COVID-19: Why Are American Scientists Silent on This?

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1. It seems Phizer is working an antiviral drug to compliment their vaccine, kind of an experimental drug to go with the experimental vaccine therapy. It will no doubt cost billions more per country as the massive transfer of wealth continues. But don’t worry, they are conducting the drug trials on these experimental compounds as currently….I am sure they will be proven safe and effective before anyone is forced to take them.

   Alongside vaccines, success against #COVID19 will likely require #antiviral treatments for those who contract the virus. We’ve started a Phase 2/3 trial to evaluate a potential oral therapy that will enroll over 2,000 participants infected with SARS-CoV-2: https://on.pfizer.com/376FGpI
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2. BREAKING: GOP Senators Reveal Contents of Redacted Fauci Letter – HHS Hid His Collaboration with Dr. Daszak and Wuhan Lab
   By Jim Hoft
   Published July 30, 2021 at 4:54pm
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   Dr. Peter Daszak and Dr. Tony Fauci

   THIS IS SHOCKING!

   On Thursday Republican Senators Ron Johnson, Rand Paul, James Lankford, Rick Scott, and Josh Hawley sent a letter to Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Senator Gary Peters.

   The letter was to inform Peters that the Biden HHS and NIH was refusing to produce all unredacted copies of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s emails, some of which had already been made public through heavily redacted FOIA requests.

   But HHS refused to be transparent and redacted the requested information.

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   But on Thursday Republican Senators released the redacted part of the email the HHS was hiding from the American public.
   And it’s not good.

   The redaction includes Dr. Peter Daszak admitting that he and Fauci were doing work in collaboration with the Chinese virologists at the Wuhan virology lab.

   This information is very damning and proved that Dr. Anthony Fauci has been lying under oath and lying to the American people about his involvement with the Wuhan lab.

   We now know that Dr. Fauci funded the lab, approved the gain of function research and was fully aware of their work.

   This letter by the GOP senators also reveals that the CDC, DIH and HHS cannot be trusted to tell the truth.

   The letter continues to say “the paragraph above does not appear to contain any information that could reasonably be expected to interfere with law enforcement proceedings. HHS is hiding information from the American public — and from Congress.

   This is a serious violation.

   HHS is lying to the American public about the Chinese research of the COVID virus to protect evil Dr. Fauci.

   What else are they hiding?

   Here is the full letter from the Republican Senators to Chairman Peters.

   You can read the full letter at:
   https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/07/breaking-gop-senators-reveal-politicized-hhs-redacted-fauci-letter-hide-collaboration-dr-daszack-wuhan-lab/

3. More very good news out of India. 67% of all Indians have formed antibodies towards SARS-Cov2. This 67% figure of those with antibodies had been only 24% in Dec, so this was a huge jump. The recent outbreak and prophylaxis treatment likely played a role here – recall India has treated their public with HCQ since the outbreak and in recent months adopted the use of Ivermectin and prophylaxis as well. This 67% of the population with antibodies only includes part of the children, about 55%, who act as a immune reservoir to the disease, ie they have an innate immunity to any serious disease. This means the relative immunity of the Indian population of 1.4billion people is even greater than this 67% value. This is really very good information.

   It should be noted that India has only administered 1 injection to just less than a quarter of their population, while they administered 2 shots to only about 1/6 of the population. One of the findings here was enlightening in regards to the vaccines, specifically. Of those who received 1 shot, 81% had antibodies, while of those who had received 2 shots, 89% had antibodies. These numbers may sound encouraging(and the 1 shot data is encouraging), but I was surprised the 2 shot value is not higher. Recall that the presence of antibodies should be expected in someone recently vaccinated, but it doesn’t necessarily mean that they are protective, as the current claim is that the variants have mutated into resistant forms. But once vaccinated, the antibodies should be maintained for a period and slowly reduce to a negligible level until called upon by re-exposure to the virus. Still, India’s vaccine program has been riddled with fraud in the form of saline injections to some unknown level, so perhaps this played some role here, frankly we don’t know. If this is not clear to anyone, feel free to let me know, and I will explain it more fully.

   So, all in all, very interesting info being shared from India, of all places, once again.

   Two-Thirds Of Indians Have Been Exposed To COVID-19
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   Tuesday, Jul 27, 2021 – 11:00 PM

   The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has released the results of its fourth seroprevalence study which was conducted across 21 states in June and July with 36,227 people participating, including 7,252 healthcare workers. It found that 67.6 percent of people over six years of age, some two-thirds of India’s population, have Sars-CoV-2 antibodies.

   However, as Statista’s Niall McCarthy notes, despite that high percentage, at least 400 million people across the country remain at risk of infection and officials warned against relaxing Covid-19 protocols.

   Infographic: Two-Thirds Of Indians Have Been Exposed To Covid-19 | Statista

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   Among different age groups, the highest level of antibodies were observed in the 45-60 year bracket at 77.6 percent, followed by over 60s at 76.7 percent. Elsewhere, 61.6 percent of respondents aged between 18 and 44 had antibodies, as did 57.2 percent of younger Indians aged between 6 and 9.

   The survey also explored seroprevalence among healthcare workers, finding that 85 percent have been exposed to the virus.

   India has reported 31 million cases of Covid-19 and 400,000 deaths so far. Despite being hit hard in recent months and cases peaking at 380,000, they are now falling steadily and averaging around 40,000 a day. ICRM chief Dr. Balram Bhargava said that “the fourth sero survey shows there is a ray of hope, but there is no room for complacency. We must maintain Covid-appropriate behavior.”

   When the results of the third seroprevalence survey were published in February, only 21 percent of people in India had Covid-19 antibodies.

