Michigan leads the nation in daily coronavirus cases per capita
By Andrew Mark Miller | FOX NEWS
Florida is reporting the lowest amount of coronavirus cases per capita in the nation after Gov. Ron DeSantis was widely criticized by media outlets for his handling of the virus.
The Sunshine State reported a daily average of 1,393 coronavirus cases as of Friday, six per 100,000, which was a two percent decrease over the last two weeks.
DeSantis has been slammed by critics in the media since the start of the pandemic over his opposition to government-imposed mask and vaccine mandates. In 2020, DeSantis was accused by a Democratic politician of going on a “killing spree” for opposing mask mandates and a Vanity Fair headline from September of this year referred to the governor as an “angel of death.”
At the same time Florida reported the lowest amount of new cases in the country per capita, coronavirus cases are surging in many states where strict lockdown orders were issued by Democratic governors.
Michigan, where Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer imposed some of the most controversial restrictions in the nation during the height of the pandemic, leads the nation in daily coronavirus cases per capita.
New York is reporting a daily average of 6,666 cases which amounts to 34 per 100,000.
Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat who resigned in disgrace earlier this year, was widely praised by the media for his handling of the coronavirus and even received an Emmy Award.
“It just shows once again the success of Governor DeSantis’s science based and data based policies,” DeSantis Press Secretary Christina Pushaw told Fox News Digital about the case levels in Florida. “He’s always made decisions based on the data and that continued even during the Delta surge this summer what he realized would help was not mask mandates in school or lockdowns but provide treatment that actually works.”
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at a news conference, Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021, at the Broward Health Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The state of Florida is suing the Biden administration over its coronavirus vaccine mandate for federal contractors. The lawsuit was announced Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021 by Gov. DeSantis and opened yet another battleground between the Republican governor and the White House.
“He opened the 25 state-supported monoclonal antibody sites and provided that treatment all over the state free of charge to over 150,000 Floridians, saved thousands of lives, and that happened starting in August,” Pushaw added. “Since then our cases are down by over 95% with no restrictions on people’s freedom.”
Pushaw said she “hopes” that the states like Michigan and Minnesota who are experiencing a surge in cases will “learn from Florida’s experience” and promote treatments that work as opposed to lockdowns which “we’ve seen time and time again” do not.
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We each have a vested interest in doctors acknowledging the reality that their patients need their care and they have an absolute obligation to satisfy this need. Doctors should resign if they lack the freedom to do what is right and necessary for their patient’s care. McCullough began his research in May 2020 with 53 doctors working with him, that is as many as would participate with him in his medical research, and many of these were from Italy. The US medical physicians number around 1million. This was a stark disparity. By December 2020, this number supporting him grew to only ~500 and now stands around ~14,000. This shift in support would seem to be an exponential difference but it still stands as too few as the US death stand at 800K and continue to grow due to a lack of prompt treatment. Any of us could just as easily be counted in this butcher’s bill and many of us have loved ones who do. Also, many of those who suffer from this lack of treatment will have the dubious reward of diminished health due to their lack of care. To be clear, the impeded care is ordered from above, but this bizarre act of withholding timely treatment is facilitated by all who participate in following these orders, and none of us should support anyone acquiescing to such harmful ‘treatment’ just because they lack an alternative employment option.
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@Adam
For what it is worth, my name is openly tied to actions in support of the medical establishment regaining their authority to practice their trade unopposed. I am listed in support of the case before the Hague and many other petitions opposing the mandates and medical tyrannies including Malones Rome Declaration(https://doctorsandscientistsdeclaration.org/), to which anyone with a degree in the medical sciences may sign, as well as the Great Barrington Declaration(https://gbdeclaration.org/), to which any person may sign. I have written the CDC and the FDA both of my strong objections to their actions on several occasions including during the recent considerations of the 3rd jab and injecting children, and the Pfizer BLA. Anyone could have done all but the first of these things, and I encourage everyone to consider doing as many as they deem wise. I am currently entering into a trade that is completely controlled by the very leftists whom I oppose and I am fully cognizant of the possible consequences in my current undertaking for my activities, though none have occurred so far. That being stated, I do not count any of these actions as being equivalent to the target placed upon the medical staff opposing the medical tyrants from within the system. It should, however, not require that I be counted among these doctors to criticize them for doing what is clearly wrong. Anyone should recognize these realities and everyone should label them for what they are, medical malfeasance and medical neglect.
