Omicron SuperSpreader Event in Faroe Islands Gathering: 21 out of 33 Attendees Triple Vaccinated & infected!

Recently uploaded to the preprint server medRxiv, epidemiologists, public health officials, and physicians from the Faroe Islands, an autonomous Danish territory, report that at a recent private gathering, 21 of the 33 triple-vaccinated healthcare workers were infected with the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2.

The authors included the Chief Medical Officer for a community on the Faroe Islands, a self-governing group of islands situated between Iceland and Norway that has thus far fared well in keeping COVID-19 away. The authors report that by December 8, 74.6% of the territory’s population were vaccinated twice while 13.6% of the population by that date received a booster vaccine.

Since November, the islands, which are heavily vaccinated, have experienced record surges in cases. By December 31, 2021, a new record of new cases based on the seven-day average was established at 93 infections per day. About 83% of the entire territory is classified as fully vaccinated with a third jab boost rate of about 30%. The islands’ population totals about 48,000.

Findings

The recent case series study write-up covered an event where 33 persons attending a private gathering were exposed to the Omicron variant of concern. Several participants noticed symptoms during the following days and performed a  PCR test, which was positive. The other participants subsequently also performed  PCR  tests, resulting in 21 of 33 participants testing positive, corresponding to an attack rate of  63.6%. The unusually high attack rate led the Chief Medical Officer to request genome sequencing of the virus, identifying the first Omicron variant in the Faroes on December  8. So far, 13 samples from the gathering, and an additional four from the extended transmission chain, have been verified as the Omicron variant through targeted sequencing. 

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All other cases the authors assume as the Omicron variant as well.  It has not been possible to definitively identify the index case initiating this transmission chain, but presumably, the variant has been imported from abroad.

The study authors report that all infected participants were fully vaccinated with the mRNA vaccine, BNT162b2 (Comirnaty; BioNTech/Pfizer), and had received a third booster dose within the last two and a half months. None had a history of previous SARS-CoV-2 infection.

The authors reported a brief  SARS-CoV-2 incubation period of 2 to 6 days with a mean incubation period of 3.24 days (95% CI 2.873.60). Time to symptom resolution varies with symptoms lasting from one to 9 days.

Conclusion

The Faroe Island authors warn that Omicron can most definitely lead to “super-spreader” events, even in people triple jabbed. With all the reported cases symptomatic, thankfully no one had to be admitted to the hospital. The authors express an urgent need for a better understanding of the Omicron variant.

The team’s findings suggest Omicron displays potent immune-escape properties, and that recently, boosted individuals face risk with this pathogen. By all accounts thus far the Omicron variant is more transmissible but less severe than the Delta variant. Did vaccines help mitigate and reduce the intensity of the breakthrough infection? It is very likely that status helped. But the dominant narrative that a third boost will protect against infection is challenged here on the Faroe Islands, a part of Denmark.

Lead Research/Investigator

  • Gunnhild Helmsdal, General Practitioner Service, Vestmanna, Corresponding Author

  • Olga K Hansen, Office of the Chief Medical Officer, Tórshavn

  • Lars F Møller, Office of the Chief Medical Officer, Tórshavn

  • Debes H Christiansen, Faroese Food and Veterinary Authority, Tórshavn

  • Maria Skaalum Petersen, Department of Occupational Medicine and Public Health, Faroe Islands

  • Marnar F Kristiansen, Center of health Science, University of the Faroe Islands, Tórshavn

Mahidol University Preclinical (Lab) Studies Indicate Potential of Ivermectin/Niclosamide Combination as Antiviral Targeting COVID-19

Recently, a team of scientists affiliated with Thailand-based academic medical centers, including Mahidol University’s Siriraj Hospital, investigated the use of repurposed antiparasitic drugs with in vitro anti-SARS-CoV-2 activity, as this continues to represent a promising approach for economical, available antiviral-like treatments targeting COVID-19. Of particular importance is the ability to alleviate stress on healthcare systems, especially in more vulnerable low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) such as Thailand. The recent study acknowledges the limitations of the global mass vaccination scheme as a strategy to eradicate COVID-19—the pathogen continues to spread whether in 100% vaccinated locations such as Gibraltar, to nearly universally vaccinated Singapore. Thus, the importance of utilizing safe and effective, not to mention economical antiviral-like treatments, as a public health strategy, as well as augmenting vaccination and other measures. Novel pharmaceutical products from companies such as Merk and Pfizer, while showing some promise, also present possible safety and cost issues. Thus, the team out of Mahidol University sought to test repurposed drugs in vitro, evaluating their anti-SARS-CoV-2 activity. They looked at combinations of Niclosamide, ivermectin, and Chloroquine. The results indicate that these combinations lead to over a 10-fold reduction in the half-maximal inhibitory concentration (IC50) as compared to the drugs by themselves. In the lab, combining Niclosamide and ivermectin produces a superior synergy score based on the synergy landscape analyses with a peak Loewe synergy score totaling over 20 with an average of 6.60 in Vero E6 cell and a peak Loewe synergy score equaling 13.2 and an associated average of 2.897 in Calu-3 cells. The authors suggest human clinical trials should look at combining ivermectin and Niclosamide. The study results are uploaded to a preprint server and thus haven’t been scientifically peer-reviewed yet.