4. @Reader

   use of the PCR test is as a psychological weapon

   To be fair, in the early months of the epidemic, they needed something to use as a guide towards treatment. Well, it just so happened that Christien Drosten, a man of questionable background, developed the PCR test while never having a sample and instead simply used his PC to develop a model and then developed the test. His patented detection method using PCR that was somewhat effective, if still challenged for accuracy. The proble was that they knew of its limitations towards accuracy and even after the early bleak months, where everything was managed in a state of chaos, when things calmed down and serious matters could have been addressed such as the fact they had serious limitations on their detection screening, they did nothing to address the issue. This was a bad mistake as whole nations to this day are shutting down due only to the PCR test and all the data is suspect and fairly dubious to some unknown level, since the cycle threshold is erratically applied across all labs. So, in spite of the poor data, in the beginning it was something to use as a crutch to have some response in place, but they never changed it and hence, as you state,

   It sure looks like the only use of the PCR test is as a psychological weapon to frighten the people and to get them to submit to the lock downs, mask wearing, “social” distancing, and vaccination.

5. @peloni

   It sure looks like the only use of the PCR test is as a psychological weapon to frighten the people and to get them to submit to the lock downs, mask wearing, “social” distancing, and vaccination.

   It is unprecedented that not only the treatments weren’t made a priority (except for the ventilators) but were, in fact, banned.

6. Israelis who were vaccinated were 6.72 times more likely to get infected after the shot than after natural infection
   Why is this not the story being discussed by every media source. It seems very relevant.

7. @Adam
   You will find this relevant to your point I think
   So, if the entire state of Israel is to be considered to have been included in this drug trial, some useful evidence of the field study can be considered as we move towards a possible 3rd injection of the vaccine.
   Without vaccine 1 out of 116 gets infected.
   With vaccine 1 out of 17 gets infected.

   Israelis who were vaccinated were 6.72 times more likely to get infected after the shot than after natural infection

   Now that is a statement. Keep in mind that the vaccine has only been failing since May, so to keep the numbers relevant, we should eliminate those who were infected in the first 5 months of the year which would make the 1/116 even higher(eg. meaning it would be 1 out of 250 or whatever the math worked out to be, but the figure would most certainly be higher than 116). These figures were from 2wks ago, so there have been an alarming increase in vaccine breakthroughs since then, accelerating with each day, so the 1 out of 17 may be much different with the 17 being a lower figure. So the 6.72 value would reveal a much higher rate of vaccinated being infected than the 6.72 value. But ignoring these distinctions, which should be considered at some point as it is very relevant, this 6.72 figure, by itself, tells a very disturbing story by itself, though it is out of date by two weeks.

   Natural infection vs vaccination: Which gives more protection?
   Nearly 40% of new COVID patients were vaccinated – compared to just 1% who had been infected previously.

   David Rosenberg , Jul 13 , 2021 9:24 AM

   Coronavirus patients who recovered from the virus were far less likely to become infected during the latest wave of the pandemic than people who were vaccinated against COVID, according to numbers presented to the Israeli Health Ministry.

   Health Ministry data on the wave of COVID outbreaks which began this May show that Israelis with immunity from natural infection were far less likely to become infected again in comparison to Israelis who only had immunity via vaccination.

   More than 7,700 new cases of the virus have been detected during the most recent wave starting in May, but just 72 of the confirmed cases were reported in people who were known to have been infected previously – that is, less than 1% of the new cases.

   Roughly 40% of new cases – or more than 3,000 patients – involved people who had been infected despite being vaccinated.

   With a total of 835,792 Israelis known to have recovered from the virus, the 72 instances of reinfection amount to 0.0086% of people who were already infected with COVID.

   By contrast, Israelis who were vaccinated were 6.72 times more likely to get infected after the shot than after natural infection, with over 3,000 of the 5,193,499, or 0.0578%, of Israelis who were vaccinated getting infected in the latest wave.

   According to a report by Channel 13, the disparity has confounded – and divided – Health Ministry experts, with some saying the data proves the higher level of immunity provided by natural infection versus vaccination, while others remained unconvinced.

   Those who are unconvinced, what would it take to convince them? This is their own data on this nation-wide field trial….The faithful will never be convinced.

8. @Adam
   This is relevant to your point, I think.
   So, if the entire state of Israel is to be considered to have been included in this drug trial, some useful evidence of the field study can be considered as we move towards a possible 3rd injection of the vaccine.
   Without vaccine 1 out of 116 gets infected.
   With vaccine 1 out of 17 gets infected.

   Israelis who were vaccinated were 6.72 times more likely to get infected after the shot than after natural infection

   Now that is a statement. Keep in mind that the vaccine has only been failing since May, so to keep the numbers relevant, we should eliminate those who were infected in the first 5 months of the year which would make the 1/116 even higher(eg. meaning it would be 1 out of 250 or whatever the math worked out to be, but the figure would most certainly be higher than 116). These figures were from 2wks ago, so there have been an alarming increase in vaccine breakthroughs since then, accelerating with each day, so the 1 out of 17 may be much different with the 17 being a lower figure. So the 6.72 value would reveal a much higher rate of vaccinated being infected than the 6.72 value. But ignoring these distinctions, which should be considered at some point as it is very relevant, this 6.72 figure, by itself, tells a very disturbing story by itself, though it is out of date by two weeks.

   Natural infection vs vaccination: Which gives more protection?
   Nearly 40% of new COVID patients were vaccinated – compared to just 1% who had been infected previously.

   David Rosenberg , Jul 13 , 2021 9:24 AM

   Coronavirus patients who recovered from the virus were far less likely to become infected during the latest wave of the pandemic than people who were vaccinated against COVID, according to numbers presented to the Israeli Health Ministry.

   Health Ministry data on the wave of COVID outbreaks which began this May show that Israelis with immunity from natural infection were far less likely to become infected again in comparison to Israelis who only had immunity via vaccination.

   More than 7,700 new cases of the virus have been detected during the most recent wave starting in May, but just 72 of the confirmed cases were reported in people who were known to have been infected previously – that is, less than 1% of the new cases.

   Roughly 40% of new cases – or more than 3,000 patients – involved people who had been infected despite being vaccinated.