The fact that these doctors rely upon their trade for income should gain our sympathy but not our ignorance of their role in this manufactured crisis. It will be difficult to replace the income of a physician but if competent care is no longer an accepted trade, it should not be masked by incompetent care, regardless of the remuneration involved. It is not fair that they should be faced with this choice, but they are, and their patients lives stand as the ballast in their choice. Every patient sent home without valid treatment is abandon by their trusted physician to suffer with developing pneumonia for two weeks, til they could barely breathe, lips turned blue and in the full grip of illness before a doctor’s care would be authorized. I can imagine nothing so sinister and I still can’t believe this is standard protocol, though it literally is. The doctors who have turned the page and joined Malone and McCullough as medical rebels, to be perfectly honest, would likely attest to these facts as their self-recognition of these realities are likely the very motivation leading them to join the medical rebellion and jeopardize everything they have worked towards and upon which their families comfort and means are based.
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@adamdalgliesh
Usually the ones “who come late to the party” are those who do so when it is safe or when things change so much that it becomes dangerous for them/their career to stick to their former views, or they just may be a government stooge – who knows?
The argument that they had to support their families, someone taught them wrong, etc. is invalid.
Hitler’s officials and soldiers also had to support their families and listen to propaganda.
This doesn’t mean that we have to feel bad for the poor darlings who just had to kill people to support their families and who were badly misled by the propaganda.
@peloni. Peloni, I think you are too harsh in your judgment to those physicians who “came late to the party.” That is because it is no party, but rather a war in which there are heavy casualties on the part of the medical “rebels,” such as the many who have been fired from their jobs, denounced in vicious language by their former colleagues, and in some instances denied the right to practice medicine. Joining a resistance movement against tyrants is never an easy decision for anyone. On top of all that, many did not realize that the government medical bureaucracy has been lying to them all along. As you have pointed out yourself, most medical schools teach their students to respect eatablished authority rather than fight it.
Any judgment on those who who joined the resistance “only” less than two years after the CDC and Naiaid began their covert war against the American people, with the support of a naive Trump, needs to consider the harsh punishments that they would have faced if they had opposed the government from the beginning, and that they are now risking since they joined the medical-scientific resistance.
It is relatively easy for you to pass judgment on physicians who continue to rely on their medical practices to support themselves and their families, since you have now given up your medical licence in order to go into another business. Also, because you conduct your opposition behind a cloak of anonimity (as far as I know). On the other hand, such individuals as Campbell, McDonough, Malone and many others who have joined the resistance, either sooner or later, have revealed their names, their faces and their places of employment to the public, making them very vulnerable to government and medical establishment harassment. And indeed, they are being harassed. Let those who are resisting in the relative safety of the reserves not pass judgment on those who are in the frontline trenches, whether they volunteered for active combat sooner or later.
It is good that Campbell and many others have arrived to the party, despite their tardiness. Their position in society does not ask for them to adequately respond to a person with developing pneumonia, it requires it. Millions of people are dead because simple treatment measures were not pursued. This is completely independent of vaccines, which few claim to have been aware that there was cause for concern, even as a nurse collapsed during a live interview promoting the vaccine after her shot, even as a doctor died within 24hrs of the vaccine, even as entire elder care centers were depopulated following vaccine rollout after having lost none or few to the virus over the preceding year. The VAERS numbers skyrocketed from January onward. And no physician can claim an ignorance about the patients presenting with clots and neural symptoms and other countless harms following their vaccines from hours to a week prior.
