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Two New Studies Test Quercetin & COVID Outcomes

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2021/10/14/quercetin-improves-covid-outcomes

Two New Studies Test Quercetin And COVID Outcomes

Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola Fact Checked

October 14, 2021

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Story at-a-glance
  • Two recently published studies confirm quercetin is useful as an adjunct therapy in the early outpatient treatment of mild SARS-CoV-2 infection
  • In one study, COVID patients who received quercetin in addition to analgesics and an antibiotic cleared the virus faster than those who only received analgesics and antibiotics, and a greater number of patients reported reduced symptoms
  • In the second study, daily quercetin supplementation for one month reduced the frequency and length of hospitalization, the need for noninvasive oxygen therapy, intensive care and deaths
  • Quercetin has antiviral, anti-blood clotting, anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties, all of which are important in the treatment of SARS-CoV-2 infection
  • Quercetin also inhibits binding of specific spike proteins to your ACE2 receptors, thereby blocking the virus’ ability to infect your cells. It’s also been shown to directly neutralize viral proteins that are critical in the replication of SARS‐CoV‐2

In an August 21, 2021, newsletter,1 Dr. Michael Murray discussed the use of quercetin for respiratory infection symptoms. In November 2020, he’d suffered a “very mild and brief bout of COVID-19.”

He also recounts an anecdotal story of a friend who developed suspicious respiratory symptoms. His friend had been taking a number of supplements said to offer protection, but was still feeling awful.

As it turns out, the one thing he’d not taken was quercetin, and as soon as he did, that same day, his symptoms started to dissipate. This experience, Murray says, “is consistent with the results from two clinical trials” that were recently published.

Quercetin seems to be a safe, far less expensive, and easier-to-obtain and it works by a similar mechanism, driving zinc into the cells to stop viral replication.

Statistical Improvement in Clinical Outcomes

In the first study,2 42 COVID-19 outpatients were divided into two groups. One group of 21 patients received standard medical therapy consisting of analgesics and an antibiotic (acetaminophen 500-milligram (mg) to 1,000-mg dose if body temperature was higher than 37.5 degrees C — 99.5 F — with a maximum daily dosage of 3 grams, and 500 mg azithromycin for three consecutive days).

The other group of 21 patients received standard therapy plus the equivalent of 600 mg of quercetin per day (divided into three doses) for seven days, followed by another seven-day course of 400 mg of quercetin per day (divided into two doses).

The quercetin was used with sunflower lecithin, which has been demonstrated to increase absorption in the gut by as much as 20 times, compared to pure quercetin formulations.

The main outcomes being evaluated were virus clearance and symptoms. After one week of treatment, 16 of the 21 patients in the quercetin group tested negative for SARS-CoV-2 and 12 reported that all symptoms had diminished.

In the standard care group, only two tested negative and four had partially improved symptoms. By the end of Week 2, the five remaining patients in the quercetin group tested negative. In the standard care group, 17 of the 19 remaining patients tested negative and one had died.

“These results are impressive and hopefully additional studies will be conducted on hospitalized patients to see how quercetin might be helpful in more severe cases,” Murray wrote in his newsletter.

Can Quercetin Reduce Hospitalizations and Deaths?

The second study3 — a prospective, randomized, controlled and open-label trial — gave 152 COVID-19 outpatients a daily dose of 1,000 mg of quercetin for 30 days to evaluate its adjuvant effects in the treatment of early symptoms and the prevention of severe infection. According to the authors:

“The results revealed a reduction in frequency and length of hospitalization, in need of non-invasive oxygen therapy, in progression to intensive care units and in number of deaths. The results also confirmed the very high safety profile of quercetin and suggested possible anti-fatigue and pro-appetite properties.

QP (Quercetin Phytosome®) is a safe agent and in combination with standard care, when used in early stage of viral infection, could aid in improving the early symptoms and help in preventing the severity of COVID-19 disease. It is suggested that a double-blind, placebo-controlled study should be urgently carried out to confirm the results of our study.”

Mechanisms of Action

As noted in the first study4 above, quercetin was chosen based on the fact that it has antiviral, anti-blood clotting, anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties, all of which are important in the treatment of SARS-CoV-2 infection. In the second study, more detailed mechanisms of action are reviewed. According to the authors:5

“SARS-CoV-2 proteases, like 3-chymotrypsin-like protease (3CLpro), papain-like pro-tease (PLpro), RNA-dependent RNA polymerase, spike (S)protein and human angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (hACE2) are considered possible targets for developing effective anti-COVID-19 drugs.

Recently, molecular docking studies have suggested the possible binding interaction of quercetin with the 3CLpro, PLpro, and S-hACE2 complex. Some recent results, obtained by biophysical techniques, appear to support the results of the molecular docking studies.

Quercetin, a flavonol not naturally present in the human body, is the most abundant polyphenol in fruits and vegetable and is widely used as a dietary supplement to boost the immune system and promote a healthy lifestyle.

Quercetin is characterized by three crucial properties: antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory. The combination of these actions allows quercetin to be a potential candidate to support all unhealthy conditions where oxidative stress, inflammation and immunity are involved.”

Initially, quercetin gained attention because it’s a zinc ionophore, meaning it shuttles zinc — which has well-known antiviral effects — into your cells just like the drug hydroxychloroquine.

Some proposed the primary reason hydroxychloroquine and quercetin worked was because of this feature. Of course, you also had to take zinc along with either of them. To effectively act as a zinc ionophore, the quercetin also needs vitamin C.

