How Big Pharma corrupts public health

By Peter Skurkiss, AM THINKER


Vaccines are a multibillion-dollar industry, and the revenue from them is rapidly growing with the advent of the ones for COVID. The prime example is Pfizer. The company estimates 2021 sales for its mRNA vaccine will be $33.5 billion. And that number will grow as Pfizer and President Joe Biden are already advocating for vaccine booster shots.

The history of Big Pharma has shown that it has never been shy about using money to buy influence. Recipients of drug company money include individual doctors and hospitals, politicians, new outlets which rely on pharmaceutical advertising, and organizations like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Federal Drug Administration (FDA), and the World Health Organization (WHO).

This last point surprises many people. They automatically assume the CDC and FDA are totally funded by the government and are staffed with impartial professionals who are looking out solely for the public good. That’s grade school civics. Nearly half the FDA’s budget comes from ‘user fees’ paid for by companies seeking approval for their drugs and medical devices. As for the CDC, it has accepted millions of Big Pharma’s dollars through the CDC Foundation. According to the American Society of Hematology, during the fiscal years 2014 through 2018, the CDC Foundation received $79.6 million from companies like Pfizer, Biogen, and Merk. Since it was created in 1995, the nonprofit organization has accepted $161 million from corporations.

As for the WHO, the Gates Foundation is its second largest contributor after the U.S. government. Over the past decade, the Gates Foundation has accounted for as much as 13% of the WHO’s budget for the 2016-2017 period. In February of last year, the foundation pledged $100 million to fight the Wuhan pandemic and upped that to a quarter of a billion dollars in April.

Like the pharmaceutical industry, the Gates Foundation is all-in on vaccines. In a press release, the foundation announced it will commit a staggering $10 billion over the next ten years to help research, develop, and deliver vaccines around the world. At the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting, Bill Gates told the gathering, “We must make this the decade of vaccines.”

Not to be left out, the Rockefeller Foundation has pledged $35 million to CDC to push vaccines throughout Africa.

What we’re looking at is a massive money machine that’s lubricated with dollars from Big Pharma and unaccountable foundations. It has enmeshed the CDC, the FDA, the WHO, and as well as many politicians. All these parties have a vested interest in the widest application of the COVID vaccines. None of the players want to have doubts raised about the effectiveness or safety of vaccines. If there’s a rash of adverse events from inadequately tested COVID vaccines, the strategy is not to stop but to suppress the news about them and push on. This is the Admiral Farragut strategy. During his attack on Mobile Bay during the Civil War, the admiral famously shouted, “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.”

If you think intelligent and highly degreed people who work in government health agencies couldn’t be so callous and/or obtuse, think again. The prime directive of bureaucrats everywhere is to secure their funding and preserve the reputation of their organizations. If public health gets in the way of those priorities, the public loses. This is a reflection of human nature and how bureaucratic organizations behave. The shame of it all is that we have allowed public health entries be influenced (i.e., corrupted) with private money that has an agenda.

When it comes to the COVID vaccines, science is not leading the way. Money and politics is.

September 4, 2021 | 26 Comments »

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  1. Yes, Reader I agree. I also, agree more then you might think with your earlier comments. We are living in very difficult times. Although, I have been leary of Doctors for years, I do understand they play a very important role, if greedy government bureaucrats would let them do their jobs and practice there chosen profession.

    Peloni, I was aware of some of the back story. Thanks for the enlightenment, yes this heart surgeon did speak to these issue somewhat.. I read almost everything you post and even when at first I disagree, I find that you always bring much insight to the discussion. Thank you both for the intellectual stimulation.

  2. @Tanna

    I am happy to hear that your son has been moved into recovery. It has been a terrible burden for you and him both. I hope for his speedy recovery and better fortunes in life.
    Thank you for your input Tanna on our conversation. The story you shared has a greater context, which you may be unaware of as many are. Obamacare upended the healthcare in the US, both for the clinical staff and the patients alike. Prior to Obamacare, there were hospitals, and small practices. Small practices interacted with patients on a very intimate and personal manner. The doctors had great leeway to pursue a patient’s care based on their clinical judgement, whereas in hospitals, everything is based upon the evaluation of the administrators whose judgements limit a great deal of the treatment choices available to doctors to prescribe to their patients.

    Prior to Obamacare, 2/3 of all doctors practiced completely independent of the hospitals. Within the first few years following Obamacare, there were only 1/3 of all doctors in such independent small practices and it is much reduced from that today. The level of regulations placed upon treating patients vastly increased the paperwork required to gain medicare reimbursements and affected about 85-95% of all doctors. For the hospitals, the administrators greatly expanded their control of the practice of medicine while extensively expanding the administrative staff, which increased costs on the non-treatment end of hospital costs.

