Predictors for the risk of severe COVID-19 are crucial for patient care and control of the disease. Other infectious diseases as potential comorbidities in SARS-CoV-2 infection are still poorly understood. Here we identify association between the course of COVID-19 and Lyme disease (borreliosis), caused by Borrelia burgdorferi transmitted to humans by ticks. Exposure to Borrelia was identified by multi-antigenic (19 antigens) serological testing of patients:
severe COVID-19 (hospitalized)
asymptomatic to mild COVID-19 (home treated or not aware of being infected)
infected with SARS-CoV-2
Increased levels of Borrelia-specific IgGs strongly correlated with COVID-19 severity and risk of hospitalization. This suggests that a history of tick bites and related infections may contribute to the risks in COVID-19. Though mechanisms of this link is not clear yet, screening for antibodies targeting Borrelia may help accurately assess the odds of hospitalization for SARS-CoV-2 infected patients, supporting efforts for efficient control of COVID-19.
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**Comment**
Nothing shocking or new here. Those who infected with Lyme/MSIDS are immunocompromised and are sitting ducks for about any disease that comes down the pike. Don’t let this make you fearful, because stress is after-all, just as deadly.
Know you are compromised and then take actionable steps to mitigate your risk.
Make sure you are in good, effective treatment if you have symptoms, strengthen the immune system, avoid sugar and anything else that lowers the immune system and work with your doctor on supplements/antimicrobials, etc. that will help you fight off viruses and other opportunistic infections. This has always been the advice of Lyme literate doctors. Nothing has changed. Keep on, keeping on.
CDC Recommends Updated COVID-19 Vaccine for Fall/Winter Virus Season
Press Release
For Immediate Release: Tuesday, September 12, 2023 Contact:Media Relations
(404) 639-3286
CDC recommends everyone 6 months and older get an updated COVID-19 vaccine to protect against the potentially serious outcomes of COVID-19 illness this fall and winter. Updated COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna will be available later this week.
Vaccination remains the best protection against COVID-19-related hospitalization and death. Vaccination also reduces your chance of suffering the effects of Long COVID, which can develop during or following acute infection and last for an extended duration. If you have not received a COVID-19 vaccine in the past 2 months, get an updated COVID-19 vaccine to protect yourself this fall and winter.
The virus that causes COVID-19 is always changing, and protection from COVID-19 vaccines declines over time.
Most Americans can still get a COVID-19 vaccine for free.
(See link for entire CDC propaganda piece)
As if on cue, WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is telling “at risk people” that they shouldn’t wait to get their shot.
The shots target XBB.1.5 which is responsible for about 3.1% of coronavirus infections as of Sept. 2, 2023, and is expected to be extinct by the time anyone is injected.
EUA on the PfizerXBB.1.5 Monovalent “Vaccine” was granted despite being tested on 20 mice, with no control group, no randomization, and on no humans. Which means there is zero chance to assess human safety or efficacy. Source
New COVID Boosters Are Not Safe, Effective, or Necessary
According to the Times, only Moderna has shared trial data which shows that testing was conducted on the inadequate sample size of 100 people and only includes antibody levels.It does not appear that any children or pregnant women were included. Since the current estimate of serious adverse events/death is 1 in 140 people, upwards of 1,000 people would be needed to see anything, and 5,000-10,000 would be a more reasonable number.
The FDA exclusively relied upon “vaccine” manufacturer’s data.
While recommended for 6-month-olds, the FDA has ZERO data on children.
Neither Pfizer nor Moderna can say how long protection, if any, lasts.
Both Pfizer and Moderna acknowledge in the new Fact Sheets that the Covid “vaccine” has caused serious adverse events and that “the possible side effects are still being studied.”
Vast majority of hospitalized COVID patients are “vaccinated.”
About 9 out of 10 Americans over 75 hospitalized this year for Covid have received the mRNA shots. (Not with Covid, for Covid.)
5 out of six Americans aged 65-74 hospitalized for Covid had been jabbed.
2 out of 3 adults under 50 who are hospitalized are vaccinated. Source
CDC data revealed that each “vaccine” dose increases mortality by 7% in 2022 compared to 2021.