Since then, other studies, including the two reviewed here, have shown quercetin has other actions that makes it useful against SARS-CoV-2 as well. As reported by Murray in his newsletter:

“In particular, quercetin exerts significant inhibition on the binding of specific spike proteins to ACE-2 receptors, thereby blocking the ability of the virus to infect human cells. Quercetin has also been shown to directly neutralize viral proteins the are critical in the replication of SARS-CoV-2.”

In some studies, quercetin has also been shown to inhibit the release of inflammatory cytokines, which could help alleviate infection-related symptoms and suppress excessive inflammatory responses from occurring. Its antioxidant effects may also help prevent tissue damage caused by scavenging free radicals, thereby aiding in the recovery process of viral infections.6

Quercetin’s Antiviral Properties

Quercetin’s antiviral properties have been attributed to three main mechanisms of action:

  1. Inhibiting the virus’ ability to infect cells
  2. Inhibiting replication of already infected cells
  3. Reducing infected cells’ resistance to treatment with antiviral medication

For example, research7 funded by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), published in 2008, found it lowers your risk of viral illness such as influenza and boosts mental performance following extreme physical stress, which might otherwise undermine your immune function and render you more susceptible to infections.

Here, cyclists who received a daily dose of 1,000 mg of quercetin in combination with vitamin C (which enhances plasma quercetin levels8,9) and niacin (to improve absorption) for five weeks were significantly less likely to contract a viral illness after bicycling three hours a day for three consecutive days, compared to untreated controls. While 45% of the placebo group got sick, only 5% of the treatment group did.

Quercetin Works Against Many Common Viruses

Before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, several studies had highlighted quercetin’s ability to prevent and treat the common cold and seasonal influenza.10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18 By attenuating oxidative damage, it also lowers your risk of secondary bacterial infections,19 which is actually the primary cause of influenza-related deaths.

Importantly, quercetin increases mitochondrial biogenesis in skeletal muscle, which suggests part of its antiviral effects are due to enhanced mitochondrial antiviral signaling.20 Quercetin also works against other viruses, as demonstrated in the following studies:

• A 1985 study found quercetin inhibits infectivity and replication of herpes simplex virus type 1, polio-virus type 1, parainfluenza virus type 3 and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).21

• A 2016 animal study22 found quercetin inhibited mouse dengue virus and hepatitis virus.

• Other studies have confirmed quercetin’s power to inhibit both hepatitis B23 and C24 infection.

• A March 2020 study25 found quercetin provides “comprehensive protection” against Streptococcus pneumoniae infection, both in vitro and in vivo, primarily by neutralizing pneumolysin (PLY),26 one of the toxins released from pneumococci that encourages S. pneumoniae infection to blossom in the first place.

Streptococcus pneumoniae is responsible not only for pneumonia, but can also be involved in some ear and sinus infections, meningitis and certain blood infections.27 As reported by the authors of this study:28

“The results indicated that quercetin significantly reduced PLY-induced hemolytic activity and cytotoxicity via repressing the formation of oligomers.

In addition, treatment with quercetin can reduce PLY-mediated cell injury, improve the survival rate of mice infected with a lethal dose of S. pneumoniae, alleviate the pathological damage of lung tissue and inhibit the release of cytokines (IL-1β and TNF-α) in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid.

Considering the importance of these events in antimicrobial resistant S. pneumoniae pathogenesis, our results indicated that quercetin may be a novel potential drug candidate for the treatment of clinical pneumococcal infections.”

How Quercetin Combats Inflammation and Boosts Immunity

Aside from its antiviral activity, quercetin is also known for boosting immunity and combating inflammation. As noted in a 2016 study29 in the journal Nutrients, mechanisms of action include (but is not limited to) the inhibition of:30

  • Lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced tumor necrosis factor α (TNF-α) production in macrophages. TNF-α is a cytokine involved in systemic inflammation, secreted by activated macrophages, a type of immune cell that digests foreign substances, microbes and other harmful or damaged components
  • LPS-induced mRNA levels of TNF-α and interleukin (IL)-1α in glial cells, which results in “diminished apoptotic neuronal cell death”
  • The production of inflammation-producing enzymes
  • Calcium influx into the cell, which in turn inhibits pro-inflammatory cytokine release, as well as histamine and serotonin release from intestinal mast cells31

According to this paper, quercetin also stabilizes mast cells, has cytoprotective activity in the gastrointestinal tract, and “a direct regulatory effect on basic functional properties of immune cells,” which allows it to inhibit “a huge panoply of molecular targets in the micromolar concentration range, either by down-regulating or suppressing many inflammatory pathways and functions.”32

Bioavailability

While quercetin does have potent antiviral effects, in order for it to work effectively you need sufficiently high dosages to raise the level of quercetin in your body’s tissues.

The relatively low absorption rate of quercetin is why a sunflower lecithin formulation was used.

Research33 published in the July-December 2021 issue of the Journal of Natural Health Products Research, found a quercertin matrix has the same total absorption rate as quercetin phytosome — and higher peak blood levels.

“Since both of these forms of quercetin produce similar blood levels, they should produce the same effects at equal dosages based upon quercetin content,” Murray wrote in his newsletter, adding:

“My dosage recommendation as part of a nutritional supplement program to support immune function is 250 mg twice daily.

And in patients with active Infection, my recommendation is … six capsules twice a day providing a total of 3,000 mg of quercetin. This high dosage should be taken for at least 10 days and then reduced to a maintenance dosage of 250 mg twice daily …

[This] high dosage may not be necessary. But my dosage calculations are based upon likely tissue concentrations needed to exert the strongest antiviral effects. And given the safety of quercetin, there is no harm at this level.”

