On Tuesday, September 26, 2023, Elon Musk shared a viral video which spreads misinformation on COVID-19 vaccine efficacy, that was posted by Wall Street Silver a day earlier.
To top it off, he appeared to make a pun which suggests that the reported efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines was “dis information”.
Rob Schneider : My family is in the ‘Health Care Industry’…
If you fell for the non-stop fear fest propaganda, hopefully you won’t fall for it again when these mo-fo’s try the same thing NEXT MONTH.
You heard me correctly…
The same people who closed schools and masked children as young as 3 and closed gyms, churches and small businesses while keeping open liquor and Weed dispensaries, have notified hospitals who were told to mass order the same ineffective covid prevention equipment…
They are going back for Sloppy Seconds on the Medical Tyranny Cash Grab…
That is what happens when no safe guards are put in place to prevent its recurrence. Nothing has changed.
The only question they have is… will the people put up with it again?! And for how long?
Or will they have to fake an Alien invasion?! 😉
Have a good night everybody!
Why Elon Musk Should Not Share Such Vaccine Efficacy Misinformation!
The video appears to be legitimate, showing screenshots of news headlines accompanied by the Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 – “In the Hall of the Mountain King”.
Let’s take a look at what’s wrong with the video, and why someone like Elon Musk should stop sharing such videos…
Fact #1 : This Is An Old Video From 2022
First, I should point out that this is actually an old video, which originally went viral on Instagram last year – at the end of November 2022.
Fact #2 : Video Timeline Is Not In Order
I should also point out that while the timeline is not in order – the news headlines do not appear in the right chronological order. For example:
Now, you may be wondering – why do COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness jump up and down in the chronological order?
For one thing – they are based on different studies, and some variation is to be expected. But more importantly – the screenshots show different outcomes of those COVID-19 vaccine studies:
March 11, 2021 : Pfizer vaccine 97% effective against symptomatic COVID-19 March 31, 2021 : Pfizer vaccine 100% effective against symptomatic COVID-19 in 12-15 year-old kids
April 28, 2021 : Pfizer and Modern vaccines are 94 percent effective in preventing hospitalisation of older adults
May 6, 2021 : Pfizer vaccine 96.7% effective at preventing COVID deaths May 26, 2021 : Moderna vaccine 100% effective against symptomatic COVID-19 in 12-17 year old adolescents
August 5, 2021 : Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine still 93% effective against symptomatic COVID-19 after 6 months
September 23, 2021 : Moderna vaccine 96% effective, Pfizer vaccine 89% effective against symptomatic COVID-19
That is like comparing the results of a 100 m sprint versus a 5 km race and a 4 x 400 m relay race. They are all Olympic track events where the fastest competitor wins, but they are simply not comparable!
Fact #4 : Vaccine Effectiveness Is Different From Vaccine Efficacy
When COVID-19 vaccines started to be approved, the results of their Phase 3 clinical trials were announced. You may have seen tables like this one showing the efficacy of those COVID-19 vaccines:
COVID-19 Vaccine
Protection Against
Symptomatic
Infection
Severe
Disease
Death
Pfizer Comirnaty
95.0%
100%
100%
Gamaleya Sputnik V
91.6%
100%
100%
Moderna mRNA-1273
94.1%
100%
100%
AstraZeneca AZD1222
62% ~ 90%
100%
100%
Sinopharm BBIBP-CorV
79% ~ 86%
90%
100%
Sinovac Biotech
50.65%
83.7%
100%
J&J Janssen COVID-19
66.0%
85%
100%
CanSino Biologics
65.7%
90.98%
100%
What many people may not understand is that – the above table shows vaccine efficacy, and that is a little different from vaccine effectiveness mentioned in those screenshots.
Vaccine efficacy is the reduction in disease (in percentage) that occurs in a vaccinated group under optimal conditions, compared to an unvaccinated group.
Do not confuse it with vaccine effectiveness, which is the real world ability of the vaccine to prevent the disease. Vaccine effectiveness may be lowered by underlying chronic conditions, medication, age, and even how the vaccine is stored and administered.
Fact #5 : Vaccine Effectiveness Varies With COVID-19 Variants
The video also (deliberately?) mixes up news headlines comparing the vaccine effectiveness against different COVID-19 variants.
The first-generation COVID-19 vaccines were developed to prevent death and severe disease from the original (or ancestral) SARS-CoV-2 virus. Their Phase 3 clinical trial efficacy results were (mostly) based on that ancestral virus.
However, the SARS-CoV-2 virus evolves rapidly, and some new variants will be more capable at evading the antibodies produced by the vaccine, or a previous infection.
That does not mean that those vaccine are useless. It simply means we have to progressively adapt the first-generation vaccines to better deal with the new variants. Those in the military may better recognise this – a classical progression between weapons and armour.
For example, tanks were invented to protect against bullets in the battlefield. Anti-tank guns were then invented to defeat these new tanks. As tanks developed thicker armour, anti-tank guns got bigger and more powerful. After shaped charge rockets (Panzerfaust, RPG) were invented, tank were given spaced armour and later, reactive armour to defeat them.
Similarly, as the SARS-CoV-2 virus evolves over time, COVID-19 vaccines must evolve to target those new variants.
Fact #6 : COVID-19 Vaccines Have Been Proven Effective
The truth is – COVID-19 vaccines have been proven effective. We see it every day. No more lockdowns. No more overcrowded ICUs or hospitals, with COVID-19 patients gasping for breath in makeshift tents.
Over 13.5 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines were administered worldwide in the past 2.5 years, and they are responsible for allowing the world to reopen safely and completely.
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Former Florida surgeon general Dr. Scott Rivkees and the CDC just publicly slammed the state’s advice against getting the updated 2023-2024 COVID-19 vaccine!
Find out what he said, and what’s going on!
Florida Recommends Against 2023 Updated COVID-19 Vaccines!
Just one day after the CDC recommended that everyone 6 months and older should get the new 2023 updated COVID-19 vaccines, Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo issued a statement recommending against people under 65 getting the updated vaccine.
In his statement, Ladapo claimed that getting the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines make it easier for people to get infected, while running risk of getting cardiac problems. Instead of getting the new COVID-19 vaccines, Ladapo recommends staying physically active outdoors, and eating more vegetables…
As the federal government makes new boosters for COVID-19 available, the Florida Department of Health (Department) reminds health care providers of their obligation to remain up to date with the current literature related to the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines.
A new mRNA COVID-19 booster was approved on September 11, 2023, by the federal government. While the initial mRNA COVID-19 vaccines were authorized by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) utilizing human clinical trial data, the most recent booster approval was granted in the absence of any meaningful booster-specific clinical trial data performed in humans. In both cases the federal government has failed to provide sufficient data to support the safety and efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccines. Health care providers are expected to include the information in this guidance in discussions with patients regarding the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines.
Based on the high rate of global immunity and currently available data, the State Surgeon General recommends against the COVID-19 booster for individuals under 65. Individuals 65 and older should discuss this information with their health care provider, including potential concerns outlined in this guidance.
Providers and patients should be aware of outstanding safety and efficacy concerns:
Throughout the pandemic, studies across geographic regions have found that the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines are associated with negative effectiveness after 4 to 6 months. As efficacy waned, studies showed that COVID-19 vaccinated individuals developed an increased risk for infection. This is not found in other vaccines, including the flu vaccine.
The mRNA COVID-19 vaccines present a risk of subclinical and clinical myocarditis and other cardiovascular conditions among otherwise healthy individuals. There is unknown risk of potential adverse impacts with each additional dose of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine; currently individuals may have received five to seven doses (and counting) of this vaccine over a 3-year period.
Elevated levels of spike protein from the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine persist among some individuals for an indefinite period of time, which may carry health risks.
Improving habits and overall health help manage and reduce the risk of serious health problems such as heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and obesity. The State Surgeon General and the Department continue to encourage Floridians to prioritize their overall health by:
Staying physically active,
Minimizing processed foods,
Maximizing vegetables and healthy fats, and
Spending time outside to support necessary vitamin D levels.
Former Surgeon General Slams Florida Vaccine Advice!
Former Florida surgeon general Dr. Scott Rivkees just publicly slammed the DeSantis administration and Dr. Joseph Ladapo for advising people against getting the updated 2023 COVID-19 vaccines.
Dr. Scott Rivkees preceded Dr. Joseph Ladapo as the state surgeon general, resigning in September 2021 after being shunned by Ron DeSantis for encouraging COVID-19 precautions when the Florida governor wanted virtually no preventive measures.
When the current Florida surgeon general issued that advice against getting the updated COVID-19 vaccine, he spoke up against it to USA TODAY NETWORK – Florida.
Dr. Rivkees, who is a pediatrician and now a professor at the Brown University School of Public Health, pointed out that the COVID-19 vaccines have been proven to be “very safe” and “very effective”.
Rates of COVID vaccination are lower in Florida than they had been. I think the cumulative effect of this anti-vaccine messaging is being felt.
COVID is a vaccine preventable disease. These vaccines are very safe and very effective.
The CDC also publicly criticised both Florida governor Ron DeSantis and his surgeon general Joseph Ladapo for advising against getting the updated 2023 COVID-19 vaccine, with CDC Director Dr. Mandy Cohen calling their comments “dangerous“.
Vaccination against COVID-19 remains the safest protection for avoiding hospitalizations, long-term health challenges, and death.
As we head into the fall and winter seasons, it is important that Americans get the updated COVID-19 vaccine. They are proven safe; they are effective, and they have been thoroughly and independently reviewed by the FDA and CDC.
Public health experts are in broad agreement about these facts, and efforts to undercut vaccine uptake are unfounded and dangerous.
The US FDA has also stated publicly that the new 2023 COVID-19 vaccines have been thoroughly reviewed and tested for safety:
The public can be assured that these updated vaccines have met the agency’s rigorous scientific standards for safety, effectiveness, and manufacturing quality.
We very much encourage those who are eligible to consider getting vaccinated.
– Peter Marks, Director of the FDA Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research
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Should you listen to Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo who claimed that the 2023 COVID-19 vaccines have “a lot of red flags”?!
Find out what he said, and what the facts really are!
Claim : 2023 COVID-19 Vaccines Have “A Lot Of Red Flags”
Days before the FDA approved the updated 2023 COVID-19 vaccines that the CDC later recommended for everyone 6 years and older, Florida’s Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo went on a rant.
During a “Mandate Freedom” press conference with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on September 7, 2023, Ladapo criticised the 2023 COVID-19 vaccines, claiming that there are “a lot of red flags”.
There’s a new vaccine that’s coming around the corner, a new mRNA COVID-19 vaccine, and there’s essentially no evidence for it.
There’s been no clinical trial done in human beings showing that it benefits people. There’s been no clinical trial showing that it is a safe product for people — and not only that, but then there are a lot of red flags.
So something that you don’t hear much about, but we’ll be talking more about is that there are multiple studies now from around the world – Brazil, I think Australia, United States, that show that over time, these vaccines, these mRNA COVID-19 products actually increase your chances of contracting COVID-19.
That’s not normal, and unfortunately, you are going to have people who are going to get on television and try to explain why you should be comfortable with that, you should be comfortable with taking a product that ultimately, like its predecessors, increases your chance of contracting something.
No Evidence 2023 COVID-19 Vaccines Have “A Lot Of Red Flags”
Let’s take a look at the claims Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo made at the “Mandate Freedom” press conference, and see what the facts really are…
Fact #1 : Joseph Ladapo Was Appointed By Ron DeSantis
First, I think it is important to note that most US states do not have a surgeon general. State surgeon generals are a recent “invention”, with only five states creating this position:
Pennsylvania : 1996
Michigan : 2003
Arkansas and Florida : 2007
California : 2019
Even so, Michigan has not filled its Surgeon General post since 2010. All other US states and territories do not their own state surgeon generals, and rely on the US Surgeon General, who is currently Vivek Murthy.
Joseph Abiodun Ladapo was appointed to the post of Florida Surgeon General by Florida governor Ron DeSantis on September 21, 2021, following his op-eds promoting unproven COVID-19 treatments like hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin, questioning the safety of vaccines, and opposing lockdowns and mask mandates.
At that time, he claimed that these opinions were based on his “experience in treating COVID-19 patients at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). However, UCLA staff roster do not show him treating any COVID-19 patients. Several of his colleagues also stated that Ladapo had never treated any COVID-19 patient.
Fact #2 : Ladapo’s Advice Are Often Controversial
After he was appointed as Florida Surgeon General, Joseph Ladapo’s first move was to repeal quarantine requirements for schoolchildren exposed to COVID-19.
He also recommended that children in Florida should not be vaccinated against COVID-19, making Florida the first state to contradict COVID-19 vaccine guidelines by the CDC and the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Ladapo also suggested that men aged 18 to 39 should not be vaccinated, claiming high cases of cardiac-related deaths for those who took the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines – a claim that was rejected by many medical professionals.
In a sign that his views were possibly disgraceful, the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine removed Ladapo’s name and biography from its websites.
In January 2023, the Faculty Council of the University of Florida College of Medicine said that Ladapo’s recommendation was based on “careless and contentious research practice” and might have violated the university policies on research integrity.
On March 10, 2023, the CDC and the FDA publicly rebuked Joseph Ladapo (PDF download) for claiming that the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines cause widespread adverse events.
Fact #3 : Ladapo Comments Were Made Before Vaccine Approval
Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo made those comments on 7 September – four days before the US FDA approved the updated 2023 vaccines, and five days before the CDC recommended their use in people 6 months and older.
So how did Ladapo know that these updated 2023 COVID-19 vaccines have “a lot of red flags” days before the FDA and the CDC announced their findings?
Fact #4 : Ladapo Did Not Offer Any Evidence
Even more troubling – Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo did not offer any evidence to back up his claim that the updated 2023 COVID-19 vaccines have “a lot of red flags”.
What exactly are those red flags? He didn’t say.
Fact #5 : Ladapo Asked People To “Feel” Instead
Instead of providing evidence that the updated 2023 COVID-19 vaccines are dangerous, Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo asked people to “feel” instead.
Listen inside to what makes sense, what feels right, you know, what feels like truth. What has that feeling, and that resonance of truth. That clarity of truth, like we all know it when we feel it inside.
Ladapo also explained that some people are more able to “feel” the truth, because they are more advanced in their “spiritual journeys”.
Some of us know it more readily than others, and it’s because we are all in different points in our spiritual journeys”.
To be clear – that’s not what they teach in medical school. Doctors are not taught to “feel” what is right, or what is wrong, for their patients.
Doctors are trained to examine patients, and use a variety of investigative tools like x-ray, ECG, MRI, ultrasound, etc. to come to a diagnosis. Then they prescribe a treatment based on the research conducted by other doctors and scientists.
Whether they are religious (or spiritual) or not, should not be a factor in the diagnosis or treatment of any patient.
The truth is – COVID-19 vaccines have been proven to be safe and effective. And we know this because not only have they passed large Phase 3 clinical trials, billions of doses have been administered worldwide in the past 2.5 years.
Thanks to the efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccines in preventing hospitalisation and death from the SARS-CoV-2 virus, hospitals are no longer filled with people gasping for breath. In fact, the world has successfully reopened, thanks to the COVID-19 vaccines.
COVID-19 vaccines do not make it easier for people to get infected. It only appears that way because many people are now vaccinated. If 90% of the world is vaccinated, then it is only natural that 90% of infected people have been vaccinated.
I should also point out that the COVID-19 vaccines were designed to prevent death and severe disease. They are not force fields that block you from being infected, so fully-vaccinated people will still get infected.
However, because the COVID-19 vaccines have trained your own immune system to fight against the SARS-CoV-2 virus, you are more likely to suffer a mild disease, or even remain asymptomatic.
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The FDA just approved two new 2023-2024 COVID-19 vaccines, which the CDC is now recommending for everyone 6 months and older!
Here is what you need to know about these new COVID-19 vaccines for 2023-2024!
FDA Approves Two 2023-2024 COVID-19 Vaccines!
On September 11, 2023, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved updated COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna for 2023-2024.
In tandem, the US FDA also removed authorisation for the previous Pfizer and Moderna Bivalent vaccine in the United States.
FDA Takes Action on Updated mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines to Better Protect Against Currently Circulating Variants
Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration took action approving and authorizing for emergency use updated COVID-19 vaccines formulated to more closely target currently circulating variants and to provide better protection against serious consequences of COVID-19, including hospitalization and death.
Today’s actions relate to updated mRNA vaccines for 2023-2024 manufactured by ModernaTX Inc. and Pfizer Inc. Consistent with the totality of the evidence and input from the FDA’s expert advisors, these vaccines have been updated to include a monovalent (single) component that corresponds to the Omicron variant XBB.1.5.
Individuals 5 years of age and older regardless of previous vaccination are eligible to receive a single dose of an updated mRNA COVID-19 vaccine at least 2 months since the last dose of any COVID-19 vaccine.
Individuals 6 months through 4 years of age who have previously been vaccinated against COVID-19 are eligible to receive one or two doses of an updated mRNA COVID-19 vaccine (timing and number of doses to administer depends on the previous COVID-19 vaccine received).
Unvaccinated individuals 6 months through 4 years of age are eligible to receive three doses of the updated authorized Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine or two doses of the updated authorized Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine.
The FDA is confident in the safety and effectiveness of these updated vaccines and the agency’s benefit-risk assessment demonstrates that the benefits of these vaccines for individuals 6 months of age and older outweigh their risks.
Individuals who receive an updated mRNA COVID-19 vaccine may experience similar side effects as those reported by individuals who previously received mRNA COVID-19 vaccines as described in the respective prescribing information or fact sheets.
The updated vaccines are expected to provide good protection against COVID-19 from the currently circulating variants. Barring the emergence of a markedly more virulent variant, the FDA anticipates that the composition of COVID-19 vaccines may need to be updated annually, as is done for the seasonal influenza vaccine.
You may not notice but the FDA is not calling these vaccines a “booster dose”. Instead, both vaccines are considered as “updated vaccines” that will better target the currently circulating SARS-CoV-2 virus variants.
Both 2023-2024 updated vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna are based on the same mRNA vaccine technology as their original and bivalent vaccines. But the updated 2023-2024 COVID-19 vaccines no longer targets the original, ancestral SARS-CoV-2 virus.
Instead, they both target the XBB.1.5 variant, which was dominant when these vaccines were developed. Even though the XBB.1.5 variant is no longer the dominant variant, the FDA has determined that it is similar enough to most prevailing variants to offer good cross-protection.
As before, these updated 2023-2024 COVID-19 vaccines are designed to prevent death and severe disease, and not avoid mild disease or symptomatic infections.
The FDA is still reviewing a third updated 2023-2024 COVID-19 vaccine from Novavax. The Novavax COVID-19 vaccine does not use mRNA, and is based on a synthetic spike protein with an adjuvant instead.
On Tuesday, September 12, 2023, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officially recommended that everyone 6 months and older get the updated 2023-2024 COVID-19 vaccines that were just approved by the US FDA.
CDC Recommends Updated COVID-19 Vaccine for Fall/Winter Virus Season
CDC recommends everyone 6 months and older get an updated COVID-19 vaccine to protect against the potentially serious outcomes of COVID-19 illness this fall and winter. Updated COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna will be available later this week.
Vaccination remains the best protection against COVID-19-related hospitalization and death. Vaccination also reduces your chance of suffering the effects of Long COVID, which can develop during or following acute infection and last for an extended duration. If you have not received a COVID-19 vaccine in the past 2 months, get an updated COVID-19 vaccine to protect yourself this fall and winter.
The virus that causes COVID-19 is always changing, and protection from COVID-19 vaccines declines over time. Receiving an updated COVID-19 vaccine can restore protection and provide enhanced protection against the variants currently responsible for most infections and hospitalizations in the United States.
Last season, those who received a 2022-2023 COVID-19 vaccine saw greater protection against illness and hospitalization than those who did not receive a 2022-2023 vaccine. To date, hundreds of millions of people have safely received a COVID-19 vaccine under the most intense safety monitoring in U.S. history.
This recommendation came after the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) was presented with new data which showed that the highest rates of hospitalisation and deaths from COVID-19 were for the very old – adults over 75, and the very young – infants younger than 6 months.
CDC Recommendations For 2023-2024 COVID-19 Vaccines
CDC just released its recommendations for who should get the 2023-2024 updated COVID-19 vaccines:
Everyone 6 Years And Older
The CDC recommends that everyone 6 years and older should get one dose of the updated 2023-2024 COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna, regardless of whether they received any original COVID-19 vaccine in the past or not.
People 65 Years And Older
People who are 65 years and older may get one additional dose of the updated 2023-2024 COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna, four or more months after receiving the first dose.
Immunocompromised People
People who are moderately or severely-immunocompromised may get one additional dose of the updated 2023-2024 COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna, two or more months after receiving the first dose.
Unvaccinated Children 6 Months To 4 Years (Pfizer)
The CDC is recommending three doses of the updated Pfizer-BioNTech 2023-2024 COVID-19 vaccines:
First dose of the 2023-2024 Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine
Second dose : 3-8 weeks after first dose
Third dose : at least 8 weeks after second dose
Vaccinated Children 6 Months To 4 Years (Pfizer)
The CDC is recommending that children who received the original Pfizer-BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine should receive these updated doses:
3 doses of the original vaccine : get one updated Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine dose
2 doses of the original vaccine : get one updated Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine dose
1 dose of the original vaccine : get two updated Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine doses
2 doses of the original vaccine + bivalent booster : no need for updated vaccine
Unvaccinated 5 Year Old Children (Pfizer)
The CDC is recommending that unvaccinated 5 year-old children should receive one dose of the updated 2023-2024 Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.
Vaccinated 5 Year Old Children (Pfizer)
The CDC is recommending that 5 year-old children who received the original Pfizer-BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine should receive one dose of the updated vaccine:
1 or more doses of the original vaccine : get one updated Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine dose
Unvaccinated Children 6 Months To 5 Years (Moderna)
The CDC is recommending two doses of the updated Moderna 2023-2024 COVID-19 vaccines:
First dose of the 2023-2024 Moderna COVID-19 vaccine
Second dose : 4-8 weeks after first dose
Vaccinated Children 6 Months To 5 Years (Moderna)
The CDC is recommending that children who received the original Moderna COVID-19 vaccine should receive these updated doses:
2 doses of the original vaccine : get one updated Moderna vaccine dose
1 dose of the original vaccine : get two updated Moderna vaccine doses
2 doses of the original vaccine + bivalent booster : no need for updated vaccine
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. just suggested that the Hank Aaron autopsy and cause of death may have been falsified to cover up his death from the COVID-19 vaccine!
Take a look at the viral claim, and find out what the facts really are!
Updated @ 2023-09-03 : Added video fact check. Originally posted @ 2023-09-02
Claim : Hank Aaron Autopsy + Cause of Death Are False!
People are sharing a video clip of US Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to suggest that Hank Aaron likely died from the COVID-19 vaccine, because his autopsy and cause of death may have been falsified!
Chief Nerd : Robert F. Kennedy Jr on How the New York Times Lied About Hank Aaron’s Autopsy
“The New York Times did an article that said ‘Robert Kennedy is a conspiracy theorist because the Fulton County coroner has declared that Hank Aaron’s death was unrelated to the vaccine…So I called the Fulton County coroner and got them on the phone and they said we don’t know what the New York Times is talking about. We never saw Hank Aaron’s body.”
torontowriter : New York Times lied about Hank Aaron’s autopsy
Torah Law : How many people knew Hank Aaron took the vaccine shot as a promotion to show its efficacy and then died two and a half weeks later? I didn’t know that. Oh and @RobertKennedyJr says the New York times lied about an autopsy that never happened… so there’s that
No Evidence Hank Aaron Autopsy + Cause of Death Are False!
Let’s take a look at what happened, and what the facts really are!