The CDC has already admitted that BA.2.86 may be more capable of causing infection in people who have previously had COVID-19 or who have received COVID-19 “vaccines.” At this point, there is no evidence that this variant is causing more severe illness. Source
A FOIA request proves that the CDC knew for months that COVID shot efficacy wanes, but kept it a secret. Break-through infections are common and the more shots, the greater likelihood of infection, hospitalization and/or death.
Yet the charade continues.
Speaking of charades:
Damar Hamlin is now Inactivated for Monday Night Football.
They are whitewashing vaccine myocarditis with commotio cordis.” “Very dangerous move. Shows how far they will conceal vaccine dangers.” ~ Dr. Peter McCullough
No pro player has ever had a full blown cardiac arrest and returned to the field of play without an implantable cardio defibrillator. ~ Dr. Peter McCullough
Coming soon: “vaccines” developed from computer generated mRNA genetic code with mathematical modeling of antibody response and no mice or human subjects at all.
‘Before They Scrub This History’: Group Documents Stories of COVID Protocol Victims
In an exclusive interview with The Defender, Carolyn “CC” Blakeman, media director and task force coordinator for the FormerFedsGroup Freedom Foundation, described the group’s mission, which includes supporting people whose family members were injured or died from hospital COVID-19 protocols and pursuing legal action on their behalf.
“They had us all terrified on the news,” referring to the death count tickers, the refrigerated trucks and the claims of how many would die from the virus.“
According to Blakeman, her research led her to discover that other countries were using “working early treatments, but we were being denied them.” These treatments included ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine.
When she and her husband caught COVID-19 in November 2020, they immediately took the ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine. “We had symptoms for three hours and that was it,” she said. “I’m like, ‘My God, they’re killing people!’”
Documenting victims’ stories before they ‘scrub this history’
As part of this, the group says it will expose the ‘“FDA [U.S. Food and Drug Administration] Death Protocol’ for what it is,” “will help people assert their legal right to refuse to submit to harmful COVID-19 vaccination and testing mandates,” and “call a halt” to the use of “‘vaccine passports’ and draconian digital ID systems.”
“Many of our former feds are ‘former’ because they witnessed the corruption of our most fundamental systems firsthand and subsequently became conscientious objectors.”
The group also launched the COVID-19 Humanity Betrayal Memory Project (CHBMP), described as an effort to develop “the world’s largest online resource for information regarding the individual victims and the concerted effort to deny human beings safe and available medical treatment.”
“We knew we needed to document these stories of hospital protocol and vaccine injury victims” before they “scrub this history,” Blakeman said. “We need to get these people documented, so we can remember what happened, make sure it never happens again, and remember them.”
(See link for article)
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Important things the FFFF is doing:
working with 20 attorneys and have filed about 70 cases.
three lawsuits have made it past the first stage of the PREP Act and are filed under constructive fraud because the fiduciary or the doctor is not getting any kind of consent from the victim or the victim’s family to use an experimental drug.
victims can also file PREP Act claims on the basis of several other types of claims, including elder abuse, medical battery, breach of fiduciary duty, professional misconduct and negligence.
Wisconsin is mentioned as a state that this legal strategy appears to be working for, so far.
launching the “We The People 50-Recall the Shots” campaign and going state-to-state to the attorneys general offices to get the shots recalled
launching “Halt Hospital Homicide,” a series of rallies with medical experts as speakers and protocol victims’ family members
launching a hospital advocacy program that if you’re in the hospital and need to get rescued, you can call them and they will get an advocate on the phone with the doctor.
launching the Amnesty and Leniency Project, where they encourage whistleblowers to come out from hospitals to disclose what they did, saw, heard.
launching the FFFF Citizens Task Force, with over 20 committees and the participation of several protocol and vaccine victims, including a legislation committee, a media committee and a rally committee.
raising public awareness of vaccine and hospital protocol injuries and deaths, with billboard campaignsand plane banners raising awareness of hospital protocol deaths, a car sticker and magnet campaign, the “FormerFeds Focus” podcast, a Substack page, discussions with protocol and vaccine victims and with medical experts on Twitter Spaces, and a Rumble video series. The group has been censored on Facebook, Google and YouTube.
working on a class action suit,” against Gilead because they advertised that remdesivir did something that it didn’t. The case will cost millions of dollars and four attorneys from little firms have already been working on it for two years on their own time. Big firms aren’t touching these cases.