So, I don’t mean to make it more difficult for Campbell and his fellow doctors to arrive at this party, even late. I none the less look at the dead that have mounted in the past two years and recognize one simple fact: The ill deserve care and not abandonment for two weeks to be cannibalized alive by a documented potentially lethal infection. Any competent doctor should have recognized this. Not yesterday, last week, last month or even last year. We are nearly two years into this disaster which only required medical intervention prior to the 2wk moratorium. You may be accurate to state my perspective has a harsh tone, but I think history, depending on who survives to write it, will support my tone as just.
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@Adam
I have, in fact read, many who dismiss Campbell as a govt stooge. I have never had that opinion of him. He is late arriving to the party and I do not dismiss that he arrived, nor that he arrived late. Both of these facts are important in their own context and have consequences, both in my opinion and perhaps in others as well. I respect the reality that it was not easy to break with the mantra of the govt, and I celebrate all who have and will gain the inner strength to do so.
I will share with you the reality that many doctors are actually completely manipulated in their continuing education by Pharma and their information on every new trend in medicine is largely paid for by Pharma or Pharma associated groups such as the hospital systems. I am also fully cognizant of the level of both grit and temerity that would be necessary for any clinician to act independently of the collective medical society. That being said, though I recognize the level of threat and consequence they face, they had an obligation, moral, ethical and legal obligation to their patients over their role in this captured enterprise.
It is good that many have even today, even tomorrow, even next month gained the strength and resolve to do what was encumbent upon them to do from the first day they realized a single patient could be harmed by not doing so…and that day could not have been recent, not for a trained and competent doctor. There has been too much data to raise concerns and the coercion has been building for months and months. Additionally, the ill were abandoned to suffer unattended for 2wks prior to any intervention, while we awaited the vaccines, even as millions suffered needlessly.
I can recognize that the capture of the medical training would complicate and perhaps delay the recognition, but listen to the testimony of Deborah Conrad and her fellow nurses who have reported the many strange realities that have come to light. These are nurses, who have a subordinate role of authority and responsibility within the medical hierarchy to any doctors present. Life is not balanced and life is not fair. We have each found this to be self-evident in our own way and the consequences are not diminished due to this fact. It is not fair that the medical community have the greatest opportunity to defy and expose and demand a remedy to this medical crisis. They were not trained to defy authority, just the opposite. Unfortunately, despite this fact, they have the authority, and consequently the responsibility to do what is right, what is necessary, and what will save their patient’s from continued certain harm.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEBGl8MVE-c&t=3s
In this video Dr. Campbell descibes a new study, which has so far only been published as an abstract, which indicates that among vaccinated individuals, preconditions for heart diseases of all kinds have risen from 11% to 25% among patients who have been studied for vulnerability to heart disease the past ten years. The study began years before Covid existed. But when the vaccines came into use the researcher, a well-known cardiologist, decided to test whether vulnerability to heart conditions had increased or decreased among the subjects of the study, depending on whether they were vaccinated or not.
The results, according to the preliminary findings of the researcher-physician, indicate a dramatic increase in vulnerability to heart disease among the vaccinated, but not the unvaccinated.
Peloni, I think you have been too hard on Dr. Campbell. Over the last few weeks he has been doing a good job alerting the pubic to the need for readily available early treatment medications, especially ivermectin, and the need to study and report honestly on the harmful effects onf the vaccine on many patients, alert all physicians to the possibility of vaccine harm and how to diagnose and treat it, and in insuring that the vaccine-harmed patients receive the best available care for their conditions. He has also called out the CDC , WHO, the British NHS, and other government agencies for their refusal to take these measures to provide the public with the means of recovering from diseases caused both by the covid virus and the vaccines, and for spreading misinformation about these matters. He has shown considerable courage in doing this, risking being removed from Youtube and even having his licence to practice medicine taken from him.