Fact #1 : Hank Aaron Received Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine Dose
Hank Aaron (born Henry Louis Aaron on February 5, 1934) was an American professional baseball player who played 23 seasons in Major League Baseball, from 1954 to 1976.
On 5 January 2021, Hank Aaron posted on Twitter that he just received his first COVID-19 vaccine dose at the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia:
I was proud to get the COVID-19 vaccine earlier today at Morehouse School of Medicine. I hope you do the same!
It was reported that Hank Aaron received the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.
Fact #2 : Hank Aaron Did Not Have Side Effect From Vaccine
According to former congressman, mayor and US ambassador, Andrew Young, who was also vaccinated at the same clinic on the same day, Aaron Hank did not experience any side effects from the COVID-19 vaccine he received:
I talked to the fella who was his driver, and I said, ‘was Hank feeling any discomfort or any problem over the last few days?’ and he said, ‘no, he wanted to keep his schedule,’
Fact #3 : Hank Aaron Died Of Natural Causes
Hank Aaron died in his sleep at his Atlanta, Georgia home on January 22, 2021. He was 86 years old when he died.
On January 25, 2021, the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office announce that Hank Aaron died of natural causes.
A memorial service was held at the Truist Park on Tuesday, January 26, with a funeral service on Wednesday, January 27, at the Friendship Baptist Church, followed by a burial at the South-View Cemetery.
Because Hank Aaron died 17 days after receiving the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, many anti-vaccine activists claimed or suggested that he died from the vaccine.
This isn’t the first time Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggested that Hank Aaron may have died suddenly from the COVID-19 vaccine.
On January 22, 2021, he tweeted a link to an article by his organisation, Children’s Health Defense, which suggested that Hank Aaron died suddenly from the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.
#HankAaron’s tragic death is part of a wave of suspicious deaths among elderly closely following administration of #COVID #vaccines. He received the #Moderna vaccine on Jan. 5 to inspire other Black Americans to get the vaccine. #TheDefender
The difference is – this time, he’s suggesting that the New York Times was wrong, and that the Fulton County Examiner’s office “never saw Hank Aaron’s body“!
Fact #5 : Hank Aaron’s Body Was Examined By Fulton County Medical Examiner
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on The Breakfast Club radio show that he called the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s office, and was told that the people there “never saw Hank Aaron’s body”.
He repeated the claim for a second time, stating that he wrote to The New York Times, telling them they needed to post a correction because the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s office never saw his body.
That is quite a ludicrous claim since Hank Aaron was taken to the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s office after his death. So it would be quite ridiculous for anyone at the Fulton County ME to claim that it never saw his body.
In fact, the county medical examiner, Karen Sullivan, told AFP Fact Check on January 27, 2021 that it examined Hank Aaron’s body (my emphasis in bold):
[E]xamination of Mr. Aaron’s body did not suggest his death was due to any event other than that associated with his medical history.
Based on the information provided by Mr Aaron’s family and physical examination of his body, it is my medical opinion that Mr Aaron’s death was not related to his recent vaccination for Covid-19.
Fact #6 : New York Times Never Mentioned An Autopsy
On January 31, 2021, the The New York Times published a fact check article, which called out Robert K. Kennedy for suggesting without evidence that there was a link between Hank Aaron’s death and the COVID-19 vaccine he received.
Never mind the skeptics, officials say: Hank Aaron’s death had nothing to do with the Covid-19 vaccine.
[A]nti-vaccine activists, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a prominent vaccine skeptic, are seizing on his death to suggest — without evidence — that there might be a link.
To be clear – the NYT article never mentioned that Hank Aaron underwent an autopsy. The word “autopsy” was not mentioned even once in the entire article.
Neither did the NYT article quote the Fulton County medical examiner as claiming that an autopsy was conducted. It only mentioned that the medical examiner only stated that there was no evidence Hank Aaron suffered any allergic or anaphylactic reaction to the vaccine.
The Fulton County medical examiner has also said there was nothing to suggest that Mr. Aaron had an allergic or anaphylactic reaction related to the vaccine.
Fact #7 : Fulton County Medical Examiner Did Not Mention Autopsy
Other media reports quoting the Fulton County Medical Examiner also did not mention that an autopsy was conducted on Hank Aaron. They only reported that Hank Aaron’s body was examined by the medical examiner.
Under Georgia law, an autopsy is only required (PDF download) in deaths occurring:
As a result of violence;
By suicide or casualty;
Suddenly when in apparent good health;
When unattended by a physician;
In any suspicious or unusual manner, with particular attention to those persons 16 years of age and under;
After birth but before seven years of age if the death is unexpected or unexplained;
As a result of an execution carried out pursuant to the imposition of the death penalty;
An inmate of a state hospital or a state, county, or city penal institution; or
After having been admitted to a hospital in an unconscious state and without regaining consciousness within 24 hours of admission.
Hank Aaron was 86 years-old, and suffering from arthritis, hypertension and prostate issues. He also had a partial hip replacement after falling down in 2014, and has to use a wheelchair.
Therefore, it does not appear that an autopsy was warranted in his death, and an autopsy was likely not conducted.
Fact #8 : No Evidence Hank Aaron Died From COVID-19 Vaccine
Ultimately, there is simply no evidence that Hank Aaron died from the COVID-19 vaccine.
Unless there is evidence he suffered from an anaphylactic attack (which occurs within minutes), or other vaccine side effects before his death, it is wrong to simply attribute his death to the vaccine:
“That was a pure coincidence,” countered Dr. Louis W. Sullivan, the founding dean of the Morehouse medical school and secretary of health and human services in the George H.W. Bush administration, who was vaccinated along with Mr. Aaron. He told the Atlanta station WSB-TV, “It is though, if you might say, Hank was in a car before the day he died, and we try and attribute his death to being in a car.”
The COVID-19 vaccine only protects against severe disease and death from COVID-19. It cannot protect against other causes of death, and it is certainly not an elixir of immortality. Vaccinated people can and do continue to die from other causes of death.
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Is the Biden Administration preparing to bring back FULL COVID-19 restrictions beginning in mid-September 2023?! Find out what the facts really are!
Updated @ 2023-08-24 : Added a fact check video, updated parts of the article Originally posted @ 2023-08-19
Claim : Biden Admin Bringing Back Full COVID Restrictions!
People are sharing an InfoWars article which claims that the Biden Administration is preparing to bring back FULL COVID-19 restrictions, beginning in mid-September 2023!
The article is pretty long, so feel free to skip to the next section for the facts!
EXCLUSIVE: Biden Admin Preparing to Bring Back FULL Covid Restrictions, Rollout to Begin Mid-September
Whistleblowers from the TSA and Border Patrol have raised the alarm to Infowars that the Biden administration is setting the stage for full Covid lockdowns that will begin with incremental restrictions like masking TSA employees in mid-September.
The first source, a high-level TSA official confirmed and known to Infowars, reached out to Infowars and cited a Tuesday meeting in which TSA managers were told new memorandums & policies were being completed that would reimplement masking, starting with TSA & airport employees as early as mid-September.
The TSA official also said next week they will receive new guidelines on how the policy will escalate: by mid-October, mask-wearing will be required by pilots, flight staff, passengers, and airport patrons.
After hearing from the TSA manager, Infowars reached out to our trusted Border Patrol source who is also a manager. This source confirmed the same directives were being given to Border Patrol.
They were told it was not a matter of “if” but “when” official Covid numbers will go back up and they expect by mid-October a return to forced-masking policies that the Biden administration previously only reluctantly ended after massive pressure.
Both whistleblowers were told this rollout will be in tandem with the new Covid “variant” hysteria that the MSM has been reporting on this week.
Infowars’ analysis is clear: this new rollout’s timing is perfect for the embattled Biden administration to put the country back in a state of civil emergency and even martial law to further divide and confuse the public and move forward with the greatest election meddling in history.
Many times, Alex Jones has warned that the system will bring back biomedical tyranny. And the launch of this new crisis in September will allow a build-up of control that would allow the use of mail-in ballots for the next presidential election.
Remember, mail-in ballots were decisive for Biden’s victory last election.
We now know the Covid lockdowns were an international psychological warfare operation run by the Ministry of Defense and Pentagon.
Countries worldwide implemented fear campaigns for political purposes and to push experimental shots.
But this time around, the masses have awakened to the globalist playbook of conquest, and may not be as receptive to MSM hysteria.
Simply put, the Deep State is getting desperate and is behaving like a cornered animal.
No Evidence Biden Administration Is Bringing Back COVID Restrictions!
Let’s take a look at what Infowars just claimed, and find out what the facts really are!
Fact #1 : InfoWars Is Notorious Fake News Website
First, let me just point out that InfoWars is notorious for posting conspiracy theories and fake news.
2020 study by four universities – Northeastern, Harvard, Northwestern, and Rutgers, found that InfoWars was amongst the top 5 most shared websites for COVID-19 fake news.
InfoWars is listed as #4 on the Top 10 Worst Anti-Science Websites list.
InfoWars video editor Josh Owens admitted to intentionally creating misleading videos – “It’s not about truth, it’s not about accuracy — it’s about what’s going to make people click on this video…In essence, we lied.“
Both Alex Jones and InfoWars have been subjected to multiple lawsuits, losing them one after another. In December 2022, he and the InfoWars parent company was ordered to pay about $1.5 billion for spreading lies about the 2002 Sandy Hook mass shooting.
Based on its reputation, everything posted by InfoWars should be considered as FAKE NEWS until proven otherwise.
Its articles have been regularly debunked as fake news, so you should NEVER share anything from InfoWars. Here are some of its fake stories that I fact checked earlier:
Fact #2 : Alex Jones + InfoWars Provided No Evidence
If you watch the InfoWars video where Alex Jones detailed the “exclusive news” that the Biden Administration is planning to bring back FULL COVID-19 restrictions, you may be forgiven for thinking that all those papers on his table were leaked memorandum and policy documents that TSA and Border Patrol whistleblowers provided.
Unfortunately, that does not appear to be the case. While there is A TON of papers on his massive table, they appear to be nothing more than printed copies of news articles. Alex Jones never showed any evidence of the “planned COVID-19 protocols” that will roll out in the middle of September 2023.
It’s easy to make outlandish claims, it’s quite another thing to back them with actual evidence. Needless to say, InfoWars offered ZERO evidence to back up its claims.
Fact #3 : Lockdowns Were Necessary Because There Was No Vaccine
In his video, Alex Jones said that his whistleblowers were told to expect “a return to the full COVID protocol of 2020/2021” by December 2023.
The problem with that claim is that many governments implemented lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021, because there was no treatment and vaccines were not yet invented or available in sufficient quantities.
Lockdowns were used as a way to limit transmission, and prevent hospitals and healthcare workers from being overloaded with COVID-19 patients.
Now that many people have some protection from a prior infection, or from COVID-19 vaccines, there has been no new need for governments to implement new lockdowns. In fact, there has been multiple waves of new COVID-19 variants, but they have not necessitated new lockdowns.
So the claim that the Biden Administration is going to implement COVID-19 lockdowns in December 2023 over the new Eris EG.5 variant is not supported by the prevailing evidence.
Fact #4 : WHO Declared COVID-19 Is No Longer PHEIC
It is interesting that the whistleblowers mentioned that the World Health Organization (WHO) may declare (an emergency?) over the new EG.5 Eris variant.
For one thing, the WHO itself declared on 5 May 2023 that COVID-19 as a whole is no longer a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). Instead, COVID-19 is now considered “an established and ongoing health issue“.
Fact #5 : Eris Variant Is Not More Dangerous
The WHO has been monitoring the new EG.5 “Eris” variant, designating it as a “variant of interest”. However, that does not mean Eris is a more dangerous variant.
According to the WHO, the EG. 5 variant has increased prevalence, growth advantage, and immune escape properties, but…
presents a low public health risk at a global level, and
has no reported changes in disease severity to date
While it is possible that EG.5 / Eris will become the dominant COVID-19 variant moving into the winter months of 2023, it has the same symptoms and severity as past variants.
Fact #6 : New Vaccines Are Coming In September 2023
Even if the Eris / EG.5 becomes dominant, it is unlikely for the United States to require lockdowns in December 2023, because new COVID-19 vaccines coming in September will offer better protection against it.
From late September 2023 onwards, Pfizer, Moderna, and Novavax are introducing new COVID-19 vaccines that will target XBB variants. As EG.5 is part of the XBB lineage, the new vaccines are expected to offer better protection against this new variant.
EG.5 is part of the XBB lineage and is more closely related to the XBB variants than it is to previous vaccine strains.
For this reason, the expectation is that the reformulated vaccines that will be available this fall will offer better protection to EG.5 than previous vaccines.
– Justin Lessler, professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
In short, there really isn’t a need for new lockdowns, because the improved COVID-19 vaccines are already coming in the fall of 2023.
Fact #7 : Biden Administration Does Not Want New Lockdowns
I should now point out that it is against the Biden Administration’s interest to implement new lockdowns, which would cripple the economy. In fact, the Biden Administration mentioned this when it released its National COVID-19 Preparedness Plan (PDF download) in March 2022.
The path forward in the fight against COVID-19 is clear: schools, workers, and workplaces have resources and guidance to prevent shutdowns.
Finally, I should also point out that any order for a face mask mandate on public transportation, including airlines, would be issued by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevent, not the TSA or Border Control.
It was the US CDC that issued the first and only face mask mandate for public transportation in the United States (PDF download) on January 29, 2021. The TSA and Border Control had nothing to do with that, but only issued their own directives to comply with the CDC order.
However, the CDC face mask mandate was made “unenforceable” by court order on April 18, 2022, and expired when the Biden Administration ended the COVID-19 public health emergency on May 11, 2023.
If the CDC ever issues another face mask mandate, it seems inevitable that it would be challenged in court, and made “unenforceable” by another court order. So what really is this panic over a “future” face mask mandate?
I should also point out that, long before the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare workers all over the world have had no issues wearing face masks to protect themselves and their patients. Seriously, stop being such a wuss.
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Do newly-released clinical trial documents show that Moderna tried to cover up deaths caused by its COVID-19 vaccine?!
Take a look at the viral claim, and find out what the facts really are!
Updated @ 2023-08-08 : Updated with some additional information. Originally posted @ 2023-07-25
Claim : Moderna Tried To Cover Up Vaccine Deaths!
People are sharing articles by The Epoch Times and Children Health Defense which claim or suggest that newly-released clinical trial documents show that Moderna covered up deaths caused by its COVID-19 vaccine!
Here is an excerpt of The Epoch Times article. Feel free to skip to the next section for the facts:
‘Serious Doubt’ About COVID-19 Vaccine Safety After Forced Release of 15,000 Pages of Clinical Trial Data: Legal NGO
Conservative public interest advocacy group Defending the Republic (DTR) has obtained almost 15,000 pages of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial data, claiming the data show an “utter lack of thoroughness” of the trials and calls the vaccine’s safety into “serious doubt.”
As a result of successful Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the group recently announced it had obtained—and is releasing—nearly 15,000 pages of documents relating to testing and adverse events associated with “Spikevax,” Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine.
One of the key takeaways from the documents is that many of those who died after receiving the Moderna vaccine were not given an autopsy.
“According to one study, 16 individuals died after being administered the Moderna vaccine. The study’s authors indicated that out of those 16 deaths, only two autopsies were performed, five of the dead were not autopsied, and the autopsy status of nine of the dead was ‘unknown,’” DTR said in a statement.
“Yet this did not stop those running these ‘studies’ from concluding, despite the absence of evidence, that the Moderna vaccine was not related to these deaths,” the group added.
As an example, the group gave the case of a 56-year-old woman who experienced ‘sudden death’ 182 days after receiving the second dose of the Moderna vaccine.
“The cause of death was unknown, and no autopsy was conducted. It seems they purposely decided not to investigate suspicious deaths in case the Moderna vaccine might be the cause,” the group stated.
And here is an excerpt of Children Health Defense article. Feel free to skip to the next section for the facts:
Exclusive: Clinical Trial Documents Suggest Moderna Skimped on Autopsies, Discounted Serious Injuries — Did FDA Know?
A 13,685-page tranche of documents related to Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials released Tuesday contain details about the deaths of 16 trial participants, the prevalence of severe adverse events (SAEs) and other abnormalities.
The documents, previously submitted by Moderna to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as part of the licensing process for Moderna’s Spikevax COVID-19 vaccine, also exposed an “utter lack of thoroughness” in how the trials were conducted, according to Defending the Republic (DTR), a Dallas-based nonprofit that obtained the documents via a a still-pending Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against Moderna.
The documents, shared with The Defender in advance of their public release, are the first set of “Moderna documents” to be released as part of the lawsuit — with approximately 8,000 more pages expected to follow later this year.
Travis Miller, a Fort Worth-based attorney representing DTR, told The Defender, “These documents include over 13,500 pages relating to serious adverse event listings that document injuries — such as shingles and Bell’s palsy and other more serious conditions — which we believe may be related to the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.”
Miller criticized Moderna’s lack of scientific rigor in determining the causes of the deaths and adverse events, saying that, in several cases, “Individuals who died after receiving the Moderna vaccine were not given an autopsy.”
According to DTR, “The study’s authors indicated that of those 16 deaths, only two autopsies were performed, five of the dead were not autopsied, and the autopsy status of nine of the dead was ‘unknown.’”
In one instance, a 56-year-old woman experienced “sudden death” 182 days after receiving her second dose of the Moderna vaccine. The cause of death was listed as “unknown” and no autopsy was performed.
“It seems they purposely decided not to investigate suspicious deaths in case the Moderna vaccine might be the cause,” DTR stated in its summary.
Yet the deaths “did not stop those running these ‘studies’ from concluding, despite the absence of evidence, that the Moderna vaccine was not related to these deaths,” DTR added.
No Evidence Moderna Tried To Cover Up Vaccine Deaths!
In this article, I will go through some of their claims, and show you what the facts really are!
Fact #1 : Adverse Events Are Not Necessarily Vaccine Side Effects
First, let’s start with the fact that adverse events are not necessarily vaccine side effects.
Like with Pfizer, Moderna has to monitor for these adverse events, which are “unfavourable” or “unintended” events that happen after vaccination or taking a drug, like having an anaphylactic reaction or getting into a car accident.
All reported adverse events have to be investigated to find out if they are related (anaphylactic reaction) or not (getting into a car accident) to the vaccine or drug that was taken.
Even if an adverse event was “possibly caused” by the vaccine, it must still be confirmed that the vaccine directly caused it, because an anaphylactic reaction (for example) can also occur from a bee sting, or an existing peanut allergy.
Only once an adverse event is confirmed to be caused by the vaccine, is it then a vaccine side effect. Otherwise, it is merely an adverse event, not a side effect.
Fact #2 : Moderna Sponsored Trial, But Did Not Run It
It is important to point out that Moderna only sponsored and created the protocol (PDF download) for the Phase 3 clinical trial of its mRNA-1273 vaccine candidate for COVID-19. Moderna itself did not conduct the mRNA-1273 vaccine trial.
The Moderna mRNA-1273 Phase 3 clinical trial was conducted by CoVPN investigators funded by the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response and NIAID.
Moderna is leading the trial as the regulatory sponsor and is providing the investigational vaccine for the trial. The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response and NIAID are providing funding support for the trial.
The NIH Coronavirus Prevention Network (CoVPN) will participate in conducting the trial. The network brings together expertise from existing NIAID-supported clinical research networks. The mRNA-1273 vaccine candidate will be tested at approximately 89 clinical research sites in the United States, 24 of which are part of the CoVPN.
Hana M. El Sahly, M.D., principal investigator of the NIAID-funded Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Consortium site at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston; Lindsey R. Baden, M.D., principal investigator of the NIAID-funded Harvard HIV Vaccine Clinical Trials Unit at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston; and Brandon Essink, M.D., principal investigator and medical director of Meridian Clinical Research, will serve as co-principal investigators for the Phase 3 trial of mRNA-1273.
Defending the Republic (DTR) – the NGO that obtained and released the Moderna documents highlighted that only two autopsies were performed even though 16 people died during the clinical trial.
Just to be clear – Moderna itself did not conduct the clinical trial. Therefore, it does not have any say on whether an autopsy should or should not be conducted.
In fact, it is likely that the attending doctors / hospitals were the ones deciding whether to conduct the autopsies, while study authors only collected the data. That’s why many of the deaths were listed with Unknown autopsies. If the study authors were the ones conducting the autopsies (and refusing to do so), they would have listed them as None.
As I will show you below, there is no evidence that the study authors deliberately refused to conduct autopsies or investigate suspicious deaths in the Moderna vaccine clinical trial.
Fact #4 : Half The Deaths Were On Placebo
Many of these articles pointed out that sixteen people who received the Moderna vaccine died. What they did not tell you is that sixteen other people who received the placebo also died. In other words, a total of 32 people died during the clinical trial – half received the vaccine, and half received the placebo.
While that sounds like a lot – I should point out that the Moderna mRNA-1273 Phase 3 clinical trial involved 30,420 volunteers, and ran for approximately 3 months.
The mortality rate in the US for 2021 was 879.7 per 100,000 people, so for those three months, we should expect 89 people to die out of those 30,420 participants. Yet only 32 people died. There is simply no evidence in the clinical trial’s data to show an increase in deaths from the Moderna vaccine.
Fact #4 : Subject US3292023 Died From Heart Failure
In its summary, DTR highlighted some of those suspicious deaths that lack an autopsy. Sounds suspicious, right? Not really, if you actually look at the Moderna documents.
The first case was Subject US3292023 – an 80 year-old White male who died on 23 January 2021 due to an Adverse Event, and his autopsy status was listed as None.
If you search through the Moderna document (PDF download), you will see that this sequence of reports:
He had history of significant cardiac disease and diabetes.
He received Dose 1 on 4 August 2020, and Dose 2 on 1 September 2020.
He reported no adverse effects from both vaccinations.
He suffered from diabetic ketoacidosis (serious complication from his existing diabetes) on 26 October 2020.
He suffered from End Stage Congestive Heart Failure on 23 January 2023.
I’m sure you can see why there was absolutely no need for anyone to conduct an autopsy on this man.
Fact #5 : Subject US3472001 Likely Died From Heart Attack
The second case was Subject US3472001 – a 70 year-old White male who died on 27 November 2020 due to an Adverse Event, and his autopsy status was listed as Unknown.
If you search through the Moderna document (PDF download), you will see that this sequence of reports:
He had history of significant cardiac disease and severe obesity.
He received Dose 1 on 31 August 2020, and Dose 2 on 1 October 2020.
He reported no adverse effects from both vaccinations.
He tested positive for Hepatitis C on 29 September 2020.
He suffered from a sudden fatal event, likely myocardial infarction on 27 November 2020.
It is unknown if an autopsy was conducted, but with a history of significant cardiac disease and severe obesity, it would not be surprising if the doctor / hospital did not bother to conduct an autopsy, especially during a pandemic that was straining doctors and hospital facilities.
Fact #6 : Subject US3512042 Died From Cardiac Arrest
The third case is Subject US3512042 – a 78 year-old White male who died on 1 September 2020 due to an Adverse Event, and his autopsy status was listed as Unknown.
If you search through the Moderna document (PDF download), you will see that this sequence of reports:
He received Dose 1 on 12 August 2020, but never received a second dose.
On 30 August 2020, he reported nausea and malaise.
On 31 August 2020, he vomited three times.
On 1 September 2020, he suffered from cardiopulmonary arrest and died.
It is unknown if an autopsy was conducted, but it is not uncommon for a 78 year-old man to die from cardiopulmonary arrest.
Fact #7 : Subject US3622169 Died From Metastatic Liver Cancer
The fourth case was Subject US3622169 – a 56 year-old White male who died on 21 January 2021 due to an Adverse Event, and his autopsy status was listed as Unknown.
If you search through the Moderna document (PDF download), you will see that this sequence of reports:
He had history of severe obesity and diabetes.
He received Dose 1 on 9 September 2020, and Dose 2 on 7 October 2020.