Protocol Using Quercetin

One doctor who early brought quercetin into the limelight was Dr. Vladimir Zelenko. As hydroxychloroquine became difficult to obtain, Zelenko switched to recommending quercetin instead, as it’s readily available as an over-the-counter supplement. For a downloadable “cheat sheet” of Zelenko’s protocol for COVID-19, visit VladimirZelenkoMD.com.

Other Health Benefits of Quercetin

There are also other lesser known benefits and uses for quercetin, including the prevention and/or treatment of:34

High blood pressure35,36
Cardiovascular disease37
Obesity38 and metabolic syndrome39 (a cluster of conditions including high blood pressure, high blood sugar, high triglyceride levels and fat accumulation around the waist that raise your risk for Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and stroke)
Certain kinds of cancer, in particular leukemia, and to a lesser degree breast cancer40
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)41
Gout42
Arthritis43
Mood disorders44
Aluminum-induced neurodegenerative changes, such as those seen in Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).45
Longevity, thanks to its senolytic benefits (clearing out damaged and worn-out cells)46,47

Research has also highlighted quercetin’s epigenetic influence and ability to:48

  • Interact with cell-signaling pathways
  • Modulate gene expression
  • Influence the activity of transcription factors
  • Modulate microRNAs

MicroRNAs used to be considered “junk” DNA. But far from being useless, research has revealed so-called “junk” DNA is actually microRNA and plays a crucial role in regulating genes that make the proteins that build your body.

The microRNA function as “on/off” switches for the genes. Depending on the microRNA input, a single gene can code for any of more than 200 protein products. Quercetin’s ability to module microRNA may also help explain its cytotoxic effects, and why it appears to improve cancer survival (at least in mice).

– Sources and References

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COVID Surge in Waterford, Ireland Where 99.7% of Adults are Fully “Vaccinated.” Taiwan Death From COVID “Vaccination” Exceeds Death From COVID. Heart Attacks up 25% in Scotland Since COVID Jabs Introduced. Why is Nobody Listening?

https://citizenfreepress.com/column-3/covid-is-surging-in-waterford-ireland-where-99-7-percent-are-double-vaccinated/

Posted by Kane on October 17, 2021

(See link for article)

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**Comment**

Hopefully by now it’s abundantly clear that these dangerous, experimental, fast-tracked injections do not stop transmission or infections and those exposed to the wild virus are more likely to get severe cases which can result in hospitalizations or deaths.  None of this is new and we are warned about it ages ago, but few heeded the warning.

Waterford, where almost every single adult has been double jabbed now has one of the highest infection rates in the country.  Further, the number of “vaccinated” in the ICU is almost as high as the entire number of Covid patients in ICU a year ago.

Refusing to see or admit the truth, the chief clinical officer states it would be worse if it weren’t for the “vaccine.”

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https://medicaltrend.org/2021/10/10/taiwan-death-from-covid-19-vaccination-exceeds-death-from-covid-19/

Taiwan death from COVID-19 vaccination exceeds death from COVID-19

Important excerpts:

(Observer Network News) On October 7th, the death toll after vaccination in Taiwan reached 852, while the death toll after the COVID-19 was diagnosed was 844. The number of deaths after vaccination exceeded the number of confirmed deaths for the first time.

On October 6, the Kuomintang “legislator” Yeh,Yu-Lan bluntly stated in a Facebook post that the vaccine given to save lives has also nearly doubled the number of deaths due to the COVID-19, which is indeed very ironic and confusing.  (See link for article)

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https://vaccinedamage.news/2021-10-05-heart-attacks-up-25percent-scotland-covid-jabs.html

Heart attacks up 25% in Scotland since covid jabs were introduced, media plays dumb as to why

10/05/2021 / By

The so-called “experts” claim they are baffled by a sudden spike in heart attack cases in Scotland ever since Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) “vaccines” were released to the general public.

During the summer, Scotland saw a 25 percent rise in the number of “fully vaccinated” people who had to be rushed to Golden Jubilee National Hospital in Clydebank with partially blocked arteries, a common occurrence among those who get injected.

“Typically the centre, which is the largest of its kind in the UK and treats people from five health board areas, receives 240 patients a month suffering with this form of heart attack, but this rose to more than 300 over May, June and July of this year,” reported The Times of London.  (See link for article)

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**Comment**

Scotland is seeing a surge in seriously ill patients requiring a hospital bed.  The article states most are fully “vaccinated.”

Mainstream media never mentions the jabs as a possible trigger or cause of all the cardiovascular events despite the fact they are causing verifiable blood clots and imposing inflammatory conditions on the cardiovascular system. The spike protein disrupts human cardiac pericytes function and contributes to micro-vascular disease through CD147-receptor-mediated signaling. A cardiologist warns about covid “vaccine” fraud and hyper-inflammatory immune responses caused by the shots. A pathologist warns spike proteins cause damage in multiple organs, including the heart, which is what we are now seeing in those injured by the shots.

Once you have heart damage the heart does not heal itself. The heart is damaged forever.

We’re ruining kids’ hearts for life with these shots. Dr. Cole

The latest news about the injuries and deaths being caused by Chinese Virus injections can be found at ChemicalViolence.com.

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https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/safety-signals-covid-vaccines-full-transparency-cdc-fda

Safety Signals for COVID Vaccines Are Loud and Clear. Why Is Nobody Listening?

