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Pandemic threat? Anyone else concerned?
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Oceanslider
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A saw a pink haired wearing a designer n95 and gloves in the store just now. Makes you wonder.
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Quadruple-vaccinated Pfizer boss, 60, tests positive for Covid for the second time in a MONTH
Pfizer boss Dr Albert Bourla has tested positive for Covid for the second time in a month.
The 60-year-old — who has been vaccinated four times with his company's shot — last had the virus in mid-August.
He revealed on Twitter Saturday he had tested positive again but was 'feeling well and symptom-free'.
Dr Bourla said he had not yet had Pfizer's new bivalent vaccine which is designed to give higher protection against Omicron variants.
Pfizer boss tests positive for Covid for second time in a MONTH - amid drug giant's booster rollout | Daily Mail Online
Pfizer boss Dr Albert Bourla has tested positive for Covid for the second time in a month.
The 60-year-old — who has been vaccinated four times with his company's shot — last had the virus in mid-August.
He revealed on Twitter Saturday he had tested positive again but was 'feeling well and symptom-free'.
Dr Bourla said he had not yet had Pfizer's new bivalent vaccine which is designed to give higher protection against Omicron variants.
Pfizer boss tests positive for Covid for second time in a MONTH - amid drug giant's booster rollout | Daily Mail Online
Oceanslider
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tech_junkie
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Because this weaponized medicine is about the common flu (covid-19). Besides that they would have to make the vaccine to market first to pretend there would be a "race to the vaccine".
CDC no longer recommends universal masking in health facilities
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention no longer recommends universal masking in health care settings, unless the facilities are in areas of high COVID-19 transmission. The agency quietly i…
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Canada dropping all remaining COVID border, travel measures as of Oct. 1
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Canada dropping all vaccine, mask mandates for travel
Canada's remaining COVID-19 travel measures, including the use of the ArriveCan app at the border, are being dropped as of Oct. 1.
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Canada dropping all remaining COVID border, travel measures as of Oct. 1
Canada dropping all vaccine, mask mandates for travel
Canada's remaining COVID-19 travel measures, including the use of the ArriveCan app at the border, are being dropped as of Oct. 1.
wwwhatt ... did Trudeau die ???
I recall something along the lines of "over some dead body .. "
My wife and I tested positive for Covid and while we’re uncomfortable and tired we believe it will be like a bad flu. Let’s hope.
My friend and his wife is going through it too, he got it after her, he is on day 2. Mainly cold like symptoms.
Oceanslider
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400k tax payer paid for retirement for the rest of his life
How about all the small business owners he Destimated.
One of my friends is a practicing physician and he's on Day 6, I spoke to him day before yesterday to find out he was doing, he still had a sore throat, his voice was all "banged up," I called him yesterday and his voice sounded miles better, yet despite being COVID+ he was still able to board an international flight. This is how variants spread and team up to eventually generate another super-variant. With most countries relaxing COVID restrictions, all they require is proof of vaccination OR a recent COVID test prior to departure.
Recently, most businesses, even medical offices, have relaxed their COVID restrictions and tell you to keep a mask on for 3-5 days after an exposure. Most medical settings are asking employees to keep their masks on, and mandating folks to keep their masks on throughout their entire shift if they suspect a recent exposure to the virus and to only stay home if their symptoms are extreme. 14-day quarantine periods are a thing of the past now.
I haven't been following the trends in the last couple of months, but the New York Tri-State area is over 9% positivity, but that number is skewed due to the lack of testing, more take-home test kits availability, and people simply moving on.
With most public spaces now relaxing mask requirements and COVID protocols and with numbers in a "flat state" (neither higher nor lower), the virus is beginning to become part of us. Are we out of the woods yet? Can't say for sure, but we can't let fear overtake us.
Social distancing and draconian mask wearing are things of the past, just practice commonsense and don't mingle with others if you suspect of being COVID+
People need to do their parts.
Recently, most businesses, even medical offices, have relaxed their COVID restrictions and tell you to keep a mask on for 3-5 days after an exposure. Most medical settings are asking employees to keep their masks on, and mandating folks to keep their masks on throughout their entire shift if they suspect a recent exposure to the virus and to only stay home if their symptoms are extreme. 14-day quarantine periods are a thing of the past now.