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   With a total of 835,792 Israelis known to have recovered from the virus, the 72 instances of reinfection amount to 0.0086% of people who were already infected with COVID.

   By contrast, Israelis who were vaccinated were 6.72 times more likely to get infected after the shot than after natural infection, with over 3,000 of the 5,193,499, or 0.0578%, of Israelis who were vaccinated getting infected in the latest wave.

   According to a report by Channel 13, the disparity has confounded – and divided – Health Ministry experts, with some saying the data proves the higher level of immunity provided by natural infection versus vaccination, while others remained unconvinced.

   Those who are unconvinced, what would it take to convince them? This is their own data on this nation-wide field trial….The faithful will never be convinced.

9. So, if the entire state of Israel is to be considered to have been included in this drug trial, some useful evidence of the field study can be considered as we move towards a possible 3rd injection of the vaccine.
   Without vaccine 1 out of 116 gets infected.
   With vaccine 1 out of 17 gets infected.

   Israelis who were vaccinated were 6.72 times more likely to get infected after the shot than after natural infection

   Now that is a statement. Keep in mind that the vaccine has been failing since April only, so to keep the numbers relevant, we should eliminate those who were infected in the first 3.5 months of the year which would make the 1/116 even higher(eg. meaning it would be 1 out of 250 or whatever the math worked out to be, but the figure would most certainly be higher than 116). These figures were from 2wks ago, so there have been an alarming increase in vaccine breakthroughs since then, accelerating with each day, so the 1 out of 17 would be much different with the 17 being a lower figure. So the 6.72 value would very likely be even higher(meaning 5.5 or whatever the adjusted math worked out to be). But ignoring these distinctions, which should be considered at some point as they are quite relevant, this 6.72 figure, by itself, tells a very disturbing story, even though it is out of date by two weeks.

   Natural infection vs vaccination: Which gives more protection?
   Nearly 40% of new COVID patients were vaccinated – compared to just 1% who had been infected previously.
   Tags: Coronavirus Vaccine
   David Rosenberg , Jul 13 , 2021 9:24 AM

   Coronavirus patients who recovered from the virus were far less likely to become infected during the latest wave of the pandemic than people who were vaccinated against COVID, according to numbers presented to the Israeli Health Ministry.

   Health Ministry data on the wave of COVID outbreaks which began this May show that Israelis with immunity from natural infection were far less likely to become infected again in comparison to Israelis who only had immunity via vaccination.

   More than 7,700 new cases of the virus have been detected during the most recent wave starting in May, but just 72 of the confirmed cases were reported in people who were known to have been infected previously – that is, less than 1% of the new cases.

   Roughly 40% of new cases – or more than 3,000 patients – involved people who had been infected despite being vaccinated.

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   Health Ministry chief: ‘Green pass’ won’t make a difference
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   With a total of 835,792 Israelis known to have recovered from the virus, the 72 instances of reinfection amount to 0.0086% of people who were already infected with COVID.

   By contrast, Israelis who were vaccinated were 6.72 times more likely to get infected after the shot than after natural infection, with over 3,000 of the 5,193,499, or 0.0578%, of Israelis who were vaccinated getting infected in the latest wave.

   According to a report by Channel 13, the disparity has confounded – and divided – Health Ministry experts, with some saying the data proves the higher level of immunity provided by natural infection versus vaccination, while others remained unconvinced.

   Those who are unconvinced, what would it take to convince them? This is their own data that they are disbelieving…

10. IThe article does not say how many of those who have now contracted CV-2 in the last few weeks were fully vaccinated. Earlier article, however, indicated that the majority of those who developed “symptomatic” CV-2 over the past few weeks in Israel were in fact fully vaccinated.

    Advocates of vaccination have gradually shifted their claims from saying that 99% of those who get sick from CV-2 have been unvaccinated, to claims while many are vaccinated people do become “symptomatic,” they are less likely to require hospitalization, or need to be treated in an ICU unit, or die from the virus.

    However, the CDC was recently forced to admit that 153,000 fully vaccinated Americans have in fact died from the virus. Their latest rationalization is that this is only a tiny minority of those who have been vaccinated. But they omit to compare this figure with the percentage of unvaccinated people who have died of the virus.

    The arguments for pressuring people to become vaccinated have kept shifting in recent weeks as it has become clear that the vaccines are losing their effectiveness.

11. This is from today’s Jerusalem Post:

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    COVID: Bennett vows decision on 3rd shot is near as cases top 2,000
    On Tuesday morning the number of serious patients stood at 138, compared to 124 on the day before.
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    The authorities are working at full speed to decide whether senior citizens should receive a third dose of coronavirus vaccine, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Tuesday.

    There were 2,100 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday and 145 patients in serious condition, the Health Ministry reported.

    “We have been dealing with it, believe me, for a month now,” Bennett said while visiting the Migdal Nofim assisted-living facility in Jerusalem, Hebrew media outlets reported. “There are things that need to be allowed to develop. We are very close. The less we talk about it, the higher the chance it will happen.”

    Nursing-home and assisted-living facilities have paid a heavy price during the pandemic. The first victim of COVID-19 in Israel, 88-year-old Holocaust survivor Aryeh Even, was living at Migdal Nofim.

    Bennett visited the facility with Social Equality and Pensioners Minister Meirav Cohen (Yesh Atid).

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    More than half of the current cases and two-thirds of patients in serious condition were fully vaccinated, the Health Ministry reported.

    The rise in serious morbidity has been relatively limited compared with general morbidity. At the beginning of June, out of fewer than 200 active cases, about 20 patients were in serious condition. Today, with more than 13,000 active cases, 145 patients are in serious condition.

    Health officials and experts are concerned that the protection granted to the most vulnerable sectors of the population who were vaccinated first has been waning. Most of the vaccinated people in serious condition today are elderly.

