Tick disease with coronavirus-like symptoms is on a rise in Michigan
Chanel Stitt, Detroit Free Press
An adult deer tick is shown.
As if we don’t already have already have enough worries, health officials are warning Michiganders to guard against a tick borne disease that mimics COVID-19 symptoms.
Anaplasmosis is still rare in Michigan but the number of cases reported yearly in the state is on the rise.
There were 12 documented cases of anaplasmosis in Michigan reported to the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services in 2019. Michigan has seen an increase over the last six years, with only four cases reported in 2014.
The symptoms are very much like those reported with the coronavirus: fever, chills, fatigue, body aches, headaches and maybe a little fatigue. People experiencing those range of symptoms are advised to seek medical attention.
When the federal coronavirus task force took the stage in March, the country was put into a state of perpetual, cascading emergencies. The public was left in the dark about what they could do to overcome infections. Instead of aid and guidance, the public was conditioned to feel helpless to a mysterious pathogen, as visions of overcrowded hospitals beckoned state-wide shutdowns across the country. At the behest of the CDC, most governors ordered everyone to stay home and fear human contact, as hundreds of millions of dollars were funneled to diagnostics, contact tracing, and vaccine companies. (See link for article)
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Health professionals who dare to treat Lyme/MSIDS have been dealing with this for over 40 years. My own doctor spent $50K to protect his practice from this sort of witch hunt.
Key Quote:
FDA and the FTC have already sent out hundreds of warning letters threatening to shut down doctors, clinics and companies that help people prevent and overcome infectious disease such as covid-19. These doctors are being accused of: illegally advertising nutritional productsand anti-viral phyto-chemicals that can reduce inflammation and boost the human immune response by stopping viral attachment and viral replication.
Doctors are only protected if they are handing out pharmaceuticals and vaccines (which have plenty of adverse effects) that are “FDA approved.” As the article points out this approval process is very costly – which is why many smaller companies can not afford this stamp of approval. A great example of this is IGeneX labs, which is what many Lyme literate doctors use for more sensitive tick-borne illness testing. The CDC has bad-mouthed this CLIA-approved lab for years – even going as far as calling it a “home-brewed” lab on its website at one point.
Again, our “authorities” care more about their lucrative patents on drugs and vaccines than they do patient health.
For this piece, we have to enter the official world (of the insane)—where everyone is quite sure a new coronavirus was discovered in China and the worthless diagnostic tests mean something and the case numbers are real and meaningful.
Once we execute all those absurd maneuvers, we land square in the middle of yet another scandal—this time at our favorite US agency for scandals, the CDC.
The Atlantic, May 21, has the story, headlined, “How could the CDC make that mistake?”
I’ll give you the key quotes, and then comment on the stark inference The Atlantic somehow failed to grasp.
“We’ve learned that the CDC is making, at best, a debilitating mistake: combining test results that diagnose current coronavirus infections with test results that measure whether someone has ever had the virus…The agency confirmed to The Atlantic on Wednesday that it is mixing the results of viral [PCR] and antibody tests, even though the two tests reveal different information and are used for different reasons.”
(See link for article)
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Most telling quote:
CDC? Mistake?The agency is certainly incompetent. But that’s just the beginning of the story. The only time they say there is no danger is when they’re lying about the effects of vaccines.
Boom.
Anyone who reads the information on this website understands clearly, I’m not a fan of the CDC. The reason is they lie. They flat-out lie, deceive, and have severe conflicts of interest. In fact, I’ll go as far to say that when they say something, the truth is typically the polar opposite.
Trump Administration Strips C.D.C. of Control of Coronavirus Data
Hospitals have been ordered to bypass the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and send all patient information to a central database in Washington, raising questions about transparency.
A scientist at Houston Methodist Hospital last month preparing patient samples to be tested for the coronavirus.Credit…Erin Schaff/The New York Times
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has ordered hospitals to bypass the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and send all Covid-19 patient information to a central database in Washington beginning on Wednesday. The move has alarmed health experts who fear the data will be politicized or withheld from the public. (See link for article)
The CDC is directly behind the mishandling of Lyme disease. Time for this organization to step down and get a major overhaul if not eliminated entirely.
COVID-19 Drug Remdesivir Could Cost Up to $3,120 Per Patient, Maker Says
MONDAY, June 29, 2020 — The maker of remdesivir, the first drug that showed promise in treating coronavirus infections, will charge U.S. hospitals $3,120 for a patient with private insurance, the drug company announced Monday.
Because of how the U.S. health care system is designed and the discounts that government health care programs like the VA and Medicaid will expect, the price for private insurance companies will be $520 per vial, Gilead Sciences explained in a letter. Most COVID-19 patients would need six vials of the drug over five days, the company said.
A lower price — $390 per vial — will be offered to other governments in developed countries around the world, Gilead added.
“As the world continues to reel from the human, social and economic impact of this pandemic, we believe that pricing remdesivir well below value is the right and responsible thing to do,” Gilead Chairman and CEO Daniel O’Day said in the company’s letter. (See link for article)
Approximately $70 million in U.S. taxpayer funding began Gilead’s partnership with the U.S. Army, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop remdesivir. Initially for treating Ebola, it failed to show benefit and was shelved. If remdesivir is used to treat COVID-19, Gilead shareholders, not the taxpayers, will profit.
Going back to 1997, Donald Rumsfeld chaired the Board of Directors at Gilead and after 2001 he held share packages valued at $5-25 Million. Gilead originally developed Tamiflu.George P Shultz, US Secretary of State also was on the board. He sold stocks at a value of more than $7 million. CA governor’s Pete Wilson’s wife also sat on the board.
“‘I don’t know of any biotech company that’s’ so politically well-connected [as Gilead],‘ Andrew McDonald, of the analyst firm Think Equity Partners, told Fortune.” (Source: “Virus Mania, How the Medical Industry Continually Invents Epidemics Making Billion Dollar Profits At Our Expense”)
Government employees should not be allowed to have financial ties to manufacturing companies and then turn around and make public health policy.
Remdesivir isn’t cheap. It costs between $520-$390 per vial and will be sold for $3,120 per 6 vial treatment: That’s a lot of money for a drug that hasn’t even been shown to lower viral load.
Gilead’s own press release revealed the side effect of acute respiratory failure in 6% of patients in the remdesivir five-day treatment group, and 10.7% of patients in the 10-day treatment group, clearly ominous findings with a drug designed to treat respiratory failure caused by COVID-19.