I haven't been following the trends in the last couple of months, but the New York Tri-State area is over 9% positivity, but that number is skewed due to the lack of testing, more take-home test kits availability, and people simply moving on.
With most public spaces now relaxing mask requirements and COVID protocols and with numbers in a "flat state" (neither higher nor lower), the virus is beginning to become part of us. Are we out of the woods yet? Can't say for sure, but we can't let fear overtake us.
Social distancing and draconian mask wearing are things of the past, just practice commonsense and don't mingle with others if you suspect of being COVID+
People need to do their parts.
COVID Update NYC: Judge rules vaccine mandate invalid for PBA members
Manhattan State Supreme Court Judge Lyle Frank ruled the city cannot terminate PBA members for not getting vaccinated, suggesting instead that the city make vaccination requirements part of the PBA's contract.
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Doctor Turns Against Messenger RNA COVID-19 Vaccines, Calls for Global Pause
A doctor who promoted COVID-19 vaccines is now calling for health authorities around the world to pause the administration of two of the most-widely utilized COVID-19 vaccines, saying that the benefits from the vaccines may not outweigh the risks.
“There is more than enough evidence—I would say the evidence is overwhelming—to pause the rollout of the vaccine,” Dr. Aseem Malhotra, a British cardiologist and evidence-based medicine expert, told The Epoch Times.
A paper from Malhotra detailing the evidence was published on Sept. 26.
Among the citations is a recent reanalysis of the Pfizer and Moderna clinical trials that concluded that vaccinated trial participants were at higher risk of serious adverse events. He called the study a “smoking gun.”
Malhotra also pointed to the lack of reduction in mortality or severe disease in the trials, which were completed in 2020.
Taking into account death rates and other figures since then, the number of people who need to be vaccinated to prevent a single COVID-19 death ranges from 93,000 for people aged 18–29 to 230 for people aged 80 and older, according to an analysis of UK safety and effectiveness data by the Health Advisory & Recovery Team.
The author also noted that serious side effects have been detected after the trials, such as myocarditis, a form of heart inflammation.
Overall, looking at the absolute benefits and drawbacks of the vaccines, it’s time to halt their usage and allow authorities and other experts to closely examine the data to see if the vaccines should be used again down the road, according to Malhotra.
The paper was published in the Journal of Insulin Resistance in two parts following peer review.
Pfizer and Moderna didn’t return requests for comment.
Reversal of Opinion
Malhotra received the Pfizer primary series in January 2021. He became a promoter of the vaccine, even appearing on “Good Morning Britain” to advise Indian film director Gurinder Chadha to get the vaccine. Chadha did so shortly after.
Malhotra said he began digging into vaccine data after his father, Dr. Kailash Chand, suffered a cardiac arrest at home approximately six months after receiving Pfizer’s vaccine.
The post-mortem showed two of Chand’s major arteries were severely blocked, even though Malhotra described his father as a fit person who didn’t have any significant heart problems.
Malhotra began reading about post-vaccination issues, including a study abstract in the journal Circulation that identified a higher risk of a heart attack following vaccination with the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines and a study from Nordic countries that identified a higher risk of myocarditis.
While authorities have claimed that myocarditis is more common after COVID-19 than vaccination, many studies have found otherwise, at least for certain age groups. Some papers have found no increased incidence of heart inflammation for COVID-19 patients.
Malhotra has come to believe that his father’s death was linked to the vaccine.
“I’ve always approached medicine and science with uncertainties because things constantly evolve. And the information I had at the time is completely different to the information I have now,” Malhotra told The Epoch Times. “And in fact, it is my duty and responsibility as the information has changed to act on that information. And that’s what I’m doing.”
Response to Criticism
After the new paper was published, critics noted that Malhotra is a board member of the Journal of Insulin Resistance.
He acknowledged the position but said the article went through an independent peer review process and that he has no financial links to the journal.
The doctor encouraged people to view his publication history, which includes articles in the British Medical Journal and the Journal of the American Medical Association.
He said he chose to submit the paper to the insulin journal for several reasons, including it being “one of the few journals that doesn’t take money from the pharmaceutical industry.”