    Israel was preparing to give senior citizens a third shot if the decision is made, Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz (Meretz) said Monday while visiting the coronavirus ward at Rabin Medical Center-Beilinson Campus in Petah Tikva.

    Most of the experts advising the Health Ministry support the move in principle, even though the debate has been very heated, since a third shot has not obtained the authorization of the US Food and Drug Administration or any other major health authorities, Hebrew media outlets reported.

    Israel is said to be working with Pfizer to move up the next shipments of vaccines to enable the third booster shot.

    Some 2,112 new cases were registered on Monday, with some 95,000 tests processed in 24 hours, the highest numbers since March, the Health Ministry reported.

    The positive rate stood at 2.3%, marking an increase from previous days. On Sunday, some 1,400 cases were registered out of about 72,000 tests.

    On Tuesday, there were 145 patients in serious condition, up from 124 on Monday and 97 on Sunday, more than double the number last Tuesday.

    The reproduction rate, or R, which measures the number of people each virus carrier infects on average, continued to be over 1, indicating that the outbreak is still expanding (an R lower than 1 would show that the disease is receding). On Tuesday, it was 1.33.

    Out of the people who tested positive over the last 24 hours, some 203 arrived at Ben-Gurion Airport over the past 10 days.

    “We see a very large rate of infection because of the Delta variant,” Horowitz said. “We warned about this and took measures, and some of them are represented by preparing hospitals in Israel for the treatment of critically ill patients who are hospitalized… with the coronavirus.”

    If new measures are not taken, the number of patients in serious condition could reach 200 to 400 by mid-August, according to a report on Tuesday by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Hadassah-University Medical Center.

    Vaccine efficacy is significantly lower than what the country experienced in March, down to about 80% against serious symptoms and 90% against mortality, compared with over 97% in both categories in previous months, the report said.

    It did not provide extensive details supporting its conclusions, nor was it peer-reviewed as with medical articles published in academic journals.

    However, the Health Ministry and several experts have been stressing that during the fourth wave, which started in Israel around mid-June, the protection granted by the vaccine has been declining.

    Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine remains 91% effective against developing serious cases of the disease, while its effectiveness at stopping infection declined from between 90%-95% to 39%, the Health Ministry reported.

    The vaccine was found to be 40% effective against symptomatic COVID-19 and 88% effective against hospitalization, it said.

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12. @Reader

    One more thing that I should have noted somewhere in these discussions of the PCR testing, as it is quite important. It is always best to have good data, and a specific test with symptoms will do this. But if we wait til the patient is symptomatic(showing signs of illness), the virus is already replicating. And the PCR test as employed never provided good data, in any case, as it was overly sensitive. Hence, the positive PCR test’s inaccuracy provided junk statistics, especially as there was never any real standardization of the cycle threshold. But the importance of having an accurate level of disease, though useful to be certain, was an academic feature that was never available by the only test that the world had developed in the early months of the epidemic.

    Yet, there was a use for such an overly sensitive testing regimen that could have truly halted the spread of the virus quite radically, or at least markedly reduced its spread. Having an overly sensitive testing regimen would be helpful to screen the public at large for those who are potentially ill – not sick people but people who tested as sick. This group that tested positive, not just ill people but all people testing positive, could undergo treatment before any signs were present and make sure they have the nutriceutical and nutrient support discussed recently that is critical to fighting this disease. It is a form of prophylaxis, but targeted using the overly sensitive PCR test. This would have been a very useful employment of the test and the early treatment data that was known and available about a week after the world shut down. If this had been the measures employed, things might have been shut down for only 14 days. Or a month. Or 6 months. The test was overly sensitive when run at a high cycle threshold, so, theoretically, most of those who could have been challenged by the virus would have been in the group of people testing positive. But if you would have treated these people they would have either never become ill or at least they would never have been hospitalized as they would have been treated very early. And since they were treated very early they would never infected many people. The benefit would have been exponentially extrapolated.

    Yet, the test was never utilized to determine who to treat, as treatment was never the goal of the majority of the world govts. It still isn’t as everyone is accepting their directives from the CDC. So, as everyone who tested positive was sent home to incubate their infection and return after they were ill and expose everyone in their home and whoever drove them to the hospital on their return visit as well as anyone they contacted in the hospital – and after having waited til they were significantly ill, the disease was quite difficult to manage as broken eggs never heal well. It really was a sinister thing to allow. But this would have been a proper use of the PCR test. The world could have been turned around quite radically and the 4million lives lost would never have been sacrificed so mindlessly without treatment. Just thought I should share a very important use of the flawed PCR test where the flaw actually would have been an asset, opposed to the use for which it was employed – counting massively high false positives to be included as sick people.

13. @peloni

    Thanks for the explanation.

    I suspect that they are giving it 6 months for at least a couple of reasons:

    1) so the tests can be used up and those who purchased them (I doubt that they are free but I may be wrong) won’t demand refunds;

    2) it makes the whole thing look legit, as in “we are replacing a good test with a better test”, rather then “oh, boy, the test is worthless, we are stopping its use right now!”

    3)??? (add more reasons as they come to mind).

14. @Reader

    A confirmed case is a patient with a positive test, with or without illness. They urged people to get tested without symptoms. The presence of sympoms, vague as they are, would at least be evidence of illness, but confirmed case is a positive test result, often using cycle thresholds of upto 40X which is about double the sensitivity that Kary Mullins, the inventor of the PCR, stated was the boudary where false positives begin to pick-up. Mullins also noted that PCR should never be used as a diagnostic tool. Your statements are quite accurate. Illness means you are exibhiting symptoms. Some diseases such as the flu and Covid, to a point, have some very vague symptoms, but to be diagnosed as sick with no symptoms, well that is placing a lot of faith in a test that was always experimental and recently failed to be re-authorized.

