fund for eligible individuals with covered injuries directly caused by administration or use of a covered countermeasure, but the process does not replicate ordinary civil litigation. HRSA’s own comparison of the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program and the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program states that CICP has a one-year filing deadline, does not pay attorneys’ fees or costs, resolves requests through an administrative process, allows one administrative reconsideration step, and permits no judicial appeal. VICP proceeds through the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, uses Special Masters or judges, and permits judicial appeal.

That is the second distortion: injury claims did not enter the legal system the public imagines when it hears the word “compensation.” They entered CICP…… (See link for full article)

The third distortion came from the Emergency Use Authorization structure.

FDA states that an EUA declaration under section 564 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act differs from and does not depend on a public-health emergency declaration under section 319 of the Public Health Service Act. FDA also states that an EUA may remain in effect beyond the end of the section 319 public-health emergency if the statutory conditions remain satisfied. If the HHS Secretary terminates an EUA declaration, EUAs issued under that declaration cease to be effective, with limited transition exceptions, and FDA may no longer issue EUAs for products covered by that declaration.

That separation turned emergency law into a maze. The public-health emergency could end while the emergency product channel continued. The visible emergency could recede while the legal machinery remained in place. The public could hear that the crisis had ended while COVID products, tests, devices, and therapeutics continued through emergency pathways.

With the termination of the EUA, HHS has now started cutting that maze apart. This is not a small administrative cleanup. It is the first formal admission that the COVID emergency-use structure no longer fits the regulatory facts.

Here is the policy indictment: the government allowed emergency authority to outlive the emergency conditions that justified it.

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Important excerpt:

The PREP Act wall still stands. The twelfth PREP Act amendment extended the time period of PREP Act coverage through December 31, 2029, and it expressly extends liability protections for specified covered countermeasures and qualified persons, including licensed pharmacists, pharmacy interns, and qualified pharmacy technicians administering COVID-19 vaccines to individuals aged three and above through December 31, 2029.

That is the remaining knot.

Weiler recommends a full HHS audit of every vestige of the COVID ’emergency,’ including the liability cord the PREP Act still allows.

Weiler also shows how surfaced NIH emails reveal superficial comprehension of how outbreaks become epidemics and pandemics, and it has nothing to do with transmission – it began with institutions and future trigger for financing, platforms, boards, intellectual property, liability shields, and global coordination. It was all about apparatus.

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For an excellent read by France’s long-time vaccine policy chief, Professor Christian Perronne, on the stupidity of the entire COVID debacle from a scientific perspective: https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2021/08/19/covid-policy-is-completely-stupid-unethical-states-frances-vaccine-policy-chief-who-was-recently-fired-for-stating-this/

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Yet More Darkfield Microscopy Showing Microchip & Parasite-Like Self Assembling Nanotech in Pfizer Shots

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Microchip-Like, Parasite-Like, and ‘Self-Assembling Nanotech’ Structures Found Inside Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine: Journal ‘IJVTPR’

Researchers publish darkfield microscopy images of Pfizer jab material.

Jon Fleetwood

Jun 24, 2026

Researchers publishing in the International Journal of Vaccine Theory, Practice, and Research this month have released a study featuring darkfield microscopy images of what they describe as self-assembling “parasites,” massive ribbon-like structures, compartmentalized protocells, and a rectangular embedded structure inside Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine material, arguing that the findings are consistent with advanced synthetic biological architectures.

The publication comes as the CDC awards Pfizer more than $1.24 billion in contracts for more COVID shots.

The new paper, “From Synthetic DNA and RNA-Based Self-Assembling Nanotechnology to Sequelae of COVID-19 Shots,” was published June 19 by independent researcher Shimon D. Yanowitz and Okinawa Christian University professor Daniel Broudy.

At the center of the study are microscope images derived from Pfizer vaccine-vial contents.

According to the paper, researchers placed drops of Pfizer vial material on microscope slides and observed the contents beneath coverslips.

The authors report that unusual structures appeared and organized over time after the vial material was placed under observation.

One of the first images highlighted in the paper is what the authors describe as:

“A synthetic structure, resembling a ‘parasite’ that self-assembled on a glass-slide with some fluid from a Pfizer vial placed there and located under a coverslip.” (See link for article)

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CDC Quietly Admits Genomic Sequencing Can’t Prove Virus Transmission but Issues Mandatory Federal Quarantine Orders To Passengers on Cruise Ship Anyway

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CDC Quietly Admits Genomic Sequencing Cannot Independently Prove Virus Transmission Chains: ProPublica Report

If “[s]equencing alone cannot determine whether transmission has been continuous or sustained,” how much of modern outbreak science is proven reality—and how much is interpretation?