Of course, TrialSite first reported on the phenomenal University of Monash-led in vitro study showing that ivermectin crushed SARS-CoV-2 in the cell culture, lab setting. Since then, 73 human studies have been conducted—the majority showing some positive data. TrialSite has been a leading media chronicling these studies. 

Some of the studies failed to produce solid enough findings, and one study was marred with allegations of data manipulation. At least one of the studies showing neutral to negative results had potential concerns, from conflict of interest to data issues.    

A majority of the human-based ivermectin studies were conducted in LMICs, and American and British health systems, for example, value those findings less than findings in wealthier, more advanced economic environments.  

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But Mahidol University remains a sophisticated place. The Thai authors point to the “promising results in many [ivermectin-based] clinical trials.” Of course, much hope was placed in chloroquine/hydroxychloroquine, but later human trials results were disappointing. Critics argued that some of these studies had design flaws—administering the medicine later in the disease life cycle rather than upfront, for example.

The authors point out that Niclosamide, another anti-parasitic medicine, shows good anti-SARS-CoV-2 activity with a high selective index. TrialSite has chronicled a handful of Niclosamide-based studies

Both drugs are widely available, inexpensive, and considered relatively safe for short-term usage. The Thai researchers emphasized the urgent need for repurposed medicines targeting COVID-19. Why not test an enhanced therapy combining some of these drugs? Thus, the basis of the study.

Study Data

Employing lab-based, in vitro studies, the Thai team isolated and cultivated the viruses in the cell-culture environment, employing various approaches and assays to determine select combinational anti-SARS-CoV-2 activity.

The table below reveals a single drug treatment against SARS-CoV-2 in vitro:

Drug CandidatesDrug ClassDrug IndicationCC50µMIC50µMPlaque AssayIC50µMqRT-PCRNiclosamideAnthelminthic Tapeworm, intestinal fluke infections0.290.0490.043IvermectinAntiparasiticonchocerciasis, and other worm infestations10.551.231.27ChloroquineAntiparasitic Treatment of malaria, rheumatic diseases and Zika virus infection118.200.830.89

The above table reveals the anti-SARS-CoV-2 activities and cytotoxicity of the generic, repurposed drugs in Vero E6 cells. The authors employed the plaque assay to evaluate viral production and it is measured as the percentage inhibition relative to the viral titer of DMSO-treated cells.

A one-step qRT-PCR reveals the viral RNA virus supernatants, expressed as the percent inhibition relative to the DMSO treated cells. IC50 values show a measure of dose-response based on the plaque assay for Niclosamide, ivermectin, and Chloroquine (see amounts in the table above). The data suggests viral RNA quantification via the one-step qRT-PCR precisely reveals the infectious virus output in the respective experiments. 

What about the combinations?

The Thailand-based study team reports they assessed two-drug combinations in vitro in Vero E6 cells by applying treatment scenarios across 16 various pairwise combinations of two drugs, including A) Niclosamide-ivermectin, B) Niclosamide-Chloroquine, and C) ivermectin-chloroquine.

Thereafter, the authors summarized the findings for each combination mentioned above. In table 2 and table 3 of the yet-to-be-reviewed manuscript, the authors reveal the antiviral activity for the two-drug combinations treatment against SARS-CoV-2 in Vero E6 cells.

What did they find?

In their discussion section, the authors declared, “Our study shows that the repurposed anti-parasitic drugs, Niclosamide, ivermectin, and Chloroquine possess high in vitro activity against SARS-CoV-2, as the IC50 values are in the low micromolar range.”

The authors note that their findings regarding the testing of single drug effectiveness against SARS-CoV-2 align with previous comparable preclinical lab-based investigations. The authors introduce that one reason why these drugs may show successful in vitro actions against SARS-CoV-2 yet not fare as well in human (in vivo) studies may be due to a lack of potency. 