On 29 November 2020, he reported worsening dyspnea (breathing difficulties) with nasal congestion.
On 6 December 2020, he was diagnosed with pneumonia.
On 30 December 2020, he was diagnosed with metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma (metastatic liver cancer).
On 16 January 2021, he suffered sepsis and his metastatic liver cancer worsened, and he ultimately died on 21 January 2021.
Needless to say, there was simply no need to perform an autopsy, after confirming his metastatic liver cancer diagnosis.
The fifth case was Subject US3702010 – a 74 year-old Hispanic male who died on 25 February 2021 due to an Adverse Event, and his autopsy status was listed as Unknown.
If you search through the Moderna document (PDF download), you will see that this sequence of reports:
He had history of liver disease and HIV infection.
He received Dose 1 on 4 September 2020. He never received a second dose.
He complained of nausea issues on the same day, which resolved.
He complained of fatigue and pain of the injection site on 5 September 2020, which resolved.
He complained of fatigue again on 11 September 2020, which resolved.
He complained of lower abdominal pain on 23 October 2020, which resolved.
He got infected with COVID-19 on 1 January 2021, with diagnosis confirmed on 5 January 2021
On his last follow-up 175 days after his first dose, he was still suffering from COVID-19
He died from COVID-19 on 25 February 2021
I’m sure you can see why there was absolutely no need for anyone to conduct an autopsy on this man.
Fact #9 : Subject US3752173 Died From Heart Attack
The sixth case was Subject US3752173 – a 77 year-old American Indian / Alaskan native male who died on 1 November 2020 due to an Adverse Event, and his autopsy status was listed as None.
If you search through the Moderna document (PDF download), you will see that this sequence of reports:
He received Dose 1 on 20 August 2020, and Dose 2 on 18 September 2020.
He did not report any adverse events from both Moderna vaccine injections.
He suffered a myocardial infarction (heart attack) on 1 November 2020, and died from it.
Again, you can see why there was absolutely no need for anyone to conduct an autopsy on this man.
Fact #10 : Subject US3862141 Died From Cardiac Arrest
The seventh case was Subject US3862141 – a 72 year-old Asian male who died on 9 March 2021 due to an Adverse Event, and his autopsy status was listed as Unknown.
If you search through the Moderna document (PDF download), you will see that this sequence of reports:
He received Dose 1 on 8 September 2020, and Dose 2 on 6 October 2020.
He did not report any adverse effects from both vaccinations.
On 9 March 2021, he suffered from cardiopulmonary arrest and died.
It is unknown if an autopsy was conducted, but it is not uncommon for a 72 year-old man to die from cardiopulmonary arrest.
The eighth case was Subject US3872318 – a 62 year-old White male who died on 16 September 2020 due to an Adverse Event, and his autopsy status was listed as None.
If you search through the Moderna document (PDF download), you will see that this sequence of reports:
He received Dose 1 on 27 August 2020, but never received a second dose.
He did not report any adverse effects from the first vaccination.
On 16 September 2020, he died after committing suicide.
Needless to say – an autopsy was completely unnecessary in this case.
Fact #12 : Subject US3872496 Died From Unknown Cause
The ninth case was Subject US3872496 – a 61 year-old Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander male who died on 17 December 2020 due to an Adverse Event, and his autopsy status was listed as Unknown.
If you search through the Moderna document (PDF download), you will see that this sequence of reports:
He had history of severe obesity and diabetes.
He received Dose 1 on 9 September 2020, and Dose 2 on 9 October 2020.
He did not report any adverse effects from both vaccinations.
On 17 December 2020, he died but the details behind his death is unknown.
It is unknown how the man died, and unknown if an autopsy was conducted.
Fact #13 : Subject US3912024 Died From Organ Failure
The tenth case was Subject US3912024 – a 72 year-old White male who died on 22 November 2020 due to an Adverse Event, and his autopsy status was listed as None.
If you search through the Moderna document (PDF download), you will see that this sequence of reports:
He received Dose 1 on 28 August 2020, and Dose 2 on 24 September 2020.
On 31 October 2020, he was diagnosed with obstructing nephrolithiasis (kidney stones blocking the flow of urine).
On 3 November 2020, he was diagnosed with thrombocytopenia (low platelets), as well as acute renal failure, Klebsiella-complicated pyelonephritis (kidney infection), and atelectasis (collapse) of the lower lobes of both lungs.
On 8 November 2020, he was found to have ascites (intra-abdominal fluid), anasarca (severe, generalised accumulation of fluid in the interstitial space), and a perforated duodenal ulcer with bleeding.
On 15 November 2020, he was diagnosed with anaemia.
On 18 November 2020, the collapse of his lungs worsened and he developed pleural effusion (accumulation of fluid in the pleural cavity) as well.
On 20 November 2020, he died from multi-system organ failure and acute hypoxic respiratory failure.
Needless to say – an autopsy was also completely unnecessary in this case.
Fact #14 : Subject US3932197 Died From Unknown Cause
The eleventh case was Subject US3932197 – a 37 year-old Black female who died on 13 March 2021 due to an Adverse Event, and her autopsy status was listed as None.
If you search through the Moderna document (PDF download), you will see that this sequence of reports:
She received Dose 1 on 26 September 2020, and Dose 2 on 27 October 2020.
On 13 March 2021, she died, but her cause of death was unknown.
In this case, an autopsy might be warranted. However, that is impossible to determine, because we do not know the circumstances behind her death – she could have died from any number of causes – an accident, suicide, a fall, a surgical procedure, an infection, etc.
Fact #15 : Subject US3962094 Died From Suicide
The twelfth case was Subject US3962094 – a 56 year-old White female who died on 15 October 2020 due to an Adverse Event, and her autopsy status was listed as None.
If you search through the Moderna document (PDF download), you will see that this sequence of reports:
She had history of severe obesity.
She received Dose 1 on 9 September 2020, but never received a second dose.
On 12 September 2020, she was diagnosed with high triglycerides
On 7 October 2020, she suffered from acid reflux.
On 15 October 2020, she fell and died from head trauma.
Needless to say – an autopsy was also completely unnecessary in this case.
Fact #16 : Subject US3972010 Is Pending Autopsy
The thirteenth case was Subject US3972010 – a 27 year-old Black male who died on 8 January 2021 due to an Adverse Event, and his autopsy status was listed as Unknown.
If you search through the Moderna document (PDF download), you will see that this sequence of reports:
He received Dose 1 on 24 August 2020, and Dose 2 on 21 September 2020.
He did not report any adverse effects from both vaccinations.
On 8 January 2021, he died but the details behind his death is unknown, pending an autopsy.
It is unknown how the man died, but in this case, an autopsy was conducted.
Fact #17 : Subject US3972045 Likely Died From Heart Disease
The last case was Subject US3972045 – a 62 year-old White male who died on 3 December 2020 due to an Adverse Event, and his autopsy status was listed as Unknown.
If you search through the Moderna document (PDF download), you will see that this sequence of reports:
He had history of diabetes.
He received Dose 1 on 27 August 2020, and Dose 2 on 24 September 2020.
He did not report any adverse effects from both vaccinations.
On 21 October 2021, he was diagnosed with diabetic gastroparesis – delayed stomach emptying due to diabetes.
On 3 December 2020, he died from a suspected coronary artery disease – a complication of his diabetes mellitus.
It is unknown if an autopsy was conducted, but it is not uncommon for a 62 year-old man to die from heart disease.
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Was Broncos wide receiver KJ Hamler benched after developing pericarditis caused by the COVID-19 vaccine?!
Take a look at the viral claims, and find out what the facts really are!
Claim : KJ Hamler Developed Pericarditis From COVID-19 Vaccine!
Right after news broke that KJ Hamler was benched after a pericarditis diagnosis, some people immediately claimed or suggested that the Denver Broncos wide receiver developed pericarditis from the COVID-19 vaccine doses he received!
Alex Berenson : A Covid vaccine success story in three acts
Get jabbed Get Covid Get pericarditis
Safe AND effective
Hope you recover quickly, @Kj_hamler
DC Draino : There are few things more evil than forcing an NFL player to be vaccinated against his will and then cutting him from the team when he develops deadly heart problems from the side effects
I hope KJ Hamler sues the NFL and Denver Broncos into bankruptcy
Some young people survive vaccine injury – 13 cases that did!
Brandon Taylor Moore : #Bronco’s KJ Hamler announces that he has been diagnosed with #pericarditis – which is medical speak for “I took the vaccine & it 🤬’d up my heart ❤️.”
No Evidence KJ Hamler Developed Pericarditis From COVID-19 Vaccine!
It’s now tradition for anti-vaccination activists to blame all athlete deaths or illnesses on the COVID-19 vaccine.
Here are the reasons why this is yet another example of FAKE NEWS created and propagated by anti-vaccination activists…
Fact #1 : KJ Hamler Has Mild Pericarditis
KJ Hamler (born Kahlee Jacoby Hamler on July 8, 1999) is a wide receiver for the Denver Broncos who made his NFL debut in the 2020 season.
On Monday, 31 July 2023, KJ Hamler announced that he was diagnosed with mild pericarditis, after suffering some chest pains while working out.
He pointed out that he feels great physically, but has to take a break to treat the pericarditis. He is reportedly expected to miss weeks, not months, due to this pericarditis diagnosis.
After feeling some chest pains while working out on the break before camp started, I got everything checked out and was diagnosed with mild heart irritation, called pericarditis. I’ve got a great treatment plan with medicine and am taking a quick break to get this all taken care of so I can get back to doing what I love.
I will be back on the field—better and stronger than ever—as soon as possible this season! I feel great physically and this is very frustrating for me to deal with. I know most of you have heard or know of my story and these past few years what I’ve been going through on and off the field.
I’m so grateful for my teammates & coaches. Appreciate the support from the Broncos Country and encouragement I have been receiving. This is something to bring awareness to anybody. So anyone with chest pains please get checked out by your doctor!
Fact #2 : Broncos Waived KJ Hamler With NFI
In a sign that KJ Hamler’s pericarditis is mild and will resolve quickly, the Denver Broncos are reportedly waiving him on a non-football illness (NFI) designation.
This is a procedural move which allows KJ Hamler to return in the 2023 season. If they placed him on reserve, or the non-football injury list instead, he could end up not playing for the entire season.
KJ Hamler had only just recovered from surgery to treat a torn pectoral muscle he sustained in March while training on his own in the offseason.
Fact #3 : Pericarditis Is Most Commonly Caused By Infections
Pericarditis is the inflammation of the pericardium – the fibrous sac covering the heart. Most people only know it as a known but rare side effect of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna.
What you may not know is that pericarditis is most commonly caused by viral infections, followed by bacterial infections (commonly tuberculosis), heart attack, autoimmune diseases, and chest trauma.
Fact #4 : Pericarditis Existed Long Before COVID-19 Vaccines
In addition – people have suffered from pericarditis long before COVID-19 vaccines were invented. On average, about 40 per 100,000 people develop pericarditis every year.
An August 2022 study showed that an average of 125,209 patients every year were diagnosed with pericarditis in the United States from 2007 to 2016. Males between the ages of 20 and 50 – like KJ Hamler – are most commonly affected.
Fact #5 : KJ Hamler Was Fully-Vaccinated Two Years Ago!
It is interesting to note that when people share screenshots showing that KJ Hamler was fully-vaccinated, they crop out the date. And it’s easy to see why.
KJ Hamler was fully-vaccinated against COVID-19, receiving his second dose in the last week of July 2021 – TWO YEARS ago!
Fact #6 : Vaccine Side Effects Appear Within Hours / Days
KJ Hamler cannot possibly have suffered from a vaccine side effect, because they appear within hours or days, not months later.
Mild side effects like injection site pain, fever, muscle ache, headache, lethargy develop within minutes to hours of the vaccination.
Anaphylaxis develops within minutes, while other severe adverse reactions like myocarditis and VITT develop within days or weeks.
The spike proteins produced by the COVID-19 vaccines also do not stick around for months. If these spike proteins are permanent (as antivaxxers claim), we would have lifelong immunity.
Your own immune system will identify the spike proteins as foreign, and destroy them within a matter of days, although some may last for up to a few weeks. This is part of how vaccines teach your immune system to identify the enemy and destroy it.
KJ Hamler tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday, August 3, 2021. That was just after he received his second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
While many anti-vaccination activists are saying that this proves that the vaccine isn’t effective, the truth is you need to wait about 14 days for your body to develop the necessary antibodies after getting the COVID-19 vaccine.
In fact, KJ Hamler pointed out to reporters back in August 2021 that he was not yet 14 days clear of the second shot.
I should also point out that the COVID-19 vaccines are not designed to block infections. They were designed to prevent you from developing severe COVID-19, or dying from COVID-19.
Fact #8 : Claims Of COVID-19 Vaccine Injuries Often Proven False
Most claims of sudden deaths / injuries due to the COVID-19 vaccine have been proven false. Here is the latest dozen of other false sudden death claims!
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Did Bill Gates demand that Australia force its farmers to inject their livestock with the mRNA vaccine?!
Take a look at the viral claim, and find out what the facts really are!
Claim : Bill Gates Demanded mRNA Vaccine Mandate For Livestock!
People are sharing a Twitter post by Jamie McIntyre – the founder of Australian National Review, which claims that Australia is forcing farmers to inject their livestock with the mRNA vaccine after Bill Gates demanded it.
BREAKING: Australia has announced plans for mass injections of mRNA vaccines into livestock.
I suggest farmers hold out as long as they can as beef etc that isn’t injected will become very valuable. The Government intends forcing it
a) because Bill Gates demanded it when he visited Australia recently – yes our Western Governments get dictated to by Big Pharma- it’s not the other way around. B) cattle will be banned from being sold via sale yards etc, unless injected, to ensure no healthy meat can reach the consumer, only deadly meat 🥩 injected with not so safe,effective or necessary injections.
Many farmers will lose % of their herd ,that will die.Many will fail to be able to reproduce and farmers will be outraged, not knowing they fell for a scam to depopulate beef production and to end farmers. Farmers will demand compensation and it will come only in the form of them agreeing to end farming and sell their land to large Globalist entities via Government buy backs. Starving populations are much easier to control and “ you’ll own nothing but be happy remember and eat these bugs and insects you useless meat eaters”, says super hero Klaus Schwab.
They won’t admit it’s from the MRNA vaccines, but use the dying and infertile cattle as from a new disease causing it,to sell farmers to urgently vaccinate their herds, leading to more deaths and injuries of cattle.
Has anyone seen this playbook before ?????
It’s all so predictable #diesuddenly cows 🐄 if you take the jab. Just don’t do it. Be smarter then humans and simply so no. Let’s see how to trusting, naive, gullible farmers will fall for it like many fell for taking the deadly vaccines themselves.
Farmers I grew up around, used to have good BS detectors as did most Australians but I can’t say that anymore.
Not sure what to do?
Let the easily manipulated ones vaxx their herds and watch what happens. Consumers
Boycott and MRNA injected 🥩 and speak loudly now that you will.
Truth : Bill Gates Did Not Demand mRNA Vaccine Mandate For Livestock!
This is yet another example of FAKE NEWS created and/or promoted by anti-vaccination activists, and here are the reasons why…
Fact #1 : Australia Has No mRNA Vaccine Plan For Livestock
The Australian government never announced any mRNA vaccination plan for livestock. There is also no mRNA vaccine mandate for livestock in Australia.
Jamie McIntyre certainly did not provide any evidence to back his claim that the Australian government announced a mass mRNA vaccination campaign for livestock.
Fact #2 : There Is No mRNA Vaccine For Livestock
I should also point out that no mRNA vaccine has been developed for livestock anywhere in the world, never mind approved for mass vaccination.
Until such an mRNA vaccine is developed and tested, it cannot be approved, and there can be no mass vaccination of livestock.
Fact #3 : MLA Is Funding mRNA Vaccine Project
In May 2023, Meat & Livestock Australia – an independent company based in Sydney, announced that it was funding a project to produce and test mRNA vaccines to target a lumpy skin disease (LSD), our other exotic disease outbreaks.
This initiative does not have anything to do with Bill Gates. It is certainly not a requirement in Australia.
This project will develop a mRNA vaccine pipeline initially for LSD, but potentially for other emergency diseases. This will enable capacity for rapid mass production of a vaccine for LSD in the event of an outbreak.
No LSD vaccines are registered for use in Australia yet. While some killed vaccines exist overseas, the path to registration in Australia for traditionally-produced is longer than that of an mRNA vaccine.
Fact #4 : MLA mRNA Vaccine Has Not Been Approved
The MLA Program Manager for Animal Wellbeing, Michael Laurence, also pointed out that the LSD vaccine is currently undergoing tests until the end of the year. In other words – it has not yet been approved!
The LSD vaccine construct is now being tested for efficacy in animals. By the end of this year, we will know if this vaccine will work in ruminants
Fact #5 : No Evidence Bill Gates Demanded mRNA Vaccine Mandate
Bill Gates visited Australia in January 2023, meeting with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to discuss climate change, energy, and global health issues.
However, Bill Gates was more interested in preparing for the next pandemic, and fighting AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, than promoting non-existent mRNA livestock vaccines.
Mr Gates praised the prime minister for his “great partnership” on international health issues including the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
“As you say, the preparedness for the next pandemic is still a discussion that hasn’t been figured out,” he said. “Malaria in the long run, we want to do the same thing we’re doing with polio, which is eradicated regionally, and then eradicated all over the world.”
There is ZERO EVIDENCE that Bill Gates demanded any kind of mRNA vaccine mandate, whether for human beings or livestock.
Fact #6 : mRNA Vaccines Are Not Designed To Kill
The viral message suggests that the mRNA vaccines are designed to kill livestock, so farmers are forced to sell their land to “Globalist entities”.
That’s ridiculous, because any vaccine that proves to be deadly in any of its different trials would never be approved for use in people, or livestock.
Current mRNA vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, which are only meant for human use, have proven to be safe and effective for the vast majority of people who received them.
Fact #7 : No Evidence mRNA Vaccines Cause Infertility
Billions of mRNA vaccine doses have been administered to humans worldwide in the last 2.5 years, and they have never been shown to cause infertility.
Therefore, there is no reason to believe that mRNA vaccines for livestock would cause infertility, if they are ever developed.
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Is Jamie Foxx now blind and partially paralysed after suffering a brain blood clot caused by the COVID-19 vaccine?!
Take a look at the viral claims, and find out what the facts really are!
Claim : Jamie Foxx Now Blind + Paralysed By COVID Vaccine Blood Clot!
People are sharing articles about Jamie Foxx being blind and partially paralysed after suffering a blood clot in his brain (stroke) caused by the COVID-19 vaccine. Here are selected quotes from those articles:
The Django Unchained star is said to be “partially paralyzed and blind,” in addition to a series of other complications after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, Hollywood journalist A.J. Benza claimed after speaking to a source close to Foxx.
“Jamie had a blood clot in his brain after he got the shot. He did not want the shot, but the movie he was on, he was pressured to get it,” confessed the podcaster — who formally worked as a columnist for the New York Daily News and as a host of the E! series Mysteries and Scandals — during an appearance on Dr. Drew Pinsky’s online show “Ask Dr. Drew.”
“The blood clot in the brain caused him at that point to be partially paralyzed and blind,” Benza alleged, as he insisted his insider was “someone in the room” with first-hand knowledge of Foxx’s hospitalization.
“I am thinking, ‘Is that why he blew up on the set a week before this medical emergency happened?'” the veteran journalist asked Pinsky. “Is that why he fired three or four people because he had had it with these mandates?”
Journalist A.J Benza is now claiming that the actor’s health has worsened due to a “blood clot in his brain.” The journalist added that the clot has led to Jamie being “partially blind and paralyzed.”
The journalist has said that a well-placed source tells him that the reason behind Foxx’s mysterious illness was a COVID vaccine. He also adds that the actor was pressured into taking the vaccine. “Jamie had a blood clot in his brain after he got the shot. He did not want the shot, but the movie he was on, he was pressured to get it,” Benza claimed.
He also made a shocking revelation when he added, “The blood clot in the brain caused him at that point to be partially paralyzed and blind.”
No Evidence Jamie Foxx Is Blind / Paralysed From Vaccine Blood Clot!
It’s now tradition for anti-vaccination activists to blame all celebrity deaths or illnesses on the COVID-19 vaccine.
Here are the reasons why this is yet another example of FAKE NEWS created and propagated by anti-vaccination activists…
Fact #1 : Jamie Foxx Suffered Unspecified Medical Emergency
I should point out that, as of May 2023, no one knows what exactly happened to Jamie Foxx.
Born Eric Marlon Bishop on December 13, 1967, Jamie Foxx was in Atlanta, Georgia filming his Netflix movie, Back in Action, when he suffered a “medical emergency” on April 11, 2023.
The medical emergency apparently occurred off the set, and he was taken to a hospital. His daughter, 29 year-old actress Corinne Foxx, was the one who announced his condition to the world, but she refused to divulge what that medical emergency was.
On June 1, Nick Cannon shared how he was asked to replace Jamie Foxx on Beat Shazam, and pointed out that Foxx will tell his fans what really happened when he’s ready, but not before then.
One thing I’ve always respected about how Jamie’s moved throughout his entire career, if you’ve noticed, he’s always been somebody who is extremely professional and extremely private.
The information that is out there is the information that they want to be out there… I believe when he’s ready, he’s going to address the awaiting fans in the world the way that only he can.
Fact #2 : No Evidence Jamie Foxx Had Blood Clot In Brain
Initially, people speculated that Jamie Foxx suffered a ruptured aneurysm like Tom Sizemore, but there was no evidence of that at all.
Now, A.J. Benza claimed that Jamie Foxx actually suffered from “a blood clot in his brain”, but provided no evidence beyond claiming that his source was “someone in the room”. Could that be a doctor or nurse violating the HIPAA law, or a hospital cleaner with no medical knowledge? Who knows?
Interestingly, one of Jamie Foxx’s close friends earlier told Media Take Out that Foxx suffered a brain bleed (haemorrhage) that was discovered when he sought medical attention for headaches. His friend said that he had been suffering from severe headaches frequently.
A brain haemorrhage causes a haemorrhagic stroke, while a blood clot causes an ischaemic stroke. They are both “strokes”, but with completely different treatments. So which is it?
Until and unless Jamie Foxx or his family reveals his medical condition, it is unknown if he suffered from a ruptured aneurysm, a haemorrhagic stroke, or an ischaemic stroke.
Fact #3 : No Evidence Jamie Foxx Is Blind / Paralysed
A.J. Benza claimed that Jamie Foxx is now blind and partially paralysed, but offered no evidence beyond claiming that his source was “someone in the room”. His claims run contrary to previous updates by Jamie Foxx’s daughter and friends.
Back in April 2023, one of his close friends disclosed that the doctors consider the bleed to be minor, and that Jamie Foxx is expected to make a full recovery.
On 12 May 2023, his daughter – Corinne Foxx, posted an update criticising rumours that Jamie Foxx’s condition had worsened:
Sad to see how the media runs wild. My Dad has been out of the hospital for weeks, recuperating. In fact, he was playing pickleball yesterday! Thanks for everyone’s prayers and support.
Then, on May 15, Fox announced that Jamie and Corinne Foxx will host a music game show called We Are Family on its network in 2024. Corinne Foxx confirmed it on her Instagram the same day:
WE ARE FAMILY coming 2024!🎶👨👧🪩 The Foxx Family is headed back to our home on @foxtv & we can’t wait for this new show! 🦊📺
All that suggest that Jamie Foxx is not blind or partially paralysed. While he can certainly play pickleball and host a show while partially paralysed, it would be impossible for him to do both while blind!
I should also point out that Corinne Foxx and Jamie Foxx’s good friend, Dave Brown, were both seen visiting a physical rehabilitation centre in Chicago, which treats patients with stroke, traumatic brain injuries and spinal cord injuries. This suggests that Jamie Foxx is undergoing physical therapy for some kind of impairment.
