https://www.fda.gov/media/140894/download
https://www.fda.gov/media/151710/download
https://leohohmann.com/2021/08/27/boom-major-law-firm-confirms-fda-deceived-america-with-its-confusing-approval-of-pfizer-vax/
https://leohohmann.com/2021/08/25/fda-playing-bait-and-switch-with-americans-tricking-them-into-believing-shots-currently-being-offered-have-been-granted-full-approval-when-they-have-not/
https://lc.org/newsroom/details/082721-fda-does-a-bait-and-switch-with-covid-shots
All existing Pfizer vials (in the hundreds of millions), remain under the federal Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) (meaning people have the “option to accept or refuse”);
The third or “booster” Pfizer shot is identical to the above and remains under the EUA with limited use to certain categories of people;
BioNTech received FDA approval for people ages 16 and above under the name Comirnaty, but there are no Comirnaty doses available in the United States;
In other words, there is currently NO FDA approved COVID-19 injection available anywhere in the United States. Every COVID shot in America remains under the EUA law and thus people have the “option to accept or refuse” them; and
Even when an FDA approved COVID shot becomes available, individuals are protected by federal law and many states laws from being forced to get these shots based on their sincere religious beliefs or conscience rights.
https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-covid-19-vaccine
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/31/biden-booster-plan-fda-508149
https://www.loudountimes.com/news/loudoun-chamber-adopts-vaccination-rules-for-future-events-committee-meetings/article_f07c073e-0a69-11ec-ab9f-a7d66339635d.html
“This policy was not adopted lightly, but after weeks of careful consideration, research and discussion. It was a data driven decision based on the undeniable fact that vaccinated individuals are exponentially less likely to contract and transmit the virus to others,” said Chamber President and CEO Tony Howard in a prepared statement.
As reported last week, Loudoun’s COVID-19 community transmission level increased to “high” by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which indicates more than 200 new cases of were detected in the county within a 14-day period, and indicates a highest risk for the disease’s spread in schools.
The Chamber said staff are committed to providing members and guests an efficient and seamless way to provide proof of their COVID-19 vaccine, in a secure and confidential manner, according to an Aug. 25 release.
Additionally, the Chamber is also offering event and meeting attendees the option to record their vaccine status so that proof does not need to be provided more than once.
“This pandemic proved that, while remote meeting platforms and other technologies have their place, humans thrive on face-to-face interaction, something our Chamber specializes in. Without bold action, government restrictions to limit COVID-19 will return and many businesses will suffer,” Howard said.
“My hope is everyone who is eligible gets vaccinated against COVID-19,” he said. “We know from CDC data that the unvaccinated are at exponentially greater risk to contract and transmit COVID-19, are nearly 30 times more likely to be hospitalized and 120 times more likely to die from this virus.”
The latest release states the Chamber will continue to monitor COVID-19 guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Virginia Department of Health and Loudoun Health Department, and adjust mitigation measures in the future, as needed.
https://100percentfedup.com/viral-video-70000-fans-going-nuts-and-zero-masks/
https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_morningbrief/uk-vaccines-advisory-body-not-recommending-ccp-virus-vaccines-to-healthy-children-under-16_3980285.html
The UK government’s advisory body on vaccination has decided not to recommend universal CCP virus vaccination for 12–15-year-olds, contrary to expectations.
The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) on Friday said it’s taking a “precautionary approach” because children have a very low risk of getting seriously ill from the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus—two in a million admitted to PICU according
https://www.tampafp.com/parents-sue-georgias-largest-school-district-over-mask-requirement/
https://clinmedjournals.org/articles/jide/journal-of-infectious-diseases-and-epidemiology-jide-6-130.php
The lawsuit cited a study from the Journal of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology that found “Prolonged use of N95 and surgical masks by healthcare professionals during COVID-19 has caused adverse effects such as headaches, rash, acne, skin breakdown, and impaired cognition in the majority of those surveyed,” the AJC reported.
The lawsuit also claims the mask mandate violates free speech, which is protected by a provision in the state’s constitution.