Thus, the impetus to use various combinations to enhance potency. A key rationale underlying this preclinical, lab-based study was to better understand what proper combinations of these available, economically approved drugs could be synergistic with efficacious results.

And the results are positive from this Mahidol University-led study: the authors demonstrate the benefit of combining ivermectin, Niclosamide, and Chloroquine and their anti-SARS-CoV-2 activities in the cell culture environment. But what was the superior combination? Ivermectin and Niclosamide produce the best synergistic profile.

Study Support

The study was supported with funds and resources associated with the Thailand-based Chair Professor Program (P-20-52262), The National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA). The study received additional support from the Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University in Thailand. 

TrialSite reminds us that this study hasn’t been peer-reviewed yet.

Mahidol University

This autonomous research center in Thailand originated with the establishment of the Siriraj Hospital back in 1888. The institution was known as the University of Medical Science by 1943, ultimately recognized as the Southeast Asian nation’s fourth public university. By 1969, it was named by King Bhumibol Adulyadej after his father—Prince Mahidol of Songkhla, who happens to also be the “Father of Modern Medicine and Public Health of Thailand,”  according to the most recent Wikipedia entry. By 2016, the acceptance rate into the school of medicine was 0.4%. 

Mahidol University remains a hub of medical-related research in Thailand. The academic medical center has been recognized by the United Nations’ World Health Organization and consequently, has been designated a WHO collaboration center. Much of the research here delves into major problems facing this Southeast Asian nation, from public health to other social and economic challenges. 

In the area of biomedical research, this university’s researchers have been at the forefront of important discoveries and breakthroughs in the following topics:

  • Better understanding of the molecular basis of thalassemia

  • Drug-resistance in malaria and avian influenza

  • Possible strategies and treatment and prevention including vaccine clinical trials

Lead Research/Investigator

Prasert Auewarakul, MD, Mahidol University Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital. Dr. Prasert Auewarakul was educated in Germany.

China Panic-Hoards Half Of World’s Grain Supply Amid Threats Of Collapse

China Panic-Hoards Half Of World’s Grain Supply Amid Threats Of CollapseAbout two and a half years ago, we told readers China was panic hoarding food, which was several months before the virus pandemic began to spread worldwide; Beijing has managed to stockpile more than half of the world’s maize and other grains that have resulted in rapid food inflation and triggered famine in some countries.

In August 2019, we asked the question: 

Does China believe that we are on the verge of a major global crisis? The communist Chinese government has always been very big into planning, and it appears that they have decided that now is the time to hoard food, gold and other commodities.

Fast forward today, the answer is most likely “yes.” China maintains “historically high levels” of beans and grains stockpiled at COFCO Group’s (a major Chinese state-owned food processor) 310 storage facilities in the northeastern part of the country, according to Nikkei Asia

Qin Yuyun, head of grain reserves at the National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration, told reporters last month, “our wheat stockpiles can meet the demand for one and a half years. There is no problem whatsoever about the supply of food.”

Data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture shows China has approximately 69% of the globe’s maize reserves in the first half of the crop year 2022, 60% of its rice, and 51% of its wheat.

Since the Chinese plan multiple years out, we’ve pointed out how a series of disasters and weather events have likely led state officials to forecast a troublesome period of food shortages. China has already observed droughts, floods, and pests that have ruined harvests. More than 20 months of snarled supply chains due to COVID and La Nina weather patterns (second consecutive one) have also produced volatile conditions for food production. 

The one thing Beijing cannot have is discontent among its citizens triggered by food shortages and or soaring prices; that’s why central planners spent $98.1 billion importing food in 2020, up 4.6 times from a decade earlier, according to the General Administration of Customs of China. For the first eight months of this year, China imported more food than in 2016. 

“Over the past five years, China’s soybean, maize and wheat imports soared two- to twelvefold on aggressive purchases from the U.S., Brazil and other supplier nations. Imports of beef, pork, dairy and fruit jumped two- to fivefold,” Nikkei Asia said. 

China’s acquisition of the world’s food supply has helped push food prices to decade highs. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization estimated the food price index is currently at a ten-year high

The Ministry of Commerce has even told households to stock up on food in case of emergencies, all under the guise of the virus pandemic. 

Meanwhile, Chinese state media has downplayed the notion China is headed for a food crisis. Chinese President Xi Jinping must keep food supply and prices in order to ensure food security; otherwise, discontent among citizens will increase in the world’s second-largest economy. 

Nikkei Asia concludes by saying, “throughout history, food shortages have triggered popular unrest. They served as a contributing factor to uprisings that toppled Chinese dynasties.”

