COVID-19 Link Dump: Don’t Depend on the CDC, FDA, and NIH for All Your Information

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“You mean the vax is worthless?”

Cardiologist Who Said He ‘Won’t Cry at Funeral’ For “Selfish” Unvaccinated People Suddenly Dies in His Sleep 2 Weeks After 3rd Covid Jab

Karma’s a bitch. I’d like to know the doc’s family medical history and autopsy results. My condolences to his family.


Fully Vaccinated account for 9 in every 10 Covid-19 Deaths since August according to latest Official Data

This article pertains to Scotland only and notes that “Scotland has very much been experiencing a ‘Pandemic of the Fully Vaccinated’ since at least August [2021].” Furthermore…

The data available from Public Health Scotland stretching back 14 weeks proves very much that this is a pandemic of the fully vaccinated, and with the vaccinated accounting for 6 in every 10 cases (57%), 7 in every 10 hospitalisations (70%), and 9 in every 10 Covid-19 deaths (85%) since at least August, this also proves that the Covid-19 vaccines have already been ineffective for months.

The article would have been more if helpful if it cited overall COVID -19 cases, hospitalizations, and death this year compared to last year’s same months (Sept, Oct, Nov). You can do the research.

Something like 83 to 91% of folks over 12 in Scotland are either fully or partially vaccinated.

The primary linked article is at The Expose. I have to take it with a grain of salt, if only because the “About” page doesn’t say who is the owner, publisher, or editor. Are they grifters or do they fear retribution from the powers that be?


FDA Says It Now Needs 75 Years to Fully Release Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Data

Source is The Epoch Times. The FDA apparently claims they don’t have the staff to produce the documents in a timely fashion:

That discovery, and a desire to make sure it can work on other Freedom of Information Act requests at the same time, prompted the fresh request to the judge to allow production of roughly 12,000 pages by Jan. 31, 2022, and 500 pages per month thereafter.

That timeline would take it until at least 2096, Aaron Siri, a lawyer working on the case, wrote in a blog post.

“If you find what you are reading difficult to believe—that is because it is dystopian for the government to give Pfizer billions, mandate Americans to take its product, prohibit Americans from suing for harms, but yet refuse to let Americans see the data underlying its licensure,” Siri said.

Do you think there may be something in the requested documents that the FDA and Pfizer don’t want us to see?

Poor FDA. Their budget for 2021 was only $6 billion.


Spike protein in COVID virus and shots weakens immune system, may be linked with cancer: Swedish study

This study is very preliminary and may have no applicability to living humans. The study was done in tissue cultures. And you may not have to worry about this unless you received a vaccine based on full-length spike-based protein.


The BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine [the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine] against SARS-CoV-2 reprograms both adaptive and innate immune responses

You’re on your own here. Too technical for me. My take-away is that the Pfizer vaccine (and other mRNA vaccines) may have long-term effects on our ability to overcome other viral and fungal infections. Alleged pathologist Ryan N Cole says the vaccines weaken our immunity (particularly against viruses) and may increase risk of cancer. He reports finding reduced killer T (CD8) cells after vaccination. Alleged viral immunologist Dr Byram Bridle says that he hears about too many cancer patients who are in remission or well-controlled but then get vaccinated and lose control of the cancer. Click for a video of Dr Bridle making numerous heretical statements. Alleged viral immunologist Dr Jessica Rose has the same concerns about the vaccines causing an acquired immune deficiency and loss of cancer control.

I’m telling you these vaccines are still very much experimental.


Steve Parker, M.D.

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Mediterranean Diet Prevents Progression of Coronary Artery Disease

Heart attacks and chest pains are linked to blocked arteries in the heart

Most patients with a heart attack have underlying atherosclerosis (“hardening of the arteries”) in the heart, called coronary artery disease. Around the time of a heart attack (if not before), doctors and patients should focus on mitigating risk factors for future heart attacks and other cardiac events. This is called “secondary prevention.” Risk factor modification might include smoking cessation, regular exercise, stress reduction, and diet modification. For years, I’ve been recommending the Mediterranean diet. Many others recommend a low-fat diet instead. A recent study supports my diet recommendation.