Fact #4 : No Evidence Booster Dose Required On Film Set
A.J. Benza suggested that the “blood clot in the brain” was caused by the COVID-19 vaccine Jamie Foxx was forced to receive to work on the movie, Back in Action.
While many movie sets require the cast and crew members to be fully-vaccinated, there does not appear to be any requirement for booster doses. A.J. Benza certainly offered no evidence Jamie Foxx was “pressured” to get a COVID-19 vaccine dose before he could work on the movie.
More importantly, neither Jamie Foxx nor his daughter, Corinne, mentioned the COVID-19 vaccine as the cause of his “medical complication”. Corinne Foxx posted several times about her father, and Jamie Foxx himself posted a short message on Instagram on May 4:
Appreciate all the love!!! Feeling blessed
If the COVID-19 vaccine really caused his medical condition, they would have spoken up about it. Yet, neither did so.
That said, Jamie Foxx was likely fully vaccinated by July 2021, when he joined action-thriller film God is a Bullet, which required its cast to be fully-vaccinated.
Fact #7 : VITT / TTS Have A Unique Presentation
As Jamie Foxx likely received his COVID-19 vaccination by July 2021, he would likely have received one of the three approved vaccines in the United States:
the Pfizer-BioNTech COMIRNATY vaccine,
the Moderna Spikevax vaccine, or
the Janssen COVID-19 vaccine.
The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are based on mRNA technology, which introduce a small risk of developing myocarditis in children and young adults, but neither have been shown to cause blood clots.
Only virus vector vaccines, like the AstraZeneca and Janssen vaccines, can potentially cause blood clots as a side effect. Those virus vector vaccines can induce a rare and unique combination of blood clots with low platelet counts, a condition now called:
Thrombosis with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome (TTS), or
If Jamie Foxx did indeed suffer a blood clot from the Janssen vaccine, it would be easy to diagnose, as he would have both blood clots as well as low platelet counts, which can cause bleeding.
Fact #8 : Vaccine Side Effects Appear Within Hours / Days
Even if Jamie Foxx was vaccinated against COVID-19, he would have received all of his doses almost two years ago.
He cannot possibly have suffered from a vaccine side effect, because they appear within hours or days, not months later.
Mild side effects like injection site pain, fever, muscle ache, headache, lethargy develop within minutes to hours of the vaccination.
Anaphylaxis develops within minutes, while other severe adverse reactions like myocarditis and VITT develop within days or weeks.
The spike proteins produced by the COVID-19 vaccines also do not stick around for months. If these spike proteins are permanent (as antivaxxers claim), we would have lifelong immunity.
Your own immune system will identify the spike proteins as foreign, and destroy them within a matter of days, although some may last for up to a few weeks. This is part of how vaccines teach your immune system to identify the enemy and destroy it.
Fact #9 : Claims Of Celebrities Injured By COVID-19 Vaccine Proven False
So far, claims of sudden deaths / injuries due to the COVID-19 vaccine have been proven false in every instance. Here is the latest dozen of other false sudden death claims!
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Did the US government intentionally release the COVID-19 virus in Wuhan, to trigger a global pandemic so that people will accept vaccines?!
Take a look at the viral claim, and find out what the facts really are!
Claim : US Intentionally Released COVID Virus In Wuhan!
People are sharing an article by The Standard newspaper in Hong Kong, in which David Martin claimed that the US government intentionally released the COVID-19 virus in Wuhan, to trigger a global pandemic so that people will accept vaccines!
The article is being shared not only by anti-vaccination activists and conspiracy theorists, but also pro-CCP netizens and the Chinese 50 Cent Army (wumao, 五毛) as “evidence” that the COVID-19 pandemic was caused by the United States, and not China.
Here is an excerpt from the article. It’s long, so feel free to skip to the next section for the facts!
US ‘intentionally released Covid virus in Wuhan’ EU summit told
The Covid-19 coronavirus was “intentionally released” by the United States in Wuhan, China, with the target to trigger a global pandemic to raise public acceptance of vaccines, a US businessman specializing in patent auditing said.
David Martin, the founding chairman of M Cam asset management company, said at an International Covid Summit organized by the European Parliament in Brussels earlier this month that the US was responsible for the making of both coronaviruses causing the outbreaks of severe acute respiratory syndrome – or SARS – in 2003 and the Covid-19 pandemic in the past three years.
The third edition of the summit featured speakers from anti-lockdown advocates to medical academia to discuss the global pandemic response. The speakers shed light on the possibility that the coronavirus which caused the pandemic was man-made, instead of naturally occurring.
In his speech, Martin said: “The pandemic that we alleged to have happened in the last few years did not happen overnight. In fact, the very specific pandemic using the coronavirus began at a different time.”
He said that in 1965, scientists discovered the coronavirus as a model of a pathogen – an agent that causes disease. They also found out that coronaviruses can be modified.
“Later we started learning how to modify a coronavirus by putting them in animals such as dogs and pigs,” Martin said, adding that such a practice became the basis for US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer’s first coronavirus spike protein vaccine in 1990.
But very soon the medical sector and drug makers found out that the vaccines did not work.
“Because the coronavirus is a malleable model, it mutates,” Martin said. “Every medical publication concluded that coronaviruses escape vaccines because it modifies and mutates too rapidly for a vaccine to be developed.”
In 2002, a university in North Carolina initiated a study to develop an “infectious replication defective,” which Martin interpreted as “a weapon to target individuals, but not have collateral damage.”
Characterizing the project as having “mysteriously preceded SARS by a year,” Martin said the coronavirus that caused the highly deadly infection was not from China and that it was “engineered” instead of naturally occurring.
On Covid-19, Martin said the coronavirus – named as SARS-CoV-2 by the World Health Organization – was poised for human emergence in 2016, with a preview about an “accidental or intentional release of a respiratory coronavirus” from a laboratory in Wuhan.
He said the purpose of the coronavirus “release” was to boost global acceptance on universal vaccination.
Explaining the common concern among the medical industry, Martin said: “Until an infectious crisis is very real, present and at the emergency threshold, it is often largely ignored.
“To sustain the funding base beyond the crisis, we need to increase the public understanding of the need for medical countermeasures, such as the pan-influenza, or pan-coronavirus, vaccine. A key drive is the media and the economics will follow the hype.
“We [pharmaceutical firms] need to use that hype to our advantage to get to the real issue. Investors will respond if they see profit at the end of the process,” he said.
Truth : US Did Not Release COVID-19 Virus In Wuhan!
This appears to be yet another example of FAKE NEWS circulating on WhatsApp and social media platforms like TikTok and Twitter, and here are the reasons why!
Fact #1 : International COVID Summit III Was Not Organised By EU Parliament
The article wrongly states that the International COVID Summit III was organised by the European Parliament.
As I explained in my previous article, the International COVID Summit III was not an official EU Parliament event. It appears to be a private conference organised by COVID-19 conspiracy theorists and anti-vaccination activists.
Held in the Anna Lindh room of the European Parliament, it was not an official EU or European Parliament event, and only 5 MEPs attended as “co-hosting members” of the event.
In other words – the speakers at this event was only “testifying” to the few attendees in the room, and to the event’s livestream, not to the European Parliament.
Fact #2 : This Was The First International COVID Summit
The article also wrongly called it the “third edition of the summit”. The first International COVID Summit, and International COVID Summit 2 do not appear to exist!
What actually existed were the Global COVID-19 Summit, and the 2nd Global COVID-19 Summit, but they are both completely unrelated to this International COVID Summit III. Those were official events involving heads of states and governments, as well as heads of international organisations, NGOs, and industries across the world.
So why would this International COVID Summit jump to its “third” iteration, when this was really the first time it was held? Could it be trying to mislead people into thinking that it was the third version of the Global COVID-19 Summit?!
Fact #3 : Coronavirus Was First Isolated In 1930s
David Martin said that the first coronavirus as a model of a pathogen was isolated in 1965. Well, I have no idea what he meant by “as a model of a pathogen”, but that’s wrong on several counts.
first coronavirus sample (IBV) was isolated in 1930s
second coronavirus sample (MHV) was isolated in 1947
third coronavirus sample (B814) was isolated in 1961
fourth coronavirus sample (229-E) was isolated in 1966
all four virus samples were determined to be from same group, and named “coronavirus” in 1967
All viruses can mutate when they replicate, just like how all animals evolve through reproduction. Just because a virus mutates does not mean that vaccines stop working.
Vaccines are training programs that teach our immune system how to identify the actual virus, and make its own antibodies against it. It’s like training your army by showing them how the enemy soldiers look like and behave, so they can train and prepare for war.
The vaccines do not stay in your body to fight the COVID-19 virus. They only teach your immune system how to do that, and they do that regardless of whether the virus has mutated or not.
As viruses evolve, they may get better at evading the antibodies that your immune system developed to defeat them. But that doesn’t mean they are immune. The antibodies may not be as effective, but they will still offer some protection, reducing the risk of severe disease and death.
This isn’t just theory. During the pandemic, the first vaccines only targeted the original SARS-CoV-2 virus. But it continued to offer robust protection against the Beta, Delta, and Omicron variants that came after.
Fact #5 : No Evidence US Released COVID-19 Virus In Wuhan
Claims that the US released the COVID-19 in Wuhan to create the pandemic has been circulating since 2020, but until today – there has been ZERO EVIDENCE of that.
Pro-CCP netizens and the Chinese 50 Cent Army (wumao, 五毛) accused US soldiers like Maatje Benassi of spreading the COVID-19 virus while participating in the 2019 Military World Games. They even spread a fake video (see below), claiming to show an American soldier spreading the COVID-19 virus in a subway in Wuhan.
However, all of those claims have long been proven to be completely false. More importantly, David Martin himself did not offer any actual evidence that the US released the COVID-19 virus, intentionally or otherwise, in Wuhan.
Fact #6 : Most COVID-19 Vaccines Developed By Foreign Companies
The claim that the US government would create a pandemic to drive demand for vaccines is ludicrous. For one thing – big pharmaceutical companies are public-listed companies, and many are based outside of the United States.
More importantly – most COVID-19 vaccines were developed by foreign companies:
Only the Moderna Spikevax vaccine was developed in the United States
The Pfizer COMIRNATY vaccine was developed by German company, BioNTech
The AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine was developed by Oxford University, and AstraZeneca is a UK company.
The Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine was developed by Janssen Vaccines in the Netherlands.
The Sinovac, Sinopharm, CanSino COVID-19 vaccines were developed in China.
So the conspiracy theory that the United States created the COVID-19 pandemic for profit is absurd…
Fact #7 : Vaccines Are Cheaper Than Cures
I should also point out that prevention is always better and CHEAPER than the cure. Vaccines may seem expensive, and a way for Big Pharma to make billions of dollars. But vaccines are still better and CHEAPER than the cures.
Vaccines prevent you from developing severe COVID-19, thus negating your need to be hospitalised – which is expensive. Sure, Big Pharma now has drugs to treat COVID-19, like PAXLOVID, but they are much more expensive.
When it comes to dollars and common sense, vaccines are cheaper and better because they prevent hospitalisation. Big Pharma would make far more money selling you everything from expensive new drugs like PAXLOVID, or machines and drugs to keep you alive in the ICU!
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Did the US CDC just quietly recall the Johnson & Johnson Janssen COVID-19 vaccine, because it caused too many deaths and injuries?!
Take a look at the viral claims, and find out what the facts really are!
Claim : CDC Just Quietly Recalled Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine!
People are claiming that the US CDC just quietly recalled the Johnson & Johnson Janssen COVID-19 vaccine, because it caused too many deaths and injuries!
Died Suddenly : The checks have been cashed and the mission has been accomplished. They think they can begin to quietly roll back and that we will just forget.
Millions are injured, and millions are dead or dying slowly. Never forget what they have done.
Dr. Anastasia Maria Loupis : COVID Vaccine pulled from US – No CDC comment.
Andrew Bridgen : Just like the AstraZeneca vaccine, the Johnson and Johnsonvaccine has been quietly withdrawn and stocks destroyed. Both of these products were actually a strand of DNA and used an Adenovirus vector to enter the cells. Where are the national media headlines?…
TaraBull : Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine has been pulled from the U.S. amid health concerns. Should Pfizer be next?
Truth : CDC Did Not Recall Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine!
This is yet another example of FAKE NEWS created by anti-vaccination activists, and here are the reasons why…
Fact #1 : Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine Use Limited In May 2022
The Janssen COVID-19 vaccine from Johnson & Johnson received an Emergency Use Authorisation (EUA) from the FDA on February 27, 2021.
However, the FDA later limited its use on 5 May 2022, because it was shown to introduce a small risk of developing thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS) – the same problem affecting the AstraZeneca vaccine.
Fact #2 : Pfizer + Moderna Introduced Bivalent Vaccines In 2022
Thanks to evolutionary pressures, these variants and subvariants have evolved to evade the protections offered by both vaccines and natural immunity from a prior infection.
To combat these new variants, Pfizer and Moderna developed bivalent mRNA vaccines, which target both the ancestral SARS-CoV-2 virus as well as the newer and much more infectious Omicron variant.
Pfizer and Moderna announced, on 25 June and 8 June respectively, that they successfully tested their bivalent COVID-19 vaccines. With the introduction of bivalent vaccines, there really isn’t any use for older monovalent vaccines like the Janssen COVID-19 vaccine.
Fact #3 : US CDC Did Not Recall Janssen COVID-19 Vaccines
Just to be clear – the US CDC did not recall the Janssen COVID-19 vaccine from Johnson & Johnson.
The US CDC only updated its Janssen COVID-19 vaccine information page on May 10, 2023 to inform the public that the vaccine is no longer available in the United States.
Claims that the CDC did not mention any reason for this decision are also false. The CDC specifically said that the Janssen COVID-19 vaccine is no longer available in the US, because all remaining stock expired on May 7, 2023!
Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine is no longer available in the U.S. All remaining U.S. government stock of Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine expired May 7, 2023. Dispose of any remaining Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine in accordance with local, state, and federal regulations.
Fact #4 : US CDC Recommends Boosting With Bivalent Vaccines
The CDC recommended that those who received one or two doses of the Janssen COVID-19 vaccine should receive one dose of the new bivalent mRNA vaccine from Moderna or Pfizer.
People ages 18 years and older who received 1 or 2 Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine dose are recommended to receive 1 bivalent mRNA dose (Moderna or Pfizer-BioNTech) at least 2 months after completion of the previous dose.
Fact #5 : This Is Just COVID-19 Vaccine Fake News!
This is yet another example of fake news created to scare people about the COVID-19 vaccines. Here are other examples you may see circulating on WhatsApp and social media platforms:
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People are sharing a Twitter post and video of Dr. Aseem Malhotra telling Joe Rogan about a study by Dr. Steve R. Gundry that claims to prove that COVID-19 vaccines double your heart attack risk over a 5-year period!
COVID Vaccines DOUBLE Heart Attack Risk Over 5-Year Period, According to Data from Cardiac Surgeon
“What he [Dr. Steve R. Gundry] found was that within eight to ten weeks of these patients taking the Moderna or Pfizer vaccine … those markers of inflammation in the blood had increased to a level where their risk of a heart attack went from 11% at five years – just within two months – to 25%,” shared @DrAseemMalhotra.
“To give it context, if I today decided I was going to smoke 40 cigarettes a day, eat junk food … not sleep, [and] stop exercising, I couldn’t even get close to increasing my risk that much in two months.”
Truth : COVID-19 Vaccines Do NOT DOUBLE Heart Attack Risk!
This is yet another example of FAKE NEWS created by anti-vaccination activists, and here are the reasons why…
Fact #1 : It Was An Abstract, Not A Peer-Reviewed Study
The article was an abstract (Abstract 10712), called “Observational Findings of PULS Cardiac Test Findings for Inflammatory Markers in Patients Receiving mRNA Vaccines“. It was not a peer-reviewed study.
An abstract is meant to be a short factual summary of an actual study, describing its context, methods, results and conclusions. However, the author – Steven R. Gundry – did not provide details of how he conducted the study, so it is impossible for anyone to confirm that his results are even accurate, much less peer-review it.
Fact #2 : The Abstract Was Published In 2021
This abstract was also published more than 17 months ago – on 8 November 2021. And as far as I can tell, the findings were never replicated or verified by other studies.
Fact #3 : AHA Published An Expression Of Concern
Circulation is a reputable medical journal, published by Lippincourt Williams & Wilkins for the American Heart Association. However, that does not mean that everything published in Circulation is peer-reviewed and/or endorsed by the American Heart Association.
Soon after publication of the above abstract in Circulation, it was brought to the American Heart Association Committee on Scientific Sessions Program’s attention that there are potential errors in the abstract.
Specifically, there are several typographical errors, there is no data in the abstract regarding myocardial T-cell infiltration, there are no statistical analyses for significance provided, and the author is not clear that only anecdotal data was used.
We are publishing this Expression of Concern until a suitable correction is published to indicate that the abstract in its current version may not be reliable.
Fact #4 : PULS Test Does Not Directly Assess Cardiac Health
The PULS (Protein Unstable Lesion Signature) test is a proprietary blood test developed by GD Biosciences Inc. that claims to detect and diagnose early-stage heart disease in asymptomatic patients. It does this by measuring the plasma levels of 9 proteins that are allegedly biomarkers of endothelial (blood vessel) damage.
So the PULS test does not actually tell us anything about the condition of the patient’s heart. It only predicts the future risk of a plaque forming in the blood vessels, that could potentially detach or rupture and lead to a heart attack.
The protein levels that are measured also change over time. Did Gundry confirm that the protein levels remain elevated 3 months, 6 months, 9 months, or 12 months post-vaccination? Because if the increase in protein levels was transient, then the risk of acute coronary syndrome predicted by the PULS score would not actually change.
Fact #5 : Measurement Units + Important Data Are Missing!
While the PULS test looks at 9 protein levels, Dr. Gundry only mentioned three of them. What happened to the other six protein levels?
Did Dr. Gundry forget about them? Or did their results go against the abstract’s dramatic conclusions? How did Circulation let Dr. Gundry post an abstract with ⅓ of the data?
Incredibly, Circulation also allowed Dr. Gundry to publish test results that were devoid of measurement units. Were they measured in mg/dL or pg/ml or PLUS units? Who knows?
On top of that, the abstract does not even mention how many of those 566 patients had elevated PULS scores, and protein levels. Was it all of them? 50%? Or just 1%?
No matter how you slice and dice this abstract, no one can come to any conclusion with just ⅓ of the PULS test results that lack even measurement units.
Despite being a short abstract, it was heavily corrected. In fact, the correction was posted on 21 December 2021 was much longer than the original abstract!
its title was revised from “Mrna COVID Vaccines Dramatically Increase Endothelial Inflammatory Markers and ACS Risk as Measured by the PULS Cardiac Test: a Warning” to “Observational Findings of PULS Cardiac Test Findings for Inflammatory Markers in Patients Receiving mRNA Vaccines”
the PULS test was no longer “a clinically validated measurement”, but simply “a clinically utilized measurement”
it no longer claimed that “dramatic changes in PULS score became apparent in most patients” after receiving mRNA vaccines.
it added that “There was no comparison made with unvaccinated patients or pts treated with other vaccines“.
it removed the claim that “these changes persist for at least 2.5 months post second dose of vac”.
it added the warning that “No statistical comparison was done in this observational study“.
it removed the original conclusion that “mRNA vacs dramatically increase inflammation on the endothelium and T cell infiltration of cardiac muscle and may account for the observations of increased thrombosis, cardiomyopathy, and other vascular events following vaccination”, and replaced it with “the mRNA vacs numerically increase (but not statistically tested) the markers IL-16, Fas, and HGF, all markers previously described by others for denoting inflammation on the endothelium and T cell infiltration of cardiac muscle, in a consecutive series of a single clinic patient population receiving mRNA vaccines without a control group.”
In the end, this abstract does not prove that mRNA COVID-19 vaccines double the risk of heart attack in a 5-year period. It only showed that the proprietary PULS score and 3 (out of 9) protein levels were elevated at a particular point in time for an unknown number of people.
Fact #7 : PULS Test Not Used In Mainstream Cardiology
The PULS test is not used in mainstream cardiology, and its use is limited even in the few countries where it is offered.
For example, in the UK, it is only provided through a single medical practice that appears to be focused on “natural health”. Similarly, it is only available in India through a single provider.
Dr. Lander Foquet, an infectious disease scientist, pointed out that the PULs test was promoted heavily by the abstract author, and is “not something used by a real cardiologist”.
Fact #8 : Dr. Gundry Sells Supplements
It should also be noted that Dr. Gundry sells a plethora of dietary supplements under his own brand name – Gundry MD.
There is nothing wrong with creating and selling your own dietary supplements, of course. But many people would consider that to be a potential conflict of interest that should have been mentioned in the abstract’s disclosure. Dr. Gundry reported no conflict of interest.
Fact #9 : Dr. Gundry Was Pitching Quercetin
This was not mentioned in the printed Circulation abstract, but presented to the meeting attendees.
In his slide, Results An [sic] Conclusions, Dr. Gundry recommended the use of low-dose aspirin and/or Quercetin to “treat” this increased risk of heart disease from the mRNA vaccines.
Despite the dramatic claim that mRNA vaccines greatly increase inflammation of the heart, his recommended use of a supplement suggests that he doesn’t even believe it’s particularly dangerous.
I should point out that his recommended treatment is based on ZERO EVIDENCE. Dr. Gundry did not explain why he recommended either “treatment”. Neither did he provide any evidence to back them up.
Post-marketing monitoring of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines have revealed that these mRNA vaccines introduce a small risk of myocarditis and pericarditis in young males.
However, there is NO EVIDENCE that mRNA vaccines cause increased risk of heart disease other than the aforementioned myocarditis / pericarditis risk.
Billions of doses of mRNA vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna have already been administered worldwide in the past 28 months.
If the Gundry abstract is correct, we should have seen HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of people keeling over from heart attacks in the last year or so. That is obviously not the case at all.
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Do the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines increase your risks of serious adverse events, hospitalisation, and death?!
Take a look at the viral claims, and find out what the facts really are!
Claim : mRNA Vaccines Increase Risk Of Death + Injuries
People are sharing a Twitter post and video of Dr. Aseem Malhotra telling Joe Rogan that a reanalysis of Pfizer and Moderna’s original clinical trial data shows that mRNA vaccines INCREASE your risks of serious adverse events, hospitalisations, and death!
Dr. Aseem Malhotra tells Joe Rogan that a reanalysis of Pfizer and Moderna’s original clinical trial data shows that their COVID mRNA vaccines *INCREASE* your risks of serious adverse events, hospitalization, and death:
“In my whole career, looking at all of the drugs and knowing about many different prescribed medications, I’ve never seen something that when you look at the data has such poor effectiveness and unprecedented harms. In the summer of last year, in the journal Vaccine, the highest-impact medical journal for vaccines, they published a reanalysis of Pfizer and Moderna’s original double-blinded randomized controlled trial.
This is the highest quality of scientific evidence. Joseph Fraiman is an ER doctor and clinical data scientist from Louisiana. Associate editor of the BMJ, Dr. Peter Doshi. Dr. Robert Kaplan from Stanford. Some real eminence of integrity published this reanalysis, and what they found was this. In the trials that led to the approval of regulators worldwide, you were more likely to suffer a severe adverse event from taking the vaccine, hospitalization, disability, or life-changing event than you were to be hospitalized with COVID.
This mRNA vaccine should likely have never been approved for a single human in the first place, and that rate of serious adverse events is at least 1 in 800… 1 in 800 is a very, very high figure. We’ve pulled other vaccines for much less. The 1976 Swine Flu vaccine was pulled because it was found to cause a debilitating neurological condition called Guillan-Barre syndrome in about 1 in 100,000 people. The Rotavirus vaccine was suspended in 1999 because it was found to cause a form of bowel obstruction in kids in 1 of 10,000. This is at least 1 in 800. It’s a no-brainer. So the question is, why have we not paused it?”