So without a doubt, Beijing has been stockpiling food to avoid a collapse as central bankers have yet to figure out how to print food from thin air. But don’t worry, as the global food situation worsens, we’re all likely going to be forced to eat crickets, worms, and grasshoppers

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Two Great Virologists’ Frightening Warnings Ignored by Government and Big Media

When two great minds come to similar conclusions about the current global push to vaccinate everyone with the COVID experimental vaccines we should pay close attention.  Both highly experienced scientists have a totally negative view of the vaccination effort.  Worse than being ineffective, they point to negative health outcomes for the global population.  These two truth-telling acclaimed medical researchers make Fauci look as inept, deceitful and dangerous as he is.

The point made in this article is not only has Fauci pushed the wrong potentially disastrous pandemic solution, he has blocked the right one.

Much of what the two virologists say is very technical in nature.  This article simplifies their controversial messages without losing their essential meanings.  The public needs to understand their warnings that refute all the propaganda pushing vaccines from government and public health agencies as well as big media.

Warning: Keep reading and you may become depressed.

Dr. Luc Montagnier

First considered is the thinking of Dr. Luc Montagnier, a French virologist and recipient of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).  He has a doctorate in medicine.  But there is a lot more to conclude he is a great expert: He has received more than 20 major awards, including the French National Order of Merit and the Légion d’honneur.  He is a recipient of the Lasker Award, the Scheele Award, the Louis-Jeantet Prize for medicine , the Gairdner Award  the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement, King Faisal International Prize (known as the Arab Nobel Prize), and the Prince of Asturias Award.

He has worked hard to expose the dangers of the COVID-19 vaccines, still experimental but sadly may soon be fully approved.  The vaccines don’t stop the virus, argues the prominent virologist, they do the opposite — they “feed the virus,” and facilitate its development into stronger and more transmittable variants.  These new virus variants will be more resistant to vaccination and may cause more health implications than their “original” versions.

Montagnier refers to the mass vaccine program as an “unacceptable mistake” and are a “scientific error as well as a medical error.”  His assertion is that “The history books will show that…it is the vaccination that is creating the variants.”  In other words: “There are antibodies, created by the vaccine,” forcing the virus to “find another solution” or die.  “This is where the variants are created.  It is the variants that “are a production and result from the vaccination.” Stop and think about these thoughts.  Have you heard a better explanation of variant creation?  I doubt it.

He is talking about the mutation and strengthening of the virus from a phenomenon known as Antibody Dependent Enhancement (ADE).  ADE is a mechanism that increases the ability of a virus to enter cells and cause a worsening of the disease.

Data from around the world confirms ADE occurs in SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, says Montagnier. “You see it in each country, it’s the same: the curve of vaccination is followed by the curve of deaths.”  Sounds like what we are now hearing more about, namely escalating breakthrough infections that kill some people.  And this spiral into disaster may have no end.

In a November 2020 documentary he emphasized harmful and irrational mask mandates as well as lockdowns, quarantines, abuses of government overreach, and supported use of effective COVID treatments such as hydroxychloroquine.  The film was banned by YouTube and most other mainstream outlets.  At that time Fauci had succeeded in blocking wide use of the cheap generic based treatments for COVID and pursued the wait for the vaccine strategy.

Montagnier has been a vocal critic of the mass vaccination campaign.  In a letter to the President and Judges of the Supreme Court of the State of Israel, which unrolled the world’s speediest and the most massive vaccination campaign, Montagnier argued for its suspension.  He said: “I would like to summarize the potential dangers of these vaccines in a mass vaccination policy.”  Here they are:

1.Short-term side effects: these are not the normal local reactions found for any vaccination, but serious reactions involve the life of the recipient such as anaphylactic shock linked to a component of the vaccine mixture, or severe allergies or an autoimmune reaction up to cell aplasia.  In this group we should include a number of lethal blood problems involving clots and loss of platelets that cause strokes, brain bleeds and other impacts.

2. Lack of vaccine protection:

2.1 In induced antibodies do not neutralize a viral infection, but on the contrary facilitate it depending on the recipient.  The latter may have already been exposed to the virus asymptomatically.  Naturally induced antibodies may compete with the antibodies induced by the vaccine.

2.2 The production of antibodies induced by vaccination in a population highly exposed to the virus will lead to the selection of variants resistant to these antibodies.  These variants can be more virulent or more transmissible.  This is what we are seeing now.  An endless virus-vaccine race that will always turn to the advantage for the virus.