One way to assess risk of progressive atherosclerosis is to measure the thickness of the the carotid artery wall by ultrasound. Increasing thickness of the artery wall is linked to higher risk of atherosclerotic complications like heart attack and stroke. To drill down deeper, it’s the thickness of the innermost two layers of the artery wall, called the intima-media, that matters. The study at hand showed a reduction in carotid artery intima-media thickness over five years on a Mediterranean diet compared to a low-fat diet. Here’s the abstract:

Background and Purpose:

Lifestyle and diet affect cardiovascular risk, although there is currently no consensus about the best dietary model for the secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease. The CORDIOPREV study (Coronary Diet Intervention With Olive Oil and Cardiovascular Prevention) is an ongoing prospective, randomized, single-blind, controlled trial in 1002 coronary heart disease patients, whose primary objective is to compare the effect of 2 healthy dietary patterns (low-fat rich in complex carbohydrates versus Mediterranean diet rich in extra virgin olive oil) on the incidence of cardiovascular events. Here, we report the results of one secondary outcome of the CORDIOPREV study. Thus, to evaluate the efficacy of these diets in reducing cardiovascular disease risk. Intima-media thickness of both common carotid arteries (IMT-CC) was ultrasonically assessed bilaterally. IMT-CC is a validated surrogate for the status and future cardiovascular disease risk.

Methods:

From the total participants, 939 completed IMT-CC evaluation at baseline and were randomized to follow a Mediterranean diet (35% fat, 22% monounsaturated fatty acids, <50% carbohydrates) or a low-fat diet (28% fat, 12% monounsaturated fatty acids, >55% carbohydrates) with IMT-CC measurements at 5 and 7 years. We also analyzed the carotid plaque number and height.

Results:

The Mediterranean diet decreased IMT-CC at 5 years (−0.027±0.008 mm; P<0.001), maintained at 7 years (−0.031±0.008 mm; P<0.001), compared to baseline. The low-fat diet did not modify IMT-CC. IMT-CC and carotid plaquemax height were higher decreased after the Mediterranean diet, compared to the low-fat diet, throughout follow-up. Baseline IMT-CC had the strongest association with the changes in IMT-CC after the dietary intervention.

Conclusions:

Long-term consumption of a Mediterranean diet rich in extravirgin olive oil, if compared to a low-fat diet, was associated with decreased atherosclerosis progression, as shown by reduced IMT-CC and carotid plaque height. These findings reinforce the clinical benefits of the Mediterranean diet in the context of secondary cardiovascular prevention.

Reference

Parker here again. Undoubtedly, it would be more helpful if the investigators reported the actual rates of heart attack, stroke, and death in the two diet groups over five years. I suspect that will be in a future report.

An article in Clinical Cardiology states the serious nature of coronary artery disease (CAD) in those with diabetes (DM): “CAD is the main cause of death in both type 1 and type 2 DM, and DM is associated with a 2 to 4-fold increased mortality risk from heart disease. Over 70% of people >65 years of age with DM will die from some form of heart disease or stroke. Furthermore, in patients with DM there is an increased mortality after MI [myocardial infarction], and worse overall long-term prognosis with CAD.”

Steve Parker, M.D.

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QOTD: Forrest Gump on the Fauci Ouchie

“Doc, I Have a Positive COVID-19 Test But Feel Fine. Am I Infectious?”

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One of the arguments for forcing everybody to take a COVID-19 vaccine is that you could have the virus infecting you, but not know it because you have no symptoms. I.e., you’re an asymptomatic “case.” Then you engage with others, coughing and sneezing and spitting on their food, resulting in transmission of your infection to others. Your germs in the wrong person – e.g., old and sickly – could kill them.

I haven’t done a formal search of the medical literature yet, but did run across one article addressing transmission of SARS-CoV-2 infection by asymptomatic individuals. This article says it doesn’t happen

Abstract

Stringent COVID-19 control measures were imposed in Wuhan between January 23 and April 8, 2020. Estimates of the prevalence of infection following the release of restrictions could inform post-lockdown pandemic management. Here, we describe a city-wide SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid screening programme between May 14 and June 1, 2020 in Wuhan. All city residents aged six years or older were eligible and 9,899,828 (92.9%) participated. No new symptomatic cases and 300 asymptomatic cases (detection rate 0.303/10,000, 95% CI 0.270–0.339/10,000) were identified. There were no positive tests amongst 1,174 close contacts of asymptomatic cases. 107 of 34,424 previously recovered COVID-19 patients tested positive again (re-positive rate 0.31%, 95% CI 0.423–0.574%). The prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in Wuhan was therefore very low five to eight weeks after the end of lockdown.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19802-w

Go ahead and analyze the article and tell me why it’s invalid. It was generated in China, and some will say we can’t trust any of the pandemic info originating there.