    For the small practices, they folded. They could not keep up with the amount of regulatory requirements needed. This resulted in penalties, and the penalties were structured to hit the smaller practices with higher rates. This caused the smaller independent clinics and doctors to be bought out by the hospitals and the independent doctors that were the hallmark of American medicine for generations, became a corporate conglomerate which has increasingly, over the years, come to be controlled by Pharma.

    The contracts that are signed by the doctors with the hospitals require that they mold their careers around the limited choices chosen by the hospitals. They have an allowance for continued educations, but these funds can only be used to pay for certain courses. They can not choose their own treatment plans if they are not approved by the hospital administrators. If the doctor leaves the hospital or is fired, he can not see any of his patientsand there are a host of other limitations that could cause him a great deal of difficulty. The consequence of all of this is a limit upon the patient care. Additionally, the great benefit of Obamacare was that it was going to be so much cheaper to run, but that is the part that most people will be aware was just political crap to get the Obamacare law past. No one in the industry was surprised by anything that followed the passage of that bill. No one.

    So this is likely the backdrop to the story that was shared with you by the heart surgeon.

  3. @Tanna

    Thank you for your remarks.

    I really hope that your son will recover and soon.

    Maybe you’ll manage to find a real doctor who will help him.

    I understand the difficulties physicians face, however, I am convinced that most of these difficulties are of their own making because they are willing to tolerate them as long as their medical “business” is thriving.

    My point is broader – I think something is really WRONG when, as you said only half-jokingly, the doctors allow the patient to die once his insurance runs out, and the doctor you spoke with took it badly because he knew it was true.

    You know the sure way to make the doctors riot?

    Make medical insurance and the pharma perks illegal and let them go back to doing procedures with their own lily white hands, making house calls as they used to, and go back to earning what their efforts are REALLY worth to the public like they did many decades ago.

    Oh, dear, will you see their resistance then!!!

  4. At reader and Peloni….

    Interesting conversation. Reader I think you should try to understand Peloni better, she/he makes a good case of the difficulties good doctors face today. They work with the AMA gun to their head, knowing one mistake will leave then without a way to take care of their families and hundreds of thousands of $$$$$$ in debt that will not be forgiven.

    I also feel reader you are emotionally involved. Someone close to you has been repeatedly tied to a hospital bed and savagely raped by the medical community. Humans are treated in a fashion in a hospital, that if I did the same to my dog, I would spent the remained of my life in prison.

    Am I in the circle of hate for doctors? You bet! my son has been thru the the hospital meat grinder, one arm gone, lost of the other hand. 10 weeks flat of his back. Hospital is done and they dumped him in rehab. two weeks and he still is flat of his back. Can’t wipe his ass or feed his face and the doctors say he has septic arthritis that is eating his joints and bones.

    well guess where in the hell he got it from doctor? He did not walk into the hospital with it.

    Now, I have to agree with Peloni. Some five years ago I was told by my wife’s grandmother’s heart surgeon this story.

    He joked that he started his practice right out of school and she was his first patient 30 years ago. He was practicing at a big hospital in Pennsylvania and he had been reduce to the level of the janitor. Just another hospital employee.

    I enquired what he meant by that statement, and he said. My buddies/colleagues and I have over 120 years of heart surgery experience. We could take your heart out and play a game of football and when we put it back in you would walk out a better man then before. But, we are not allow to open a clinic that specialized in what we do because we are owned by the hospital. If we did, we would all loose our license and spend years in jail. ——– These are his words not mine and he still had 5 to 10 yrs. left before he retired.

    Wow, I remarked. I told him I had always found it so interesting that doctors knew exactly when their patients where going to die. He responded, how so? I said, you just look on their charts and see when the insurance runs out………. He didn’t seem to think it was funny, but he did let a half smile leak out like a fart at the dinner table.

  5. @peloni

    I prefer people to be charged with specific responsibility for their actions

    I have nothing against that.

    But how do you charge possibly MILLIONS of people “with specific responsibility for their actions”?

    Don’t you think that the society which absolves itself and its members of any responsibility for their crimes because they were allegedly forced to follow orders or because “everyone does it and, therefore, it is normal”, or “it is legal and, therefore, it is ethical”, or because “our government is bad” is a sick society?

    Think Sodom.

    God obviously thinks there is such a thing as collective responsibility.

    I just hope the Western so-called civilization hasn’t sunk as low as Sodom yet.