Hospitalized COVID patients share the following commonalities:
isolation
denial of informed consent and alternative treatments
dehumanization (not allowed to go to the bathroom, not cleaned, not given mouth care, tied to the bed, chemically or physically restrained, physically abused included cases of broken noses, put on non-emergency ventilation or “do not resuscitate” orders that were not authorized by patients or their families, and given overdoses of fentanyl or morphine)
not a single person in the FFFF database has ever seen the remdesivir fact sheet hospitals are legally obligated to provide.
wives have written on their husband’s arms with a Sharpie, ‘No remdesivir,’ and they got it anyway.
patients go to sleep and [doctors] will bring in the remdesivir drip bag in the middle of the night.
Government incentivized hospitals under the CARES Act which gave hospitals money upfront ($292,566 per person, $39,000 for ventilation & a 20% bonus on the entire hospital bill) that if they didn’t use, they had to pay it all back, which is why they rushed to ventilate and perform all these unnecessary procedures.
“Get your story on the record. Get in support groups. You’re not alone. A lot of people feel very alone. We believe you here, we’ll support you, we’ll help you tell your story that you need to tell, and we’ll help you honor your loved one. “And we’ll help you find an attorney if we can. We’ll try to get you some kind of justice.” ~ Carolyn Blakeman, media director and task force coordinator for FFFF
The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic was marked by an increase in diagnosis and treatment delays for a range of medical conditions. Yet the impact of the pandemic on the management of tick-borne diseases, which frequently manifest as an acute febrile illness similar to COVID-19, has not been well described.
Methods
In this retrospective cohort study of patients with suspected tick-borne disease attending the University of North Carolina Health facilities, we compared the timeliness of diagnosis and treatment in a “pre-COVID” period (March 2019 to February 2020) and a “post-COVID” period (March 2020 to February 2021). Participants included patients with an ICD-10 diagnosis code of spotted fever group rickettsiosis or ehrlichiosis and a positive Rickettsiarickettsii or Ehrlichia indirect immunofluorescence assay immunoglobulin G antibody test result. Of the 897 patients who had an eligible diagnosis, 240 (26.8%) met the inclusion criteria. The main outcome was time from initial presentation to definitive diagnosis and treatment.
Results
During the 2-year study period, 126 (52.5%) patients were grouped in the pre-COVID period and 114 (47.5%) were grouped in the post-COVID period; 120 (50.0%) were female; and 139 (57.9%) were aged > 50 years. Comparing the post-COVID to the pre-COVID period, the adjusted odds ratio (aOR) for delay in treatment > 0 days was 1.81 (95% confidence interval [CI] 1.07–3.07, P = 0.03), and for a treatment delay > 7 days, 1.65 (95% CI 0.94–2.90, P = 0.08). The odds of a delay in diagnosis were similar for patients in the post- and pre-COVID periods, with an aOR of 1.61 (95% CI 0.96–2.72, P = 0.07) for delays > 0 days, and aOR of 1.72 (95% CI 0.99–3.00, P = 0.05) for delays > 7 days.
Conclusions
The odds of a delay in treatment > 0 days were significantly higher in the post-COVID period than in the pre-COVID period. However, the odds of a delay in treatment > 7 days, or a delay in diagnosis, were similar between these two periods. Shifts in care-seeking, alternative care delivery models and prioritization of COVID-19 may contribute to diminished timeliness of treatment for patients with tick-borne diseases.
The AAPS statement of patients’ freedoms provides that patients have the right to be informed about the risks and benefits of any medical intervention, and have the right to refuse medical treatment – and this includes masks. Government recommendations and mandates are in conflict with the available data. There are at least 60 studies and reportsthat illuminate downsides of masking. See the full AAPS statement: Mask Mandates Do Not Prevent Spread of Respiratory Viruses, They Cause Harm, and Violate the Right to Informed Consent
I saw this post today. A school in MoCo, MD (DC beltway) has reimplemented n95 masking for kids. As a side note: there is no n95 mask for kids— as these masks have not been validated in children. In response, one commenter suggests the only solution is to no longer report COVID cases to school. Is this a sensible strategy?