“The School District intends the Mask Mandate to coercively convey an affiliation with a particular political party,” the suit says, the AJC reported.
https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/94341
UC Irvine Doc Sues Over UC System's Vaccine Mandate
— Psychiatrist and bioethicist Aaron Kheriaty, MD, claims his natural immunity should suffice
https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/workforce/iu-health-suspends-unvaccinated-workers.html
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/958092
Illinois Woman Arrested Over 'Maderna' Vaccine Card
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/958095
AMA Calls for End to Ivermectin Use for COVID Amid Spike in Use
https://rumble.com/vlu7x7-protest-against-vaccine-passports-in-...-nyc....html
https://rumble.com/vlx7j1-nyc-protest-against-vaccine-passports.html
https://rumble.com/vkf5y1-millions-protest-vaccine-passports-across-europe.html
https://rumble.com/vkb0qv-thousands-protest-in-italy-against-vaccine-and-passports.html
https://rumble.com/vjzijt-protests-against-vaccine-passports-port-au-prince.html
https://rumble.com/vk9xeg-french-protests-against-vaccine-passports-vaccine-mandates.html
https://rumble.com/vjv44r-uprising-in-france-over-vaccine-passports.html
https://rumble.com/vl6e8j-montreal-protest-against-vaccine-passports.html
http://thebullelephant.com/mandates-build-distrust/
https://thefederalist.com/2021/09/03/another-reason-schools-cant-force-masks-on-kids-their-rights-to-free-speech/
https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/337199/WHO-2019-nCov-IPC_Masks-2020.5-eng.pdf
“At present there is only limited and inconsistent scientific evidence to support the effectiveness of masking of healthy people in the community to prevent infection with respiratory viruses, including SARS-CoV-2 (75).” Furthermore, the WHO lists a bunch of potential harms from wearing masks, and those need to be taken into consideration.
The WHO went so far as to acknowledge that there are emotional and political aspects to mask-wearing. One of the WHO’s benefits to mask wearing is “making people feel they can play a role in contributing to stopping spread of the virus.” People may feel good wearing a mask because they think they’re helping stop the spread, but that doesn’t mean what they’re doing is actually working.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMp2006372?articleTools=true
New England Journal of Medicine that said: “It is also clear that masks serve symbolic roles. Masks are not only tools, they are also talismans that may help increase health care workers’ perceived sense of safety, well-being, and trust in their hospitals. Although such reactions may not be strictly logical, we are all subject to fear and anxiety, especially during times of crisis.”
Students who consider the mask political commentary have the right not to wear one, because political speech on public school grounds is considered protected. A public school would be on shaky ground, indeed, to try to suspend a student who declines a mask for such reasons.
The American Civil Liberties Union explains political speech in school this way:
Schools can’t discriminate based on the viewpoint expressed by your clothing. The Supreme Court has recognized that public school students do not ‘shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.’ The First Amendment prohibits schools from picking and choosing which views students are allowed to express. All views have to be treated equally, so long as they are not obscene or disruptive. This means that if a school permits items like t-shirts with slogans, buttons, or wristbands, it has to permit them no matter what message they express.
https://www.insidenova.com/headlines/drug-tested-at-inova-shows-effectiveness-in-treating-severe-cases-of-covid-19/article_f7724814-0b36-11ec-b210-bf4230cbb834.html
The Phase 2 clinical trial evaluating the safety of fostamatinib was conducted on behalf of Rigel Pharmaceuticals Inc., based in San Francisco. The study was sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, and results were published Wednesday in Clinical Infectious Diseases, an official publication of the Infectious Disease Society of America.
The study found that fostamatinib, in combination with the standard of care, was shown to be well tolerated and that patients treated with fostamatinib had less severe adverse events and improved clinical outcomes, compared with those who received a placebo, said Dr. Richard Childs, clinical director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
https://academic.oup.com/cid
Clinical and virological features of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern: a retrospective cohort study comparing B.1.1.7 (Alpha), B.1.315 (Beta), and B.1.617.2 (Delta)
https://thefederalist.com/2021/09/02/a-look-at-scientific-evidence-suggesting-face-masks-damage-your-health/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8072811/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7338098/
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274086320_Estimating_the_Dead_Space_Volume_Between_a_Headform_and_N95_Filtering_Facepiece_Respirator_Using_Microsoft_Kinect
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2666506920300250?via%3Dihub
https://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/programs/geh/geh_newsletter/2013/9/spotlight/longterm_respiratory_health_effects_in_textile_workers.cfm
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-55451-w
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/531/1/012034/pdf
https://www.ajicjournal.org/article/S0196-6553(13)00592-0/fulltext
https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-39747/v1
http://rc.rcjournal.com/content/65/5/658
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8072811/#B55-ijerph-18-04344
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0735109710040490?via%3Dihub
https://breathe.ersjournals.com/content/13/4/298
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412018312807?via%3Dihub
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/531/1/012034/pdf
https://clinmedjournals.org/articles/jide/journal-of-infectious-diseases-and-epidemiology-jide-6-130.php?jid=jide
https://www.fsis.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media_file/2020-08/Carbon-Dioxide.pdf
https://www.fsis.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media_file/2020-08/Carbon-Dioxide.pdf
https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi.ajp.158.1.58
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/497/261/
https://www.virginiamercury.com/2021/08/27/virginias-breakthrough-case-numbers-are-likely-an-undercount/
As the Mercury reported, the data illustrates the higher risk for infection, hospitalization and death among unvaccinated Virginians. But the way it’s presented makes it tough to calculate the prevalence of breakthrough infections in the weeks since the Delta variant began to account for the vast majority of cases across the country.