3. Long-term effects: Contrary to the claims of the manufacturers of messenger RNA vaccines, there is a risk of integration of viral RNA into the human genome.  Our cells have the ability to reverse transcriptase from RNA into DNA.  Although this is a rare event, its passage through the DNA of germ cells and its transmission to future generations cannot be excluded.

His bottom line: “Faced with an unpredictable future, it is better to abstain.”  But most people will find it extremely difficult to resist all the coercion and vaccine mandates.

Back in April 2020, before all the talk of variants and before the rollout of the experimental vaccines, Montagnier urged people to refuse vaccines against COVID-19 when they become available.  His main point should always be remembered: “instead of preventing the infection, they [would] accelerate infection.”  Today, the newly occurring variants of SARS-CoV-2 that affect vaccinated people prove his thesis.  With his scientific thinking, mass vaccination may cause a new, more deadly wave of pandemic infection.

As to the much talked about and hope for herd immunity, he has said: “the vaccines Pfizer, Moderna, Astra Zeneca do not prevent the transmission of the virus person-to-person and the vaccinated are just as transmissive as the unvaccinated.  Therefore the hope of a ‘collective immunity’ by an increase in the number of vaccinated is totally futile.”

On the positive side, he advocated this: “The early treatment of infection with ivermectin and bacterial antibiotic because there is a bacterial cofactor that amplifies the effects of the virus. “

Dr. Vanden Bossche

The stark views of Montagnier have been shared by the esteemed Belgium virologist Dr. Vanden Bossche.  He too has considerable credentials that make his views worth consideration.  He has PhD degree in Virology from the University of Hohenheim, Germany.  He held faculty appointments at universities in Belgium and Germany.  He was at the German Center for Infection Research in Cologne as Head of the Vaccine Development Office.  He has been in the private sector at several vaccine companies (GSK Biologicals, Novartis Vaccines, Solvay Biologicals) where he worked on vaccine R&D as well as vaccine development.  He also worked with the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) in Geneva as Senior Ebola Program Manager.

His views have been analyzed in a recent article.  He too has loudly called for a halt to mass-vaccination programs.  He believes that if the jabs are not halted, they could lead to the evolution of stronger and stronger variants of the virus until a “supervirus” takes hold and wipes out huge numbers of people.

This is his bold view:

“Given the huge amount of immune escape that will be provoked by mass vaccination campaigns and flanking containment measures, it is difficult to imagine how human interventions would not cause the COVID-19 pandemic to turn into an incredible disaster for global and individual health.”

Here is an essential element of his thinking.  Pretty much everything being done in the pandemic doesn’t guarantee elimination of the virus.  What is happening is selective viral ‘immune escape’ where viruses continue to be shed from those who are infected [both vaccinated and nonvaccinated] because neutralizing antibodies fail to prevent replication and elimination of the virus.

The evolutionary selection pressure on the virus through ‘immune escape,’ creates ever more virulent strains of the virus that have a competitive advantage over other variants and will increasingly have the potential to break through the antibody defenses.  Defenses provided by the vaccine induced immune system.  This is ‘vaccine resistance.’  What happens is that vaccine makers keep trying to outsmart variants, but fail.  So, they keep pushing boosters and yearly vaccine shots.  This is the more is better approach.  This is aided by suppression of many negative facts about the vaccines by big media.

A frightening forecast by Bossche is that the worst of the pandemic is still to come.  Hard to believe considering all the bad news propaganda about cases, hospitalizations and deaths.  But he thinks we are now experiencing the calm before the ultimate storm.  Imagine a new wave of infection far worse than anything we’ve seen so far is how Bossche thinks.

How does this happen?  There will be more mutants or variants to which the adaptive immune system from vaccine shots provides little resistance.  At the same time there will be decreased innate or natural immune effectiveness.  Unless people take a number of steps to boost their natural immunity.

Bossche consistently points to a lack of evidence that the existing global, mass vaccination program that has been mounted while there is still significant infection around, is unprecedented and there is no scientific evidence that this will work.  This is why he is largely ignored.

He stresses that historic vaccination programs have always emphasized the importance of vaccinating populations prophylactically in the absence of infection pressure.

He also argues that if different types of vaccine were used that provided sterilizing immunity i.e., that prevented immune escape and killed all viruses in those vaccinated, the situation would be entirely different.  Most people do not understand that the current experimental vaccines do not actually kill the virus; and that both the vaccinated and nonvaccinated shed the virus.  These vaccines do not stop viral transmission.  And all the contagion control measures simply to not work effectively enough to stop wide spread of the virus in its various forms.