Asymptomatic infection with various germs is a real thing. Off the top of my head, I can’t think of any respiratory infection for which we would isolate an asymptomatic patient. Because they’re not a significant infectious risk to others.

It appears that a person with symptomatic COVID-19 can shed potentially infectious particles for some period of time even after they’re feeling back to normal. We’ve shortened that period of viral shedding as we’ve learned more about this virus (is it about a week now?).

Fauci told us earlier this year that vaccinated folks are getting symptomatic COVID-19 infections and they’re just as infectious as the un-vaccinated symptomatic patients.

The most common arguments against mandated COVID-19 vaccinations are:

  • The vaccinations haven’t been proven to be adequately safe, so I’ll take my chances with catching the virus. I’ll reconsider after we have 3-5 years of good clinical data on effectiveness and adverse events.
  • I’ve already had COVID-19 so I’m immune and present no infectious risk to anybody else.
  • I feel fine but if I develop COVID-19 symptoms I’ll get tested right away and self-isolate until I’m not a risk to anyone else.
  • The religious exemption: God gave me this life and body so I need to be a good steward and protect it. The vaccine may kill me or permanently injure me, whereas as I might never catch the virus. And if I did, I have a great chance of recovering fully. OR: I’ll depend on God to protect me. If I get sick, it’s God’s will and I accept it. OR: click for extensive documentation from Orthodox Christianity.
  • My body, my choice.

Steve Parker, M.D.

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Good Patriot Asks: Have You Been Brainwashed?

I expect she’ll be censored soon.

Here’s Why CDC Recommends COVID-19 Vaccination Even If You’ve Already Recovered from COVID-19

“In this multistate analysis of hospitalizations for COVID-19–like illness among adults aged ≥18 years during January–September 2021 whose previous infection or vaccination occurred 90–179 days earlier, the adjusted odds of laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 were higher among unvaccinated and previously infected patients than among those who were fully vaccinated with 2 doses of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine without previous documentation of a SARS-CoV-2 infection.”

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Israeli Study Supports 3rd Dose (Booster) of Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine

The patient is wise to look away. If you watch the needle go in, it’ll hurt more.

The study at hand compared thousands of folks in Israel who got the booster dose with those who didn’t. Everybody got the original Pfizer 2-shot vaccine at least six months previously. The study period included some months when the delta variant was dominant (about seven weeks starting in August 2021). Median follow-up of study participants was a surprisingly low 13 days.

Nevertheless, the booster seemed to reduce hospitalization, severe disease, and death from COVID-19.

See The Lancet for details.

Steve Novella has more details at Science-Based Medicine.

Steve Parker, M.D.

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Pfizer Vaccination Protects Against COVID-19 Delta Variant Death in Scotland

…according to a letter at New England Journal of Medicine.

1,564,000 adults were tested for COVID-19 between April 1 and August 15, 2021. Of those, 114, 706 had a positive PCR test for COVID-19 and were deemed “cases” irrespective of symptoms. 201 deaths were attributed to COVID-19.

The AztraZeneca vaccine was also judged very effective against death.

As of mid-June 2021, 80% of the adults in Scotland had received at least the first dose of a vaccine. Scotland has 5.5 million residents.

Steve Parker, M.D.

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QOTD: Men and Women…Together

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“Yes, the kids are long gone, but we’re still together.”

Men offer women what other women can’t, and when they do it right, everyone is better off. Women at their best bring out the best in men. They — men, that is — are more inclined to behave themselves, to work harder, scrape off their rougher edges, and be more dependable. This extends into other arenas of social life, like being a good father, a reliable worker, and a helpful neighbor. Women get to have men around to be “the fathers” to the children that they cannot be, to share the burdens and joys of child-rearing, and, together, ease the chastening of old age.

-Stephen Paul Foster, July 1, 2021 (I’d link to the source but the website owner has blocked my IP address)

Risking the Health of Innocent Children to Protect Boomers

https://granitegrok.com/blog/2021/10/our-children-the-hill-to-die-on