“I don’t think that there’s any validity to question the integrity of the piece,” he said. “People can argue I’ve got an intellectual bias. We all have intellectual biases, but there’s certainly no financial bias for me.”
Paper Gains Support
Leading scientists say the new paper is important.
“We fully believe that vaccines are one of the great discoveries in medicine that has improved life expectancy dramatically, however, mRNA genetic vaccines are different, as long-term safety evaluation is lacking but mandatory to ensure public safety,” Sherif Sultan, president of the International Society of Vascular Surgery, said in a statement.
Sultan also noted that the findings “raise concerns regarding vaccine-induced undetected severe cardiovascular side effects and underscore the established causal relationship between vaccines and myocarditis, a frequent cause of unexpected cardiac arrest in young individuals.”
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a professor of medicine and epidemiology at the University of Stanford, said that Malhotra “makes a good case that there is considerable heterogeneity across age groups and other comorbid conditions in the expected benefits and expected side effect profiles of the vaccine” and “finds that while there may be a case for older people to take the vaccine because the benefits may outweigh expected harm that may not be the case for younger people.”
Dr. Campbell Murdoch, who advises the Royal College of General Practitioners, said the study “describes multiple systemic failures in the provision of safe and effective evidence-based medicine” and the situation has made it “impossible for patients and the public to make an informed choice about what is best for their health and life.”
Some others criticized the paper, including Dr. Victoria Male, an immunologist at Imperial College London.
Male wrote on Twitter that the table in the paper outlining the number of people in each age group estimated to need a vaccination to prevent a COVID-19 death “is quite in favour of vaccination.”
www.theepochtimes.com
A doctor who promoted COVID-19 vaccines is now calling for health authorities around the world to pause the administration of two of the most-widely utilized COVID-19 vaccines, saying that the benefits from the vaccines may not outweigh the risks.
“There is more than enough evidence—I would say the evidence is overwhelming—to pause the rollout of the vaccine,” Dr. Aseem Malhotra, a British cardiologist and evidence-based medicine expert, told The Epoch Times.
A paper from Malhotra detailing the evidence was published on Sept. 26.
Among the citations is a recent reanalysis of the Pfizer and Moderna clinical trials that concluded that vaccinated trial participants were at higher risk of serious adverse events. He called the study a “smoking gun.”
Malhotra also pointed to the lack of reduction in mortality or severe disease in the trials, which were completed in 2020.
Taking into account death rates and other figures since then, the number of people who need to be vaccinated to prevent a single COVID-19 death ranges from 93,000 for people aged 18–29 to 230 for people aged 80 and older, according to an analysis of UK safety and effectiveness data by the Health Advisory & Recovery Team.
The author also noted that serious side effects have been detected after the trials, such as myocarditis, a form of heart inflammation.
Overall, looking at the absolute benefits and drawbacks of the vaccines, it’s time to halt their usage and allow authorities and other experts to closely examine the data to see if the vaccines should be used again down the road, according to Malhotra.
The paper was published in the Journal of Insulin Resistance in two parts following peer review.
Pfizer and Moderna didn’t return requests for comment.
Reversal of Opinion
Malhotra received the Pfizer primary series in January 2021. He became a promoter of the vaccine, even appearing on “Good Morning Britain” to advise Indian film director Gurinder Chadha to get the vaccine. Chadha did so shortly after.
Malhotra said he began digging into vaccine data after his father, Dr. Kailash Chand, suffered a cardiac arrest at home approximately six months after receiving Pfizer’s vaccine.
The post-mortem showed two of Chand’s major arteries were severely blocked, even though Malhotra described his father as a fit person who didn’t have any significant heart problems.
Malhotra began reading about post-vaccination issues, including a study abstract in the journal Circulation that identified a higher risk of a heart attack following vaccination with the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines and a study from Nordic countries that identified a higher risk of myocarditis.
While authorities have claimed that myocarditis is more common after COVID-19 than vaccination, many studies have found otherwise, at least for certain age groups. Some papers have found no increased incidence of heart inflammation for COVID-19 patients.
Malhotra has come to believe that his father’s death was linked to the vaccine.