Here is his big picture view: “There is only one single thing at stake right now and that is the survival of our human race, frankly speaking.”

But there are more strong words recently said by Bossche to pay attention to: “every person out there who is ‘partially’ or ‘fully’ vaccinated is a walking disease incubation system that puts everyone else at risk of contracting a deadly, vaccine-caused ‘variant’ that could kill them.  The ‘vaccinated’ are walking murderers spreading disease to others.  Getting injected for the Fauci Flu is not only foolish; it is also a form of murder in that unvaccinated people are now at risk of contracting the deadly diseases being manufactured inside the bodies of the vaccinated.  If Trump had never introduced the vaccine in the first place, the pandemic would have long ago fizzled out.  Since his vaccines continue to be pushed … however, the ‘Delta’ variant is spreading like wildfire, soon to be followed by other ‘variants’ as we enter the fall season.”

This too is a very strong view.  The “mass vaccination program is…unable to generate herd immunity.”  If true, there is little hope of seeing the COVID pandemic ending.

What is the solution?  Bossche has identified the needed alternative to the current massive vaccine effort.  It is this; “This first critical step can only be achieved by calling an immediate halt to the mass vaccination program and replacing it by widespread use of antiviral chemoprophylactics while dedicating massive public health resources to scaling early multi-drug treatments of Covid-19 disease.”  This is referring to the early home/outpatient treatment protocols based on cheap, safe and fully approved generics like ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine; these also work as preventatives.  Pandemic Blunder provides much data and advice on using this treatment approach.  So, both virologists support use of what Fauci has blocked.

These action recommendations were also made by Bossche “Provide – at no cost – early multidrug treatment to all patients in need.  Roll out campaigns to promote healthy diets and lifestyle.”  In other words, people need to take actions to boost their natural immunity, this should include vitamins and supplements, including this cocktail: vitamin C, vitamin D, zine and quercetin.

Conclusions

Take a moment to consider that Patrick Wood on the Bannon show on August 21 concluded that all the available data from the US and Europe shows some 100,000 people have died from the COVID experimental vaccines.  I agree with that assessment.  And by the time you read this FDA may have given full approval to the Pfizer vaccine.

Also worth noting is that data from Israel revealed “A full course of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was just 39% effective at preventing infections and 41% effective at preventing symptomatic infections caused by the Delta Covid-19 variant, according to Israel’s health ministry.”  And 60 percent of COVID hospitalized patients were vaccinated.

Latest Public Health England data on the delta variant showed vaccine effectiveness down to just 15% in the over-50s, 37% in the under-50s and deaths cut by 80% in over-50s, but just 12% in under-50s.

The point is simple.  There is daily information on how COVID vaccines are increasingly found both dangerous and ineffective.

After considering what these two experts have said it is appropriate to criticize what current government officials say, namely blame the unvaccinated for the surges in COVID cases, hospitalizations and deaths.  The major alternative to this thinking is that it is the vaccinated people who are creating pandemic problems, including the variants.

What is needed is an entirely new approach to COVID vaccines. Perhaps there are companies working on this.  This would threaten the trillion-dollar business of the current vaccine makers.

If the people, agencies and institutions with all the power listening to these two very smart people they would devote all their energies to using alternatives to the current vaccines.  We have them.  Notably, the treatment protocols that so many great doctors have created and used to help their patients.  Doctors Bryan Tyson and George Fareed, for example, have treated 6,200 patients, keeping them alive and out of hospitals.

Many other physicians and medical researchers have called for a halt to the current vaccine bonanza for big drug companies.  In the meantime, on a daily basis for all those willing to look at the facts, it is clearer and clearer that the experimental vaccines are not effective.  It is insanity to keep doing or expanding what is not working.  That is the insane world we are now experiencing even as more and people die from breakthrough infections, blood problems and other bad vaccine health impacts.

Perhaps the ugly truth about the vaccines will be widely revealed only when there are massive, widespread deaths despite all the shots and jabs.  That will be too late to change pandemic management from money-driven stupidity to life-saving, medically moral actions.

Thailand Pays out its First 8,470 COVID-19 Vaccine Injury Claims under National Health Security Office Program

The government of Thailand is committing approximately $30 billion to compensate individuals who have experienced adverse side events from the COVID-19 vaccines over the past several months, reports the Southeast nation’s National Health Security Office (NHSO). To date 8,470 claimants, out of a total of 11,707 have been compensated reports Atthaporn Limpanyalet, deputy secretary-general of the NHSO.