Jon Fleetwood

Jun 08, 2026

A new ProPublica investigation into purported measles outbreaks in Texas and Utah contains a quietly devastating admission from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) about the limits of modern genomic outbreak surveillance.

ProPublica had asked the CDC whether it had linked any of Utah’s measles cases to an international outbreak.

“Sequencing alone cannot determine whether transmission has been continuous or sustained,” the agency told ProPublica.

In plain English:

Even if two purported measles genomes appear almost identical computationally, the sequencing data itself cannot independently prove the virus spread continuously from person to person across states and over time.

That distinction is important because modern outbreak systems increasingly rely on a narrative of:

  • genomic sequencing,
  • phylogenetic “family trees,”
  • mutation tracking,
  • lineage reconstruction,
  • and computational epidemiology

to support claims that outbreaks are connected, transmission is ongoing, and diseases have become “endemic.”

These same systems were heavily used during COVID to justify lockdowns, vaccine mandates, school closures, quarantine powers, travel restrictions, and other unprecedented government response measures.

How much of modern outbreak science is proven reality—and how much is computer interpretation?

If even CDC admits these genomic systems cannot independently prove continuous real-world transmission, the public may need to reconsider how much trust should be placed in media headlines, “variant” narratives, endemicity claims, and government emergency measures built on computer sequence-based outbreak interpretation systems. (SEE link for article)

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https://thevaccinereaction.org/2026/06/cdc-officials-involuntarily-quarantine-americans-after-hantavirus-outbreak-on-cruise-ship/

CDC Officials Involuntarily Quarantine Americans After Hantavirus Outbreak on Cruise Ship

by Carolyn Hendler, JD

Published June 10, 2026

CDC Officials Involuntarily Quarantine Americans After Hantavirus Outbreak on Cruise Ship

Officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued mandatory federal quarantine orders to 18 American citizens who had been passengers aboard the M/V Hondius, an expedition cruise ship on which there was an outbreak of the deadly Andes strain of hantavirus. None of the 18 Americans had tested positive for the respiratory virus at the time the involuntary quarantine orders were issued.1

The orders required the Americans to be sent to and remain in the federally funded National Quarantine Unit (NQU) at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska, through at least May 31, 2026. Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, who leads both the CDC and the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) signed the quarantine orders. Bhattacharya is a co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration, which was written to protest the government’s lockdown policies in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.2

Several passengers who had been on the cruise ship had already made arrangements with their state and local health departments to be monitored at home. However, all 18 passengers were informed at the last minute that they would not be allowed to return home and instead would be forced to stay in the NQU.3

Angela Perryman, 47, was among the 18 Americans ordered to remain in quarantine at the Nebraska facility.4 Despite federal health officials publicly stating that the passengers’ stay at NQU was entirely voluntary, when Perryman and another passenger attempted to leave, they were handed federal stay-in-place quarantine orders.5 Anyone violating the quarantine orders issued by the government would face a criminal fine or up to one year in jail.6

Perryman told NPR:

I am angry. I feel betrayed because I’m being imprisoned. It’s a nice prison. But this is a prison. Let’s be clear: I am being detained against my will.7

(See link for article)

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Important excerpts:

The U.S. government has been funding gain-of-function hantavirus experiments since at least 2017.

A July 2025 Pathogens publication confirms the U.S. military funded experiments aerosolizing hantavirus pathogens (making them airborne) with a 30% fatality rate.

Less than a year after the publication, the Andes hantavirus cruise ship outbreak would be declared.

Moreover, NIAID’s $70 million PROVIDENT program actively funded and operated a large-scale hantavirus preparedness initiative that engineered vaccine platforms, mapped Andes hantavirus structures in unprecedented detail, developed rapid-response countermeasure systems, and prioritized hantaviruses as future pandemic targets in the run-up to the 2026 international Andes hantavirus outbreak.

The Andes hantavirus genome was built from human blood at the infamous U.S. military biolab Fort Detrick.

Recent genetic analysis finds that hantavirus PCR test sequences—used to count cases—also match human DNA, raising concerns that the test is mistaking human genetic material for hantavirus.

The government’s hantavirus research, surveillance, genome-construction, and countermeasure infrastructure was already fully operational before the 2026 outbreak narrative emerged.

Kennedy has now invoked federal liability protections for favipiravir that is not approved anywhere in the world for hantavirus treatment and was only conditionally authorized in Japan for pandemic influenza—yet is now being positioned for use on Americans.

Preclinical animal studies have shown that favipiravir has the risk of teratogenicity and reproductive toxicity in experimental animals, including findings indicative of birth defects in mice, rats, rabbits, and monkeys, along with decreases in live fetal body weight and in the number of live fetuses.

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