  6. @Reader

    You do seem more inclined towards a guilt based upon some assumed collective association, whereas I prefer people to be charged with specific responsibility for their actions. You have suggested some association between my statements and some errant statement by Dr. Merritt regarding Hitler’s doctor? I appreciate that you intend no ad hominy here, but it is quite an unrelated comparison to relate to anything I have stated.

    Well, they and we ARE the government and the society.

    The govt and society I reference are the whole of HHS, her sister medical agencies, the corrupted politicians, the AMA and the media including big tech and the Trusted News Initiative. I am not anywhere in that list, neither, likely, are you, and neither are any of the practicing clinicians for whom you claim i bear some link of compassion. I blame these agencies/polititians because they are guilty for instituting the medical malfeasance as sanctioned Federal policy with no rational basis which is why people are dying. I also do not excuse those clinicians who cower to these authorities, but it is the Federal policy that created this situation, and this is no compassionate rationalization to mitigate the guilt of the clinicians participating in this crime. I simply state it for the reason it is the truth. And it bears no relation whatsoever to anything that Dr. Merritt thought of Hitler’s doctor.

  7. @peloni

    I hold no compassion for them or their crimes.

    I hate to say this but you do.

    You blame the government and the society for their crimes first and foremost.

    Well, they and we ARE the government and the society.

    Where do the politicians come from – they don’t fall from a stray comet or a UFO, do they?

    Don’t take this as an ad hominem argument – your views are apparently typical and normal.

    Dr. Lee Merritt has a 15-minute video on her website where her heart bleeds for Hitler’s personal doctor (sentenced to death at Nuremberg) who was such a cute child, and a great specialist, and, due to a set of unfortunate circumstances, he just happened to have a mentor who was a eugenicist, and happened to meet Hitler who made him his personal physician, and then, of course, being Hitler’s physician, he had to make certain decisions, alas.

    And guess what?

    She blames the government for this!

    If only the German medicine was fully a private business, this would never have happened!

    P.S.

    BTW, these doctors ARE doing the things that I described in my previous post, except indirectly.

    Would “the society” be finally properly horrified and demand another Nuremberg trial if the doctors were placing their patients in front of the freshly dug mass grave and shooting them with their own hands?

    Or would the public say that the poor things were just following the bad government’s orders under the jackboot and need to be understood?

  8. @Reader
    You do keep changing the conversation against me as first spoke to explain the source of the Standard of Care and then I responded to your claims that these men were simply motivated out of wealth and legal/professional convenience when the reality is much greater than you described. But now we pivot to suggest I hold a compassion for them personally, so let me respond accordingly.

    I hold no compassion for them or their crimes. I have spoke often of my views of those who are participating in the medical malfeasance perpetrated here, but perhaps I have been unclear of my view. These men hold my every contempt for their participation in these clearly criminal actions that are supported by both the state and society. Regardless of these views, I do recognize the motivation that moves them and the true source is not of their own undertaking, not most of them. Govt has abrogated a physician’s authority to treat this disease, but they should resist the govts authority to do so. Many have, but many have not. In truth, the crime that is being committed here has fully originated from the govt and society and is a persecution of the medical community to abort their commitment to the public safety. Still, the task falls to them to resist it and by doing so, risk the sacrifice everything they have created in their lives. Such recognition is not a point of compassion, but a reasonable understanding of this fact demonstrates that such sacrifices are unlikely without a surrounding support to motivate them accordingly. As I have noted the likes of Malone and McCullough have each suffered such sacrifices and provided the leadership from within the community and they have made meaningful gains by doing so. It would be wonderful if these clinicians followed such leaders and ended these activities today. In truth the resignation Gruber was a large step towards this point. Her resignation by itself stopped, for the moment the booster program in the US and the world at large outside of Israel, and her resignation will likely will have an even greater effect among the medical community than you are likely to believe.

    The physicians still participating in these crimes have, of course, each earned our outrage for their part in such villainy of withholding treatment from sick people. But where is the shared outrage against the true source of this crime. We are not in Nazi Germany as some like to pretend. Not in the US, and not in Israel, though many would like to claim we are, we are not. There are public redresses for crimes within the legal systems and there is the right to organize public protests by which every non-member of the medical community could demonstrate a resistance to this whole of govt and society outrage. Do not wait for the doctors to save you, act as best you can to save yourself and perhaps you will actually gain their support for such sacrifices as you call for.

  9. @peloni

    understanding the deep sacrifices that will be the consequence of their redline is important

    What if they were required to kill your mother and the mothers of other people (including themselves) because these women have reached a certain age and are now deemed too expensive and useless to keep alive any longer, or lose their livelihoods and licenses if they don’t comply?