Truth : mRNA Vaccines Not Proven To Increase Risk Of Death + Injuries
This is yet another example of FAKE NEWS created by anti-vaccination activists, and here are the reasons why…
Fact #1 : The Study Was Published In September 2022
The study that Dr. Aseem Malhotra was referring is called “Serious adverse events of special interest following mRNA COVID-19 vaccination in randomized trials in adults“.
It was published in the journal Vaccine on September 22, 2022, and you can read the full version here (PDF).
Fact #2 : The Article Looked At Reported AESI
The article looked at Adverse Events of Special Interest (AESI) reported in the original Phase 3 trials of the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines from 2020. It’s short, so I’m reproducing the results here for your convenience:
Pfizer and Moderna mRNA COVID-19 vaccines were associated with an excess risk of serious adverse events of special interest of 10.1 and 15.1 per 10,000 vaccinated over placebo baselines of 17.6 and 42.2 (95 % CI -0.4 to 20.6 and -3.6 to 33.8), respectively.
Combined, the mRNA vaccines were associated with an excess risk of serious adverse events of special interest of 12.5 per 10,000 vaccinated (95 % CI 2.1 to 22.9); risk ratio 1.43 (95 % CI 1.07 to 1.92).
The Pfizer trial exhibited a 36 % higher risk of serious adverse events in the vaccine group; risk difference 18.0 per 10,000 vaccinated (95 % CI 1.2 to 34.9); risk ratio 1.36 (95 % CI 1.02 to 1.83).
The Moderna trial exhibited a 6 % higher risk of serious adverse events in the vaccine group: risk difference 7.1 per 10,000 (95 % CI -23.2 to 37.4); risk ratio 1.06 (95 % CI 0.84 to 1.33).
Combined, there was a 16 % higher risk of serious adverse events in mRNA vaccine recipients: risk difference 13.2 (95 % CI -3.2 to 29.6); risk ratio 1.16 (95 % CI 0.97 to 1.39).
Fact #3 : Adverse Events Of Special Interest Are Not Necessarily Side Effects
I should now point out that Adverse Events of Special Interest (AESI) are not necessarily vaccine side effects. That’s why they are called “adverse events” and not “side effects”.
Adverse events are “unfavourable” or “unintended” events that happen after vaccination or taking a drug, like having an anaphylactic reaction or getting into a car accident.
All reported adverse events have to be investigated to find out if they are related (anaphylactic reaction) or not (getting into a car accident) to the vaccine or drug that was taken.
Even if an adverse event was “possibly caused” by the vaccine, it must still be confirmed that the vaccine directly caused it, because an anaphylactic reaction (for example) can also occur from a bee sting, or an existing peanut allergy.
Only once an adverse event is confirmed to be caused by the vaccine, is it then a vaccine side effect. Otherwise, it is merely an adverse event, not a side effect.
Fact #4 : Brighton AESI List Is More Specific
Unlike the much wider infamous AESI list of 1,291 adverse events used by Pfizer, the priority AESI list from the Brighton Collaboration is much more specific. You can download the December 2020 version here (PDF).
While the Brighton Collaboration AESI list is more specific, it includes adverse events that may not be related to the vaccine itself. As stated at the top of its Executive Summary on Page 4, the AESI list was crated based on:
known association with immunization or a specific vaccine platform;
theoretical association based on animal models;
occurrence during wild-type disease as a result of viral replication and/or immunopathogenesis.
As noted in Fact #3, these adverse events are not necessarily vaccine side effects. Again, that’s why they are called “adverse events”, and not “side effects”.
Fact #5 : The Study Used An Expanded Brighton AESI List
At first glance, one may be forgiven for thinking that the authors used the more specific Brighton Collaboration AESI list.
However, they actually expanded the Brighton list with 29 additional adverse events that the Brighton Collaboration rejected because they were “known to have been reported but not in sufficient numbers to merit inclusion on the AESI list“.
The 29 additional adverse events (see Page 8) that Brighton Collaboration declined to include in the priority list, but the authors added anyway include adverse events like:
breast milk, ectopic pregnancy, pregnancy, neonatal diagnoses, foetal diagnoses
host-specific diagnoses not related to pregnancy : geriatric, HIV
In other words – the results in the article are skewed by the inclusion of 29 additional adverse events that were rejected by the Brighton Collaboration.
Fact #6 : The Study Proved Nothing
Dr. Aseem Malhotra wondered why this study did not pause vaccinations. Well, it’s simple – this study is not “the highest quality of scientific evidence” as claimed.
In fact, it offered ZERO EVIDENCE that the mRNA vaccines increased the risk of death or hospitalisation or injury. Neither does it show that the risks of getting the mRNA vaccines exceed its benefits.
There is already a lot of data on actual, proven COVID-19 vaccine side effects, after more than 20 months of vaccinations (from December 2020 until September 2022). If they wanted to prove that the mRNA vaccines are dangerous, they could have reanalysed the original Phase 3 trial data using provenserious side effects, not serious adverse events.
Unfortunately, they chose to use adverse events instead of side effects, and ended up proving nothing in their article. What a waste of time.
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Did the US FDA just ban the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines, because they caused too many deaths and injuries?!
Take a look at the viral claims, and find out what the facts really are!
Claim : US FDA Just Announced Ban of Pfizer + Moderna Vaccines!
People are claiming that the US FDA just announced a ban of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines, because they caused too many deaths and injuries!
Paul Hookem : Breaking: The US FDA no longer authorizes Moderna and Pfizer monovalent ‘vaccines’ for use in the US. For the 100 plus million Americans previously injected with this stuff? “Our bad!”
SNEAKO : Last year you couldn’t enter a restaurant without a vaccine card. That same vaccine today is BANNED.
Last year I was canceled off Youtube for saying the vaccine doesn’t work. Today the FDA agrees. Do you still believe their lies?
Remember the Covid-19 shots from Pfizer and Moderna we were all led to get two years ago? They were even FDA approved!
Well now the FDA has banned them. Look it up for yourselves. Which, you’ll probably have to because I doubt MSM will want you to know about it.
Truth : US FDA Did Not Announce Ban of Pfizer + Moderna Vaccines!
This is yet another example of FAKE NEWS created by anti-vaccination activists, and here are the reasons why…
Fact #1 : Pfizer + Moderna mRNA Vaccines Were Approved In December 2020
First, I think it is important to remember that the US FDA issued emergency use authorisations for the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines on 11 December 2020, and 18 December 2020 respectively.
The US FDA subsequently issued full authorisations for both Pfizer and Moderna monovalent mRNA vaccines on May 10, 2021, and January 21, 2022 respectively.
This is important to know because since their introduction in December 2020, the SARS-CoV-2 virus has evolved into many variants like Delta and Omicron, and even more subvariants like XBB.
Fact #2 : Pfizer + Moderna Introduced Bivalent Vaccines In 2022
Thanks to evolutionary pressures, these variants and subvariants have evolved to evade the protections offered by both vaccines and natural immunity from a prior infection.
To combat these new variants, Pfizer and Moderna developed bivalent mRNA vaccines, which target both the ancestral SARS-CoV-2 virus as well as the newer and much more infectious Omicron variant.
Pfizer and Moderna announced, on 25 June and 8 June respectively, that they successfully tested their bivalent COVID-19 vaccines. With the introduction of bivalent vaccines, there really isn’t any use for the older monovalent vaccine.
Fact #3 : US FDA Did Not Ban Pfizer + Moderna Vaccines
Just to be clear – the US FDA did not ban the Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.
The FDA only announced that the monovalent Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines are no longer authorised for use in the United States, because there are now better bivalent Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines.
Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration amended the emergency use authorizations (EUAs) of the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 bivalent mRNA vaccines to simplify the vaccination schedule for most individuals.
This action includes authorizing the current bivalent vaccines (original and omicron BA.4/BA.5 strains) to be used for all doses administered to individuals 6 months of age and older, including for an additional dose or doses for certain populations. The monovalent Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines are no longer authorized for use in the United States.
Fact #4 : US FDA Removed EUA For Pfizer + Moderna Monovalent Vaccines
The FDA also clarified later that the monovalent Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines remain approved. The FDA did not rescind the approval of the monovalent vaccines. It only remove the emergency use authorisation for the monovalent vaccines.
It’s probably worth clarifying that the monovalent vaccines are still approved (licensed). That hasn’t changed. But they are no longer authorized for *emergency use* in the United States.
I should also take this opportunity to point out that the US FDA just simplified COVID-19 vaccinations using the new bivalent Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines.
Instead of getting two doses of the monovalent vaccine, and then getting one or two booster doses of the bivalent vaccine, the FDA now recommends getting just one bivalent vaccine dose.
Most individuals, whether vaccinated or unvaccinated, may receive a single bivalent vaccine dose.
Individuals 65 years and older, or immunocompromised, may receive up to two bivalent vaccine doses.
Children 6 months through 5 years old may receive two doses of the bivalent Moderna vaccine.
Children 6 months through 4 years old may receive three doses of the bivalent Pfizer vaccine. Children 5 years old may receive a single dose of the bivalent Pfizer vaccine.
The new FDA recommendation is based on data that shows that most of the US population 5 years and older have protection from COVID-19, either through vaccination or a prior infection.
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Did Switzerland just order a stop to all COVID-19 vaccinations?!
Take a look at the viral claim, and find out what the facts really are!
Claim : Switzerland Stops All COVID-19 Vaccinations!
People are sharing an article by Report24, as evidence that Switzerland has stopped all COVID-19 vaccinations:
@USMortality : Switzerland stops the Covid vaccinations: All vaccination recommendations have been withdrawn, doctors can only administer the controversial vaccines in individual cases under certain conditions – but then bear the risk of liability for vaccination damage.
Robert W Malone, MD : “News from the Front Lines Switzerland bans the COVID vaccines, Spike protein kills brain cells, AAPS updates, Twitter at war with Sbstck.”
Robert W Malone, MD : This is big news! “Switzerland stops the Covid vaccinations: All vaccination recommendations have been withdrawn””
PeterSweden : BOMBSHELL NEWS🚨🚨🚨
Switzerland is STOPPING the covid shots except under special circumstances.
And doctors will now be held LIABLE for injuries from giving it to patients.
Here is a machine translated excerpt from the really long German article, so feel free to skip to the next section for the facts!
BREAKING: Switzerland withdraws all Covid vaccination recommendations
Switzerland stops the Covid vaccinations: All vaccination recommendations have been withdrawn, doctors can only administer the controversial vaccines in individual cases under certain conditions – but then bear the risk of liability for vaccination damage. When will countries like Germany and Austria follow this example?
Vaccination is only possible in individual cases… However, no vaccination recommendation for risk patients is explicitly given here.
In the case of the valid non-recommendation, this essentially means that there is no longer a positive benefit-risk ratio for any Covid vaccination.
The new recommendations also have consequences for liability. The person vaccinating – i.e. generally the doctor – can be held liable if he has violated the duty of care. In this context, it is pointed out that the same rules regarding patient information apply to the Covid vaccination as to all other vaccinations.
Truth : Switzerland Did Not Stop All COVID-19 Vaccinations!
This is yet another example of FAKE NEWS by anti-vaccination activists, and here are the reasons why…
Fact #1 : Swiss COVID-19 Recommendations Are Available In 4 Languages
First, let me point out that the latest COVID-19 vaccination recommendations by the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH / BAG) are available in both English and German, as well as French and Italian.
So there is no reason to rely on the German article posted by Report24, because you can directly read what the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health actually said.
Fact #2 : Switzerland Does Not Recommend Vaccination For Spring + Summer 2023
nearly everyone (98%) in Switzerland has protection against COVID-19 from vaccination and/or having contracted and recovered from COVID-19,
the virus is likely to circulate less in spring / summer 2023, and
the current virus variants cause rather mild illness
However, that recommendation may change if “a wave of infection were to emerge in spring / summer 2023“.
In addition, it has not made any recommendation for autumn 2023, because that depends on the situation later in the year – whether there is a new variant or wave of infection.
It makes sense for Switzerland to stop recommending COVID-19 vaccination. After all, it had already achieved herd immunity with 98% of its population already protected through a combination of vaccination and prior infections.
Fact #3 : Switzerland Did Not Stop All COVID-19 Vaccinations
While Switzerland no longer recommends COVID-19 vaccination for the next six months, it did not actually order a stop to all COVID-19 vaccinations.
In fact, the FOPH pointed out that “vaccination may be wise in individual cases, as it improves protection against developing severe COVID-19 for several months” and that the advice “applies regardless of the number of vaccinations” already received.
The FOPH also maintained its advice on vaccination timing and vaccine type to be used:
Vaccination Timing
The COVID-19 vaccination can be given from 6 months after the last COVID-19 vaccination or from 6 months after a known coronavirus infection. Other vaccinations with inactivated vaccines can also be administered before, at the same time as or after a COVID-19 vaccination.
Vaccine
We advise you to get vaccinated with a bivalent (i.e. variant-adapted) mRNA vaccine or with the protein-based Novavax vaccine. Which vaccine(s) you have previously received is of no importance here. Monovalent mRNA vaccines continue to provide good protection against severe COVID-19 with possible hospitalisation.
Please note: If you are pregnant or breastfeeding, or if you have a severely weakened immune system, you should get yourself vaccinated with an mRNA vaccine.
Fact #4 : Not Recommended Vaccination At Own Cost + Own Risk
Because the FOPH no longer recommends COVID-19 vaccinations for spring / summer 2023, people who want to get vaccinated without a recommendation (for travel purposes, for example) will have to pay for the vaccine that was previously provided for free.
In addition, the COVID-19 vaccination will be given without subsidiary liability protection by the federal government.
However, if a doctor recommends that you receive the COVID-19 vaccine because you are considered “high risk”, it will be provided free of charge, and covered by compulsory health insurance.
In addition, such recommended COVID-19 vaccination will continue to be covered by subsidiary liability protection by the federal government.
The federal government can only pay compensation for vaccination damages for vaccinations recommended or ordered by the authorities. However, the federal government will only pay compensation for damages that are not otherwise covered (subsidiary liability).
In other words, a person suffering damages is only entitled to compensation if the damage has not already been covered, for example, by the vaccine manufacturer (product liability), the person administering the vaccination (medical liability) or by social or private insurance.
Fact #6 : COVID-19 Vaccination Is Not Off-Label Use
The new changes in COVID-19 vaccine recommendation does not mean that COVID-19 vaccinations are now “off-label”, because they don’t change the authorisation of those recommended / approved vaccines:
Monovalent for 12 years and above : 5-year authorisation since 27 March 2023
Monovalent 5 to 11 years : 5-year authorisation since 27 March 2023
Bivalent for 18 years and above : Temporary authorisation since 10 October 2022
Moderna Spikevax
Monovalent for 18 years and above : Temporary authorisation since 12 January 2021
Monovalent for 12 years and above : Temporary authorisation since 9 August 2021
Monovalent booster dose : Temporary authorisation since 26 October 2021
Monovalent for 6-11 years : Temporary authorisation since 13 May 2022
First bivalent vaccine : Temporary authorisation since 29 August 2022
Second bivalent vaccine : Unlimited authorisation since 8 March 2023
Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine
Vaccine for 18 years and above : Temporary authorisation since 22 March 2021
Booster dose : Temporary authorisation since 27 December 2021
Nuvaxovid COVID-19 Vaccine
Vaccine for 18 years and above : Temporary authorisation since 12 April 2022
Vaccine for 12-18 years and booster dose : Temporary authorisation since 2 September 2022
The new changes in COVID-19 vaccine recommendation do not mean that doctors “have to be liable for the vaccination“.
Based on the FOPH document (PDF download) on COVID-19 vaccination strategy (November 29, 2022), the doctor’s liability in vaccinating people against COVID-19 is no different from any other medical procedure or vaccination.
The liability of the doctor in a private practice or in a private hospital is assessed according to the Swiss Code of Obligations, in particular according to the regulations of the contract law (comparable requirements apply in a public hospital, but the liability is based on the cantonal state liability law).
The same rules regarding patient information apply to the Covid-19 vaccination as to all other vaccinations.Only if the duty of care has been violated and the other liability requirements are met (namely in the contractual relationship: breach of contract, adequate causal connection, fault and in the case of state liability: unlawfulness and adequate causal connection) can the vaccination center or the person vaccinating be held liable.
Ultimately, the cantonal authorities and courts have to decide whether and to what extent there could be a breach of the duty of care that could give rise to liability.
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Did Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel know that the COVID-19 pandemic was coming, long before it happened?!
Take a look at the viral claim, and find out what the facts really are!
Claim : Moderna CEO Knew COVID-19 Pandemic Was Coming!
People are sharing an article by The Expose (formerly Daily Expose), which claims that Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel knew that the COVID-19 pandemic was coming, long before it happened!
Here is an excerpt from the really long article, so feel free to skip to the next section for the facts!
Before the Covid Pandemic was deployed Moderna’s CEO told staff: “We need to make a billion doses of Vaccines next year, there’s going to be a Pandemic”
Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel told his employees before it was declared that a pandemic was going to happen in 2020. At the same time, he told staff that Moderna would need to make a billion doses of vaccine the “next year.” He also confirmed that the CEO of GAVI knew about his pre-pandemic conversation with Moderna staff.
The conversation took place before the world knew about the covid “pandemic.” The World Health Organisation (“WHO”) only declared the “novel coronavirus (covid-19) outbreak a global pandemic” on 11 March 2020. “There are now more than 118,000 cases in 114 countries, and 4,291 people have lost their lives,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus claimed.
Bancel made the startling revelations during an appearance on a panel discussion on 18 January at the World Economic Forum’s Davos 2023 meeting. The panel discussion was hosted by Euronews. Another panellist was GAVI CEO, Seth Berkley. Bancel was asked about the development, adoption and scaling up of the covid “vaccine” for different variants and subvariants. He responded:
“As Seth knows, when the pandemic happened Moderna made 100,000 doses in 2019 for the whole year.
“And I remember walking after that into the office of Moderna manufacturing and I say: “How we make a billion doses next year?” And [you/they] look at me a bit funny say: “What?” I said: “Yeah we need to make a billion doses next year, there’s going to be a pandemic.”
Although it’s not clear if the pre-pandemic conversation with staff took place, in late 2019 or early 2020, it is clear that it took place before 11 March and the rest of the world knew about it, including Moderna staff.
The second statement noted above implies that both Bancel and Berkely knew beforehand that there was going to be a pandemic declared and that Moderna would be supplying at least a billion doses of a “vaccine.” So pre-pandemic, Moderna already knew they would be given contracts to supply at least a billion doses of “vaccines.” Moderna also knew that the “vaccines” which were still to be developed, apparently, would be manufactured “next year” – developed and trialled within one year. And those “vaccines” were, supposedly, for an unknown virus for which the lethality, number of cases and infection rate could not have been known.
However, the “fact-checkers,” as well as social media users, focused on the first statement and ignored the second.
So, while it’s correct that the original tweet did misrepresent Bancel’s remarks, AFP ignored the elephant in the room. AFP did however admit that Moderna started developing its covid “vaccine” in 2019. This could lend weight to Bancel’s pre-pandemic conversation with staff – that “there’s going to be a pandemic” – taking place in 2019.
Truth : Moderna CEO Did Not Know COVID-19 Pandemic Was Coming!
This is yet another example of FAKE NEWS by The Expose (formerly Daily Expose), and here are the reasons why…
Fact #1 : Daily Expose Is A Fake News Website
Like Real Raw News and NewsPunch, Daily Expose is a FAKE NEWS website that capitalises on making shocking but fake stories to generate page views and money. It was later rebranded as The Expose.
It was founded in November 2020 by Jonathan Allen-Walker, a mechanic from Lincolnshire, and is infamous for publishing COVID-19 and vaccine misinformation that were quoted by Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, and Chinese state media.
Its articles have been regularly debunked as fake news, so you should NEVER share anything from Daily Expose / The Expose. Here are some of its fake stories that I personally debunked earlier:
Fact #2 : Moderna Did Not Make COVID-19 Vaccine In 2019
The claim that Moderna made 100,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine in 2019 – before the pandemic happened, was an (intentional?) misunderstanding of what its CEO Stephane Bancel said at Davos 2023.
At that time, Bancel said that Moderna made 100,000 vaccine doses for the whole of 2019. However, it was the entire year’s production of vaccines for cancer, the Zika virus, a flu vaccine, and vaccines against other respiratory viruses.
Moderna spokesperson, Chris Ridley, later confirmed that Bancel was referring to the Moderna’s entire output in 2019, and not COVID-19 vaccines.
The 100,000 Bancel mentioned during the “State of the Pandemic” session referred to “total doses across our portfolio: Vaccines, rare diseases, cancer – the entire companies 2019 pipeline.
Moderna had been developing mRNA vaccines since 2011 – long before the COVID-19 pandemic began. By 2015, it developed the first in-human dose of an mRNA flu vaccine candidate.
Fact #3 : SARS-CoV-2 Genome Only Released In January 2020
China announced its novel coronavirus outbreak on 31 December 2019, and only released the first draft of its genome on 11 January 2020.
So it would not be possible for Moderna to develop any COVID-19 vaccine in 2019, much less manufacture 100,000 doses.
It is also not possible for Stephane Bancel to predict that COVID-19 would become a pandemic when the world only found out about this virus on the last day of 2019.
Fact #4 : Stephane Bancel Predicted COVID-19 Would Become Pandemic
At the State of the Pandemic panel, the host Sasha Vakulina asked Bancel about vaccine development, to which he responded:
So the great news versus 2020, where we are today is that we have manufacturing capacity. As Seth knows, when the pandemic happened, Moderna had made 100,000 dose in 2019 for the whole year.
And I remember walking into the office of my head of manufacturing and I say, ‘How about we make a billion dose next year?’ And he looked at me a bit funny and say, ‘What?’
And I say, ‘Yeah, we need to make a billion dose next year, there’s going to be a pandemic.’”
Bancel did not mention when this incident happened, but it appears to have happened in 2020, based on an August 2021 interview with Pictet Asset Management, where he said:
In 2019, we made fewer than 100,000 doses of vaccine. In the first quarter of 2021 alone, we shipped over 100 million doses and are now on a trajectory to produce 1 billion doses for this year.
It appears that Stephane Bancel predicted sometime in early 2020 that COVID-19 will end up becoming a pandemic, and wanted Moderna to ramp up its production capacity to deal with it.
Fact #5 : Many People Predicted COVID-19 Would Become Pandemic
While The Expose and many conspiracy theorists are suggesting that this is “proof” that the COVID-19 pandemic was “planned”, that is not true.
They (intentionally?) “forgot” that many scientists feared / predicted in early 2020 that the novel coronavirus outbreak in China could become a pandemic, after China failed to quell its outbreaks.
As early as 22 January 2020, WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus convened an Emergency Committee to assess whether the outbreak constituted a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC).
Just 8 days later, he would be forced to reconvene another Emergency Committee meeting, and declare the outbreak a PHEIC, after over 7,800 cases were confirmed worldwide in 18 countries.
It was obvious, even in January 2020, that COVID-19 was potentially, if not likely, to become a pandemic, due to the rapid development and spread of outbreaks around the world.
Fact #6 : No Evidence Moderna Had Contract To Manufacture 1 Billion Doses
There is no evidence Moderna had a contract of any kind to manufacture 1 billion vaccine doses.
Just because Stephane Bancel asked his head of manufacturing to ramp up production capacity to 1 billion vaccine doses does not mean Moderna already has a contract to manufacture 1 billion doses.
You don’t have to be a pharmaceutical CEO to assume that, if COVID-19 becomes a pandemic, there would be a huge demand for a vaccine. Many billions of doses would be required.
After all – there were over 7.7 billion people in the world at the end of 2019! Even if Moderna wins just 10% of the vaccine contracts, it would need to produce 1.54 billion doses!