    Furthermore, the PCR test was always known to have inaccurate results as was often displayed by many people having more than 1 test with more inconsistent results. I have a close friend whose daughter was diagnosed with a positive test, so he was tested as well. They tested him twice and he had both a positive. The retested the daughter and she tested negative. Elon Musk had a similar testing result. In Africa a piece of fruit tested positive. Tap water in the US was tested positive. There is a golfing pro who has missed two tournaments because he tested positive at the outset of each tournament and he has never been sick. It is just a silly mentality that ignores the presence or absence of health while claiming a positive test. And the testing results have had serious implications for entire nations. The validity of every measure related to the SARS-Cov2 virus and vaccines are base on this flawed system.

    And now it has been rejected after 18months of use roughly, but they want to give everyone 6 months to transition out of using it. Six months? What is that based on? New testing and protocols can be taught to hospital staff in a matter of hours, days to be very thorough. So either the tests are not available for distribution or something else is going on. I find it curious if it would take 6 months to setup the supply chain for the testing, as there is a lot of money on that contract, I can promise you. Unless the replacement tests are used more appropriately than the PCR, this unfortunate abuse of Alinsky terminology, ie confirmed case with testing positive, will not change even if the tests are designed to display better accuracy.

15. @peloni

    What do they mean by “confirmed cases”?

    If, in order to be considered a “confirmed case”, all you need is a positive PCR test in the absence of symptoms, then it would be completely wrong to make a connection between being vaccinated or not and the test results.

    If, on the other hand, a “confirmed case” must have BOTH the symptoms AND a positive test (however unreliable it is at this point), then it makes sense to consider the patient’s vaccination status for the purposes of research on the vaccine.

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    It was triage. If you have 25 patients(probably more) on 2 floors who need monitoring, and you only have 2 nurses who are knowledgeable on the uses of the machinery…They will offer instruction to those who are brought on to assist, but it is a stressful moment in which people are exhausted from shifts being over-extended, they were all garbed like something from Star Wars, patients crashed continuously, no one knew if they were soon to be one of the patients…So, triage is about focusing limited resources towards a maximum benefit. It doesn’t make for the best of pictures because it is among the most difficult of moments, trying to judge how best to manipulate 20 separate factors when you can only control about 5 and among those 5 is utilizing untrained staff to monitor complicated machinery after a 5 min. crash course. Just to offer some perspective.
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    @Reader

    They did build a gazillion of them. They had so many they were sending them to nations all over the world. They also found methods to pursue which limited the need of the ventilators. The ventilators were not effective at treating the Covid disease. As the Covid disease was finally perceived to be basically a disease of inflammation and blood clots, the need of ventilators became a secondary focus of treatment. Many, I believe most, of those who were placed on a vent did not survive. And those who did survive, many will have lung issues due to the vent. There was deep water diver who was placed on a vent and as a consequence of a very successful short time in critical care, he will never be able to dive again.

    A great many of the deaths in the first ~6 months of the epidemic were the result of qualified clinicians being too thinly spread over too many cases to adequately monitor each of them as they were crashing, and they were all crashing simultaneously(an exaggeration, somewhat, to make the point clear). So, there are nurses and technicians who are qualified and trained to use ventilators. However, hospitals which had facilities with 6 or 10 of 15 critical care beds had hundreds of cases, sometimes more in the areas with dense population such as Lombardy and New York and New Jersey. The point is that the physicians were stretched too thin and the supporting staff were as well. They brought in nurses who were not qualified or trained with the equipment to provide an assistance, and some of them gained an understanding of these devices and others, well, did not. To state this as an obvious deduction is fair, but there are testimonials and lawsuits which have clearly indicated these facts to be the case. It was a triage moment.

    Triage is a difficult thing to prepare for, actually its impossible to prepare for, but the underlying understanding is that there are limited assets to be spread across a great many patients most. The assets involved are drugs, beds, equipment and personnel. As an example, following the Boston Bomber attack, the first person brought to the hospital underwent surgery for a broken leg(I think that is what it was), and the surgery was successful. The individual survived and walked out of the hospital on their own two feet. This, however was only due to the fact they were the first individual to arrive at the hospital. All the other patients underwent triage protocols which limited surgery time and many of the victims walked home with artificial limbs. And every one of those people would likely have had their limbs saved had the hospital staff not been forced to enter triage mode. And Boston was nothing by comparison to the SARS-Cov2 crisis. So when you say the instruments were not set correctly, well, yes, I read about those situations.
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18. Where did all the hysterics about the ventilators go?

    Either they did build zillions of them or they quietly quit using them.

    I suspect that they killed more patients with them than they cured. – some doctors said at the time that the settings that were used were incorrect.

19. @Adam

    Majority Of Hospitalized Covid Patients In UK Only Tested Positive After Admission: Leaked NHS Data

    Very disturbing. But India has hidden their data? It brings an image to mind that these institutions who are tasked with the authority of protecting public safety yet have been shown to have badly violated the trust of such authority are still tasked with monitoring the outcome of their managed disaster. Who would trust these scoundrels to be more judicious about the book keeping of a crime that they at minimum were accomplices, if no actually involved in the minute planning. Their marshaled prohibition of medicating sick people til they were beyond a healthy response to treatment should have been indictment enough to remand their every involvement from any influence upon the recording of the details that would guide the epidemic that they are so determined to preserve indefinitely, or so it would seem. More than 4million live are lost and 200million have been affected by a medical crisis that required treatment. 18months later the world is still adhering to the invaluable advice of those who are still to this day undertaking every effort to prevent early treatments and coerce a harmful vaccine as treatment. And no one can explain why. Not anyone. None even try. None even ask.

20. @adamdalgliesh

    “at increased risk of infection”

    Where did they get this idea that vaccination prevents someone from being infected, i.e., catching the virus?

    Vaccinations do not build a shield around a person to prevent pathogens from getting in.

    They prevent someone who is vaccinated against a pathogen from getting seriously ill from that pathogen IF AND WHEN that pathogen gets inside that person.

    Have they all lost their brains?