“I’ve always approached medicine and science with uncertainties because things constantly evolve. And the information I had at the time is completely different to the information I have now,” Malhotra told The Epoch Times. “And in fact, it is my duty and responsibility as the information has changed to act on that information. And that’s what I’m doing.”
Response to Criticism
After the new paper was published, critics noted that Malhotra is a board member of the Journal of Insulin Resistance.
He acknowledged the position but said the article went through an independent peer review process and that he has no financial links to the journal.
The doctor encouraged people to view his publication history, which includes articles in the British Medical Journal and the Journal of the American Medical Association.
He said he chose to submit the paper to the insulin journal for several reasons, including it being “one of the few journals that doesn’t take money from the pharmaceutical industry.”
“I don’t think that there’s any validity to question the integrity of the piece,” he said. “People can argue I’ve got an intellectual bias. We all have intellectual biases, but there’s certainly no financial bias for me.”
Paper Gains Support
Leading scientists say the new paper is important.
“We fully believe that vaccines are one of the great discoveries in medicine that has improved life expectancy dramatically, however, mRNA genetic vaccines are different, as long-term safety evaluation is lacking but mandatory to ensure public safety,” Sherif Sultan, president of the International Society of Vascular Surgery, said in a statement.
Sultan also noted that the findings “raise concerns regarding vaccine-induced undetected severe cardiovascular side effects and underscore the established causal relationship between vaccines and myocarditis, a frequent cause of unexpected cardiac arrest in young individuals.”
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a professor of medicine and epidemiology at the University of Stanford, said that Malhotra “makes a good case that there is considerable heterogeneity across age groups and other comorbid conditions in the expected benefits and expected side effect profiles of the vaccine” and “finds that while there may be a case for older people to take the vaccine because the benefits may outweigh expected harm that may not be the case for younger people.”
Dr. Campbell Murdoch, who advises the Royal College of General Practitioners, said the study “describes multiple systemic failures in the provision of safe and effective evidence-based medicine” and the situation has made it “impossible for patients and the public to make an informed choice about what is best for their health and life.”
Some others criticized the paper, including Dr. Victoria Male, an immunologist at Imperial College London.
Male wrote on Twitter that the table in the paper outlining the number of people in each age group estimated to need a vaccination to prevent a COVID-19 death “is quite in favour of vaccination.”
Doctor Turns Against Messenger RNA COVID-19 Vaccines, Calls for Global Pause
www.theepochtimes.com
bigredfish
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Gov. Newsom Signs Bill to Censor CA Doctors Accused of ‘Spreading COVID Misinformation’
Newsom Attempts to Void 1st Amendment | ZeroHedge
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB 2098 by Assemblyman Evan Low (D-Campbell), which will punish physicians and surgeons for “unprofessional conduct” for advocating for the potential benefits of early treatment with off-label drugs, or those who dare to ask questions about COVID vaccine safety.
Assembly Bill 2098 puts unconstitutional restrictions on free speech by medical professionals. Under AB 2098, doctors will be subject to disciplinary actions by the Medical Board of California and the Osteopathic Medical Board of California if they do not adhere to the “approved COVID treatment consensus.”
Newsom Attempts to Void 1st Amendment | ZeroHedge
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB 2098 by Assemblyman Evan Low (D-Campbell), which will punish physicians and surgeons for “unprofessional conduct” for advocating for the potential benefits of early treatment with off-label drugs, or those who dare to ask questions about COVID vaccine safety.
Assembly Bill 2098 puts unconstitutional restrictions on free speech by medical professionals. Under AB 2098, doctors will be subject to disciplinary actions by the Medical Board of California and the Osteopathic Medical Board of California if they do not adhere to the “approved COVID treatment consensus.”
tigerwillow1
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^^^^^^
A different situation than what the heavy handed state government did in Oregon and Washington state, yet rings a bit similar to me. They fired hundreds of nurses for not taking the vax, and now there's a nurse shortage crisis. There's no connecting the dots of course.
A different situation than what the heavy handed state government did in Oregon and Washington state, yet rings a bit similar to me. They fired hundreds of nurses for not taking the vax, and now there's a nurse shortage crisis. There's no connecting the dots of course.
The dots = control.