I live near hollis. We can meet anytime.
This is a good thread by you that I can agree with because I hate whitey as well. Doesn't change the fact you are usually on some coon super democratic shit
Just let me know when.
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I live near hollis. We can meet anytime.
This is a good thread by you that I can agree with because I hate whitey as well. Doesn't change the fact you are usually on some coon super democratic shit
I live by the rock on farmers...sure u know it's plenty of white people that live here huh lmao.Just let me know when.
The media will never share this, it's always black and brown are failing at COVID.
I knew a coon Or a undercover white boy was going to come into this thread and say some dumb shitAnyway that faggot Sav is trying to derail this thread.
This is in the media. Not sure what your saying.
No I get what he means and he's right. The media had front page reports of how Covid was mostly hurting Black and Hispanic people which is why these numbers are like this now. I'd be shocked to see a segment on NBC Nightly News or any other national news program that specifically says how the majority of people dying since June have been white. Because then you have to ask why and that opens up a convo that the media doesn't want to have because it will then bring up racism.
CORRECTED-Fact Check- COVID-19 vaccines are not experimental and they have not skipped trial stages
By Reuters Fact Check
9 MIN READ
Correction, April 30, 2021: An earlier version of this check described the Pfizer/BioNtech, Moderna and J&J vaccines as being approved for use in the United States. This has been corrected to say these vaccines have been authorized for emergency use by the FDA. Vaccine makers will need to apply to the FDA for full approval to continue use after the pandemic.
Claims that COVID-19 vaccines are “experimental”, have skipped animal testing and have not completed initial research trials are false. They were included in a Facebook post addressed in this check.
Titled “6 facts about the 3 vaccines”, the post can be seen (here). Four of the most damaging claims will be discussed below. Any others, however, are outside the scope of this check.
CLAIM 1 - “All the vaccines are considered experimental”
According to the post, all vaccines are considered experimental. This is not true – they have all been put through standard safety testing before being rolled out to the public.
Both the United States and United Kingdom have authorized the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna mRNA vaccines for emergency use, while the former has also authorized shots by Johnson & Johnson; the latter by Oxford/AstraZeneca.
Emergency use authorization (EUA) in the U.S. has been issued as a result of the severity of the pandemic. When the pandemic is over, the EUA will cease and vaccine manufacturers will need to apply for full U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval (here). No timeline on this has yet been given (here). The UK, meanwhile, has a similar mechanism (here , here).
The Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca shots are viral vector vaccines, a type of jab also used during Ebola outbreaks, as well as in studies of illnesses including influenza, Zika and HIV (here). They both use a modified and weakened version of a harmless adenovirus to deliver instructions to cells to make coronavirus spike proteins. This will generate an immune response and prevent infection (here , here).
Meanwhile, the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines use messenger RNA (mRNA) to generate a similar immune response. While these are the first mRNA vaccines to be rolled out to the general public, the technology behind them has been developed over a number of years (here).
CLAIM 2 - “All were allowed to skip animal trials”
The claim that COVID-19 vaccines have skipped animal trials has already been covered by Reuters here) here .
Oxford University confirmed the vaccine it created with AstraZeneca has undergone animal trials in the UK, US and Australia (here). Pfizer and BioNTech released information in Sept. 2020 about the effects of their mRNA vaccine in mice and non-human primates (here).
Moderna has released similar information (here, here), as has Johnson & Johnson (here).
However, due to time constraints and the urgency to find a vaccine for COVID-19, Moderna and Pfizer did receive approval to run animal testing and early trials on humans at the same time, as opposed to fully completing animal trials before moving on to human trials. This, however, does not mean animal trials were skipped. ( here, here , here).
CLAIM 3 - “None have completed initial research trials”
All four vaccines given emergency authorization in the U.S. and UK have published results from the final phase three trials.
Pfizer/BioNTech’s phase three trial began in late July 2020 and the results were published in December 2020 (here). The trial enrolled 46,331 participants at 153 sites around the world in Argentina, Brazil, Turkey, South Africa and the U.S., according to Pfizer’s website (here).