21. If they “tested” for other viruses, they could come up with dozens of “illnesses” in each patient.

    Everyone’s body is full of viruses and bacteria at any given time.

    It must be a blow to those who are germaphobic because of OCD but it’s a fact.

22. There is a new edition of

    Virus Mania: Corona/COVID-19, Measles, Swine Flu, Cervical Cancer, Avian Flu, SARS, BSE, Hepatitis C, AIDS, Polio, Spanish Flu. How the Medical … Making Billion-Dollar Profits At Our Expense 3rd Edition .

    I don’t know why they mention Spanish Flu in the title (it might have been provoked by the then massive vaccination campaign in the US, as far as I know) – it is not in their table of contents.

23. From the Jewish Press (New York):

    “There is a dramatic rise in the number of confirmed cases among those returning from abroad,” said Dr. Ofra Habkin, Deputy Head of Public Health in the Health Ministry.

    “Almost 80 percent of them are vaccinated. This is a dramatic change from what we knew, and the data clearly show that those who return from countries where the morbidity is high and there is exposure to various variants, are at increased risk of infection,” she added.

24. This report in today’s Zero Hedge is absolutely devastating. Indicates massive fraud in Covid data in UK, and probably in US as well.

    Majority Of Hospitalized Covid Patients In UK Only Tested Positive After Admission: Leaked NHS Data

    Tyler Durden’s Photo
    BY TYLER DURDEN
    TUESDAY, JUL 27, 2021 – 12:00 AM
    Over half of those hospitalized with Covid-19 in the UK only tested positive after admission – suggesting that “vast numbers are being classed as hospitalised by Covid when they were admitted with other ailments, with the virus picked up by routine testing,” according to The Telegraph, citing leaked government figures.

    The takeaway? Oft-cited statistics published daily may far overstate Covid hospitalizations – and consequently, pressures on the National Health Service (NHS).

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    The leaked data – covering all NHS trusts in England – show that, as of last Thursday, just 44 per cent of patients classed as being hospitalised with Covid had tested positive by the time they were admitted.

    The majority of cases were not detected until patients underwent standard Covid tests, carried out on everyone admitted to hospital for any reason.

    Overall, 56 per cent of Covid hospitalisations fell into this category, the data, seen by The Telegraph, show.

    Crucially, this group does not distinguish between those admitted because of severe illness, later found to be caused by the virus, and those in hospital for different reasons who might otherwise never have known that they had picked it up. -Telegraph

    In June, UK health officials instructed NHS trusts to provide “a breakdown of the current stock of Covid patients” between those who were hospitalized primarily for Covid and those admitted for other reasons. Thus far, the NHS has failed to publish this now-leaked information.

    Breaking it down, out of more than 780 hospitalizations dated last Thursday, 44% tested positive within 14 days prior to admission, while 43% tested positive within two days of admission, and 13% tested positive ‘in the days and weeks that followed’ – including those likely to have caught the virus in the hospital.

    “Experts said the high number of cases being detected belatedly – at a time when PCR tests were widely available – suggested many such patients had been admitted for other reasons,” according to the report.

    “This data is incredibly important, and it should be published on an ongoing basis,” said Prof Carl Heneghan, director of the Center for Evidence-Based Medicine at the University of Oxford. “When people hear about hospitalizations with Covid, they will assume that Covid is the likely cause, but this data shows something quite different – this is about Covid being detected after tests were looking for it.”

    Heneghan has urged UK officials to be more transparent with this data – including whether or not the virus was the primary cause of hospital admission.

    “This needs to be fixed as a matter of urgency,” he said, adding that the currently published data could lead the public “towards false conclusions,” which exaggerate the true level of pressure on the UK medical system.

    “Nearly 18 months into the Covid crisis, it is absurd that data breaking down hospital admissions still isn’t publicly available on a regular basis,” said Sir Graham Brady, the chairman of the 1922 committee of Tory MPs. “Counting all patients who test positive as Covid hospitalisations is inevitably misleading and gives a false picture of the continuing health impact of the virus.”

    Greg Clark, the chairman of Commons science and technology select committee, on Monday night said he would write to Sajid Javid, the Health Secretary, asking him to publish the breakdown on a regular basis following The Telegraph’s disclosure.

    “If hospitalisations from Covid are a key determinant of how concerned we should be, and how quickly restrictions should be lifted, it’s important that the data is not presented in a way that could lead to the wrong conclusions being drawn,” he said.

    “While some of these people may be being admitted due to Covid, we currently do not know how many. And for those who are not, there is a big distinction between people who are admitted because of Covid and those are in for something else but have Covid in such a mild form that it was not the cause of their hospitalisation.”

    The leaked statistics come from NHS daily situation reports, collected by all hospital trusts in England. -Telegraph

    “It creates an impression that all these people are going into hospital with Covid, and that simply is not the case. People are worried and scared and not really understanding the true picture – that is what I find despicable,” one NHS data expert told the Telegraph.

    Wonder how many US Covid hospitalizations were only diagnosed post-admission, keeping in mind of course that US hospitals are paid more for Covid patients under the CARES Act.

25. Koch’s postulates aren’t applicable in more than one infectious disease.

26. @Adam

    According to the White House COVID-19 Task Force, severe breakthrough infections remain rare, and nearly all of these hospitalized patients — 97% — are unvaccinated.

    Good catch here, most will simply cite the propaganda and pursue the shot. It takes a discerning eye and an mentality bent towards inspection of details that many would be well served to further develop, I think.

    There is a strong effort in the US to achieve a blind ignorance of the vaccine’s efficacy, even now, 7 months after the rollout. In Israel and England, they have maintained a vigilance upon the breakthroughs and record such data and share it openly, regardless of any concerning values. This, however, is not true in the US. In general the individual states collect and share their data as they see fit with no coordinated effort or consistency. This is even more exaggeratedly true of the individual states’ collection of vaccine breakthrough data, which is spotty throughout the nation. Meanwhile the FDA/CDC are revealing no such tabulation, as if they had no concern or care of the results of the consequence of breakthrough data. It is hard to not perceive a willing disregard for the safety concerns that these institutions are empowered to secure and make known to the public.

