Weekly Round Up - Stories you might have missed!
Weekly Round Up - Stories you might have missed!
Biden likely violated First Amendment during COVID-19 Pandemic, Woman Files $10.5 Million Lawsuit Against Federal Government and CBC for Vax Harms, Were Lab Animals Killed After mRNA Vax, and more!
HEALTH
Rare link between coronavirus vaccines and Long Covid–like illness starts to gain acceptance
COVID-19 vaccines have saved millions of lives, and the world is gearing up for a new round of boosters. But like all vaccines, those targeting the coronavirus can cause side effects in some people, including rare cases of abnormal blood clotting and heart inflammation. Another apparent complication, a debilitating suite of symptoms that resembles Long Covid, has been more elusive, its link to vaccination unclear and its diagnostic features ill-defined. But in recent months, what some call Long Vax has gained wider acceptance among doctors and scientists, and some are now working to better understand and treat its symptoms.
“You see one or two patients and you wonder if it’s a coincidence,” says Anne Louise Oaklander, a neurologist and researcher at Harvard Medical School. “But by the time you’ve seen 10, 20,” she continues, trailing off. “Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.”
Cases seem very rare—far less common than Long Covid after infection. Symptoms can include persistent headaches, severe fatigue, and abnormal heart rate and blood pressure. They appear hours, days, or weeks after vaccination and are difficult to study. But researchers and clinicians are increasingly finding some alignment with known medical conditions. One is small fiber neuropathy, a condition Oaklander studies, in which nerve damage can cause tingling or electric shock–like sensations, burning pain, and blood circulation problems. The second is a more nebulous syndrome, with symptoms sometimes triggered by small fiber neuropathy, called postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS). It can involve muscle weakness, swings in heart rate and blood pressure, fatigue, and brain fog.
OPINION
Were Lab Animals Killed After mRNA Vaccination Trials to Hide Long-Term Adverse Consequences?
In a joint article written with A Midwestern Doctor last October, we described a tragic case of vaccine-caused B-cell lymphoblastic lymphoma in a prominent COVID vaccine advocate, Belgian Prof. Michel Goldman.
A recent and seemingly unrelated study involving lab mice shows that Michel Goldman has counterparts in the murine (mouse) world. (hat tip to @ashmedaidaemon on Twitter, who has an amazing Substack and who wrote a nice summary of the study)
NEWS
Biden likely violated First Amendment during COVID-19 pandemic, federal judge says
Google, Meta and Twitter were all named in the lawsuits
A U.S. District Court judge is temporarily preventing White House officials from meeting with tech companies about social media censorship, arguing that such actions in the past were likely First Amendment violations.
The Tuesday injunction by Louisiana Judge Terry A. Doughty was in response to recent lawsuits from Louisiana and Missouri attorneys general. The suits allege that the White House coerced or "significantly encourage[d]" tech companies to suppress free speech during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Doughty is barring several federal officials and agencies – including some of Biden's Cabinet members and White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre – from contacting social media companies in efforts to suppress speech.
Google, Meta and Twitter were all named in the lawsuits.
SUBSTACK
BOOM: Yesterday In Court We Landed a Major Blow Against the Censorship Leviathan
To avoid overloading your inboxes, my friends, I usually do not post twice in the same day; but yesterday’s news was too good not to share with you immediately. Courts rarely release rulings on federal holidays, but no doubt to drive home the point about how important this case is for our constitutionally guaranteed liberties, Judge Terry Doughty released on Independence Day his 155-page ruling on our request for a preliminary injunction against the government’s censorship regime.
The entire document is worth reading for those who want to dig into the details, but in short, he granted nearly all the provisions in our request, placing strict limits around any communication between government officials and social media companies. If such communications continue, they will be subject to subpoena in our case and could implicate the actors in criminal liabilities for violating the injunction.
NEWS
Woman Files $10.5 Million Lawsuit Against Federal Government and CBC for Vaccine Harms
A Canadian mother of three who says she suffered “permanent, significant physical, psychological, and emotional harms, and other damages” after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine has filed a $10.5 million lawsuit against the federal government, CBC News, and others.
According to a July 3 media release by the groups Empowered Canadians and the Institute for Freedom and Justice, the lawsuit was filed in the Court of King’s Bench in Lethbridge, Alberta, against the federal minister of health, the chief public health officer of Canada, Health Canada, the Public Health Agency of Canada, Alberta Health Services, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, among others.
VIEWPOINTS
Sorry, but Serious Harms From the Vaccine Aren’t Rare
Drug regulators and public health agencies have saturated the airways with claims that serious harms following COVID-19 vaccination are “rare.”
But there has been very little scrutiny of that claim by the media, and I couldn’t find an instance where international agencies actually quantified what they meant by the term “rare” or provided a scientific source.
The best evidence so far has been a study published in one of vaccinology’s most prestigious journals, where independent researchers reanalyzed the original trial data for the mRNA vaccines.
The authors, Joseph Fraiman et al., found that serious adverse events (SAE)—i.e., adverse events that require hospitalization—were elevated in the vaccine arm by an alarming rate—1 additional SAE for every 556 people vaccinated with Pfizer’s mRNA vaccine.
NEWS
Oregon Health Care Clinics Lost Workers Over COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate: Study
Dozens of health care clinics in Oregon lost workers because of the COVID-19 vaccine mandate imposed by the state’s health agency, according to a new study.
About half of clinics that filled out surveys reported losing workers. The majority of those reporting the loss of employees are in rural areas.
“Oregon’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate increased health care personnel vaccination rates, yet amplified staffing challenges with disproportionate impacts in rural areas,” Dr. Brigit Hatch, a professor at Oregon Health & Science University, and her co-workers said.
NEWS
No Jab, No Life: Senator Helps Unvaccinated Patient Search for Heart Transplant
A senator is calling for donors to help an unvaccinated Melbourne mother receive a heart transplant from overseas after she was denied one locally due to her COVID-19 vaccination status.
Vicki Derderian is a mother of two from Melbourne, Australia, and has suffered a heart condition over the past eight years.
She currently lives with the support of a bi-ventricular assist device (BI-VAD) which is inserted into both sides of the heart and pumps blood through the body.
Derderian was always looking to have a heart transplant and was granted an exemption in 2021 from requiring to get a COVID-19 vaccination.
Known side effects of the COVID-19 vaccines can impact the heart’s health and include such conditions as myocarditis and pericarditis.
NEWS
CDC Altered Minnesota Death Certificates that List a Covid Vaccine as a Cause of Death
Someone (who needs to remain anonymous) was able to obtain the death certificates from Minnesota for all deaths that occurred from 2015 to the present, which presented the opportunity to see if the CDC is being entirely honest about the US death data. Unsurprisingly, the CDC is not.
As we shall document, the CDC is concealing references to a covid vaccine on Minnesota death certificates (that are exceedingly rare to begin with because of widespread medical establishment denialism of vaccine adverse side effects). In almost every death certificate that identifies a covid vaccine as a cause of death, the CDC committed data fraud by not assigning the ICD 10 code for vaccine side effects to the causes of death listed on the death certificate.
Good articles. Of all the lies they have told, the "the vaccines have saved millions of lives" is the most infuriating.