    Would you STILL say it is important to understand their deep sacrifices and being forced to follow orders “under the jackboot” (BTW, don’t we live in the freest country in the world which is the Shining City on the hill, etc. and an example to all humanity? Or are we in Hitler’s Germany already, especially Israel?)

    Reading your posts expressing compassion and understanding for what amounts to crimes against humanity terrifies me.

    I realize that most people are incapable of active resistance but can’t they at least answer the demands for their active participation in crimes against humanity with “the sounds of silence” rather than “running after the majority to do evil”?

    Was the Nuremberg trial a simple farce?

    After all, the poor, innocent German soldiers and Nazi functionaries faced far worse punishments for non-compliance than loss of a job or a professional license!

  10. @Reader
    I do believe that Malone and his fellow TV doctors are making a difference, how could they not as the vax are seen failing across the globe in uncertain numbers and the only solution is today a 3rd shot and in a short time later they are already contemplating a 4th shot. The voluntary resignation by those two at the FDA were significant, as Gruber was the individual who signed the FDA issued EUA on the vax last year. The public loss of these players was likely supported from within the FDA as the next day the FDA and CDC together informed the White House of their desire to not approve the Booster shot program, even after the White House had set a date certain for the Booster shot rollout. So, I do believe the building pressure against the vax is building, and beyond the treatments, the vax are all they have to answer the public cries for something to protect them from the Delta scourge.

    Regarding the doctors, the problem is that physicians, in this day and age, rarely hold their own leash, so to speak. So they are very much a part of the captured medical infrastructure. They are under contract and they are not able to breach the contract without a great penalty. The quote I shared before about it being “difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it” comes to mind. And it is more than a loss of temporary employment, as they will be fired for the use of Covid treatments, and there are few medical practices that are not among the massive hospital systems which would overlook such breaches. Beyond this, they look to lose their license to practice at all. And any debts they have standing are still due. The threat of complete personal destruction bears a great influence on anyone.

    In addition to this, though, they also face such certain personal destruction while the whole of govt and media and much of the public all stand against them. We expect them to hold to some redline, as you put it, when they see the same empty, or shallow, chorus supporting such redlines as you or I can each testify. Still many thousands have taken such a stand and to those hundreds of thousands of clinicians who are currently withholding their support of such moral standards, I do share your stated contempt, but understanding the deep sacrifices that will be the consequence of their redline is important, I believe. And it is more than just wealth.

  11. Israeli experts analyze mRNA COVID vaccines long-term effects
    Experts believe there will be no long-term side effects to the mRNA vaccines.

    How can they presume this? They note that :
    no other vaccine that was evaluated for a decade before approval and that there is not an example of another vaccine – although no other vaccine is an mRNA vaccine – that has been linked to any significant long-term effects.

    “There is no evidence of something happening unless it happened in the first two hours, two weeks or two months,”

    “Messenger RNA is a very fragile molecule, meaning it can be destroyed very easily,” Linial explained. “If you put mRNA on the table, for example, in a minute there will not be any mRNA left.

    Most adverse events were simple “reactogenicity” – reactions that occur soon after vaccination and that are a physical manifestation of the inflammatory response.

    This is absolutely using assumptions about routine vaccines to vouch for the long term safety of vaccines that are now just 9months on the market when these are not routine vaccines, but gene therapy being used as vaccines. The creative genious who first envisioned these vax has been quite outspoken that we have no idea what to expect because all the testing for long term safety was skipped!! The flippant disregard for such safety concerns should only reafirm safety concerns that are being ignored by those who should be more concerned than the general public that they are trying to reassure.

    The statement affirming that “There is no evidence of something happening unless it happened in the first two hours, two weeks or two months” is patently false, even in routine vaccines – in 1976, it was three months before Guillain-Barré syndrome was diagnosed. There could be cancers that develop well into the future or genetic diseases that are passed from one generation to another, each of which easily defies this 2month limit of harmful outcomes – utterly preposterous claim!

    The claim about mRNA is again playing games with facts. Human mRNA is meant to carry a single message from the nucleus to a ribosome and create a single protein, after which it is destroyed by enzymes – one and done as they say. The vax mRNA is specifically designed to be long lasting as it is to be read over and over and over as so many spike proteins are produced and placed on the cell til either it bursts or the immune system kills the cell, and even then the mRNA is left to float in the fluids outside the cell and can result in a prion disease. So the vax mRNA is no ordinary mRNA that degrades “in a minute”.

