Weekly Round Up - Stories you might have missed!
Weekly Round Up - Stories you might have missed!
Largest Children’s Hospital Ends Transgender Medical Procedures, NIH Spends $1 Billion Studying Long COVID–Produces Nothing, and more!
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Target VP Was Board Member for K-12 Transgender Advocacy Group
Target’s shareholders lost $9 billion in stock market value because the C-suite mixed its professional duties with its personal agendas, including advocacy for transgenderism.
The poster boy for this high-risk policy is Target’s vice president for brand marketing, Carlos Saavedra. He moonlights as a board member of an advocacy group for K-12 transgenderism and gay status. The group, titled GLSEN, is an acronym chosen by the teachers who formed the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network in 1990.
Target’s website says Saavedra “leads Target brand stewardship & campaign development for initiatives including Holiday, Back-to-School/College, Target Run, Discovery, Inclusive Marketing, and Digital & Social Engagement.”
That description portrays Saavedra as the retail version of Bud Light’s Alissa Heinerscheid, who wrecked the company’s Bug Light business by trying to rebrand the blue-collar beer around transgender advocate Dylan Mulvaney.
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All Infected in COVID Outbreak at CDC Conference Were Vaccinated, Agency Confirms
About 1,800 CDC staffers and others gathered in April in a hotel in Atlanta, where the CDC is headquartered, for a conference focused on epidemiological investigations and strategies.
On April 27, the last day of the conference, several people notified organizers that they had tested positive for COVID-19. The CDC and the Georgia Department of Public Health worked together to survey attendees to try to figure out how many people had tested positive.
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Largest US Children’s Hospital Will No Longer Offer Transgender Medical Procedures: CEO
Texas Children’s Hospital, the nation’s largest children’s hospital, will no longer offer transgender medical procedures for children, according to the hospital’s CEO Mark Wallace.
The decision will place the hospital in compliance with legislation, Senate Bill 14, which passed in a vote mainly along party lines on May 11.
The legislation will take effect on Sept. 1 once it is signed into law by Gov. Greg Abbott, who has signaled he will do so.
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NIH Spends $1 Billion Studying Long COVID–Produces Nothing
NIH, the world’s largest biomedical research agency, was granted massive amounts of money to get to the bottom of long COVID symptoms that are devastating 1 in 13 Americans—but it fumbled its response.
STORY AT-A-GLANCE
In February 2021, NIH announced that Congress would provide the agency $1.15 billion in funding over four years to study long COVID.
An investigation by STAT and MuckRock, a nonprofit news outlet, revealed the NIH’s efforts to study long COVID have done little to benefit those struggling with the disorder and haven’t contributed meaningful information about the condition, either.
As of April 2023, NIH has “basically nothing to show for” its research to date.
Instead of conducting trials to pin down how to prevent and cure long COVID, NIH has spent most of its money simply watching, tracking, and recording long COVID symptoms.
Gathering information about NIH’s long COVID data—and where the $1.15 billion in funding has gone—hasn’t proven easy; there is no single NIH official in charge of the efforts and the agency isn’t sharing even basic information about its research.
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‘Over-Vaccination’ Could Lessen Protection from COVID-19 and Cause ‘More Severe’ Illness: Autoimmune Disease, Cancer, Heart Disease (Journal ‘Vaccines’)
Researchers are cautioning that “over-vaccination” could weaken the alleged protection provided by the COVID-19 vaccine, according to a new study published this month in the journal Vaccines.
The study also suggests that if this happens, both newly diagnosed COVID-19 patients and people re-infected with the virus could have a more severe case of the disease.
Antibodies are proteins that the body produces in response to harmful substances called antigens, like the COVID virus.
The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine stimulates the body to create antibodies to fight against the COVID virus spike protein.
But this new study shows that repeatedly giving booster shots increases a specific type of antibody called IgG4.
The study found that the levels of IgG4 increased significantly after the third dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
To put it in numbers, IgG4 levels rose from 0.04% right after the second shot to 19.27% after the third shot.
This increase in IgG4 antibodies wasn’t seen with other types of COVID-19 vaccines, like the AstraZeneca vaccine, which uses a different technology.
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Peer-Reviewed Study Finds Substantial “Sudden and Sustained” Increase in Excess Mortality in Early 2021
A peer-reviewed study acknowledged a significant spike in excess mortality in Germany during the year 2021 and 2022. According to the paper, 2021 excess deaths were “two empirical standard deviations above the expected number” and “four times the empirical standard deviations in 2022.” The report also draws attention to a spike in stillbirths.
By comparison, the 2020 excess deaths were “close to the expected number with respect to empirical standard deviation.” There were approximately 4,000 excess deaths in 2020.
In 2021 and 2022, however, this number skyrocketed. The year 2021 saw around 34,000 excess deaths and 2022 approximately 66,000. The surge in excess mortality reportedly began around April 2021.
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Beef Company CEO: “I’ll Shut Down The Company Before We Ship A Single Bag With MRNA-Injected Meat”
Quickly but quietly, Big Pharma and various state governments are working to inject beef and dairy cattle with mRNA “vaccines.” The practice has been happening with pork since 2018 and beef is next on the agenda.
Jason Nelson, CEO of Whole Cows, has been watching the developments closely. His Texas company, which specializes in shelf-stable freeze-dried meat for long-term storage, has vowed to never allow gene therapied cattle to enter the food supply through their products (plus, the Liberty Daily benefits when you purchase from them through this link and the links below).
“I’ll shut down the company before we ship a single bag of mRNA-injected meat,” he said. “That’s why we’re growing as quickly as possible so we can achieve the buying power to produce large amounts. We’re relatively small now but we want to have a surplus of tens of thousands of bags of beef by 2024.”
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Breaking: Family of 24-Year-Old Who Died From COVID Vaccine Sues DOD in ‘Groundbreaking Case’
The family of a 24-year-old man who died from complications of COVID-19 vaccine-induced myocarditis today filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), which oversaw the development and distribution of the drug under Operation Warp Speed.
Ray Flores, the attorney representing the estate of George Watts Jr. filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the DOD and Lloyd Austin III in his official capacity as defense secretary.
The lawsuit alleges the DOD engaged in “willful misconduct” by continuing to exclusively allow distribution of the stockpiled version of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine that had been authorized for emergency use even after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted full approval to a different vaccine, Comirnaty.
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Zero Young Healthy Individuals Died of COVID-19, Israeli Data Show
Zero healthy individuals under the age of 50 have died of COVID-19 in Israel, according to newly released data.
“Zero deceased of 18–49 years of age with no underlying morbidities,” the Israel Ministry of Health (MOH) said in response to a formal request from an attorney.
Officials noted that the statement only applies to COVID-19 deaths where the MOH conducted an epidemiological investigation and had received information about the underlying diseases.