    Indeed, it does require a separate application of willful blindness to not accept that they are, for whatever purpose, not pursuing this matter with either a serious concern of this subject or a frank reporting to the public. Whichever of these might be the truth, it eliminates any national inflection on the US breakthroughs, while the media reports no breakthrough data “according to the CDC”. It has resulted in a sinister success for the champions of the vaccine over the past months and renders impossible any reasonable conversation or honest analysis of the US breakthroughs. So what has more recently been undertaken is to further obscure the US data collected by the states as additional support of the vaccines effectiveness. The information from those states collecting breakthrough data since April are summed and divided by all vaccinations since Dec. This historical information is quite meaningless to the current rate of failure in vaccines today, which would require current data against current data rather than this more generalized historical analysis. Yet, the resulting faux calculation of 97% rate of the vaccine’s efficacy is discussed as a relevant to these recent developments much as the article you cited here clearly displays.

    This is evidence of just how effective this propaganda may be employed to support the vaccines with complete disregard for any basis of the validity of this claim. It is in fact a complete fabrication with a clear evidence of intentionally defrauding the public of the competence of the vaccines. And who is propagating this non-sense to the American public and the world? The White House Task Force. So, with the White House Task Force stamp of assurance, the vaccines are once again reinforced as safe and effective without a measure of concern or an honest collection of data that might actually determine the real valuation of these very significant interpretative details. It is this general summary that informs, or misinforms, gov’t leaderships throughout the world who might find Biden as a competent source for their public policy of vaccine mandates. Very telling of many things, I think.

27. Dr. Malone was on the War Room and his statements are always quite informative, as he has close connections within the FDA and CDC and he himself was a pioneer and remains a champion for the use of mRNA when handled correctly. Among the things he mentions in this short 5min video is that the FDA/CDC were aware for month before the world knew that the vaccine’s effect on the heart was a real concern for potential harm. This means they knew about these matters when they authorized the use of the vax on children – this fact should be carefully considered by anyone still championing these injections. The trials last fall for the vaccines by Pharma were intended to produce an estimate of both the efficacy and, on more long term basis, the safety of the vaccines. Ultimately, taken together these two data sets from this single trial would offer a risk/safety ratio. It would be but one set of data, but its input would have been quite revealing of these three significant data sets. Unfortunately, due to the specific efforts of Pharma to choose poor testing subjects and prematurely cancel the safety monitoring, the trial failed to be more than a paperwork basis for the EUA and left no clear inference of the efficacy or safety concerns which was statistically distinct from the general public.

    Hence, the world was left to reflect upon only news reports, fluctuating VAERS tabulations and a general inference of personal speculation as a source of any meaningful information, quite unuseful data for any analysis even as these sources reveal disturbing trends. As a consequence, we have no clear value of efficacy or safety other than to say that they are both greater than zero, in the first days/week/months at least. Now with the rising vax breakthroughs, the need for free sharing of available data has become even more pressing. Yet, the only data to reveal the real facts are collected by Pharma, known to CDC/FDA and withheld from the general public. This is very unfortunate and the data should be openly available, especially to localities such as Israel and elsewhere since forced mandates are being employed, while the rest of the world is only being severely manipulated towards this goal – both of these policies are violations of the Nuremberg Code and the public’s civil rights. Malone has other matters that he addresses in this video, and, as always, his commentary is well worth considering.

    Here is the link
    https://www.redvoicemedia.com/2021/07/dr-robert-malone-inventor-of-mrna-vaccine-says-cdc-purposely-under-reporting-and-editing-adverse-vaxx-effects/

28. I don’t agree with Devvy that there is no such thing as virus-transmitted illnesses. On the other hand, evidence is accumulating that the effectivenss of the Covid vaccines in preventing clinical cases of Covid19 has been exaggerated, and its effectiveness is waning.

    The following article from ABC news is filled with evasions and equivocations aimed at minimizing the number of “breakthrough” cases. But even so, if you read it carefully, the number of “fully vaccinated” people getting sick is increasing.

    Symptomatic breakthrough COVID-19 infections rare, CDC data estimates
    ABC News
    Breakthroughs are expected and represent about 0.098% of those fully vaccinated.

    July 26, 2021, 7:01 AM

    • 10 min read

    Breakthrough COVID-19 infections explained

    The risk of getting severely ill from COVID-19 after receiving a vaccine is low, according to experts.

    Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images via ZUMA Wire via Newscom
    Although reports of breakthrough COVID-19 cases occurring among fully vaccinated Americans are garnering much attention, as the country experiences a viral resurgence, new data illustrates just how rare these breakthrough infections are likely to be, and further shows that the vast majority of those becoming severely ill are the unvaccinated.

    “While anecdotal cases and clusters can conjure concern around the vaccine, when put in the larger context of how many people have been vaccinated and the sheer volume of cases in the unvaccinated population, we recognize that the vaccines are working and how rare breakthroughs actually are,” said Dr. John Brownstein, the chief innovation officer at Boston Children’s Hospital and an ABC News contributor.

    With more than 156 million Americans fully vaccinated, nationwide, approximately 153,000 symptomatic breakthrough cases are estimated to have occurred as of last week, representing approximately 0.098% of those fully vaccinated, according to an unpublished internal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention document obtained by ABC News. These estimates reflect only the adult population and do not include asymptomatic breakthrough infections.

    Substantial vaccination coverage amid increasing COVID-19 case rates are driving an increase in “expected” symptomatic breakthrough infections in recent weeks, the CDC wrote in the document.