I believe his earlier acceptance of the official CDC-WHO line on the vaccines and treatment options was that he, like many honest and decent doctors who sincerely wish to heal their patients and keep them from getting sick, could not believe that the these official agencies would lie to them. I think Dr. Cambell, like many other physicians, was simply too trusting and naive rather than corrupt. But after overwhelming evidence that government had in fact lied and denied the public available treatment options accumulated, he and several other physicians found the courage to break with the government and tell the truth to the public. As a result, I think that Dr. Campbell and other physicians who have been won over to the actual facts about Covid and the vaccines, treatment options etc. are to be praised and congratulated rather than dismissed as government stooges, the way I have the impression you have done.
Furthermore, even if Omicron is the Armageddonvirus which will satisfy the vaccine addicts drive for panic, it has to out compete Delta. Recall that Delta was created in Nov-Dec in India following the vaccine trials there. It still took the deployment of the vaccine and another 6month for Delta to dominate the globe while the other vaccine sensitive variants, ie Alpha and Beta, were depleted by the vaccines. To restate that more clearly, Delta needed the vaccine to clear the board and another 6months to spread around the world which was a heck of a competitive advantage.
Still, I believe a new leaky vaccine might be able to satisfy this missing advantage for Omicron, or it might create a Leviathan virus to end us all, hopefully the world will come to a point of reason and simply treat the virus as if we have medications to do so before this possibility becomes reality. (Sidenote: Delta has increased its lethal profile from when it first arrived so Omicron, whatever the truth is about its current lethality, might do the same if challenged with focal non-sterilizing medications or vaccines as has been the case with Delta)
PS, love the Omygosh virus label…I love calling things what they are.
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@Michael
So, Omicron…I noticed in defference to their CCP overlord they skipped naming this variant in his honor Xi, as it was the next letter in the Greek alphabet,,,but I digress.
The vaccine addicts have placed Omicron on a pedestal to champion the need of the vaccine and possibly a brand new untested fully marketable experiment. How relentlessly stupid are these people? I don’t mean to be unpleasant, but at some point this trend of using the worlds population as lab rats for experimental vaccines will have a more and more depleting result. As a friend recently noted, how many lab rats actually survive their experiment and walk out of the lab, right?
The South Africans have noted the harmless nature of Omicron, but they have too few cases of it to be either a concern or credibly characterized as serious or non-serious with regard to the disease presentation. The South Africans also have every reason to prefer to describe Omicron as harmless, this doesn’t mean it isn’t, but we should always prefer skepticism over accepting possibly partisan based data…which of course is what we see with every study on the vaccines that has been recorded or published with data that they collect, characterize and compose in studies with clever analysis and self-satisfying results. The US has seen fit to play games with their data ignoring breakthroughs for months, and Israel has been seen to change data on its dashboard, even as new claims have been made to this effect. With this in mind we need look at only one thing. How is the virus doing in South Africa…how are the cases(completely compromised as it is the standard comparison most obsess over), the hospitalizations and the deaths. Well, compared to a year ago, these markers are all a fraction of last year this time. This may change in the coming weeks/months, but we will have to wait to see this effect, and then we will have to see how effective Omicron is at outcompeting Delta, because for it to truly be a concern, it will have to do this, no other variant has succeeded in this.
The panic porn(hate this phrase but it fits) is baseless at this point. The travel blockade is cruel, and may be interpreted as retribution for South Africa’s decision to not accept Pfizer/J&J vaccines, just a possibility that comes to mind. The blockade will devastate the country and we do not know this virus was in fact created in South Africa, ie it could be in many nations already without detection. Also, the blockade and lockdowns ignores the reality that SARS-Cov2 is an airborne virus. Lockdowns concentrate its effects on those lockded down and the airborne nature of the virus will cross borders and spread around the world. Here’s a thought, ignore the blockade/lockdowns and just give everyone planning to travel an IVM or some other drug cocktail(South Africa HATES IVM, so…yeah unlikely) a few days prior.