Just to give you a little context – Pfizer, which is a more established pharmaceutical company, delivered over 3 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses in 2021, and would deliver over 4 billion doses in 2022.
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Did Bill Gates call for the withdrawal of all COVID-19 vaccines, because they are “far more dangerous than anyone imagined”?
Find out what’s going on, and what the FACTS really are!
This article was originally posted in August 2021, and was updated and reposted because people keep re-circulating this fake story on WhatsApp, and social media platforms!
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Claim : Bill Gates Calls For Withdrawal Of ALL COVID-19 Vaccines!
People are sharing an article by Daily Expose, claiming that Bill Gates is calling for the withdrawal of ALL COVID-19 vaccines, because they are “far more dangerous than anyone imagined”!
It’s a VERY long article, so please skip to the next section for the FACTS!
BREAKING – Bill Gates calls for the withdrawal of all Covid-19 Vaccines; “The vaccines are far more dangerous than anyone imagined”
In a shocking announcement, Bill Gates, billionaire Microsoft co-founder and the major force behind the COVID-19 vaccines, called for all the COVID-19 genetic-based vaccines to be taken off the market immediately.
In an often anguished 19-minute televised speech, Gates said: “We made a terrible mistake. We wanted to protect people against a dangerous virus. But it turns out the virus is much less dangerous than we thought. And the vaccine is far more dangerous than anyone imagined.”
By W. Gelles
“These vaccines—Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson, AstraZeneca—they’re killing people left and right—and they’re injuring some people very badly,” Gates continued, waving his hands in the air at times for dramatic effect.
“The government’s own data shows us this is what’s happening. The CDC’s reporting system is showing, what?…around 13,000 deaths so far in the U.S. and over half a million adverse events. Well, we all know the reporting system is a sham.
“We know that VAERS [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System] captures only around one percent of what’s going on. So we’re talking over a million deaths from these Covid vaccines, and more than 60 million people with bad side effects.”
“This is not what we wanted. This is not acceptable,” Mr. Gates asserted.
Wall Street shares of all the major Covid vaccine companies plummeted by 20% to 30% as Mr. Gates announced that he was joining the urgent Citizen Petition filed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Children’s Health Defense organization calling on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to immediately withdraw all the COVID vaccines from the market.
Gates continued: “Too many people who take these vaccines drop dead…one day, two days, five days after getting the shot. Other people suffer paralysis, blindness, convulsions, heart attacks, immune system collapse, blood clots, brain inflammation, lung or kidney damage, miscarriages, autoimmune disease, multiple organ system failure, permanent profound fatigue, and many other horrible problems.
“Of course, our Media Mouthpieces—I mean the mainstream news media, dismiss all these tragedies as ‘just a coincidence.’”
“The reason they say that,” Gates explained, “is because of what I did at Event 201, a Coronavirus Pandemic Simulation held in New York in October 2019 just a few weeks before we announced the actual pandemic. I got all the major newspapers, TV channels, and radio stations to agree to stick with the Official Narrative—‘the vaccines are safe and effective’—and to censor anybody who questions this line of BS.
“So the public never got to hear the evidence from hundreds of distinguished doctors and medical researchers who warned that the vaccines are dangerous and often lethal.”
“That was a huge mistake on my part,” Gates maintained, looking weary and at times teary-eyed. “We never should have done that. People have every right to be well-informed, to get all the facts so they can make a rational decision.”
Changing the topic as if to elicit sympathy, Mr. Gates confided: “I’ve been going through a rough time and doing a lot of soul-searching since Melinda dumped me. This divorce has caused me to take a good hard look at myself. I don’t want to be remembered as a monster who killed millions of people through deadly vaccines. I am not a monster. I am not a mass murderer. I don’t want to be remembered as a mass murderer by my family, my friends, and my company.
“Some people have called me a sociopath or even a psychopath because of my visionary schemes to help humanity—like reducing global warming by spraying dust into the upper atmosphere, or releasing millions of genetically-modified mosquitoes to combat dengue and Zika virus.”
Truth : Bill Gates Did NOT Call For Withdrawal Of COVID-19 Vaccines!
The truth is – this is yet another fake story by Daily Expose, which is notorious for creating and posting fake news. Here are the FACTS…
Fact #1 : Daily Expose Is A Fake News Website
Like Real Raw News and NewsPunch, Daily Expose is a FAKE NEWS website that capitalises on making shocking but fake stories to generate page views and money. It was later rebranded as The Expose.
It was founded in November 2020 by Jonathan Allen-Walker, a mechanic from Lincolnshire, and is infamous for publishing COVID-19 and vaccine misinformation that were quoted by Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, and Chinese state media.
Its articles have been regularly debunked as fake news, so you should NEVER share anything from Daily Expose / The Expose. Here are some of its fake stories that I personally debunked earlier:
Fact #2 : Bill Gates Did Not Call For Withdrawal Of COVID-19 Vaccines
Bill Gates never called for the withdrawal of COVID-19 vaccines. This is a complete fabrication by Daily Expose.
If he actually did that – it would have been big news on mainstream media, but there’s completely no coverage of such momentous news.
Check your favourite news media – CNN, BBC, Fox News, Al Jazeera, CGTN, etc. See if you can find ANY legitimate news outlet confirming what Daily Expose claimed.
No one reported on it, because the “19-minute televised speech” never happened!
Daily Expose fabricated this article as a piece of “satire”, but hid the fact by only mentioning that it’s “satire” at the very bottom of their fake article.
They also misleadingly posted it with the title that said nothing about the article being “satire”. It seems intentional – so that people would think it’s genuine.
And true enough – people thought it was genuine, and they shared it out as factual, making it go viral.
Daily Expose later changed the title to “SATIRE – In an alternate universe Bill Gates has called for the withdrawal of all Covid-19 Vaccines“.
They also added “a note from the editor”, stating that “when we first published this article we should have made it clear at the beginning that it was satire rather than at the end. We did not do this and we apologise…”
However, it’s too late – and they know it – because people continue to share the original version which pretended to be genuine.
Fact #4 : Daily Expose Lied That The Rest Is Factual
Even though the Daily Expose editor insisted the article is satire, the writer – W. Gelles claimed that it’s mostly factual.
Note – The following satire is fictional in that Mr. Gates has made no such speech and the Gates Foundation has not established any funds to compensate vaccine victims or to make available effective, inexpensive COVID-19 remedies. All the rest of the article is factual – W. Gelles
The truth is that the entire article is FALSE – a complete fabrication by W. Gelles and the Daily Expose.
For example, the claim that VAERS captures “only one percent of what’s going on”, and yet reported 13,000 deaths and over half a million adverse events is COMPLETELY FALSE.
The claim that “hydroxycholoroquine is known to be very effective in fighting COVID-19” is also COMPLETELY FALSE. Also false are the claims that the studies that discredited HCQ were retracted.
Everything in their article can be verified as false, but Daily Expose is counting on you not checking their false claims.
Fact #5 : COVID-19 Vaccines Have Been Proven Safe + Effective
Anti-vaccination proponents are not interested in your health, which is why they keep lying about the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines.
The truth is – COVID-19 vaccines were only approved AFTER they have undergone extensive safety and efficacy tests, involving tens of thousands of volunteers.
The reason why doctors and health authorities STRONGLY advocate vaccination is because the vaccines have been PROVEN to protect the vast majority of people from getting COVID-19 in the first place.
And even if you do get infected after vaccination, the vaccine will protect you against hospitalisation and death from COVID-19.
So stop listening to fake news websites like Daily Expose. Protect yourself and your family by vaccinating against COVID-19!
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Did Thailand ban the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine because it caused Princess Bajrakitiyabha’s coma?!
Take a look at the viral claims, and find out what the facts really are!
Claim : Thailand Banned Pfizer Vaccine Over Princess’ Coma!
This message has gone viral on WhatsApp and social media, claiming that Thailand just banned the Pfizer vaccine because it caused Princess Bajrakitiyabha’s coma!
It’s a long post, so feel free to skip to the next section for the facts!
Thailand to BAN Pfizer After Thai Princess Falls Into A Coma Following Booster Jab
A Thai government spokesperson told Professor Sucharit Bhakdi this week that his country could soon become the first in the world to nullify and make void its contracts with pharmaceutical giant Pfizer.
According to Bhakdi, the spokesperson said, in reference to the company’s experimental covid “vaccines,” that “we will see to it that Thailand is the first country in the world to declare this contract (with Pfizer) null.”
We are told that the Royal Family in Thailand was directly impacted by Pfizer’s covid injections, which reportedly harmed the king’s daughter, Princess Bajrakitiyabha. Because of this, Thai authorities are working towards ending the country’s relationship with Pfizer.
Bhakdi says he met with top government advisors and explained to them how the entire premise behind the “vaccines” is built on a throne of lies. Pfizer fraud is the only thing backing the jabs as there is no safety data to show they work as claimed.
Upon hearing this, Thai government advisors were shocked and assured Bhakdi that they are making preparations to sever Pfizer’s contracts with the country.
Thailand seeks billions in retribution from Pfizer for fraudulent covid injections
In addition to ending the Pfizer contracts, the Thai government also plans to seek retribution to the tune of billions of dollars in payback from the company. That money will then go towards compensating all Thai people who “lost their existence” as a result of the Pfizer covid jab rollout.
“The discussion he cited having with the Thai government spokespeople, in conjunction with their advisors to the Thai Royal family, is significant,” writes Nicholas Creed for The Daily Bell.
“The monarchy is revered by Thais, to the point of being sacrosanct and beyond reproach; subject to strict Lèse-majesté laws being invoked when criticism is made of the Royal family.”
In short, the Royal Family of Thailand holds great sway and influence over affairs such as this. The Thai people trust its decisions and are sure to support this move to remove Pfizer from their nation.
It was reported back in December that Princess Bajrakitiyabha collapsed from a heart attack after getting jabbed by Pfizer. This is the basis upon which the Royal Family is now moving towards holding Pfizer accountable for its crimes against humanity.
“If anything was going to awaken the Thai people from indoctrinated slumber, incurring their wrath and outrage at the scale of how badly they have been duped – this would probably be it,” Creed says, noting that up until now the Thai people fell for the mass psychosis and “uniformed worship of the new normal ideology.”
“I want to wake up from this nightmare.”
In the comments, someone wrote that Pfizer not only bullied but also bribed government officials, many through blackmail, into buying and distributing Pfizer’s covid shots to their populations.
“Fraud vitiates everything,” this person added, noting that contract law, which is color of law, is chartered under Roman Canon law.
“Common law is superior to color of law. The Magna Carta is superior to Roman Canon law. The Constitution of the United States of America is supreme in America.”
Another wrote that Pfizer and its executives, including CEO Albert Bourla, need to have all of their assets seized, including those being held in banks around the world.
“Go out and arrest all Pfizer executives on your soil,” this person added. “These cockroaches have to be hiding in a country somewhere.”
No Evidence Thailand Is Planning To Ban Pfizer Vaccine At All!
There is really NO EVIDENCE that Thailand has banned, or is planning to ban, the Pfizer vaccine because it caused Princess Bajrakitiyabha’s coma!
Fact #1 : Claims Likely Based On Edited Videos
The claims in the viral message appear to be based on two viral videos that were edited to remove some context. I confirmed that by watching and comparing both video clips to the full interview of Sucharit Bhakdi by Pascal Najadi.
It looks like the person who edited the videos wanted to remove references to the fact that Bhakdi was talking to Thai activists, not Thai officials. I covered both videos separately in these articles:
Fact #2 : No Evidence Bhakdi Spoke To Thai Government Officials
If you watch the full video or read the extended transcripts in the two articles above, you will realise that Sucharit Bhakdi did not actually claim to have met any Thai official, never mind advisors to the royal family.
He appeared to have only met Thai activists who claimed that they can “connect” him with the authorities.
Fact #3 : No Evidence Thai Officials Plan To Nullify Pfizer Contracts
There is also no evidence Thailand is actually planning to nullify the Pfizer vaccine contracts. In fact, Bhakdi himself called for people to “start a movement” to “file a case against Pfizer-BioNTech“.
That would not be necessary if the Thai government is already planning to nullify the Pfizer vaccine contracts.
And if we are able in Thailand to start a movement to say, file a case against Pfizer-BioNTech that they pay for the damage they have done, let’s make it.
Fact #4 : Use Of Pfizer Vaccine Minimal In Thailand
It is odd that Sucharit Bhakdi is so focused on the Pfizer vaccine when the Moderna vaccine uses a similar mRNA and lipid nanoparticle delivery technology.
In any case, the use of Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines in Thailand is minimal. This is partly because the mainstay of the Thai COVID-19 vaccination programme was the AstraZeneca vaccine, that was eventually manufactured by Siam Bioscience (owned by King Vajiralongkorn himself).
But due to supply issues, Thailand imported and used large amounts of the Sinovac CoronaVac vaccine, and eventually the Sinopharm BIBP vaccine.
mRNA vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna only make up 5.7% of the COVID-19 vaccines delivered to the Thai government.
Vaccine Brand
Doses Ordered
Doses Delivered
Sinovac
31.1 million
26.52 million
AstraZeneca
61 million
25.5 million
Sinopharm
15 million
15 million
Pfizer
30 million
3.5 million
Moderna
13 million
560,200
Fact #6 : Unknown If Princess Bajrakitiyabha Was Vaccinated
Despite Sucharit Bhakdi’s claims that Princess Bajrakitiyabha received her third dose just 23 days before her collapse, I simply cannot find any evidence of that.
Neither Princess Bajrakitiyabha, nor the Thai royal family, or even the Thai government, has ever publicly revealed her vaccination status.
Perhaps Bhakdi is privy to her vaccination status, but he did not share any evidence to back up his claim, and I cannot corroborate his claim.
Unless and until the Thai royal family or government reveal her vaccination status, and what (if any) COVID-19 vaccine she received, it would be wrong for anyone to claim (without evidence) that she was injured by the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.
Fact #7 :Princess Bajrakitiyabha’s Cause of Collapse Still Unknown
It is interesting to note that the person who edited the viral video cut out the part where Sucharit Bhakdi claimed that Princess Bajrakitiyabha’s heart failed.
The truth is – the cause of her sudden collapse has not been publicly revealed, but the Thai palace released a statement on 19 December 2022, in which it stated that “no heart defect could be found“, dismissing earlier assessments that she suffered a cardiac event.
So while we still do not know why Princess Bajrakitiyabha suddenly collapsed (Thai royal expert Andrew MacGregor Marshall claims it was a hemorrhagic stroke), we have known since December 2022 that she did not have a “heart defect” of any kind.
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Take a look at the viral video by MIT professor Retsef Levi, who called for the immediate suspension of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, and find out what the facts really are!
MIT Professor Retsef Levi Calls For Suspension Of mRNA Vaccines!
A video by MIT professor Retsef Levi has gone viral, after he claimed that mRNA COVID-19 vaccines were causing serious harm to young people, and called for their immediate suspension!
Here is my rough transcript of what Retsef Levi said in his viral video. It’s VERY long, so feel free to skip to the next section for the facts!
Hi, my name if Retsef Levi, and since 2006, I’m a faculty member at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts. I have more than 30 years experience as a practitioner and an academic in using data analytics to assess and manage risk, particularly in the context of health systems, health policies, as well as the management of safety and quality of manufacturing of biologic drugs.
I’m filming this video to share my strong conviction that that at this point in time, all COVID mRNA vaccination programs should stop immediately. They should stop because they completely failed to fulfill any of their advertised promises regarding efficacy. And more importantly, they should stop because of the mounting and indisputable evidence that they cause unprecedented levels of harm, including the death of young people and children.
I personally became concerned with the vaccine safety around the middle of 2021 when it became known that the mRNA vaccines cause myocarditis, and inflammation of the heart. Since myocarditis is known to be hard to diagnose because it often has the vague symptoms, or can even be subclinical with no symptoms, it is also known to a frequent cause of out-of-the-hospital sudden cardiac arrests, especially in young people.
I was very concerned that it would not be detected by the existing vaccine safety surveillance systems. Motivated by that, we decided to analyze the Israel National EMS data to see if there are any signals of increased out of hospital adverse events,.
The analysis of the EMS calls and the diagnosis data from 2019 throughout the first half of 2021 reveals some very concerning signals. We detected an increase of 25% in the calls with cardiac arrest diagnosis amongst ages 16-39 in the first half of 2021. Exactly when the vaccination campaign in Israel was launched.
A smaller increase was also detected in the older ages. Moreover, we also detected a statistically significant temporal correlation between the number of the Pfizer vaccine doses administered to this population and the number of EMS calls with cardiac arrest diagnosis.
Interestingly, we did not find any statistically significant correlation with the number of COVID-19 infections during this period of time.
While this is not a proof of causal relationship, it left us very concerned especially given the known suspect of clinical mechanism. And we called for an immediate thorough investigation by the Israeli Ministry of Health, to investigate what are the underlying causal mechanisms of these observed increase in cardiac arrest calls. Unfortunately, to the best of my knowledge, such thorough investigation was never conducted.
By now, I believe that the the cumulative evidence is conclusive and confirms our concern that the mRNA vaccines indeed cause sudden cardiac arrest as a sequel of vaccine-induced myocarditis. And this is potentially only one mechanism by which they cause harm.
Data from the UK, Scotland, and Australia replicate the data from Israel. Additional data from Israel indicates that in 2021, the EMS in Israel conducted more than 3,000 more resuscitations compared to 2019, which amounts for an increase of 27%. Two prospective studies from Thailand and Switzerland in which vaccinees were tested before and after they received a vaccine, indicate that the rates of heart damage are likely to be significantly higher than the rates detected by clinical diagnosis. This is exactly the same finding that the US military found in 2015, when it conducted a similar study on the smallpox vaccine.
Another study from the Harvard Medical School detected in the blood of children with vaccine-induced myocarditis, an entire spike, which is another indication of the underlying mechanism of harm, but in fact has even broader implications about the safety of the vaccine given the repeated evidence that we have that the mRNA and the lipids are actually penetrating the blood system.
And finally, autopsies of people that died closely after they received the vaccine indicate that in a large number of cases, there is strong evidence that the death was caused by vaccine-induced myocarditis. So presented with all of this evidence, I think there is no other ethical or scientific choice but to pull out of the market, these medical products and stop all the mRNA vaccination programs. This is clearly the most failing medical product in the history of medical products, both in terms of efficacy and safety.
And we need to investigate and think hard how did we end up in a situation that is also the most profitable medical product in the history of medical products. Thank you for your attention.
MIT Professor Retsef Levi Vaccine Claims Examined!
You do not have to be an MIT professor like Retsef Levi to go through his claims, and discover these facts for yourself. It’s really not difficult at all. Let me show you…
Fact #1 : Retsef Levi Is Professor of Management + Operations Management
Normally, I do not like to comment on anyone’s credentials, as the merits of their facts and arguments should stand on their own. However, Retsef Levi made a point of promoting his credentials, so I feel it is necessary to have a clearer picture of his credentials.
Retsef Levi is a professor of Management, as well as Operations Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, which is a separate business school under the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
MIT Sloan focuses on MBA, Finance, Business Analytics, Management, etc. and is separate from the MIT School of Science, where the faculty teaches and researches the hard sciences from physics and biology to computational biology and statistics.
Management and Operations Management deal with business administration practices to create the highest level of efficiency within a business organisation, which are critical in managing large corporations like Pfizer and Moderna, but would have virtually nothing to do with the actual research and development (R&D) of their products.
Fact #2 : MIT Study Did Not Prove Pfizer Vaccine Raised Heart Problems!
The first study that Retsef Levi mentioned was the one he co-authored in April 2022, which I fact checked in May 2022. In my fact check article, I pointed out these problems:
No clinical research was conducted on any patient. The study only “analysed” data collected by a third party – the Israel National Emergency Medical Services.
The study relied on call data based on initial diagnosis by responding paramedics, not the final / actual diagnosis by doctors after the patients undergo all necessary clinical and laboratory investigations at the hospital.
The data did not include about 50% of cardiac arrest and acute coronary syndrome cases in Israel for that period of time.
The data was not tied to COVID-19 infection, or COVID-19 vaccination, or even pre-existing heart problems.
The authors themselves pointed out that they did not establish any causal relationship between COVID-19 vaccines and heart problems.
The authors also pointed out that the increase in cardiac arrests and acute coronary syndrome may be caused by “other underlying causal mechanisms”.
My fact check article goes much further, but suffice to say – that MIT study did not prove that the Pfizer vaccine increased the risk of heart problems like cardiac arrests in young adults.
Fact #3 : Adverse Events of Special Interest Are Not Vaccine Side Effects!
As supporting evidence, Professor Retsef Levi shared a September 2022 article called “Serious adverse events of special interest following mRNA COVID-19 vaccination in randomized trials in adults“.
That article claimed that “secondary analysis of serious adverse events reported” in the Phase 3 trial of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines showed that they were associated with significantly higher risk of serious adverse events of special interest (AESI):
Pfizer : 36% higher risk of AESI
Moderna : 6% higher risk of AESI
Pfizer + Moderna combined : 16% higher risk of AESI
What I don’t understand about the article is why the authors performed their “analysis” of adverse events of special interest (AESI), when they are not side effects of the vaccines!
The AESI list is not specific to the Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccines.
The AESI list includes “exposure to SARS-CoV-2”, and other viruses like Herpes, MERS, Varicella, as well as other “communicable disease”.
The AESI list includes manufacturing and lab test issues like “Manufacturing laboratory analytical testing issue, Manufacturing materials issue, Manufacturing production issue“.
The AESI list includes product supply issues like “Product availability issue, Product distribution issue, Product supply issue“.
Fact #4 : Smallpox Vaccine Does Not Use mRNA Technology
Oddly enough, Retsef Levi referred to a 2015 US Military finding that the smallpox vaccine caused heart problems.
In this 2019 case study by the US military, the rate of myopericarditis was shown to increase by 50X after they switched from the older Dryvax smallpox vaccine, to the new ACAM2000 vaccine.
However, that new ACAM2000 smallpox vaccine does not use mRNA technology, but a single plaque-purified vaccinia virus derivative of Dryvax (NYCBH strain).
In other words – the smallpox vaccine uses a live but less dangerous virus called vaccinia, to help your body develop immunity against the smallpox virus.
Viral infections, even if they are mild, can lead to heart inflammation, so it would not be surprising if the smallpox vaccine (which uses an actual virus) can trigger heart inflammation in a small number of people.
Fact #5 : Implication Of Free Spike Protein In Vaccine Myocarditis Still Unknown
On 4 January 2023, a study published in the journal Circulation showed that 16 patients who developed myocarditis after mRNA vaccination had “markedly elevated levels of full-length spike protein” that were “unbound by antibodies”.
In contrast, no free spike proteins were detected in 45 control subjects who did not develop myocarditis after mRNA vaccination.
This is a very interesting finding, which suggests that free spike proteins (unbound by antibodies) may possibly be the cause of myocarditis in young adults who receive the mRNA vaccine. However, the implication isn’t clear because it is not known why there are free spike proteins in the first place.
The mRNA vaccines teach some of our cells to create spike proteins. Because they are expressed on the cell surface, those spike proteins do not float freely in the blood, but rather, trigger the immune system to develop antibodies that bind to them.
As the study noted, people who do not develop myocarditis after receive the mRNA vaccines do not show any free spike protein – precisely what was meant to happen.
So the implication of that finding of free spike protein is still unknown, and warrants additional research. It is, however, not evidence that the mRNA vaccines cause heart problems.
Fact #6 : Vaccine-Induced Myocarditis Can Be Confirmed
It is important to point out that vaccine-induced myocarditis can be clinically differentiated from classical myocarditis, as well as proven through histopathology.
Instead of relying on “statistical analysis” of partial data from emergency call centres, we should rely instead on proper medical diagnoses based on clinical and laboratory investigations.