Thus far, about 65.1% of the country’s population is fully vaccinated and nearly 9% of the population has received a third booster dose. Thailand experienced a huge surge in Delta variant-driven infections over the summer but new cases have rapidly decreased in number. To put in perspective, by August 15, the country reported 21,282 new cases; on December 30 that number arrived at 3,037. Record numbers of deaths for this Southeast Asian country hovered over 250 fatalities per day during August and parts of September but deaths have dramatically declined down to 25 nationwide yesterday.

Categories for Claims

The NHSO segments COVID-19 vaccine injury claims into three categories including:

  • Mild-to-moderate side effects

  • Temporary paralysis and/or loss of other bodily functions

  • Permanent paralysis or death

Multiple Thai media including the prominent Bangkok Post reports that for each category a corresponding amount is allocated as follows:

COVID Vaccine Injury Category#sBaht/USDMild-to-moderate side effects 6,298100,000 $3,010USTemporary paralysis and/or loss of other bodily functions210240,000 $7,224USPermanent paralysis or death1,962400,000 $12,040

Note, a claimant can seek compensation for themselves or relatives. The Bangkok Post reports that 1,752 of the claims have been rejected due to the failure of the claimant to meet the adverse event criteria above. Thus far 615 Thais have appealed this rejection.

The NHSO’s Atthaporn reports that 13 committees are dispersed across the country to process claims which are apparently remunerated within five days of NHSO authorization.

Vaccine Background Thailand

TrialSite reported on early delays in vaccine production in Thailand, as a questionable contract was allocated to a biotech company owned by the nation’s King Vajiralongkorn. His biotech firm called Siam Bioscience received a technology transfer as part of a co-investment deal to produce the vaccine.   

The aforementioned deal was based on the nation’s order of 26 million doses of the AstraZeneca (Oxford) COVID-19 vaccine by November 2020 as reported in various media. The government ordered another 35 million additional doses of AZD1222 by January 2021. While the nation’s government discussed an additional purchase of 61 million AZD1222 doses, a leaked document cast doubt on this as it evidenced AstraZeneca would only deliver 60% of the total amount.

Additional vaccine products were accessed, including 2 million doses from China’s Sinovac—apparently, the Thai conglomerate called Charoen Pokphand invested in Sinovac by April 2021.

The Thai government also procured 30 million of the mRNA-based vaccine from Pfizer-BioNTech, yet only 3.5 million doses have arrived. Part of the supply of the BNT162b2 vaccine came as donations from the American government. An additional 5 million doses of the single-shot Janssen (Johnson and Johnson) vaccine were ordered.

The Thai government also has pursued indigenously developed vaccines such as “ChulaCov19” with clinical trials commencing May 2021 as reported by Al Jazeera.  Mahidol University commenced Phase 1 investigation into NDV-HXP-S by March 2021. Some have questioned this approach

For comparison, in the United States, the initiation of the PREP Act during the COVID-19 emergency effectively shields pharmaceutical producers to hospitals from any liability due to basic negligence. The government has a limited fund for injuries.

Summary

A total of 103 million COVID-19 doses have been administered to the Thai population, which totals about 70 million people. Those vaccines include AstraZeneca, Pfizer-BioNTech, Sinovac, and Janssen. To date, 8,470 claimants, out of a total of 11,707, have been compensated, reports the NHSO.

America’s top medical schools are becoming woketard indoctrination centers churning out medical morons

America’s decline and eventual collapse into the ash heap of history are proceeding apace, as even now our elite medical schools — once focused solely on science-based practice using the latest techniques — are becoming nothing less than propaganda centers for the Marxist far-left, which is using absurd “wokeness” to push racial division that will lead to the destruction of our multicultural nation.

Case in point: Mount Sinai’s Icahn School of Medicine. Suddenly, being ‘woke’ is more important than teaching the next generation of physicians how to take care of people without bias.

As reported by City Journal, administrators at the school published an article last year that talked about the institution’s long-running “cultural change initiative” which appeared in the once-prestigious journal Academic Medicine. The piece claims: “We have to go out there and seek the truth, part of which is accepting that, if we are White, we are a big part of the problem. We are part of the reason that structural racism imprisons and oppresses people of color every day, everywhere they go, and no matter what they do.”

Mind you, there are plenty of white apologists on the left, even though few if any of them really have anything legitimate to apologize for (if they feel they must, then maybe they are the real racists, right?). But when statements like this are made, they are made on behalf of all white people, including those of us who don’t have anything to apologize for and are sick and tired of being accused of it.

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You’ve heard African-Americans complain about being stopped by police for the offense of “driving while black”? Well, being stopped by the leftist culture cops for “living while white” is pretty much the same thing and equally offensive and annoying.