The public deserves a complete and transparent accounting of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s safety monitoring, including the results of all interim reports and analyses, whether through a Freedom of Information Act request, Congressional order or some other means.
© [9/29/21] Children’s Health Defense, Inc. This work is reproduced and distributed with the permission of Children’s Health Defense, Inc. Want to learn more from Children’s Health Defense? Sign up for free news and updates from Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and the Children’s Health Defense. Your donation will help to support us in our efforts.
Number of Deaths Since 1990.

Summary:

  • There is a disproportionately large number of adverse events reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) from COVID-19 vaccines compared with other vaccines.
  • There are 91x the number of deaths and 276x the number of coagulopathy events reported after COVID-19 vaccination than after flu vaccination.
  • Safety signals were found for 242 adverse events using the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) methodology.
  • Full transparency of CDC and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) safety monitoring is urgently needed.

(See link for full article)

Important excerpt:

What this means in practice, however, is that if the CDC investigators do not understand how these novel vaccines — which use gene therapy technology and have had only limited use in humans — might cause a particular type of adverse event, the presumption is that there is no plausible connection.

For example, the CDC has declared after reviewing over 7,000 reports of deaths reported in the U.S. as of Sept. 7, they were not able to determine a plausible causal relationship for any of them, except for three due to thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) from the Janssen vaccine.

But the methods and criteria they use to make these determinations aren’t published anywhere, assuming they even exist. It would be easier to take their word for it if their decision-making process wasn’t hidden behind a veil of secrecy.

 

 

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How the Definition of ‘Fully Vaccinated’ Misleads People on COVID-19 ‘Vaccine’ Safety & Efficacy & New Study Proves the ‘Vaccinated’ Are Dragging Out the Pandemic

https://popularrationalism.substack.com/p/how-the-definition-of-fully-vaccinated

How The Definition of “Fully Vaccinated” Misleads People on COVID-19 Vaccine Safety & Efficacy: An Explanation For CNN’s Drew Griffin

Received one dose only? You’re Unvaccinated. Two doses? Wait another 14 days. If you survive, congratulations. You’re fully vaccinated.
Everywhere I turn I see claims of COVID-19 vaccine efficacy and safety from studies in the US that defy all logic and reason. The results are the opposite of those seen in the UK and Israel. Here, I go through claims made that have led to the belief that the COVID-19 vaccine is safe, and effective, and explore factors that have been carefully manipulated to produce that misperception.
  1. Moderna Vaccine’s 95% Efficacy
  2. “An Epidemic of the Unvaccinated”
  3. “Boosters are Effective”
  4. “Pfizer’s Vaccine >90% Effective (ahem, “Useful”) in Children Aged 5-12”
  5. “Zero deaths and serious adverse events from COVID-19 vaccines”

I recently watched a CNN segment in which Drew Griffin’s beliefs are absolutely contradicted by the facts that CDC defines “Fully Vaccinated” as people who have made it to the second week (14 days) after their second dose. The fact that anyone who experiences adverse events or dies, and anyone who is diagnosed with COVID-19 before 2 weeks have passed after their second dose are not counted as deaths in the “fully vaccinated”. That means that a person who is vaccinating might not be considered “Fully Vaccinated” until five weeks after their first dose.

It is shameful for Griffin to not know this fact, and the impact of this fact on calculations of breakthrough infections vs. re-infections vs. infections in the “unvaccinated”. Therefore, I outline in detail for Dr. Griffin the key information he needs to know.

  1. Moderna Vaccine’s 95% Efficacy. In January 2021, I published an article in Robert F. Kennedy’s online magazine, The Defender. The article, entitled “Discrepancies in Moderna’s FDA Report Demand Answers”, I offered the following analysis:

“In contrast to what Moderna reported to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the early months of COVID-19, its mRNA vaccine is not an established technology. It is new. As a new, experimental vaccine, it deserves close and objective scrutiny.

Moderna reports 94.5% efficacy. The “efficacy” of vaccines is understood to be a measure of the effectiveness of the vaccine on an ideal population, and differs from “effectiveness,” which is how well a vaccine manages to induce evidence of immunity in the real population upon which it is being used.

Moderna reported to the FDA (Zhang, 2020) efficacy as the ratio of the rate of SARS-CoV-2 infection in the vaccinated (16 infected out of 28,068 vaccinated) to the rate of infection in the placebo group (275 infected out of 27,956 given placebo).

Close inspection of Moderna’s data made public ahead of the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBAC) meeting that was scheduled for Dec. 17, 2020, however, reveals that among the vaccinated, an additional 81 participants and 118 among the placebo participants developed a COVID-19 diagnosis between the first and second shots. These participants were determined to be ineligible for the second dose and removed from the study.

By my calculations, these additional cases shift the vaccine efficacy from 94.5% to 75.4%.

If a chemotherapy agent is being tested against another cancer treatment, the deaths that occur between scheduled treatment rounds must be counted. It is misleading not to count these additional cases of COVID-19 in the Moderna vaccine trial — the 94.5% efficacy is not based in clinical reality even for an ideal population.”

“Efficacy” here, and in Moderna’s use, means the ability of the vaccine to prevent a certain condition in an ideal population. They excluded people with health conditions – for example, metabolic syndrome, diabetes, autoimmune disorders.

What does this mean for the rest of us? Well, given that they reported 95% efficacy, when it should have been 74.4%, means that the vaccine coverage needed for herd immunity was going to be way low.