That is how we can avoid prematurely claiming that people died from the COVID-19 vaccines, only for their autopsies to prove otherwise, like these cases:
Will these anti-vaccination activists apologise for lying to you? Nope! They will just move on to the next death / tragedy…
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Is Pfizer in trouble in Thailand over Thai Princess Bajrakitiyabha’s vaccine injury?!
Take a look at the viral claims, and find out what the facts really are!
Claim : Pfizer In Trouble Over Thai Princess Vaccine Injury!
A video clip of Professor Sucharit Bhakdi has gone viral on Twitter, claiming that top Thai authorities are preparing to declare the Pfizer vaccine contracts null and void, purportedly over Thai Princess Bajrakitiyabha’s vaccine injury!
Top Thai authorities including advisors to the King have been in discussions with Prof. Sucharit Bhakdi and are prepared to see to it that the Pfizer contracts are declared null and void!! The Royal Family has been alerted that the princess is most likely a victim of the jab!!
The Thai Princess who collapsed 23 days after her booster is still in a coma. The Royal Family have been alerted that the purported diagnosis of a bacterial infection is ‘ridiculous’ and that she is most likely the victim of the jab.
Thai Government Vows to be “First Country” to Declare Pfizer Contracts “Null” After Princess Drops of Heart Attack, Dr. Bhakdi Presents “Fraud”
No Evidence Pfizer Is In Trouble Over Thai Princess In Coma!
There is really NO EVIDENCE that Pfizer is in any trouble over Thai Princess Bajrakitiyabha being in coma after suddenly collapsing, and here are the reasons why…
Fact #1 : The Video Was Edited To Remove Context
Like the first viral video clip, this video clip also appears to have been edited to remove some context.
Specifically, it appears to be edited to make Sucharit Bhakdi appear as if he talked to Thai officials, when he was actually referring to Thai activists!
Here are my rough transcripts from the second video clip, with the removed parts highlighted in bold.
Then I said, guys, something happened you know, in December, and that is thatone daughter of the present king, Rama the 10th, collapsed and is in coma. She, within, I think it was 23 days after the third shot.
44 years old, never been seriously ill, collapsed and is now in a coma. And the diagnosis that was given by the authorities and by the university is so ridiculous. She’s supposed to have a bacterial infection that will never do what she’s suffering from.
And so, we determined… and the activists in Thailand who have been on this for many, many months now. Great guys, also a professor from the University of Bangkok.
He’s gotten in touch with the royal family, and we are sending information to the royal family, to alert them to the fact that in all probability, the princess is suffering as a victim of this jab, as so many people around the world have been suffering.
The part that was removed was short, but it was sufficient to remove the context that Bhakdi was not talking to Thai officials, who would have clearly known that their Crown Princess Bajrakitiyabha had been in coma since December 2022!
But more critically, the person who edited the video appears to intentionally leave out this very pertinent part right after the section above.
Why? Because Sucharit Bhakdi claimed that Princess Bajrakitiyabha suffered from a heart failure. As you will see in Fact #4, the Princess did not suffer from heart failure!
It’s cardiac. Her heart failed. Okay? Her heart failed, and because her heart failed, her brain did not get the oxygen, and she’s still in the intensive care department in Thailand now, after more than six weeks. So it’s very, very serious.
Right after that, Sucharit Bhakdi suggested that the Thais should try to “start a movement” to file a case against Pfizer-BioNTech. That is a clear indication he was talking to Thai activists, and not Thai officials.
And if we are able in Thailand to start a movement to say, file a case against Pfizer-BioNTech that they pay for the damage they have done, let’s make it.
Fact #2 : Use Of Pfizer Vaccine Minimal In Thailand
It is odd that Sucharit Bhakdi is so focused on the Pfizer vaccine when the Moderna vaccine uses a similar mRNA and lipid nanoparticle delivery technology.
In any case, the use of Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines in Thailand is minimal. This is partly because the mainstay of the Thai COVID-19 vaccination programme was the AstraZeneca vaccine, that was eventually manufactured by Siam Bioscience (owned by King Vajiralongkorn himself).
But due to supply issues, Thailand imported and used large amounts of the Sinovac CoronaVac vaccine, and eventually the Sinopharm BIBP vaccine.
mRNA vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna only make up 5.7% of the COVID-19 vaccines delivered to the Thai government.
Vaccine Brand
Doses Ordered
Doses Delivered
Sinovac
31.1 million
26.52 million
AstraZeneca
61 million
25.5 million
Sinopharm
15 million
15 million
Pfizer
30 million
3.5 million
Moderna
13 million
560,200
Fact #3 : Unknown If Princess Bajrakitiyabha Was Vaccinated
Despite Sucharit Bhakdi’s claims that Princess Bajrakitiyabha received her third dose just 23 days before her collapse, I simply cannot find any evidence of that.
Neither Princess Bajrakitiyabha, nor the Thai royal family, or even the Thai government, has ever publicly revealed her vaccination status.
Perhaps Bhakdi is privy to her vaccination status, but he did not share any evidence to back up his claim, and I cannot corroborate his claim.
Unless and until the Thai royal family or government reveal her vaccination status, and what (if any) COVID-19 vaccine she received, it would be wrong for anyone to claim (without evidence) that she was injured by the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.
Fact #4 :Princess Bajrakitiyabha’s Cause of Collapse Still Unknown
It is interesting to note that the person who edited the viral video cut out the part where Sucharit Bhakdi claimed that Princess Bajrakitiyabha’s heart failed.
The truth is – the cause of her sudden collapse has not been publicly revealed, but the Thai palace released a statement on 19 December 2022, in which it stated that “no heart defect could be found“, dismissing earlier assessments that she suffered a cardiac event.
So while we still do not know why Princess Bajrakitiyabha suddenly collapsed (Thai royal expert Andrew MacGregor Marshall claims it was a hemorrhagic stroke), we have known since December 2022 that she did not have a “heart defect” of any kind.
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A video of Professor Sucharit Bhakdi has gone viral on Twitter, claiming that Thailand is preparing to declare the Pfizer vaccine contracts null and void!
Top Thai authorities including advisors to the King have been in discussions with Prof. Sucharit Bhakdi and are prepared to see to it that the Pfizer contracts are declared null and void!!
Thai Government Vows to be “First Country” to Declare Pfizer Contracts “Null” After Princess Drops of Heart Attack, Dr. Bhakdi Presents “Fraud”
No Evidence Thailand Vowed To Nullify Pfizer Vaccine Contracts!
There is really NO EVIDENCE that Thailand has vowed to be the first country in the world to declare the Pfizer vaccine contracts as null and void!
Fact #1 : The Video Was Edited To Remove Context
Like the second viral video, this video clip appears to be edited to remove some context. I confirmed that by watching and comparing the video clip to the full interview of Sucharit Bhakdi by Pascal Najadi.
It looks like the person who edited the video wanted to remove references to the fact that Bhakdi was talking to Thai activists and not Thai officials.
Here are my rough transcripts from the first video clip, with the removed parts highlighted in bold.
Let me tell you the wonderful thing that happened when we decided to go back to Thailand for a holiday, which was badly needed. This was the beginning of January this year. There are Thai activists in Thailand with whom we have been connected over the past year.
They said, if you come to Thailand… uh, I’m still a Thai by the way… I’m Thai-German… we will connect you with the authorities and advisors to the highest authorities in Thailand, and this is what happened.
So I have the opportunity, the first opportunity in three years, to talk to the top advisors of a government in any country.
And it was very, very impressive, because I laid out to them that this whole COVID-19 agenda is a fake, and why it is a fake, and I was able to lay out for them the proof that the COVID vaccinations were based on fraud.
The person who edited the video, also appears to be trying to scrub out the part where Bhakdi was referring to safety pharmacological studies in 2021 and 2022.
The EMA – European Medical Agencies – was asked again and again and again to reveal whether BioNTech Pfizer had ever performed any safety pharmacological study in 2021 and 2022, and the answer is available to us and to you.
The official answer submitted on the 18th of October of 2022. 18th of October, which we have at our disposal, the EMA declared officially that safety pharmacological studies were never performed. Never. And they were never deemed necessary. So now we have it.
It also appears that the first video was scrubbed to remove the part where Bhakdi stated that it was not the mRNA that was the problem, but the lipid packaging that protected it.
The person who edited the video also removed the part where Bhakdi said that the Thais were Googling information on the Pfizer-BioNTech contract. This would have alerted any viewer that Bhakdi was talking about Thai activists, and not Thai officials who would not need to Google such information.
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And when I told the Thais this, you know guys, they jumped up, they jumped up in the roof. And so they said Thailand is going to join Switzerland. Thailand is going to join Switzerland and show the world how to go, because the contract to buy millions of doses of that damn vaccine that is deadly, known to be deadly.
Not because of the mRNA, but just because of the lipids that are packaging the mRNA, that is enough to kill people. Not even the spike protein is necessary. You just have to take the packaging, and that it in itself is deadly. And that it in itself will cause anyone, will force anyone to say that nothing that is packaged in this deadly package can be safe. If the package itself is deadly, then you don’t have to ask what is in the package.
And then they said alright, and they were Googling and said, the contract was signed in Thailand with Pfizer-BioNTech and in this case, it was based on fraud because there were no safety studies and therefore, and it is now known that, this package is not safe. It is immaterial what is in in the package. It is not safe, because of the packaging.
And so they said to me – we will see to it that Thailand is the first country in the world that is going to declare this contract null, and nullify the contract. Which means that Pfizer BioNTech is going to have to pay back those billions to Thailand, with which Thailand will recompensate those peoples [sic] that have lost their existence.
Fact #2 : No Evidence Bhakdi Spoke To Thai Officials
As mentioned above, the viral video clip appears to have been edited to remove references to Thai activists, likely to convey the perception that Sucharit Bhakdi was speaking to Thai officials.
If you watch the full video or read the extended transcript above, Sucharit Bhakdi does not actually claim to have met any Thai official, never mind advisors to the royal family. He appears to have only met Thai activists who claimed that they can “connect” him with the authorities.
Fact #3 : No Evidence Thai Officials Plan To Nullify Pfizer Contracts
The full video, and the extended transcript above, shows that Sucharit Bhakdi appears to have spoken only with Thai activists, not Thai officials.
Therefore, there is no evidence Thailand is actually planning to nullify the Pfizer vaccine contracts. In fact, Bhakdi himself called for people to “start a movement” to “file a case against Pfizer-BioNTech“.
That would not be necessary if the Thai government is already planning to nullify the Pfizer vaccine contracts.
And if we are able in Thailand to start a movement to say, file a case against Pfizer-BioNTech that they pay for the damage they have done, let’s make it.
Fact #4 : Use Of Pfizer Vaccine Minimal In Thailand
It is odd that Sucharit Bhakdi is so focused on the Pfizer vaccine when the Moderna vaccine uses a similar mRNA and lipid nanoparticle delivery technology.
In any case, the use of Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines in Thailand is minimal. This is partly because the mainstay of the Thai COVID-19 vaccination programme was the AstraZeneca vaccine, that was eventually manufactured by Siam Bioscience (owned by King Vajiralongkorn himself).
But due to supply issues, Thailand imported and used large amounts of the Sinovac CoronaVac vaccine, and eventually the Sinopharm BIBP vaccine.
mRNA vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna only make up 5.7% of the COVID-19 vaccines delivered to the Thai government.
Vaccine Brand
Doses Ordered
Doses Delivered
Sinovac
31.1 million
26.52 million
AstraZeneca
61 million
25.5 million
Sinopharm
15 million
15 million
Pfizer
30 million
3.5 million
Moderna
13 million
560,200
Fact #5 : Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Was Evaluated In 2020
I should also touch on the claim that the safety of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine was never tested.
Pfizer actually conducted their Phase 1/2 trial in 2020, testing the first participants on May 5, 2020, and posting the first date on August 20, 2020. That was followed up by the large Phase 3 trial, whose study was peer-reviewed and published in the New England Medical Journal in December 2020.
In other words, safety studies were carried out on the Pfizer vaccine in 2020, but not in 2021 or 2022 because it was the same vaccine.
It appears that the the first viral video was edited to removed the part about the EMA being asked whether Pfizer performed the safety tests in 2021 and 2022, to convey the false perception that Pfizer never conducted safety tests at all.
The EMA – European Medical Agencies – was asked again and again and again to reveal whether BioNTech Pfizer had ever performed any safety pharmacological study in 2021 and 2022, and the answer is available to us and to you.
The official answer submitted on the 18th of October of 2022. 18th of October, which we have at our disposal, the EMA declared officially that safety pharmacological studies were never performed. Never. And they were never deemed necessary. So now we have it.
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Did Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg warn Facebook staff not to get the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine?!
Take a look at the viral video, and find out what the facts really are!
Claim : Mark Zuckerberg Warned FB Staff Not To Get Vaccine!
A viral video clip of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has gone viral, together with claims that he was warning Facebook staff not to get the COVID-19 vaccine!
Steve Kirsch : LEAKED VIDEO: Facebook’s Zuckerberg Warned His Staff NOT To Get the Vaccine. But censors the info YOU see. You are the Guinea pigs.
Johnny Midnight : Zuckerberg warned his staff not to get the Vaccine 💉!
James Cintolo, RN FN CPT : 🚨BREAKING — Leaked Video Of Mark Zuckerberg Warning His Staff Not To Take A COVID Vaccine
Truth : Zuckerberg Did Not Warn FB Staff Not To Get COVID-19 Vaccine!
This is yet another example of MISINFORMATION created and/or propagated by anti-vaccination activists, and here are the reasons why…
Fact #1 : The Viral Video Is Genuine
First, let me confirm that the video is genuine, and is not a deepfake production. As fake as it appear, that was really Mark Zuckerberg speaking in that video.
However, you will note that Zuckerberg did not actually tell or warn Facebook staff not to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
Fact #2 : The Viral Video Is More Than 2.5 Years Old
One version of the viral video was edited to state that it happen in August 2021, to give the impression that Mark Zuckerberg was advising Facebook staff against getting vaccinated.
The viral video clip is not new, as people are claiming on social media. It is actually a short segment of a virtual Q&A meeting for Facebook staff that was streamed live on July 16, 2020.
The video was only publicly revealed on February 17, 2021, when Project Veritas got a copy of the livestream, and leaked a very short segment of the entire video.
In other words – the video clip is old – it was recorded more than 30 months ago, and leaked more than 23 months ago.
Fact #3 : The Viral Video Was Edited Even More
Subsequently, the video was further edited again to cut out the parts in bold, to get the condensed 24-second video clip that just went viral on 21 January 2023.
I do just want to make sure that I share some caution on this because we just don’t know the long-term side effects of basically modifying people’s DNA and RNA to directly code in a person’s DNA and RNA.
Basically the ability to produce those antibodies and whether that causes other mutations or other risks downstream. So there’s work on both paths of vaccine development.
You will note that Zuckerberg misstated how mRNA vaccines work, and pointed out that there is work bering done on other types of COVID-19 vaccines.
Fact #4 : COVID-19 Vaccines Were Still In Development Then
It is impossible for Mark Zuckerberg to ask or warn Facebook staff not to get the COVID-19 vaccine, because when he made those comments, COVID-19 vaccines were still being developed.
Facebook spokesperson Andy Stone later clarified that the July 2020 discussion occurred shortly after Moderna released its initial-stage trial results for its mRNA-1273 COVID-19 vaccine candidate, which used the new, state-of-the-art messenger RNA technology.
There was very little public knowledge about mRNA technology at that time, so it is not surprising to see Mark Zuckerberg wonder about the risks of any new technology, like everyone else.
I should point out that, at that time, Moderna had not started its Phase 3 trial, which would eventually prove that the mRNA-1273 vaccine candidate would offer robust protection against hospitalisation and death from COVID-19.
After that successful Phase 3 trial, the mRNA-1273 vaccine candidate received an Emergency Use Authorisation (EUA) on December 18, 2020 as the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. That was followed up with a full FDA approval on January 31, 2022, and it was henceforth marketed as Spikevax.
Fact #5 : mRNA Does Not Enter Cell Nucleus
mRNA vaccines do not enter the cell nucleus, and therefore, will not affect or interfere with the person’s DNA.
That is not my opinion, but is the official statement by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on the matter.
To enter the nucleus, the mRNA vaccine would need an enzyme called integrase (which the real SARS-CoV-2 virus produces). Without this integrase enzyme, the mRNA cannot physically enter the cell nucleus and therefore, cannot change or integrate with our DNA.
Some anti-vaccination activists are referring to a Feb 2022 study by Alden et. al as “evidence”, but the truth is – the study does not show that the Pfizer vaccine (which is not the Moderna vaccine) combined with DNA in liver cells.
Fact #6 : Zuckerberg Clarified The Matter With Dr. Fauci
Mark Zuckerberg actually brought up the topic in a November 30, 2020 livestream with Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Zuckerberg : Just to clear up one point, my understanding is that these vaccines do not modify your DNA or RNA. So that’s just an important point to clarify, if I’m getting anything wrong here, of course correct me.
Dr. Fauci : No, first of all, DNA is inherent in your own nuclear cell. Sticking in anything foreign will ultimately get cleared.
Zuckerberg : I’m glad we can clear that up.
In other words, before Project Veritas even leaked the video, Mark Zuckerberg had already clarified with Dr. Anthony Fauci that mRNA vaccines cannot modify our DNA.
Fact #7 : Facebook Banned Claims mRNA Vaccines Alter DNA In 2021
We know that Mark Zuckerberg was convinced about the safety of the mRNA vaccines, and that they do not alter or change our DNA, because he banned any claim that the mRNA vaccines can change DNA on Facebook.
On February 8, 2021, Facebook updated its COVID-19 and vaccine policies to “protect people from harmful content and new types of abuse related to COVID-19 and vaccines“.
Facebook also said that it would remove posts that included “claims that the COVID-19 vaccine changes people’s DNA“.
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The autopsy results of Emmy-nominated actor Tyler Sanders is out, and it showed that he did not die from the COVID-19 vaccine!
Take a look at the viral claims, and find out what the facts really are!
Updated @ 2022-12-30 : Added Tyler Sanders’ autopsy report, and official cause of death.
Updated @ 2022-07-09 : Added new info on his funeral, autopsy and cause of death. Originally posted @ 2022-06-18
Claim : Tyler Sanders Died From COVID-19 Vaccine!
Mere hours after news broke that Tyler Sanders – who starred in Fear of the Walking Dead and 911 Lone Star – died, people started claiming that he died from the COVID-19 vaccine.
Here are just a few examples of those claims circulating on social media :
Tyler Sanders dead at 18: 9-1-1 Lone Star actor dies. Seriously. You don’t need a Uni Degree or be a Doctor to 100% know that he died from the COVID Vaccine. Are you people really going to just accept “Suddenly Unknown Reason” as a Valid excuse. FFS.
The Vaccine kills another actor. TylerSanders dead at 18: ‘9-1-1: Lone Star’ actor was an Emmy nominee
Yet another young life lost. There’s Sudden Adult Death Syndrome too. Young athletes popping off et al. What’s changed eh? Some would suspect #vaccines I suppose. 9-1-1: Lone Star’ actor TylerSanders dead at 18
This is yet another example of FAKE NEWS created and propagated by anti-vaccination activists, and here are the reasons why… and the current facts that we know so far.
Fact #1 : Police Found Tyler Sanders Dead At Home
The Los Angeles police received a call on Thursday, 16 June 2022, to conduct a welfare check on Tyler Sanders, after his friends didn’t hear from him after a night out.
They found Tyler Sanders alone in his home, and pronounced him deceased. His agent, Pedro Tapia, confirmed his death in a statement on Friday, 17 June 2022 :
Tyler was a talented actor with a bright future. He comes from a wonderful family and we ask that you respect their privacy at this time.
Fact #2 : Tyler Sanders’ Death Treated As Suspected Overdose
On July 5, sources connected to the investigation told TMZ that Tyler Sanders’ death was being “treated as a suspected [drug] overdose“.
Tyler Sanders reportedly had a history of drug use, and the LA police found a plastic straw and white powder in the room where his body was found.
Fact #3 : Autopsy Report Confirmed Tyler Sanders’s Cause Of Death
The L.A. County’s Medical Examiner-Coroner stated that they completed his autopsy on Friday (17 June), and posted on their website that they had already released his body (to his family).
At that time, they deferred the report pending additional investigations. Once the results of those tests / studies are in, , will make a final determination of his cause of death.
On Thursday, December 29, 2022, Dr. Parks – the Deputy Medical Examiner in charge of his case finalised the report, stating that his cause of death was fentanyl effects, and it was accidental.
In the autopsy report, the Medical Examiner said that Tyler Sanders told a friend in text messages the night before his death that he was using fentanyl. Tyler did not answer phone calls from that friend, after sending that message about fentanyl.
The Medical Examiner also said that Tyler Sanders had no known medical issues, but had a history of drug abuse of heroin, LSD, mushrooms and Xanax. Finally, the report noted that he was found unresponsive in his own bed, and illicit drugs were found in the bathroom.
Fact #4 : David Sanders Referred To An Apparent Drug Overdose
Someone who attended Tyler Sanders’ funeral in Houston told TMZ that his father, David Sanders, delivered an eulogy in which he told them that Tyler died of an apparent drug overdose.
Fact #5 : Tyler Sanders Was Apparently Battling Depression
Tyler Sanders allegedly started struggling with depression when he began filming “9-1-1”.
David Sanders also told those who attended his funeral “how Tyler’s brain was wired to where he could not feel happiness“.
Fact #6 : Tyler Sanders Looked Healthy + Well 3 Days Prior
Tyler Sanders was on vacation with his family in Vail, Colorado, just a few days before he died.
His last Instagram post was on June 13, which showed him looking real swank in his blue suit. He certainly looks fit and healthy.
Two days earlier, he posted this great shot of white water rafting with his family in Vail, Colorado.
These recent photos contradict claims that he was suffering from vaccine side effects.
Fact #7 : Unknown If Tyler Sanders Was Even Vaccinated
It is currently unknown if Tyler Sanders was vaccinated against COVID-19, so it would be wrong for anyone to claim that he died from COVID-19 vaccines.
For all we know – he may not even be vaccinated! The COVID-19 vaccine is not mandatory in the United States, despite what anti-vaccination activists may claim.
COVID-19 vaccines underwent massive clinical trials, and were only approved after they were proven to be safe and effective.
In addition, they were constantly monitored after they received their approvals, which picked up rare side effects after they were administered to billions of people.
Anti-vaccination activists have often claimed that those who received the vaccine would die. Yet, the opposite was true – the vaccines are not only safe, they are effective in protecting people from getting hospitalised or dying from COVID-19.
Fact #9 : Vaccine Side Effects Generally Last Only A Few Days
COVID-19 vaccine side effects are generally mild, and last only a few days.
In rare cases, the recipient may suffer from blood clots (AstraZeneca) or myocarditis (Pfizer), but they develop within days of receiving the vaccine, not months later.
If Tyler received the COVID-19 vaccine, he would have received all his doses last year. It is quite impossible for his death to be related to any COVID-19 vaccine he may have received months earlier.
Fact #10 : Post-Vaccination Myocarditis Occurs Within Days
If Tyler Sanders was indeed vaccinated with an mRNA vaccine from Pfizer or Moderna, it is true that he has a very small risk of developing post-vaccination myocarditis.
However, he would develop myocarditis within days of the vaccination, with symptoms like chest pain, shortness of breath, heart palpitations, etc.
He would not be able to undertake strenuous activities like… going white water rafting with his family!
I should also point out that the risk of developing myocarditis from a COVID-19 infection is over a hundred times higher than developing myocarditis from three doses of the Pfizer vaccine.
So if you are really worried about myocarditis, you should definitely get vaccinated against COVID-19!
Fact #11 : Claims Of Celebrities Dying From COVID-19 Vaccine Proven False
This is yet another example of anti-vaccination activists abusing celebrity deaths / injuries to create and propagate FAKE NEWS about the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines.
So far, claims of celebrity deaths / injuries due to the COVID-19 vaccine have been proven false at every instance. Here is the latest dozen that I have personally fact checked.