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Peloni,
I see that the new “Omigosh!” variant is a real paper tiger:
“It presents mild disease with symptoms being sore muscles and tiredness for a day or two not feeling well. So far, we have detected that those infected do not suffer the loss of taste or smell. They might have a slight cough. There are no prominent symptoms. Of those infected some are currently being treated at home,”
— https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/11/south-african-medical-association-debunks-global-hysteria-says-omicron-variant-symptoms-unusual-mild-even-says-no-reason-panic/
Are we nearing the end of the trail on this Dempanic? I almost feel like taking a vacation in South Africa, just to get infected with this mild virus (joking, but only slightly)! The virus has predictably mutated into ever-more infectious but mild forms, and will likely be endemic all over the world (despite travel restrictions) in a matter of weeks. The most susceptible individuals, also predictably, seem to be those repeatedly jabbed with “vaccines”. What are your thoughts on this?
Sorry–my attempt to copy this Daily Expose report failed the first time I tried.
This is from a British news site called Daily Expose:
This is from today’s Gateway Pundit:
@Adam
Regarding the rapid drop in cases in FL, a confounding factor to the use of monoclonal antibodies would also be the seasonality of the virus. It is remarkable that the deaths have dropped as low as they have, but the seasonality is undoubtedly part of the full picture. Everyone ignores or forgets the seasonal factor when discussing the virus, even myself, but only for a moment, LOL.
@Adam
They are not completely ineffective, not at all, and my apology if this is gleaned from my comment – it isn’t true. They are very useful in the first week or so following infection to clear the circulating virus from the blood and limit disease progression earlier than without their use.
After infection occurs the innate immune system will initially respond. If the level of viruses in the blood are low enough, the elements of the innate immune system will resolve the infection. If they don’t, and the level of viruses is too high for the innate system to handle by itself, the programming of antibodies and Tcells will proceed. By day 4-7 post infection, the Tcells will be available and by day 8-11 post infection, the antibodies will be available. So in the first several days, the body is on its own with the exception of the overwhelmed innate immune system. So administering the monoclonal antibodies in that first week(some say upto day ~10, still some debate on this) is useful to keep the viral infection from infecting more and more tissues sites around the bodies. It may help keep a moderate disease from becoming more serious and it helps improve patient recovery times(days in hospital).
In spite of this, it does nothing to stop the viruses building new viruses in the infected cells. It does nothing to stop the inflammation cascade, aka cytokine storm, caused by the infected cells. It does nothing to stop the blood clots that are cause by the inflammation. For these things, you need additional treatments. Each of these steps can be addressed with drugs that are readily available, but they are not on the CDC cookbook list.
Without additional treatment, even with the monoclonal antibodies, the massive inflammation will proceed and the blood clots will result, the stress on the cardiovascular system will occur and many people will die – especially those with multiple comorbidities. So it is good to have people limiting the level of viral colonies in the body by using the antibodies as early as possible, and it can really make a difference on the patient’s outcome, but it is only one tool in the tool box and for Covid you need it all. McCullough has been specifically advocating exactly what DeSantis has done for over a year, as he noted that the monoclonals can help reduce the viral burden and improve the patient’s response to adequate early treatment. Only these patients in Fl didn’t receive adequate early treatment, just the antibodies, and then they were on their own til they were treated with the toxic Remdisivir, oh and the small dose of steroid – sink or swim. So, of those who died in the past months and even back to March 2020, arguably most could have survived if they had received medical treatments not allowed in the CDC cookbook.
I am not disputing the figures in FL and I have no reason to doubt them. What the Desantis program achieve is impressive, no doubt about it. I don’t mean to besmirsh his achievement, only to point out that he acted within the level of authority allowed by the CDC protocols. I will add something else that no one has brought to light. Florida has gradually reduced her deaths to 0 as of today. That is on a daily average over 7days. This has not occured since the deaths began in March 2020. I am struck by this fact and that no one is highlighting it. It may be that there is a delay due to the holiday or that the cases will adjust higher, something that occurs all too frequently even without holiday issues, so we will see, but if it is 0 or nearly 0 it is a truly significant mark. In previous waves the deaths dropped to only 27-53 after the previous waves, never even close to 0.