Fauci’s initial 66-67% coverage needed for herd immunity was tied to Moderna’s 95% efficacy. Fauci never should have come in that low, for two reasons. First, Moderna’s 95% efficacy – the performance of the vaccine in an ideal population – was not, as I showed, 95%. Second, that efficacy could not have been expected to translate into effectiveness – the performance of the vaccine in a non-ideal population, the one with people with metabolic disorder, diabetes, and autoimmune conditions.

Even though later trials used the same tactic of excluding people who got COVID-19 before the second dose, the official estimate of vaccine effectiveness in fact took a nose-dive in the 60-70% range in studies on sample groups representative of the full adult population, and yet to this day public health servants still cite the vaccine as “effective as 95% as in the Moderna trial”.

The data from Barnstable, Massachusetts tell a different story. This was an MMWR report that showed that 74% of new cases in Barnstable County were in those who had been exposed to COVID-19 vaccines. The report actually used the term “exposed”, and they also showed that the RT-PCR cycle threshold distribution of the two groups, “exposed” and “unexposed” were not different. This was the report that led CDC Director Rochelle Walensky to warn that people who were vaccinated still needed to wear a mask and to socially distance.

Almost all of the new cases were Delta variants. Using the 74% of cases in the vaccinated number, it is possible to estimate vaccine efficacy against the Delta variant. Assuming an R0 of 2.6, the VE of all vaccines combined in use in Barnstable County for single-dose exposed persons was almost precisely zero. When estimated for persons exposed to two doses, the VE falls to -0.26, or =26%. People in Barnstable County who are “fully vaccinated” have a 26% increased risk of COVID-19 diagnosis.

See: Outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 Infections, Including COVID-19 Vaccine Breakthrough Infections, Associated with Large Public Gatherings — Barnstable County, Massachusetts, July 2021 Weekly / August 6, 2021 / 70(31);1059-1062

It is worth pointing out that because the clinical trials used PCR to determine the case status in the patients considered “vaccinated” and those considered “unvaccinated”, the actual efficacy estimates were likely invalid given they should have been calculated after a certain number of COVID-19 cases had occurred. With false positive rates of PCR ranging from 11% to over 90%, the actual disposition of patients in the vaccinated and unvaccinated arms of the trial is anyone’s guess.

  1. “An Epidemic of the Unvaccinated”

CDC’s Director, Rochelle Walensky, said yesterday that CDC’s definition of “fully vaccinated” might need to be updated due to boosters. This semantic gameplay would back the population into mandated boosters if the OSHA rule comes through. Remember that it was Walensky who overruled the FDA’s decision to not recommend boosters for all. So now, we are facing the confusing situation in which people w/vaccine cards are no longer “fully vaccinated”. As we have seen, the efficacy of the current vaccines against extinct variants might be reasonably high (whatever it is), but the efficacy against extant variants seems to be in question. So, with eternal boosters, perhaps no one will ever be considered “Fully Vaccinated” in the US under CDC’s ever-changing definition.

CDC: When You’ve Been Fully Vaccinated https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vaccinated.html

The accuracy of the claim that the new cases in the US are occurring primarily in the unvaccinated hinges entirely on the CDC’s definition of “Fully Vaccinated”. We know that people who have had two doses are not considered “Fully Vaccinated” until day 14 after their second dose. So, when new cases occur in the partially vaccinated, they do not count toward cases in the vaccinated. There is significant evidence that COVID-19 vaccination may impair the immune system for a short period of time following administration; in particular, the likelihood of a SARS-CoV-2 infection, or an infection by any other respiratory virus or bacterium may be more likely following vaccination. In animal trials on SARS and MERS viruses, close relatives of SARS-CoV-2, and in studies in humans of the RSV virus, this phenomenon was called “disease enhancement”. If disease enhancement is occurring after the first dose, or within two weeks following receipt of the second dose, the CDC’s semantics will bias the case count data and make it appear as if those exposed to vaccines have a lower risk of COVID-19 infection than those who are unvaccinated.

Proof of this type of statistical manipulation in action can be found in a report from the OKLAHOMA COVID-19 WEEKLY REPORT Weekly Epidemiology and Surveillance Report September 19-25, 2021, which, after reporting more new cases in the unvaccinated than in the vaccinated, dropped this fact into a footnote of at table:

“**Vaccine breakthrough cases is (sic) defined as an individual with a COVID-19 positive laboratory results (PCR/Antigen) and documentation of COVID-19 vaccination that meets the definition of fully vaccinated. (Individuals are considered fully vaccinated ≥2 weeks after receiving the last dose in the COVID-19 vaccine series.)”

Due to this sleight-of-statistical-hand, we will need to revisit all of the clinical studies and non-peer reviewed press releases on the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines as well as the CDC’s non-peer-reviewed MMWR reports and re-estimate vaccine efficacy, breakthrough cases, and vaccine safety.

“Boosters are Effective”

The claims that boosters are effective begs the question: effective at what?

  • Preventing transmission of SARS-CoV-2? No.
  • Reducing deaths due to COVID-19? No.
  • Reducing hospitalization of patients with positive PCR results (true positives + false positives combined)? Yes. However, remember that people are not considered “boosted” until fourteen days after the second dose. Unless COVID-19 cases in those waiting for fourteen days to be counted are included in the calculation of breakthrough cases, we cannot know the true efficacy of boosters.

Pfizer’s Vaccine >90% Effective (ahem, “Useful”) in Children Aged 5-12

News reports tell us that “kid-size doses of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine appear safe and nearly 91% effective at preventing symptomatic infections in 5- to 11-year-olds”.

The Phase 2/3 trial had one=month safety follow-up, and yet the same new source touts “The shots could begin early next month — with the first children in line fully protected by Christmas — if regulators give the go-ahead.”