In any event, City Journal continued:

The Icahn School of Medicine recently announced an “Anti-Racist Transformation in Medical Education” (ART in MedEd) program, designed to guide other medical schools through their own version of the school’s “culture transformation initiative.” If Icahn’s own efforts are any indicator, these schools will receive a crash course in how to insert concepts like “white fragility,” “microaggressions,” and “white supremacy culture” into medical education.

According to the Academic Medicine article, Icahn achieved its own transformation in part through “Chats for Change,” a “series of monthly activities that spark conversations centered on racism and bias.” Chats for Change, the article notes, covered topics like “My Micro-Aggressions: Received and Delivered,” “White Fragility,” and “Roots of Racism.” Recently, the talks have become even more blatantly ideological, having been redesigned to include “braver and safer” content, such as: “What is Critical Race Theory, and what’s the big deal?”; “What are white supremacy culture characteristics intended to achieve?”; “What is the existence and significance of whiteness?”

Just to remind you, this garbage is being taught by a noted medical school; if it catches on — and it is — then the next generation of physicians is going to be taught to be naturally resentful and suspicious of their white patients, and that’s a huge problem.

“Perhaps most telling is the chat on ‘White Supremacy Culture,’ which is, according to a description, ‘the forbidden fruit,'” City Journal noted, citing the materials (and notice how this is presented as an accepted fact, that “white supremacy culture” does exist and that no laws or constitutional amendments passed over the past two centuries has made any progress at all toward the founders’ vision of equality).

“‘Take a bite and it will give you more knowledge and power than those who are hoarding that power are willing to share,'” the materials continue, as cited by the outlet. “The ultimate goal of the conversation is to determine ‘whether there are ways we can help our colleagues and leaders embrace this concept’—of the pervasiveness of white supremacy, presumably—’without feeding too much into their fragility and right to comfort.'”

Make no mistake, this stuff is pure poison in a multicultural society. But when this BS propaganda is presented to medical practitioners as ‘something to be considered when treating white patients,’ our downfall as a viable country is assured.

As Omicron Spreads, Some Research Indicates a Common Regimen Could Possibly Help Defend Against Long COVID

Could the Omicron variant be a gift from Mother Nature? This could very well be the case. After all, it’s looking more and more like a live attenuated vaccine with an exceptionally efficient supply and distribution system. While this imminent surge will break many SARS-CoV-2 new cases records, the surge could wane by Feb. However, dangers lurk around the corner as such rapid community transmission can lead to pervasive infections. Already, reports of more pediatric vaccinations cover the news. Cases rise so fast that none of the stat-tracking sites are even close to keeping up since the spread is unprecedented. However, judging by the low hospitalizations in South Africa, and as now confirmed by the UK, it’s clear that Omicron is less severe. The Delta variant still circulates and, undoubtedly, this pathogen will cause some lingering hospitalizations and death for the next few weeks. Additionally, even though Omicron is much less severe, it will still hit those most vulnerable, i.e., frail, elderly, and immunocompromised. This could help children on the lower socio-economic ladder known to have more health problems associated with the social determinants of health. But the hope is that most people will be impacted much less than previous variants and their vaccine and/or recovered immunity will help protect them. However, with the massive number of cases in such a short time span, the total numbers may still increase in January and that could lead to worsening conditions.

On another positive note, a brilliant TrialSite community member from Orange County, California, shared a case-series-based study investing Long COVID with a variety of goals and assumptions—among others—that Long Covid is the result of persistent microthrombosis seen in COVID-19. They did a great job documenting platelet activated thrombosis in a diverse cohort of COVID-19 patients. They spanned all levels of severity. They correlated Long COVID and this condition with hypertension and dyslipidemia as risk factors. They also found a genetic trait that increased the risks. That study can be reviewed here

The study team treated 24 patients with Long Covid with dual antiplatelet therapy (Plavix/Aspirin) plus a Direct Oral Anti-Coagulant DOAC (Eliquis). They discovered that all the Long COVID patients’ symptoms resolved during treatment. They also followed labs on these patients and confirmed that their microthrombosis resolved. They provide some excellent mechanism of action information and diagrams about how the microthrombosis and activated platelets stimulate the immune system and cause inflammation.

Some members of the community suggest consulting their physician to learn more about the potential for OTC treatments addressing Long COVID—low dose aspirin and a Nattokinase/Serrapeptase supplement. One study this year investigated Serrapeptase as a possible useful adjuvant for the management of COVID-19. TrialSite will investigate other studies on this topic.