Oxford/AstraZeneca’s clinical trials involved 23,848 people across the UK, Brazil, and South Africa between April and November 2020, according to a report published by the Oxford Vaccine Group in the medical journal The Lancet (bit.ly/3u7POsa, page 1).
Johnson & Johnson recruited 44,325 people for its phase three clinical trial between September 2020 and January 2021 (here, here), while Moderna had 30,420 volunteers for the same phase of testing between July and October 2020 (here).
CLAIM 4 - “None will complete a research trial for 2-3 years”
This is not true, and likely stems from misinformation shared elsewhere which equates “estimated study completion dates” on clinical trial websites to the actual end dates of clinical trials.
For Pfizer, this estimated date is listed as Jan. 31, 2023 (bit.ly/3vvVPiz), while Moderna is Oct. 27, 2022 (bit.ly/3aSmb6y).
However, these dates do not mean clinical trials will continue for this long, and instead reference continued safety monitoring after the vaccine has been approved and rolled out, which is standard practice within the industry.
VERDICT
False. COVID-19 vaccines authorized for use in the U.S. and UK are not experimental and have all completed animal and clinical trials.
This article was produced by the Reuters Fact Check team. Read more about our fact-checking work here .
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CORRECTED-Fact Check- COVID-19 vaccines are not experimental and they have not skipped trial stages
By Reuters Fact Check
9 MIN READ
Correction, April 30, 2021: An earlier version of this check described the Pfizer/BioNtech, Moderna and J&J vaccines as being approved for use in the United States. This has been corrected to say these vaccines have been authorized for emergency use by the FDA. Vaccine makers will need to apply to the FDA for full approval to continue use after the pandemic.
Claims that COVID-19 vaccines are “experimental”, have skipped animal testing and have not completed initial research trials are false. They were included in a Facebook post addressed in this check.
Titled “6 facts about the 3 vaccines”, the post can be seen (here). Four of the most damaging claims will be discussed below. Any others, however, are outside the scope of this check.
CLAIM 1 - “All the vaccines are considered experimental”
According to the post, all vaccines are considered experimental. This is not true – they have all been put through standard safety testing before being rolled out to the public.
Both the United States and United Kingdom have authorized the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna mRNA vaccines for emergency use, while the former has also authorized shots by Johnson & Johnson; the latter by Oxford/AstraZeneca.
Emergency use authorization (EUA) in the U.S. has been issued as a result of the severity of the pandemic. When the pandemic is over, the EUA will cease and vaccine manufacturers will need to apply for full U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval (here). No timeline on this has yet been given (here). The UK, meanwhile, has a similar mechanism (here , here).
The Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca shots are viral vector vaccines, a type of jab also used during Ebola outbreaks, as well as in studies of illnesses including influenza, Zika and HIV (here). They both use a modified and weakened version of a harmless adenovirus to deliver instructions to cells to make coronavirus spike proteins. This will generate an immune response and prevent infection (here , here).
Meanwhile, the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines use messenger RNA (mRNA) to generate a similar immune response. While these are the first mRNA vaccines to be rolled out to the general public, the technology behind them has been developed over a number of years (here).
CLAIM 2 - “All were allowed to skip animal trials”
The claim that COVID-19 vaccines have skipped animal trials has already been covered by Reuters here) here .
Oxford University confirmed the vaccine it created with AstraZeneca has undergone animal trials in the UK, US and Australia (here). Pfizer and BioNTech released information in Sept. 2020 about the effects of their mRNA vaccine in mice and non-human primates (here).
Moderna has released similar information (here, here), as has Johnson & Johnson (here).
However, due to time constraints and the urgency to find a vaccine for COVID-19, Moderna and Pfizer did receive approval to run animal testing and early trials on humans at the same time, as opposed to fully completing animal trials before moving on to human trials. This, however, does not mean animal trials were skipped. ( here, here , here).
CLAIM 3 - “None have completed initial research trials”
All four vaccines given emergency authorization in the U.S. and UK have published results from the final phase three trials.