The Pfizer website describes the trial as “the first of a pivotal trial”. The doses were spaced 21 days apart – meaning that children were not considered “vaccinated” until five weeks after their initial exposure.

It is noteworthy that the incidence of COVID-19 in children is so low that the trial had to accrue patients from four countries. It is also noteworthy that the trial did not undergo peer review; in fact, the company published the results in a press release, which included caveats that the release includes “forward-looking statements”, meaning they put a positive spin on the contents of the press release to encourage investors.

Among those forward-looking statements?

“In participants 5 to 11 years of age, the vaccine was safe, well tolerated and showed robust neutralizing antibody responses.”

The press release does not specify if the vaccination produced neutralizing antibodies against the initial Wuhan SARS-CoV-2 virus, which is extinct, or the more recent variants, such as the Delta variant.

Their less-than forward-looking statements included:

  1. “There is a remote chance that the vaccine could cause a severe allergic reaction
    • A severe allergic reaction would usually occur within a few minutes to one hour after getting a dose of the vaccine. For this reason, vaccination providers may ask individuals to stay at the place where they received the vaccine for monitoring after vaccination
    • Signs of a severe allergic reaction can include difficulty breathing, swelling of the face and throat, a fast heartbeat, a bad rash all over the body, dizziness, and weakness
    • If an individual experiences a severe allergic reaction, they should call 9-1-1 or go to the nearest hospital
  2. Myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle) and pericarditis (inflammation of the lining outside the heart) have occurred in some people who have received the vaccine. In most of these people, symptoms began within a few days following receipt of the second dose of the vaccine. The chance of having this occur is very low. Individuals should seek medical attention right away if they have any of the following symptoms after receiving the vaccine:
    • chest pain
    • shortness of breath
    • feelings of having a fast-beating, fluttering, or pounding heart
  3. Side effects that have been reported with the vaccine include:
    • severe allergic reactions; non-severe allergic reactions such as rash, itching, hives, or swelling of the face; myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle); pericarditis (inflammation of the lining outside the heart); injection site pain; tiredness; headache; muscle pain; chills; joint pain; fever; injection site swelling; injection site redness; nausea; feeling unwell; swollen lymph nodes (lymphadenopathy); diarrhea; vomiting; arm pain
  4. These may not be all the possible side effects of the vaccine. Serious and unexpected side effects may occur. The vaccine is still being studied in clinical trials. Call the vaccination provider or healthcare provider about bothersome side effects or side effects that do not go away.”
    The FDA has determined that the “study” was not large enough to have detected myocarditis – and yet Pfizer has not updated their report to their investors on this fact.

    Pfizer would have use vaccinate 28 million children on one months’ safety data and a study that was not large enough to detect even a well-recognized serious adverse event.

  1. “Zero deaths and serious adverse events from COVID-19 vaccines.

The world knows about myocarditis following COVID-19 vaccination, and we have known about it for some time. In June 2021, Tom Shimabukuro gave a presentation to ACIP, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. This was a key meeting at which ACIP would vote to recommend or not recommend that COVID-19 vaccine for teens.

Shimabukuro reviewed data from the Vaccine Safety Datalink – the VSD – a taxpayer-subsidized resource to which only a handful of people are allowed to have unrestricted access. In those data, he reported zero (0) serious adverse events and zero (0) deaths from the COVID-19 vaccines in the United States.

See: Shimabukuro, T. 2021. COVID-19 Vaccine safety updates Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) June 23, 2021

Shimabukuro’s presentation followed a review of myocarditis and pericarditis by a CDC employee, who, in the Q&A, reported that the signal of increased risk of myocarditis in males relative to females in older children (teens) and also in younger children.

In his presentation, Shimabukuro made a point on one slide to highlight myocarditis:

It will be important to know whether Shimabukuro used the CDC’s twisted definition of “Fully Vaccinated”. If he did, then all of the events following the receipt of the first dose and those following the second dose on days 0-13 did not count as occurring in the vaccinated, which would be absolutely misleading.

Two days later, FDA issued a warning on myocarditis and pericarditis risk in male teens following COVID-19 vaccination in spite of Shimabukuro’s presentation. The signal for myocarditis has been established reproducibly by independent analysts. This demonstrates at the very least that VSD – and Dr. Shimabukuro – do not provide “Pharmacovigilance”.

Throughout his presentation, Shimabukuro uses the euphemism “immunization”, showing a lack of knowledge on the fact that “exposure to vaccine” does not equal “immune”, especially in this setting with a rapidly evolving mRNA virus.

In his discussion of VAERS data, Shimabukuro reminds the attendees that “a report to VAERS does not necessarily mean that the vaccine has caused a health problem”, but he failed to also report that “This caveat does not mean that the vaccine has not caused a health problem”.

Data from Ontario, Canada show an increase in myocarditis over time – increases from baseline – as vaccination increased over time – a population-level dose-dependent response not expected unless causality was in play.

These data show a range of rates of myocarditis trending toward 20 per hundred thousand. Shimabukuro’s reported his rate estimates at 7 per million. I stand by my conclusion that we do not have anything close to vaccine safety monitoring in the United States.

See: mRNA COVID-19 Vaccination and Development of CMR-confirmed Myopericarditis, https://archive.md/pvggn

Shimabukuro’s analysis of myocarditis using VAERS used data up to June 11, 2021. The VAERS analysis separated results following dose 1 and dose 2; the results consistently showed increased risk with the second dose, again, indicative of causality and perhaps pathogenic priming.