Will these anti-vaccination activists apologise for lying to you? Nope! They will just move on to the next celebrity death…
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Did the US FDA finally admit that the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine causes dangerous blood clots?!
Take a look at the viral claims, and find out what the facts really are!
Claim : FDA Finally Admits Pfizer Vaccine Causes Blood Clots!
Anti-vaccination activists have recently been claiming that the US FDA finally admitted that the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine causes dangerous blood clots on social media.
FDA Finally ADMITSPfizer Covid Vaccine Causes Blood Clots.. The Gateway Pundit REPORTED ON THIS for over a Year..
Here is the article where the FDAadmits yet another reaction that we were exposing over a year ago from the initial covid injections which is – Blood clots…. When will you see? “You trusted Satan and that is the problem!”
It did not help that Elon Musk amplified one of the claims to his millions of followers:
Hodgetwins : So the FDA finally came out and said that Pfizer’s Covid shot causes blood clots? Only 2 years late!
Elon Musk : Much will come to light as (Dr. Anthony) Fauci loses power.
Truth : FDA Did Not Admit Pfizer Vaccine Causes Blood Clots!
This is yet another example of FAKE NEWS created and propagated by anti-vaccination activists, and here are the reasons why…
Fact #1 : Study Shows FDA Vaccine Surveillance At Work
Anti-vaccination activists have long claimed that the US FDA is colluding with Big Pharma companies like Pfizer and Moderna.
But the truth is – this study is evidence that the US FDA is doing its job by continuing to monitor the safety of the four approved COVID-19 vaccines in the United States.
FDA and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) are using the Medicare health insurance database, covering more than 25 million elderly persons aged 65 years and older, to conduct near real-time safety monitoring of 14 outcomes on a weekly basis following COVID-19 vaccine (BNT162b2, mRNA-1273, or Ad26.COV2.S) administration.
Fact #2 : The FDA Study Is Available Online
The FDA study in question is available online, and I strongly encourage you to read it for yourself, but here is a quick summary:
The study is called “Surveillance of COVID-19 vaccine safety among elderly persons aged 65 years and older“.
It was published in the journal Vaccine on 1 December 2022.
It looked at data from the US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) covering 30,712,101 elderly persons, from December 11, 2020 until January 15, 2022.
Out of 30.7 million participants, about 17.4 million persons were vaccinated with a total of 34,639,937 doses.
It looked at 14 outcomes of interest, and initially four outcomes met the threshold of a “statistical signal”, but after further evaluation, only one outcome met the “statistical threshold for a signal”.
No signals were detected for the Moderna mRNA-1273, or the Janssen Ad26.COV2.S vaccines.
I should point out that the FDA study looked at people who are 65 years and older, many of whom have pre-existing co-morbidities, or other risk factors like being in assisted living facilities.
High Risk
hospital stay
major surgery – abdominal / pelvic surgery, or knee / hip replacement surgery
major trauma : automobile accident or fall
nursing home living
Moderate Risk
65 years or older
trips over 4 years by plane, car, train or bus
co-morbidities like heart failure, obesity, cancer
In other words – this population has a higher risk than normal for developing blood clots. That’s likely one of the reasons why the FDA team chose to look at the elderly population.
I should point out that the Pfizer cohort comprised of particularly old people (85 years and older) who were nursing home residents (implying that they have cognitive or mobility issues), and had a higher percentage of previous COVID-19 infections.
Fact #4 : Increased Risks Were Only Modestly Elevated
Initially, the CMS database showed four outcomes that met the threshold for a “statistical signal” of modestly elevated risks (RR of less than 2) after vaccination with the Pfizer vaccine.
But after further evaluation, only one outcome ultimately met that statistical threshold for a signal – pulmonary embolism (PE).
Outcome of Interest
Overall
Rate Ratio
(RR)
Rate Ratio of
Signal Identified
Pulmonary Embolism (PE)
1.15
1.54 on 27/2/2021
Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI)
0.97
1.42 on 27/2/2021
Disseminated Intravascular
Coagulation (DIC)
0.92
1.91 on 13/2/2021
Immune Thrombocytopenia (ITP)
1.26
1.44 on 24/4/2021
Fact #5 : The Study Did Not Say Pfizer Vaccine Causes Blood Clots
Let me be clear – the study did not say that the Pfizer vaccine causes blood clots.
The study authors pointed out that these statistical signals do not necessarily mean that the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine causes them, as the potential association was less than twice that of historical rates, and may be associated with other factors:
many of those who received the Pfizer vaccine were much older (85 years+) nursing home residents, and people with more co-morbidities
these outcomes may be explained by co-morbidities that existed before vaccination, including previous COVID-19 infections
In fact, they warned against any conclusion that the Pfizer vaccine caused those outcomes:
Our new findings of statistical signals for four important outcomes for the BNT162b2 vaccine should be interpreted cautiously because the early warning system does not prove that vaccines cause the safety outcomes.
What anti-vaccination activists gloss over as well, is the fact that the FDA study showed NO SIGNALS for other clotting, or clotting-related, disorders like deep vein thrombosis (DVT), heart attacks, and non-hemorrhagic stroke.
It should be noted that pulmonary embolism often happens when a blood clot in the leg (like in a DVT!) breaks free and gets lodged in the lungs. How likely is it for a person to develop pulmonary embolism without a deep vein thrombosis?
Fact #7 : FDA Is Not Taking Any Action
The study also notes that the FDA is currently not taking any regulatory actions based on these signal detection activities, because they need further study to determine if they are causal or merely coincidence.
These signal detection studies are part of the FDA’s active surveillance systems, and serve to identify potential adverse outcomes for further study. They cannot be used to make regulatory decisions.
Just because these signals were detected, does not mean they were caused by the vaccine. Until there is proof that the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine causes blood clots, there is simply no reason for the FDA to take any action.
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Al Roker has been in and out of hospitals with blood clots, which people are blaming on the COVID-19 vaccine!
Take a look at the viral claims, and find out why his blood clots are not from vaccine TTS!
Claim : Al Roker Got His Blood Clots From Vaccine TTS!
People are claiming that Al Roker got his blood clots from vaccine-induced thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS), after he was admitted to the hospital for blood clots again, right after being discharged!
2 weeks ago, Al Roker 68: hospitalized for clots in his legs & lungs — 59 days after his booster
He was discharged Thanksgiving to MUCH fanfare
NOW: “Roker Rushed Back To Hospital 24 Hrs After Release..”
Al Roker ‘Rushed’ Back to Hospital Within 24 Hours of His Thanksgiving Release
I SURE HOPE THE COVID VACCINE DOESN’T KILL AL 🙏 # NO FAUCI OUCHY FOR ME
Experimental Covid Shot Al Roker Rushed Back To Hospital Via Ambulance 24 Hours after being released – Poor Al after him being a poster boy for the Covid Jabba Jabba Jabba
Truth : Al Roker Did Not Get His Blood Clots From Vaccine TTS!
It’s now a tradition for anti-vaccination activists to immediately blame all celebrity deaths or illnesses on the COVID-19 vaccine.
This is yet another example of FAKE NEWS created and propagated by anti-vaccination activists, and here are the reasons why… and the current facts that we know so far.
Fact #1 : Al Roker Was Admitted For DVT + Pulmonary Embolism
Al Roker was admitted to the hospital sometime in the middle of November 2022, with pulmonary embolism (blood clots in the lungs) from a blood clot in his leg (deep vein thrombosis).
He announced this on Instagram on November 18, 2022:
So many of you have been thoughtfully asking where I’ve been. Last week I was admitted to the hospital with a blood clot in my leg which sent some clots into my lungs. After some medical whack-a-mole, I am so fortunate to be getting terrific medical care and on the way to recovery. Thanks for all the well wishes and prayers and hope to see you soon. Have a great weekend, everyone.
Fact #2 : Al Roker Was Discharged On Thanksgiving Day
Al Roker was discharged from the hospital on Thanksgiving Day – Thursday, November 24, 2022.
So much to be #thankful for on the #thanksgiving day. Leaving the hospital and home for #thanksgivingdinner
Fact #3 : Al Roker Was Rushed Back To The Hospital A Day Later
Al Roker’s condition took a turn for the worse at home, and he was rushed to the hospital in an ambulance on Friday, November 25, 2022.
Fortunately, his condition improved once he got treated at the hospital:
His condition was worrying, but once back in the hospital he improved.
Today co-anchor Hoda Kotb confirmed that Al Roker was recovering at the hospital on Thursday, December 1, 2022.
We all wish that Al could have been with us, but due to some complications, he is back in the hospital and he’s in very good care. He’s resting, and his doctors are keeping a close eye on him.
Al and his family want everybody to know how grateful they are for all the love, the support, and the well-wishes. He gave us a big thumbs-up.
Fact #4 : Al Roker Received The Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine
Al Roker received the first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine on January 19, 2021 live on the Today show.
His second dose was about 21 days later, which means Al Roker was fully vaccinated by the middle of February 2021.
In January and February 2021, only two COVID-19 vaccines were available in the United States – both mRNA vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna.
In any case – both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines do not cause a rare side effect called Thrombosis with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome (TTS), which is also know as Vaccine-Induced Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia (VITT).
Only the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine (which was never approved in the United States), and the Johnson & Johnson Janssen COVID-19 vaccine (which was only approved on February 27. 2021) can potentially cause the TTS / VITT side effect.
Because Al Roker received the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, his blood clots could not be due to his vaccinations 21 months earlier.
Fact #6 : Vaccine TTS Is Different From DVT
Thrombosis with Thrombocytopenia (TTS) is not only rare, it is very unique. People affected by TTS will develop blood clots in the large veins of the brain / abdomen / lungs, together with low platelet counts.
This unique and rare side effect is seen mostly in women younger than 50 years old, and is exceedingly rare in males older than 50 years old. Al Roker is 68 years old.
But the key thing to note is that Al Roker:
presented a large blood clot in his leg, and not in the large veins of the brain / abdomen / lungs,
did not have a low platelet count
Therefore, he most definitely does not suffer from TTS / VITT, even if he was vaccinated with the AZ or Janssen vaccines (he was not).
Fact #7 : Claims Of Celebrities Injured By COVID-19 Vaccine Proven False
This is yet another example of anti-vaccination activists abusing celebrity deaths / injuries to create and propagate FAKE NEWS about the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines.
So far, claims of celebrity deaths / injuries due to the COVID-19 vaccine have been proven false at every instance. Here is the latest dozen of other false celebrity claims!
Will these anti-vaccination activists apologise for lying to you? Nope! They will just move on to the next celebrity tragedy…
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Did the US military just hang Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel at their Guantanamo Bay naval base?!
Take a look at the viral claim, and find out what the FACTS really are!
Claim : US Military Hanged Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel To Death!
On 18 November 2022, Michael Baxter (real name : Michael Tuffin) wrote an article claiming that the US Navy just hanged Moderna CEO, Stéphane Bancel at its Guantanamo Bay naval base!
It is long and rambling, so please feel free to skip to the next section for the facts!
Moderna CEO and eugenicist Stéphane Bancel lost his life Friday afternoon after a hangman for the U.S. Navy Judge Advocate Generals Corp’s put a noose around his neck and flipped a switch that opened a swinging door beneath the pharmaceutical mogul’s feet.
Bancel’s death was a quiet affair. Vice Adm. Darse E. Crandall did not attend the execution, nor did the cadre of military of brass that had been present at earlier hangings. Instead, Bradley Earl, Command Master Chief, JAG Law Program Judge Advocate General’s Corps, oversaw the execution.
He, a few Marine guards, a Navy chaplain, and a physician were the only persons present to witness Bancel’s last moments. As expected, the perpetuator of Moderna’s clot shot protested his demise, saying that he, a French citizen, had been given immunity against prosecution by both French President Emmanuel Macron and U.S. Food & Drug Commissioner Director Robert M. Califf, both of whom purportedly told Bancel he would be “held harmless” in matters involving vaccine injuries or deaths.
As Bancel was led at gunpoint to the gallows, he insisted that he, a man of science, had conclusively proven that Moderna’s death shot was safe and effective and hadn’t killed a single human since it was made publicly in late 2020. Truth is, Bancel was not a man of science; he held an M.B.A. from Harvard as well as master’s in engineering from an obscure French university. He had no medication credentials, yet asserted himself as a medical professional, and officials around the world touted his non-existent contributions to medical science, namely the Covid-19 vaccine. The release of the vaccine saw Bancel’s net worth skyrocket from $657m to $5.04bn. When Bancel spoke, health authorities listened. As Bancel profited, people died.
Unlike Vice Adm. Crandall, Master Chief Earl uttered no humorous invectives at Bancel. He simply asked him whether he wanted Last Rites—Bancel spat at the suggestion—and ordered the hangman to fulfill his duty.
Truth : US Military Did NOT Hang Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel!
The truth is – this is just another FAKE STORY created by Real Raw News, just to generate page views and money.
Everything that Real Raw News posts must be regarded as FAKE NEWS, until proven otherwise.
Fact #1 : Real Raw News Is A Fake News Website
Real Raw News is a FAKE NEWS website that capitalises on making shocking but fake stories to generate page views and money.
To protect himself from legal repercussions, the owner and writer, Michael Baxter (real name – Michael Tuffin), claims that his articles are “humour, parody, and satire“.
This disclaimer, which is not clearly mentioned in his articles, lets him keep creating fake news that will go viral, and generate him money.
His articles have been regularly debunked as fake news, so you should NEVER share anything from his website. Here are some of his fake stories that I personally debunked earlier:
Fact #2 : No Legitimate Report Of Stephane Bancel’s Arrest
Only Real Raw News has published his fantastical account of US special forces arresting Stéphane Bancel outside a DC restaurant. That’s because Michael Baxter / Tiffin made it up.
Naturally, there is no news from any legitimate news outlet, or the US military, about Stephane Bancel’s arrest sentencing and hanging in Gitmo.
How likely is it for a one-man operation like Real Raw News to have a scoop on this “story”?
A March 2018 screenshot of Michael Tuffin, who goes by the pseudonym Michael Baxter
Fact #3 : Moderna Is A Public-Listed Company
Moderna is a public-listed company, and is traded on the Nasdaq as MRNA. Its shareholders would have to be informed if their company CEO was really arrested, and sentenced to death.
It is NOT POSSIBLE to keep quiet and pretend it didn’t happen. It’s not even legal to cover up such an event from the shareholders.
Fact #4 : Stéphane Bancel + Moderna Issued A Press Statement
On Thursday, November 16, 2022 – one day after Real Raw News claimed Stephane Bancel was sentenced to death, Moderna announced positive results for its two bivalent vaccines targeting the Omicron variant of COVID-19 – mRNA-1273.214, and mRNA-1273.222.
Instead of being incarcerated in Guantanamo Bay, as Michael Baxter/Tiffin claimed, Stephane Bancel announced from Cambridge, Massachusetts that:
We are pleased to see that both of our bivalent booster vaccine candidates offer superior protection against Omicron BA.4/BA.5 variants compared to our original booster, which is encouraging given COVID-19 remains a leading cause of hospitalisation and death globally. In addition, the superior response against Omicron persisted for at least three months after the mRNA-1273.214 booster.
Only Michael Baxter / Tiffin can persist with such a stupid lie, and only his idiotic fans will continue to believe his fake stories.
Fact #5 : Only Enemy Combatants Are Detained At Gitmo
It is ludicrous for Real Raw News to claim that a US military tribunal in Gitmo (Guantanamo Bay) convicted Stephane Bancel, and sentenced him to death.
The Guantanamo Bay prison is only used to detain high-value enemy combatants. Stephane Bancel is not an enemy combatant by any military or legal definition, and would never be detained there.
If Stephane Bancel really committed a crime in the United States, he would have been brought to trial in an American court.
Fact #6 : US Military Tribunals Are Only For Foreign Combatants
It is also stupid for Real Raw News to claim that Bancel was trialed and convicted as an enemy combatant in a military tribunal, when he is a French civilian.
Military tribunals in the United States can only be conducted for members of enemy forces during wartime. The United States is not at war with France.
Needless to say – Stephane Bancel is also not in the French military, so even if he was arrested, there is no way he would be tried in a military tribunal.
Fact #7 : Death Sentences Take Years To Execute
It is also hilarious that Real Raw News readers actually believe the bullshit that someone sentenced to death would be executed just days later.
That may be possible in a country like North Korea, but certainly not in the United States
Death row inmates in the United States wait an average of 178 months – about 15 years after their sentencing, before they are executed.
In fact, none of the six Gitmo inmates charged with capital crime in the 9/11 attacks in 2001, and the attack on USS Cole in 2000, have actually been trialled to date, never mind convicted and sentenced to death.
Fact #8 : US Military Has Not Executed Anyone Since 1961
Even though the US military has killed many combatants intentionally, and civilians as collateral damage, they have not executed prisoners since 1961.
There are four US military inmates on death row, but none of them have been executed so far.
Fact #9 : US Military Cannot Execute Anyone By Hanging
The US military can no longer execute anyone by hanging. In fact, the last US military execution by hanging occurred in 1961 – their last execution ever.
If the US military has to execute anyone, only lethal injection is allowed. Death by hanging is no longer allowed.
Everything that Real Raw News posts should be regarded as FAKE NEWS.
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Did the US military just convict Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel, and sentenced him to death?!
Take a look at the viral claim, and find out what the FACTS really are!
Claim : US Military Sentenced Stephane Bancel To Death!
On 15 November 2022, Michael Baxter (real name : Michael Tuffin) wrote an article claiming that a US military tribunal just convicted Moderna CEO, Stéphane Bancel, and sentenced him to death!
It is long and rambling, so please feel free to skip to the next section for the facts!
The U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General’s Corps and Office of Military Commissions had difficulty finding three impartial panelists to hear evidence against Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel, for every interviewee knew someone whose life the vaccine had shattered—or killed. Following a weeklong search, JAG picked the three—two male Marine Corps officers and a female Navy captain—who expressed the least ill will toward Bancel. Nonetheless, they found Bancel guilty of murder five minutes after Vice Adm. Darse E. Crandall rested JAG’s case and implored the panel to deliver upon Bancel a punishment commensurate to the damage his vaccines had caused the world.
Vice Adm. Crandall said a Navy nurse had drawn Bancel’s blood shortly after he arrived at Guantanamo Bay. The blood was introduced onto a card containing fusion proteins that detect Covid-19 antibodies.
He called to the witness stand Captain Richard G. Zeber, Director, U.S. Naval Hospital Guantanamo Bay, who stated his name, rank, and credentials for the record. Captain Zeber holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology and a Doctor of Optometry degree. His personal decorations include the Legion of Merit, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, Navy Commendation, Navy Achievement, and Good Conduct medals.
Vice Adm. Crandall excused the witness, then asserted to the panel that Bancel, as Moderna’s CEO, must have had full knowledge of the clot shot’s deleterious effects but concealed that data to maximize profits. Moderna’s Covid shot made Bancel a multi-billionaire.
“I sincerely hope you won’t get to spend it,” Vice Adm. Crandall told Bancel.
The panel gave its verdict and held Bancel responsible for the deaths and injuries, suggesting he be hanged by the neck until dead as restitution for his crimes against humanity.
Upon hearing the panel’s decision, a furious Bancel came out of his seat and began shaking his cuffed wrists in the air. “How can you do this? I am a businessman. I have two children—”
Truth : US Military Did NOT Sentence Stephane Bancel To Death!
The truth is – this is just another FAKE STORY created by Real Raw News, just to generate page views and money.
Everything that Real Raw News posts must be regarded as FAKE NEWS, until proven otherwise.
Fact #1 : Real Raw News Is A Fake News Website
Real Raw News is a FAKE NEWS website that capitalises on making shocking but fake stories to generate page views and money.
To protect himself from legal repercussions, the owner and writer, Michael Baxter (real name – Michael Tuffin), claims that his articles are “humour, parody, and satire“.
This disclaimer, which is not clearly mentioned in his articles, lets him keep creating fake news that will go viral, and generate him money.
His articles have been regularly debunked as fake news, so you should NEVER share anything from his website. Here are some of his fake stories that I personally debunked earlier:
Fact #2 : No Legitimate Report Of Stephane Bancel’s Arrest
Only Real Raw News has published his fantastical account of US special forces arresting Stéphane Bancel outside a DC restaurant. That’s because Michael Baxter / Tiffin made it up.
Naturally, there is no news from any legitimate news outlet, or the US military, about Stephane Bancel’s arrest and sentencing.
How likely is it for a one-man operation like Real Raw News to have a scoop on this “story”?
A March 2018 screenshot of Michael Tuffin, who goes by the pseudonym Michael Baxter
Fact #3 : Moderna Is A Public-Listed Company
Moderna is a public-listed company, and is traded on the Nasdaq as MRNA. Its shareholders would have to be informed if their company CEO was really arrested, and sentenced to death.
It is NOT POSSIBLE to keep quiet and pretend it didn’t happen. It’s not even legal to cover up such an event from the shareholders.
Fact #4 : Stéphane Bancel + Moderna Issued A Press Statement
On Thursday, November 16, 2022 – one day after Real Raw News published that fake story, Moderna announced positive results for its two bivalent vaccines targeting the Omicron variant of COVID-19 – mRNA-1273.214, and mRNA-1273.222.
Instead of being incarcerated in Guantanamo Bay, as Michael Baxter/Tiffin claimed, Stephane Bancel announced from Cambridge, Massachusetts that:
We are pleased to see that both of our bivalent booster vaccine candidates offer superior protection against Omicron BA.4/BA.5 variants compared to our original booster, which is encouraging given COVID-19 remains a leading cause of hospitalisation and death globally. In addition, the superior response against Omicron persisted for at least three months after the mRNA-1273.214 booster.
Only Michael Baxter / Tiffin can persist with such a stupid lie, and only his idiotic fans will continue to believe his fake stories.
Fact #5 : Only Enemy Combatants Are Detained At Gitmo
It is ludicrous for Real Raw News to claim that a US military tribunal in Gitmo (Guantanamo Bay) convicted Stephane Bancel, and sentenced him to death.
The Guantanamo Bay prison is only used to detain high-value enemy combatants. Stephane Bancel is not an enemy combatant by any military or legal definition, and would never be detained there.
If Stephane Bancel really committed a crime in the United States, he would have been brought to trial in an American court.
Fact #6 : US Military Tribunals Are Only For Foreign Combatants
It is also stupid for Real Raw News to claim that Bancel was trialed and convicted as an enemy combatant in a military tribunal, when he is a French civilian.
Military tribunals in the United States can only be conducted for members of enemy forces during wartime. The United States is not at war with France.
Needless to say – Stephane Bancel is also not in the French military, so even if he was arrested, there is no way he would be tried in a military tribunal.
Fact #7 : Death Sentences Take Years To Execute
It is also hilarious that Real Raw News readers actually believe the bullshit that someone sentenced to death would be executed just days later.
That may be possible in a country like North Korea, but certainly not in the United States
Death row inmates in the United States wait an average of 178 months – about 15 years after their sentencing, before they are executed.
In fact, none of the six Gitmo inmates charged with capital crime in the 9/11 attacks in 2001, and the attack on USS Cole in 2000, have actually been trialled to date, never mind convicted and sentenced to death.
Fact #8 : Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine Under FDA Regulatory Oversight
The Moderna COVID-19 vaccine was confirmed to be safe and effective, after it successfully concluded its clinical trials with an efficacy of 94.5% against symptomatic COVID-19 infection, in a large study involving over 30,000 participants.
The VRBPAC committee vetted and discussed the study findings on 17 December 2020, and recommended that the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine receive its Emergency Use Authorisation, which the FDA granted on 18 December 2020.
Like ALL other vaccines, the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine was under FDA regulatory oversight. If Moderna lied about their results, the FDA would not have continued to re-issue or amend its EUA and full approval time and time again.
Everything that Real Raw News posts should be regarded as FAKE NEWS.
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