In other words, VDH isn’t reporting the percentage of breakthrough cases out of all total known infections week-by-week. That makes it hard to know exactly how many of those cases are occurring among immunized Virginians amid the rise of a highly infectious variant that’s been shown to reduce the effectiveness of available vaccines.
Even without that data, though, recent state reporting has seemed to suggest that Virginia’s breakthrough infection numbers are curiously lower than other states — and even localities within the commonwealth. Before VDH changed its dashboard, the department was reporting that less than two percent of all reported COVID-19 cases between January and early August were among vaccinated Virginians. At the same time, some local health departments were reporting numbers that would ostensibly drive up that total.
Prince William, for example, announced that between 25 to 30 percent of its recorded cases throughout the first half of July were breakthroughs.
“And I don’t think Prince William is an outlier,” District Epidemiologist Sean Morris told the Mercury. But even national reporting has described Virginia as strangely immune to infections among vaccinated residents. Last week, The New York Times reported that data from seven states — including Virginia — reflected a rise in breakthrough cases. Virginia was the “outlier” of the bunch with 6.4 percent of its recorded infections among the fully vaccinated. In the other six states, they accounted for 18 to 28 percent of total cases in recent weeks.
It turns out the discrepancy has less to do with Virginia’s good luck and more to do with a likely undercount of breakthrough cases. And VDH officials say that determining the actual prevalence of breakthrough cases from week to week is “discouraged.”
‘HARDER TO VERIFY’
Prior to Aug. 19, VDH relied on laborious manual reporting to confirm an infection occurred in a fully vaccinated person. According to Dr. Julia Murphy, VDH’s state public health veterinarian (who, in the midst of the pandemic, is also assisting with the state’s overall epidemiological response), multiple things had to happen before a breakthrough case could be identified.
“First, the person needs to be tested for COVID-19 and test positive,” Murphy wrote in an email. Once a positive case is registered with VDH, it’s assigned to a local case investigator. Before last week, that investigation was an important — and sometimes critical — part of verifying a breakthrough infection. The investigators are tasked with asking more than two dozen questions to help determine the severity of a case and potential exposures — including whether the patient was vaccinated.
The details of a patient’s vaccination status are important. For an infection to count as a breakthrough, there needs to be proof the person completed a full vaccine series (two doses in the case of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines and one in the case of Johnson & Johnson) in the time frame recommended by federal health officials. There also needs to be confirmation that the patient completed the series at least 14 days before the positive test.
Syringes are prepped with the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine before being administered at Richmond Raceway in Richmond, Va., Feb. 2, 2021. (Parker Michels-Boyce/ For the Virginia Mercury)
In Virginia, public reporting includes infections among partially vaccinated people, as well. Confirming those cases requires verification that the patients hadn’t completed a full vaccine series, completed it outside the recommended time frame, or got sick less than 14 days after they received their full vaccine course, the time it takes for someone to be considered “fully vaccinated.”
Positive COVID-19 test results are reported in VEDSS, the Virginia Electronic Disease Surveillance System. Before Aug. 19, though, there was no integration between VEDSS and VIIS, or the Virginia Immunization Information System, where vaccinations are recorded.
“The process of comparing data in these systems used to be performed manually by a COVID-19 case investigator,” Murphy wrote. If those investigators couldn’t reach a patient to confirm vaccination status — which happened around 35 percent of the time in the last week of July, according to VDH data, and roughly 53 percent of the time from Aug. 13 to 19 — they would have to find that person in the state’s vaccination registry and manually transcribe the information into its disease surveillance system.
And while some local health districts took that step, it didn’t always happen.
“If a case investigator could not contact a case, that case’s vaccination status information was harder to verify and, therefore, may not have been captured as a breakthrough,” Murphy wrote.
For much of July and August, there were other factors complicating the reporting. The lack of automation made vetting fully vaccinated cases more challenging at the state level. Before the two systems were integrated, VDH’s central office in Richmond manually reviewed every identified breakthrough infection before reporting it on the public dashboard. Murphy said that contributed to the data lag and the apparent discrepancies between state and local data.
“Now that cases are being automatically cross-referenced between VIIS and VEDSS, more cases will be reported that have not been individually reviewed by Central Office,” she wrote. “The data will more closely match what local health departments are reporting.”