    These are just more easy examples of members of the medical establishment willing to obfuscate realities to sell the vaccine as safe. What is the motivation for such tricks to hide the truth from the masses. We are all vulnerable to this disease, and the vax side effects alike and this shell game of half truths only serves to undermine faith in anything they might claim about either as being baseless. Why is it so hard to admit we don’t know the harms you will suffer? How could we?

    https://www.jpost.com/health-and-wellness/israeli-experts-analyze-if-mrna-covid-vaccines-be-dangerous-in-long-term-678171

  12. @peloni

    Of course, there are doctors such as you describe who object to the situation.

    However, they represent a very rare exception – and as much as I am proud of them and thankful for their existence – how much of a difference have they managed to make?

    Where do you see a threat to the majority which is silently complying?

    If it is to their livelihood – this just proves my point that money is the most important thing to them.

    They have been responding very well (in the majority) to the invitation to fudge the statistics and thus fraudulently increase their earnings.

    You prove it yourself by the videos you post.

    Have they come out in mass to defend their colleagues who have been thrown in jail, in psychiatric hospitals, had their medical licenses taken away?

    Besides, where is their “red line”?

    What if tomorrow there was a new law that each doctor must quit treating every one of his patients who has reached the age of 60 (they will no longer be eligible for medical insurance) and receive a handsome compensation for every such patient or face the loss of his medical license in the case of non-compliance?

    Is the loss of their medical license or income in this case a terrible enough threat for each “poor, innocent” doctor to excuse his compliance with this law?

    We can take this to even higher levels of inhumanity – where is that “red line” beyond which any human, much less a medical doctor, must not allow himself to cross?

  13. Wow, it seems the Guardian has grown tired of being guided by CDC hope and expects to see more data. Good luck with that. They stopped collecting such data 5 months ago…at least as far as the vaccination status…wonder why that was…

    Without tracking, we have no idea of the proportion of people fully vaccinated who are getting ill, hospitalized, or dying. There is no question the frequency of requiring hospitalization is increasing, as reflected by data from some counties that are tracking breakthroughs on their own and reporting that 10 to 20% of admissions are in vaccinated individuals. But we have no denominator.

    Why is this so critically important? For one, the false sense of security transmitted by CDC’s lack of data in the Delta wave likely fosters complacency and lack of protective measures such as masks and distancing. The mission of the CDC to prevent such illness, and the first step is to collect the relevant data. It would be very simple to know the vaccination status of every American with a breakthrough infection admitted to the hospital with Covid-19, along with key demographics such as age, time from vaccination, which vaccine, and co-existing medical conditions. The PCR diagnostic test for each patient has an accompanying cycle threshold (Ct) value, which is an indicator of viral load, and would be important to track. Moreover, the sample of the virus could undergo genomic sequencing to determine whether there has been further evolution of the virus and blood samples for neutralizing antibody levels that could be obtained in as many patients as possible. Contact tracing of these individuals would help determine the true rate of transmission from other vaccines, something that is pure conjecture. Such systematic collection of data would be the foundation for understanding who is at risk for breakthrough infections, determining the current level of effectiveness of vaccines and whether, when, and in whom, booster shots should be recommended. It is remarkable that none of this is getting done for hospitalized patients, who represent an undetermined fraction of the people who are getting quite ill, some requiring monoclonal antibody infusions to pre-empt getting admitted.

  14. @Reader

    I, of course, disagree with your view. I believe that all men should be judged as an individual for their individual actions in all things. Whereas I have castigated the medical community for failing to stand up to the persecution that they are faced with, I never meant to state that there were none doing so, and forgive me, but that is what I take your statement to mean. There are many doctors who are right now today acting quite against the motivations that you state – money, legal liabilities and professional censures – simply to provide the public with information of the availability of proven treatments. McCullough has resigned from Baylor, and spends much of his day conducting unpaid podcast interviews while still continuing to move forward with research and a medical practice where he still treats patients. Malone has taken steps that have clearly separated him from consideration for a Nobel Prize, as he conducts so many interviews, I can’t find time in my day to actually watch them all, even as he has ongoing research and his very significant contribution to medical science has been ripped from the internet.

    These are just two men of probably 30 such clinicians whose names I could recite any you would probably recognize because they are each pursuing the public good over their own profit or advantage. And each of these clinicians have received a public warning from the AMA that they are considering action against anyone using these treatments that these men are championing. In South Africa, there is at least one doctor in prison for using IVM to treat and save his patients lives. Dr. Lawrie in England faces the possibility of being committed for psychiatric evaluation due to her advocacy for IVM. This is a challenging moment but clinicians are not absent from the challenge. There are thousands more who are playing pivotal roles just treating patients without enduring the televised notoriety and hold the same threat to their livelihoods and lives. Don’t be too quick to paint them all as easily as you seem ready to do, with respect. Their dedication to our collective survival is why we know of the treatment possibilities and why more such varied treaments become further known with each passing day. It is heartbreaking what has become of the medical community, but there are physicians both under the jack-boot and wearing the jack-boot.