Peloni, if monoclonal antibodies are completely ineffective as treatment, why have cv19-2 cases declined by 95% since Governor DeSantis opened monoclonal tratment centers in August? Or are you disputing this figure?
https://twitter.com/nicd_sa/status/1464640315667718148?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1464640315667718148%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.news24.com%2Fnews24%2Fsouthafrica%2Fnews%2Fcoronavirus-all-the-latest-news-about-covid-19-in-south-africa-and-the-world-20200312
This twitter post shows a chart published by the British Institute of National Health, which shows that fully vaccinated individuals have a higher rate of Covid19 infections in people between the age of 10 and 59, during 2021 up through September 24. The numbers for those over 60 are not included in this chart. I don’t know what to make of it.
Britain has mainly used vaccines that are created using “traditional” vaccine technology, such as Astrazeneca, rather than the mNRA vaccines.
The use of these monoclonal antibodies are useful to remove free floating virus particles in the blood, but it does nothing, nothing, to remedy any infected/damaged tissues nor does it remedy the inflammatory cascade that is triggered following the infection, nor does it prevent the blood clots that come after the inflammation. The monoclonals are not even useful after a week following the infection because the virus itself is gone by day ~8. The list of things that Florida could be doing is promoting Vitamin D, exercise, fresh air, and actual medication to patient in a timely fashion. They could also issue a treatment pack with instructions so that people would have them handily available after becoming ill following infection. The simple reality is that there is no silver bullet for any serious viral infection, especially Covid. It takes a multi-drug, generalized treatment approach that easily does not begin and end with the use of the monoclonal antibodies, which also help drive the production of variants(recall, these antibodies were designed, again, against the Wuhan wild strain of the virus, which is long gone).
The one thing that does strongly support the use of monoclonal antibodies and not the other more useful treatments is that the monoclonal antibodies are put out by Pharma. This is why they are listed by the CDC as a treatment option, this is why they are being judiciously employed in Florida and this is why they are being highlighted on a Fox News article. This very limited treatment use is not about science and it is not about data, and if reality changes and science and data were actually allowed to dictate treatment outcomes, this epidemic might finally be ended – this is, however, not on the CDC govt cookbook list.
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Well this is easily an overstatement. To pursue science based and data based policies, the authority to practice medicine has to be returned to the medical community, the doctors on the ground, where the science and the data can be developed, interpreted and employed in real time. It would require that the doctors be allowed to treat their patients without threat of consequences and without the encumbrance of the hospital systems which are completely under the financial control of the Federal govt. Govt prescribed treatments are not science based and they are not data based, as the govt access to the science/data lags behind reality by 6months to a year or more. Instead it employs a one-size-fits -all-patients approach to medicine and all the resulting casualties to this approach are simply presumed to have been beyond saving.
The current use of monoclonal antibodies is not based on science and it is not based on data. it is based on CDC authorization. It is a CDC authorization based policy that has been available to the Gov. of Florida as well as the other 49 US states for over a year. Florida only began using it after the CDC added the monoclonal antibodies to their limited cookbook treatment lists along with too little steroid and the toxic Remdisivir. It had the significant advantage over the other two treatments on this list of being both employed early and not being toxic. It is good that DeSantis is using something, and the monoclonal antibodies are helpful to a point, but they are so far from being the basis of a policy based on science and data that this comment made me laugh.
As in Israel, the US policy to ignore actual treatments to treat the conditions caused by the virus in a timely manner is barbarous. It is good that DeSantis found a way to improve his state’s situation, as it was quite terrible with cases and deaths reaching new highs ~2months ago. The deaths, the real hallmark that can be trusted, fell to 0 as of today, 2months following the all time high of 391deaths per day. To contrast this great result, we could compare Florida to Uttar Predesh, but all we have to know is that neither Florida, nor any other state, is bucking the system, save Nebraska, and allowing treatment to be employed at the discretion and under the close supervision of a personal physician as he judges most useful for a specific patient. It is another feature of the state authorized treatment plan, efficiently employed, but limited in scope.
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