    PHOTO: A person receives a nasal test at a COVID-19 testing and vaccination site at Barnett Park in Orlando, Fla., July 21, 2021.
    A person receives a nasal test at a COVID-19 testing and vaccination site at Barnett Park in Orlando, Fla., July 21, 2021.
    Experts stress that no vaccine can provide 100% protection, but they are still very effective at preventing severe illness and death.

    “The risk to fully vaccinated people is dramatically less than that to unvaccinated individuals. The occurrence of breakthrough cases is expected and, at this point, is not at a level that should raise any concerns about the performance of the currently available vaccines,” Matthew Ferrari, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics at Pennsylvania State University, told ABC News.

    “Some vaccinated folks may still get infected, some may still transmit. And the more vaccinated people there are, the more breakthrough cases we’ll see,” he added.

    Coronavirus cases are now at their highest point since early May, according to CDC data, with the U.S. average nearly quadrupling since June to 47,000 new cases a day, largely driven by the highly infectious delta variant, which now accounts for more than 83% of new cases nationwide.

    Virus-related hospitalizations have also increased, with more than 27,000 patients hospitalized around the country, though that number is still significantly lower than in January, when over 125,000 patients were receiving care at one time.

    According to the White House COVID-19 Task Force, severe breakthrough infections remain rare, and nearly all of these hospitalized patients — 97% — are unvaccinated. [why the sudden shift in sources? Does CDC data confirm this claim by the “White House Covid-19 task force?]

    Earlier this week, the popular summer destination of Provincetown, Massachusetts, was thrust into the spotlight after at least 551 COVID-19 infections were confirmed, many of them breakthroughs, following a busy July Fourth weekend.

    Confirmed cases among Massachusetts residents, stemming from the Provincetown cluster, have been found to be predominantly symptomatic, with 69% of affected individuals reported to be fully vaccinated, according to local officials. Apart from three hospitalizations — two in state and one out of state — symptoms from cases associated with this cluster are known to be mild and without complication, Alex Morse, the town manager for Provincetown, said.

    “The transmissibility of the delta variant raises the likelihood of sporadic ‘super spreader’ events among vaccinated people, especially when indoors and in close proximity without masks. These events raise the risk to those unvaccinated while the vast majority of the breakthrough cases will be mild or asymptomatic,” Brownstein added.

    Statewide in Massachusetts, state health officials report there have been at least 5,166 breakthrough infections as of July 17. More than 4,800 of these infections resulted in no hospitalization or death. A total of 80 of these breakthrough cases resulted in death, representing 0.0015% of individuals fully vaccinated — and 272 cases resulted in hospitalization, representing 0.006% of those fully vaccinated.

    The hospitalizations and deaths that do occur among fully vaccinated individuals tend to occur among people who are older or those with serious underlying medical conditions for whom the vaccines may have reduced efficacy, experts said. [an equivocation. This is true of all CV-19 cases, not just “breakthrough” cases.]

    PHOTO: A nurse prepares to administer a dose of COVID-19 vaccine to a patient at a mobile vaccination event at the downtown Orlando campus of the University of Central Florida and Valencia College in Orlando, Fla., July 24, 2021.
    A nurse prepares to administer a dose of COVID-19 vaccine to a patient at a mobile vaccination event at the downtown Orlando campus of the University of Central Florida and Valencia College in Orlando, Fla., July 24, 2021.
    Ankoor Shah, principal senior deputy director at the Washington D.C. Department of Health, said during a Thursday press conference that the district had 200 fully vaccinated breakthrough cases of COVID-19, out of a total record nearly 376,000 fully vaccinated people, representing “only point .05 percent, which just strengthens our confidence on how great these vaccines are.”

    And in New Jersey, the total number of breakthrough cases, so far, is 5,678 out of a total of 4.8 million people vaccinated by July 12, according to state data. Forty-nine fully vaccinated individuals have died as a result of COVID-19.

    “It is important to point out that 49 deaths due to COVID-19 among 4.8 million fully vaccinated state residents is slightly greater than one in 100,000 fully vaccinated individuals. That means vaccines are about 99.999% effective in preventing deaths due to COVID-19,” Dr. Ed Lifshitz of the New Jersey Department of Health said in a statement to ABC News.

    Additionally, 27 of these individuals had pre-existing conditions, Lifshitz said, and many had more than one condition. [another equivocation. This is equally true of most cv-2-related deaths and all deaths from all infectious diseases]

    Of concern to some experts is the decline in daily COVID-19 tests, which makes it more difficult to track the spread of the virus. The nation is now recording just under 600,000 COVID-19 tests a day, which has ticked up slightly in recent weeks but is still much lower than at the country’s peak in January, when U.S. was recording over 2 million tests a day. In addition, the CDC has, since May, ceased reporting asymptomatic or mild breakthrough cases.

    According to Brownstein, the combination of the overall testing decline, the mild nondescript nature of breakthrough infections, and the general perception that vaccines are protective, means that any count of breakthrough infections is likely an underestimate.

    Hence, he said, “given the efficacy of the vaccines, we recognize that even more cases will be asymptomatic, so these data only show part of the story. While asymptomatic cases are not of clinical relevance, they do help understand important patterns of transmission in the community.”

    Experts concur that even with lower case levels than this past winter, the pandemic is not yet over, and it is critical to track the disease in order to attempt to slow its spread.

    In a recent editorial in the Journal of the American Medical Association, experts urged the CDC to “re-energize” its testing services in light of the highly transmissible delta variant, “because without vigorous testing, the nation cannot be sure whether declining cases are a function of decreased numbers of infections or reduced numbers of tests.” [in other words, we have no idea whether the total number of cases in declining or not]

    “As long as the virus is circulating, with or without causing illness, it can change and mutate, including into new strains that may be even harder to control,” Samuel V. Scarpino, managing director of pathogen surveillance at the Rockefeller Foundation, told ABC News.

    “To get ahead of the pandemic we need to track the virus more closely and collect high-quality information on how and where COVID-19 is changing,” he said. “This high-quality, detailed information is crucial for COVID-19 and future pandemics.”