    In less exciting times, from battling Ebola in Africa to treating indigent patients in East Boston, doctors provide critical care in the most difficult of environments. I don’t paint them as paragons of virtue, but lets not cast them all aside as wealthy sheep either. At least this is my view, but I am likely to see a different side of these things than many.

  15. @Adam

    Mu is a concern because it has a genetic profile that is similar to Beta which is immune to at least the AstraZeneca vax. They have not completed testing to determine if the genetic profile has a similar clinical effect with AZ vax or any of the others. Mu originated in Columbia, or so they believe in any case. It has spread throughout Columbia and gained an estimated 39% of the Columbia cases, but seems to no longer be spreading there, but, rather, is extending out to the rest of South America. It is in the news today, primarily because a few hundred cases have been found in California. Throughout the entire US there are fewer than 2K cases, which is an inconsequential amount to gain the headlines, honestly. In the UK, there are a total of 45 cases, not 45K, but just 45 individual cases. Must be a slow news cycle or they just want to hype more fear of the dreaded Covid and have nothing more interesting to report, though the story spread across all the major news publications with almost all having the same lack of info – probably a consequence of the Trusted News Initiative.

    Since there aren’t many cases, not much is known about it. There are no reports of concerning numbers of deaths, so I would deduce it is likely similar to Delta in that regard, but it may simply be flying so far under the radar that this is not the case as well. Either way, it ought to be assumed that Mu, as all the various strains of SARS-Cov2, should be accepted as a very lethal virus if treatment is not available. If there is no evolutionary advantage, it is unlikely that Mu will out distance Delta any time soon – Delta was shown to be found in 83% of cases last week in UK, and makes up a vast majority of cases in Israel last time I saw it reported. An evolutionary advantage would be if a treatment was applied that did not affect Mu but killed Delta, just FYI.

  16. FROM TODAY’S JERUSALEM POST. Peloni, what can you tell us about this Mu variant? Do you think it is very dangerous?

    The B.1.621 Mu variant of COVID-19 was detected in Los Angeles for the first time last week, with 167 known cases being discovered by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health.
    “These specimens were sequenced between June 19 and August 21, with the majority of Mu specimens sequenced in July,” public health officials said in a statement.
    There have been 2,000 reported cases of the Mu variant in the United States, according to the Washington Post.

    “This variant has a constellation of mutations that suggests that it would evade certain antibodies, not only monoclonal antibodies but vaccine and convalescent serum-induced antibodies,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci in a video posted by the Washington Post. “But there isn’t a lot of clinical data to suggest that. It is mostly laboratory in-vitro data.

    “We’re keeping a very close eye on it,” he added. “It is really seen here, but it is not at all even close to being dominant.”
    Dr. Anthony Fauci (credit: STEFANI REYNOLDS/POOL VIA REUTERS)
    Dr. Anthony Fauci (credit: STEFANI REYNOLDS/POOL VIA REUTERS)
    The World Health Organization (WHO) designated the Mu variant, which was discovered in Colombia in January, as a “variant of interest” last week, saying that more study needs to be done to see if it could evade certain antibodies.
    So far, the Mu variant has been discovered in some 40 countries including the UK, US, Hong Kong, South America and Europe, while the Delta variant spreads through the world including the US and Israel.

    Tags United States los angeles COVID-19 Anthony Fauci

  17. @peloni

    Doctors develop possible treatments based solely upon their medical judgement. Doctors test and refine those treatments based solely upon their medical judgement. Doctors record and publish those treatments in journals where they share the results of their medical judgement. And doctors discuss relevant details and nuances about their treatments in medical symposiums where they are able to challenge and review the results of a community of their medical judgements.

    I apologize in advance because you obviously mean well but every statement in this quote should be preceded (and followed) by BS in big glowing NEON letters.

    Doctors are motivated by 3 things, in this order:

    1) MONEY – first and foremost – this is why they follow the orders from the insurance companies and are allowed to refuse Medicare and Medicaid and treat such patients with less care and attention if they do accept them;

    2) the fear of a lawsuit;

    3) pressure from the “medical field”, AKA: AMA (American Mafia Association), Big Pharma, opinions of other medical practitioners, possible threats to their medical license, etc.