It turns out the answer is yes. Consider the facts. There is no evidence to suggest community mask mandates slow the spread of COVID in adults. There is no evidence to show they slow the spread of COVID in kids, and the best regression discontinuity studies (Spain) show no effect. Finally, there is no *logic* to slow spread in 2023, given that COVID has already engulfed 90%++ of kids (per CDC’s own Ab screens), and will keep spreading throughout humanity for 10,000 years or until we destroy ourselves. We should no longer aspire to slow spread. No one has shown that improves any outcome.
What about long COVID in kids? There is nearly no evidence to show that this entity warrants concern, and no evidence that any of these measures improve kids quality of life.
Given these facts, the policy of the Rosemary Hill Elementary school is not just unjustified— it is harmful. Requiring children to wear a useless mask to prevent the unpreventable— is deranged thinking. (See link for article)
Complain to your employer about any mandates or declination forms.
Regarding the COVID gene therapy injections which don’t stop transmission or infection and which have been linked to more reports of adverse events and death than any other vaccine in the history of VAERS, Professor Fukushima recently stated:
What vaccines are causing are not drug-related harms. Totally incomplete substance called a nucleic acid medicine, which is in fact not even a medicine, was distributed to the public. So what happened as a result? I dare say, “Murder.” We could say that a massacre has occurred. This is more like a holocaust caused by a bioweapon. ~ Professor Fukushima Press conference for Foundation of Study Group on Vaccine Problems in Tokyo, Japan – Sept. 7, 2023
There has never been a single study on the cumulative effect of multiple vaccines and current vaccine safety studies which are a complete methodological mess, are financed by Big Pharma, and practically never use an inert placebo and a true control group.
The FDA has underhandedly lowered efficacy to authorize the COVID shot.
The very people entrusted to ensure vaccine safety own patents on them.
The PR firm which represents Pfizer and Moderna ALSO sits on the CDC “Vaccine” Division and won up to $50 million from the U.S. government to promote flu vaccines and was hired by the CDC to push COVID shots. The firm is also working with the American Board of Internal Medicine and will be co-presenting at a conference a presentation titled: “When Doctors Present Misinformation”
Dr. Anthony Fauci flip-flopped once again on masking as a means to tamp down COVID-19 as he admitted that a wide-ranging study found that face masks made no difference in the course of the pandemic.
Federal agencies and state and local governments decreed onerous mask mandates for airplanes, schools, public transit, restaurants, workplaces and more starting in 2020 — thanks largely to Fauci, the public face of the nation’s official COVID response.
As the White House’s chief medical adviser, Fauci gave conflicting advice on the efficacy of masking, first saying it was unnecessary for the general public, then that “universal wearing of masks is the most practical way to go.”
Important excerpts:
But in February, a major study from the Cochrane Library found that wearing them was pointless.
“There’s still no evidence that masks are effective during a pandemic,” Tom Jefferson, the study’s lead author, said in February.“
There is just no evidence that they make any difference. Full stop.”
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**Comment**
But what is rarely mentioned is the damage masks can cause.
While ‘public health’ says one thing, the NIH quietly re-shared a South Korean study on how masks release 8 times the recommended safety limit of toxic volatile organic compounds (TVOCs). Inhaling TVOCs have been linked to headaches, and nausea and prolonged and repeated inhalation has been linked to organ damage and cancer. This website has posted science that repeatedly has shown masks are ineffective for viruses and dangerous to the wearer.
It’s gotten so bad that disinformation central – CNN is questioning face masks.
A court found the FDA exceeded its authority when it pushed an anti-ivermectin narrative for treating COVID. Now, courts need to rule that the CDC, Fauci, Collins, Walensky, and the lot have caused thousands of deaths by their pseuco-science and human rights abuses which continue to rule the world and will continue unless we stand up to it.
For a three-minute preview of the next seven years see “2030 Unmasked.”
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