‘THERE MAY BE LESS OF A MARGIN FOR ERROR’
But even now, it’s likely breakthrough cases are still being underreported. The majority of those infections are mild or asymptomatic, making it less likely a patient will seek out testing. And at this point in the pandemic, the market is inundated with at-home testing options, which generally aren’t passed on to VDH unless patients disclose their results to a medical provider or local health department.
It’s nearly impossible, then, to confirm exactly how many breakthrough cases occurred in Virginia over the last month and a half, as Delta became the dominant variant across the country. From the available data, it’s clear rates of known infections among the fully vaccinated have nearly quintupled between early April — when vaccines became widely available — and Aug. 14, the state’s most recently available data. VDH’s new public dashboard also includes the total number of known breakthrough cases, but it’s not clear how they compare to all new COVID-19 infections from week to week.
Trying to calculate that prevalence is “discouraged,” Murphy wrote, “for several reasons.” As the Mercury reported earlier this week, state health officials have been concerned that a growing focus on breakthrough cases will minimize the success and importance of vaccines. Dr. John Swartzberg, a clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases and vaccinology at the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health, pointed out that an “infection” doesn’t correlate with actually getting sick.
“Infection just means you have the virus that’s replicating in you,” he said. “It doesn’t say anything about whether you have symptoms or not.” Vaccines that prevent the development of severe disease, including hospitalization and death, are a public health success. And currently available vaccines are still so successful at preventing those outcomes that some public health experts argue booster shots aren’t really necessary.
As more and more people get immunized, and cases continue to rise, Murphy pointed out that a higher number of breakthrough infections is an expected outcome. In an interview earlier this month, state epidemiologist Dr. Lilian Peake gave the example of a 2006 mumps outbreak at the University of Virginia. The college required students to be immunized, so 100 percent of the cases were in a fully vaccinated population. But the high level of vaccination still meant very few people contracted the virus.
Virginia State Epidemiologist Dr. Lillian Peake spoke at a press conference on Capitol Square. (Ned Oliver/Virginia Mercury)
“It was a highly effective vaccine, but once you have a high proportion of the population vaccinated, the data is skewed,” she said. Still, some public health experts have criticized the overall lack of data on breakthrough infections, especially when it comes to mild cases. For researchers, knowing the true number of infections is important for parsing out the reasons why they’re occurring and whether some people are more vulnerable than others. But obscuring those numbers can also minimize the risk of transmission for vaccinated people.
“I think what we’re seeing is that viral loads can get very high with Delta,” Dr. Michael Mina, a Harvard epidemiologist, told New York Magazine earlier this month. “The idea that we’re going to vaccinate our way to true herd immunity — that idea has to be put to bed for a moment.”
https://thefederalist.com/2021/09/01/the-lefts-hysteria-about-kids-and-covid-is-much-worse-than-qanon/
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/07/the-kids-were-safe-from-covid-the-whole-time.html
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2774465
It’s now more than a year after the world learned that COVID thankfully poses lower risks to children than does the annual flu. In 2020, according to the Centers for Disease Control, “fewer kids died of COVID-19 than of heart disease, ‘malignant neoplasms,’ suicide, and homicide — not to mention birth defects, which killed hundreds of times more.”
We’ve never shut children off in pods, muffled their faces and those of everyone they see, limited them to small groups, or stuffed them into substandard virtual “learning” for the flu, suicide, or heart disease, because that would be ridiculous. It would hold their futures hostage to fear porn. Yet doing exactly that is still what top U.S. “experts” and politicians demand.
Former Food and Drug Administrator Dr. Scott Gottlieb, for example, went on TV this past weekend to insanely recommend masking children and injecting them with experimental COVID treatments even though the flu poses a higher risk to them and flu shots have never been a requirement for attending school.
https://covidreason.substack.com/p/an-awful-august-in-review-part-1
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/07/the-kids-were-safe-from-covid-the-whole-time.html
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/08/the-science-of-masking-kids-at-school-remains-uncertain.html
“Distancing, hybrid models, classroom barriers, HEPA filters, and, most notably, requiring student masking were each found to not have a statistically significant benefit. In other words, these measures could not be said to be effective,” New York Magazine reported last week of findings from a large-scale CDC study. It continued:
In the realm of science and public-health policy outside the U.S., the implications of these particular findings are not exactly controversial. Many of America’s peer nations around the world — including the U.K., Ireland, all of Scandinavia, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Italy — have exempted kids, with varying age cutoffs, from wearing masks in classrooms. Conspicuously, there’s no evidence of more outbreaks in schools in those countries relative to schools in the U.S., where the solid majority of kids wore masks for an entire academic year and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. These countries, along with the World Health Organization, whose child-masking guidance differs substantially from the CDC’s recommendations, have explicitly recognized that the decision to mask students carries with it potential academic and social harms for children and may lack a clear benefit.