  18. @Reader
    The standard of care is established by the medical profession as a whole by finding a treatment that is both safe and beneficial and which is then adopted due to its merited benefit to the patient. Think of it as when you walk through the forest, a well worn path would be the standard of care. The standard of care is result of the beneficial use of a treatment in clinical practice.

    Treatments are hypothesized based on practical experience and the underlying medical mechanisms as they relate to human physiology and microbial pathophysiology. The hypothesized treatments, like employing a blood thinner in the treatment of Covid, is then tested in a small and then larger clinical studies. If the use of such medication proves successful, additional studies looking for the best blood thinner available is then pursued with additional and more significant(expensive) studies. The evidence, ie data, published and shared in the clinical journals and discussed at medical symposiums results in a broader use and evaluation of such treatments. This is how the Standard of Care is created.

    Finally, a review of such Standards of Care are collected in a publication of “Clinical Practice Guidelines”(CPG), which is developed by third parties that is the result of a rigorous consideration of best evidence reviews, where meta-data analyses, if available, are used to create stated guidelines. The CPG are not required treatment of diagnostic protocols. They simply share a best review of evidence as established in the medical literature, subject to advancements with time and additional discoveries. The one test that such Standards of Care are established upon is the benefit to the patient. Does it reduce symptoms, does it improve a quality of life and is it safe to administer, for example.

    Given recent events, it is worth noting something else on this topic. Doctors develop possible treatments based solely upon their medical judgement. Doctors test and refine those treatments based solely upon their medical judgement. Doctors record and publish those treatments in journals where they share the results of their medical judgement. And doctors discuss relevant details and nuances about their treatments in medical symposiums where they are able to challenge and review the results of a community of their medical judgements.

    In all of this, you will notice that the CDC has no role. It is because they have no medical judgement and rely upon the medical community for such inputs. Their guidance is always based upon the medical findings of the doctors in the field testing their judgement and experience against a given disease or symptom. Medicine is an art best practiced by those who practice it. And it is the use of such judgements to create a beneficial treatment that establishes the Standard of Care. That is, except in the case of Covid, where medical judgement is prohibited by legal or professional threats and the standard of care has been established by bureaucrats and politicians. Indeed, only after this established guidance is issued with stated threats to the medical community is the medical community allowed to support the accepted guidance as beneficial, or accept an implied professional or legal liability by contesting the accepted guidance. It is quite a despicable method of establishing a Standard of Care.

  19. In reality, medical doctors sold out decades go when the insurance companies started dictating to them how to treat their patients (if the drs used their independent judgement, they simply might not be reimbursed by the insurance for their trouble).

    Also, there was a so-called standard of care where there were certain procedures that no physician in the country would dare perform because they didn’t fit that standard (I don’t know who establishes that).

    What is happening now is simply a culmination of this sell-out process where the consequences of it become highly visible, and still – most of them go along with it.

  20. @Adam
    I shared this video last month with the whistleblower. Hawaii is and has been breaking with huge number of cases, ie positive PCR. The plight of the elderly is beyond any imagined horror. They are quite in the control of the state. Their care is within the control of their care givers who are under state control. As I have noted a few times, but it bears repeating, those who are falsely “diagnosed” with covid are denied treatment for anything. Covid cancels all treatment. It is not really a choice of the doctor as they are not free to do as they wish under their contracts with the facility the work for. But worse than this, if the elderly are diagnosed with Covid, they are immediately exposed to Covid by being placed into the Covid wards. The elderly are the largest at-risk group. Such exposure is a death sentence. No diagnosis has ever had such a penalty for the elderly, to be both exposed to the deadly Covid and withheld any treatment. I entreat everyone to watch this short video by the whistleblower and show it to anyone who has not seen it. No one can resist the truth when spelled out this honestly.

    Here is the video
    https://www.bitchute.com/video/snvoNdcBzaAZ/

  21. The following is from World Tribune, Aug. 16 2021:

    Hawaii whistleblower: ‘More patients dying from vaccine than Covid’
    World TribuneAugust 16, 2021
    by WorldTribune Staff, August 16, 2021

    “I’ve seen more patients die from the vaccine than from Covid,” said a board certified occupational therapist who worked in three Covid units in Hawaii.

    “I’ve seen 32 elderly people pass away immediately after taking the Moderna vaccine,” Abrien Aguirre told Hawaii Free Speech News. “None of that is being talked about on the news. It doesn’t fit their narrative.”

    Aguirre, who said that he works with the geriatric population in the largest skilled nursing facility in Oahu, said the major media is misrepresenting what is happening with hospitalized Covid patients.