Evidently, those reporting to VAERS did not get the memo that those suffering myocarditis following exposure to vaccination should not be considered vaccinated until five weeks after their initial dose.

Conclusions

In the NVICP, causality determination often requires adverse events or deaths following a vaccine to be observed within 8 weeks of the receipt of the vaccine (often using rates beyond 8 weeks as a baseline, which can be higher than the national baseline rates, making that practice also bogus). To delay designation of a vaccinated person as “vaccinated” until up to five weeks after the initial dose is a brazen statistical manipulation to bury perception of adverse events and deaths from COVID-19 vaccination. It is a shameful practice and must not only be stopped: its effects must be reversed.

The public deserves to see efficacy re-calculated, as well as all rates of break-through cases, rates of reinfection cases, and new case rates all reported assuming that the individuals who have been exposed to COVID-19 vaccines, even a single dose, are “vaccinated”. Otherwise, the effect of the vaccine itself is never actually studied, and the relative risk of COVID-19 diagnosis in the vaccine-exposed and the vaccine-unexposed will never be known.

Now that boosters are here, no one may ever be counted as “fully vaccinated”. This sick, twisted perversion of logic and reason does not jive with reality, and people are going to get hurt needlessly. With draconian policies putting people’s jobs on the line, their very livelihood, this is far, far more than risk of vaccine injury or death. The definition of groups being studied must be changed to “vaccine exposed” and “vaccine naive”.

If the negative efficacy estimate from the data from the Barnstable report holds, then new breakthrough cases combined with the expected surge in “cases” due to false positives in the millions who may opt to be tested instead of vaccinating will lead to a fifth surge in COVID-19 that dwarfs the peak of the pandemic. The US will have more new “cases” of COVID-19 than the rest of the world combined… that will be a sure sign that something is truly rotten in the United States of America.

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https://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2021/10/23/new-study-proves-the-vaccinated-are-dragging-out-the-pandemic.aspx

New Study Proves the Vaccinated Are Dragging Out the Pandemic

October 23, 2021

A leaked Department of Defense slide show presentation that was quickly removed from the internet, but has been preserved in archives and on private websites shows that the shots are not meeting experts’ expectations.

Using hospitalization records from 5.6 million Medicare beneficiaries who were fully “vaccinated”, the researchers found that 148,000 fully “vaccinated” individuals age 65 and older came down with COVID anyway; 30,000 were hospitalized in an intensive care unit and 9,400 were admitted to an intensive care unit. The death rate was 2.2%.

In the slide show, authors point out that the vaccine effectiveness against infection and hospitalization “is lower than reported in smaller studies.” Specifically, using metrics showing that 80% of persons over age 65 as “vaccinated”, “73% of COVID-19 cases occurred in fully vaccinated individuals.”

Not only that, according to Slide 8:

“Breakthrough infection rates five to six months post vaccination are twice as high as three to four months post vaccination.” The waning immunity was observed in both the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna shots.

And — contrary to “official” reports in the media — Slide 12 says it was the “VACCINATED” driving the high infection numbers during the summer of 2021, as “61% of COVID-19 of COVID-19 hospitalizations occurred in fully ‘vaccinated’ individuals in the week of July 24 alone.

The study concluded that the jabs are more effective at preventing hospitalization than infection, and that  “prior COVID-19 infection has a major protective effect against breakthrough hospitalization.” The study was done by the Defense Department’s Project Salus.

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Big Pharma Payola Scandal Erupts in Australia, Takes Down Six Corrupt Officials & Australian Premier. Millions of Americans Getting Fired For Not Getting a Jab That’s 3% Effective

https://www.pharmaceuticalfraud.com/2021-10-06-big-pharma-scandal-australia-berejiklian-covid-scam.

Big Pharma payola scandal erupts in Australia, takes down six corrupt officials and Australian Premier Berejiklian

10/06/2021 / By Ethan Huff

More than half a dozen staff members of New South Wales, Australia Premier Gladys Berejiklian have resigned in shame over their involvement in a massive Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) bribery scheme.

Berejiklian and her comrades reportedly took tens of millions of dollars from Big Pharma in exchange for pushing lockdowns and now “vaccines,” destroying countless lives and businesses in the process.

According to a former Australian member of parliament (MP), Pfizer and AstraZeneca both paid lobbyists to push vaccine mandates on the people, ensuring a steady stream of ill-gotten profits. (See link for article)

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**Comment**

The plot thickens.

Berejiklian was given a deal that she’d get off scot-free by issuing a”vaccine” mandate, which she allegedly accepted. It took a watchdog group looking into her “alleged misconduct,” to cause her to resign. Her deputy premier also resigned along with a cabinet minister and numerous parliament members.

The article states this scandal is likely only the tip of the iceberg with more sure to follow.

Important excerpt:

With these two Branch Covidians gone, New South Wales (NSW) is said to be in a state of “political disarray and chaos.” Many are wondering what will happen next, and how soon the region might be able to reach “post-Covid freedom.”

We the People must push for every last covid criminal to either resign or be removed – no exceptions.

The shock-wave of resignations that are likely coming can be found at Collapse.news.

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https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=62617

Millions Of Americans Are Getting Fired For Not Taking A Jab That’s Now 3% Effective

Chris Menahan
InformationLiberation
Oct. 19, 2021

CNN is reporting that a new study involving over 600,000 veterans has found that Johnson & Johnson’s covid vaccine’s protection “fell from 88% in March to 3% in August.” (See link for article)

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Important excerpt:

On the flip side, we know from another Israeli study that “vaccinated individuals had 27 times higher risk of symptomatic COVID infection compared to those with natural immunity from prior COVID disease,” as epidemiologist Martin Kulldorff noted.