    “The people moved to the Covid unit, didn’t have Covid. They tested positive with the PCR test, but most of them were asymptomatic and only suffering from their pre-existing conditions,” Aguirre said, adding that people with terminal illnesses were put on the Covid death lists, which he says is “complete fraud.”

    Aguirre said that he worked as a “Director of Rehab” in one skilled nursing facility for 5 months, and he saw where the billing department would have his therapist change medical diagnosis codes from things like pulmonary disorder to Covid because of higher reimbursements. He said this even happened with cases that were not only asymptomatic, but sometimes they did not even have a positive PCR test result for Covid.

    “It’s just fraud on every level,” he said.

    Aguirre said he has reached out to politicians, including the governor, in Hawaii to expose the fraud, but none have responded.

    His last advice in the interview:

    “My advice to people: if your elderly are sick, your grandmother, your great grandmother, your mom, don’t send them to a skilled nursing facility. They’re not going to receive adequate care. Treatment is going to be withheld from them. They’re going to be forced to wear a mask all day, and social distance. They’re going to become depressed and want to commit suicide. Because that is what I am seeing in our facilities.”

    INFORMATION WORLD WAR: How We Win . . . . Executive Intelligence Brief

    coronavirus, Hawaii whistleblower: ‘More patients dying from vaccine than Covid’, jab, PCR test, WorldTribune.com

  22. And add to all of this, these groups are shareholders in the SARS-Cov2 patents, as well as the vaccine patent, as well as the testing patent, all described by Dr. Martin. Taken as a whole, or any topic listed here separately, the complicity and questioned motivations should really be well known to everyone. Your future is in your own hands.

  23. There are a few related topics that the author here ignores, which are further insight of the captured nature and limited qualifications of the CDC/FDA/NIH/NIAID/HHS and which should be shared about the Washington Medical Administration. First, many of the administrators occupying these medical administrative positions are chosen from the very Pharma companies that are being overseen. Alex Aleazar was, for example, hired by Eli Lily(yes, the same company from which Aleazar arranged to award one of the contracts to produce monoclonal antibodies) first as a lobbyist in 2007 and later ran Eli Lily’s entire operations in the US before becoming the HHS Secretary under Trump. So the complicity is much greater than just financial money games.

    Another consequence to this reality is that these individuals who staff the CDC/FDA/NIH/NIAID are made up of non-clinicians, ie they are largely involved in Pharma research or Washington groups, outside of clinical practice where clinicians develop the medical understanding and art of exercising medical judgement and actually seeing and treating patients. So when these governing bodies issue medical orders on clinical details, it is quite outside of their wheelhouse, so to speak. This is why such guidance from the CDC is usually years past such matters being actually developed by the medical community to which the CDC then acknowledges by issuing their guidance. It is always a bottom=>up trajectory(from the medical clinicians creating the reality, following which the CDC then accepts and documents these medical practices based on the clinical results of the treatment protocols) rather than an autocratic top=>down dictatum as was singularly employed only for Covid. Indeed, you will rarely find boarded clinicians to occupy significant positions in these medical administrative positions, because such titles are unnecessary to the pursuits of Pharma and they take years of clinical practice to obtain. Indeed, many of these medical administrators are actually veterinarians, who hold no oath of “do no harm” to begin with. In stating these facts, I mean them no disrespect beyond the fact they are not what many believe them to be. Indeed, these are rarely discussed features of the Medical Administrative State but still very reverent points of interest when they claim a better knowledge of treating any disease than the simplest local physician in a busy medical practice which actually sees patients.

    These facts can not help but qualify these administrators in different light than is likely well known.

  24. If you think intelligent and highly degreed people who work in government health agencies couldn’t be so callous and/or obtuse, think again. The prime directive of bureaucrats everywhere is to secure their funding and preserve the reputation of their organizations. If public health gets in the way of those priorities, the public loses.

    Read this passage very carefully and recognize that the govt it refers to is not bound to the US alone and the public who is referenced as “losing” is every public in the world. This global initiative to “damn the torpedoes” regardless of reality will only disadvantage those nations more completely, who maintain their dogmatic association to these programs which were based upon graft rather than scientific analysis.

    If the calamity that happened in India were to happen to, say, the US, does anyone think the US would respond and adopt treatment over vaccines rather than maintaining the “damn the torpedoes” protocols? We may soon find this out as the vax are failing as we will soon be entering the winter months – recall the Indian disaster was well outside of flu season…and the Indians never bought into the “damn the torpedoes” religion to begin with, ie India always used treatments and they were still placed in a great medical crisis in May/June. It is never good to worship false idols, but this is especially true if these idols only act to support their paymasters agenda while describing it as Good Medical Practice.