The article states that data shows natural immunity is now more than 100 times more effective than the J&J shot, yet the government and businesses continue to deny it.

The “needle in every arm” mantra has drowned out the truth of natural immunity and the fact there are effective, safe, cheap treatments for COVID.

A recent study out of Israel showed:

  • recovered patients with natural immunity are 13 times less likely to be infected than those who have Pfizer jabs
  • those who were double jabbed were 5.96 times more likely to be infected and 7.13 times more likely to experience symptoms than those with natural immunity after recovery

The data is in and it is clear: natural immunity is best, the jabs are unnecessary, ineffective, dangerous, poisonous and have caused a 46-fold increase in vaccine-related deaths.

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In Major Shift, NIH Admits Funding Risky Virus Research in Wuhan

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/10/nih-admits-funding-risky-virus-research-in-wuhan

In Major Shift, NIH Admits Funding Risky Virus Research in Wuhan

A spokesman for Dr. Fauci says he has been “entirely truthful,” but a new letter belatedly acknowledging the National Institutes of Health’s support for virus-enhancing research adds more heat to the ongoing debate over whether a lab leak could have sparked the pandemic.

By Katherine Eban

Anthony Fauci director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases on April 13 2021. U.S.nbsp
Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases on April 13, 2021. U.S. Photograph by Leigh Vogel / UPI / Bloomberg / Getty Images.

Excerpts of article:

On Wednesday, the NIH sent a letter to members of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce that acknowledged two facts.

  1. EcoHealth Alliance, a New York City–based nonprofit that partners with far-flung laboratories to research and prevent the outbreak of emerging diseases, did indeed enhance a bat coronavirus to become potentially more infectious to humans, which the NIH letter described as an “unexpected result” of the research it funded that was carried out in partnership with the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
  2. EcoHealth Alliance violated the terms of its grant conditions stipulating that it had to report if its research increased the viral growth of a pathogen by tenfold.

“It’s just another chapter in a sad tale of inadequate oversight, disregard for risk, and insensitivity to the importance of transparency,” said Stanford microbiologist Dr. David Relman. “Given all of the sensitivity about this work, it’s difficult to understand why NIH and EcoHealth have still not explained a number of irregularities with the reporting on this grant.”

(See link for article)

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**Comment**

The article points out the 900 pages obtained and subsequently published due to a FIOA lawsuit against the NIH which was still missing a document – the fifth and final progress report.

In Wednesday’s NIH letter, that missing progress report, which was dated August 2021 was finally included. That report described a “limited experiment,” as the NIH letter phrased it, in which laboratory mice infected with an altered virus became “sicker than those infected with” a naturally occurring one.

While career politicians continue to banter over definitions, people continue to get sick and even die, and a dangerous, unproven experimental gene therapy is being forced upon the populace – due to an intentional experiment that was released either intentionally or accidentally upon the public. Further, these same powerful people and organizations are censoring and banning treatments that would prevent a large portion of these deaths.  Their feet must be continually held to the fire.

Fauci’s spokesperson tries to weasel him out of it by stating the NIH funded experiments, “were not reasonably expected to increase transmissibility or virulence in humans.”

Oh, well now, that changes everything.  Not!

Wow.  I might expect this from a 10 year old, but not from the highest paid federal employee charged with protecting the entire nation’s (and in some sense – the world’s) public health.  This is yet another example that the nation’s health leader is either entirely deluded or evil.

The article further drives the nail into the coffin by reminding the reader of the findings of DRASTIC, a group of internet sleuths who released a leaked $14 million grant proposal that EcoHealth Alliance had submitted in 2018 to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).  The grant included the partnership between EcoHealth and the Wuhan lab for purposely constructing SARS-related bat coronaviruses that would be inserted with “human-specific cleavage sites” to “evaluate growth potential” of pathogens.  What’s crucial here is the furin cleavage site that makes the virus more infectious by allowing it to easily enter human cells – exactly what allowed the COVID ‘pandemic’ to occur.  Without this laboratory contrived capability humans would not become infected.

Although DARPA rejected the grant proposal, the former executive vice president of the Asia Society who sits on the WHO’s advisory committee on human genome editing simply but effectually states the following:

“If I applied for funding to paint Central Park purple and was denied, but then a year later we woke up to find Central Park painted purple, I’d be a prime suspect,”Jamie Metzl

Bingo.  Couldn’t have said it better.

Lastly, Fauci’s been accused of funding Frankenstein research grafting aborted babies’ body parts to mice to grow hair and organs, as well as ‘cruel’ puppy experiments where the NIH shipped part of a $375,800 grant to a lab in Tunisia to drug beagles and lock their heads in mesh cages filled with hungry sand flies so that the insects could eat them alive.

Mainstream media continually focuses on political party affiliation to divide the nation.  Don’t fall for it.  Right is right and wrong is wrong and truth is important.

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Utterly disgusting’: Fauci caught up in ‘cruel’ experiments on puppies

Oct. 23, 2021

Sky News, Australia

Bipartisan legislators are calling on Dr Anthony Fauci for answers about “cruel” puppy experiments, according to Sky News host Rita Panahi.  The Hill reports answers have been demanded from Dr Fauci over a grant sent from the National Institutes of Health to a lab in Tunisia where it is alleged dozens of beagles were infected with “disease-causing parasites to test an experimental drug on them”.

“This is stuff is sick,” Ms Panahi said.

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