Pfizer/BioNTech’s phase three trial began in late July 2020 and the results were published in December 2020 (here). The trial enrolled 46,331 participants at 153 sites around the world in Argentina, Brazil, Turkey, South Africa and the U.S., according to Pfizer’s website (here).
Oxford/AstraZeneca’s clinical trials involved 23,848 people across the UK, Brazil, and South Africa between April and November 2020, according to a report published by the Oxford Vaccine Group in the medical journal The Lancet (bit.ly/3u7POsa, page 1).
Johnson & Johnson recruited 44,325 people for its phase three clinical trial between September 2020 and January 2021 (here, here), while Moderna had 30,420 volunteers for the same phase of testing between July and October 2020 (here).
CLAIM 4 - “None will complete a research trial for 2-3 years”
This is not true, and likely stems from misinformation shared elsewhere which equates “estimated study completion dates” on clinical trial websites to the actual end dates of clinical trials.
For Pfizer, this estimated date is listed as Jan. 31, 2023 (bit.ly/3vvVPiz), while Moderna is Oct. 27, 2022 (bit.ly/3aSmb6y).
However, these dates do not mean clinical trials will continue for this long, and instead reference continued safety monitoring after the vaccine has been approved and rolled out, which is standard practice within the industry.
VERDICT
False. COVID-19 vaccines authorized for use in the U.S. and UK are not experimental and have all completed animal and clinical trials.
This article was produced by the Reuters Fact Check team. Read more about our fact-checking work here .
Where?This is in the media. Not sure what your saying.
Camille, you think we all should get vaccinated?Black folks were the ones mostly dying at first, and when vaccines first came out, placed like FL were trying to get every one but black folks vaccinated, and you had wealthy white folks going to poor black areas to get the shot. We have folks on BGOL who have lost several family members and friends. Black folks do a lot of public facing jobs, such as teaching, food service etc, where they couldn't isolate and PPE was in short supply. Early on several black barbers and stylists passed going into private homes when they had to close their business. Nicolle Wallace used to highlight deaths at the end of her shows, and at least half were black.
My brother has covid now because my nephew doesn't believe in getting vaxxed and he was around them. Things have changed in who is dying now, but black folks aren't super human and there are a bunch of black covid orphans now. So we need to take precautions and not get overconfident.
Camille, you think we all should get vaccinated?
Is it enough to be diligent about wearing masks and keeping contact to a minimum (i.e. only gas station & grocery store, be brief & go when less crowded)
So now so-called blacks are developing immunity or did the virus stop attacking us at the rate it did in the beginning? Or was it always taking out so-called whites at the higher rate all along?Black folks were the ones mostly dying at first, and when vaccines first came out, placed like FL were trying to get every one but black folks vaccinated, and you had wealthy white folks going to poor black areas to get the shot. We have folks on BGOL who have lost several family members and friends. Black folks do a lot of public facing jobs, such as teaching, food service etc, where they couldn't isolate and PPE was in short supply. Early on several black barbers and stylists passed going into private homes when they had to close their business. Nicolle Wallace used to highlight deaths at the end of her shows, and at least half were black.
My brother has covid now because my nephew doesn't believe in getting vaxxed and he was around them. Things have changed in who is dying now, but black folks aren't super human and there are a bunch of black covid orphans now. So we need to take precautions and not get overconfident.
And we're only 13-15% of population.All this.
My problem is with people viewing deaths in terms of percentage which doesn't take into account the actual number of deaths and the human toll that brings.
I read that there were roughly 34,000 US Covid deaths in the last 30 days and we were averaging around 1,100 deaths per day.
That means that going off the 80 percent of deaths posted above about 27,200 of these reported deaths were white people.
However, that also means that the remaining 20 percent, which sounds like a low number, amounts to about 6,800 black and brown people who've also died in the last month which for me is far too many and unacceptable.
Putting the loss of lives in percentages as if we're counting free throw percentage or batting averages is misleading, dehumanizing and dangerous.
There are a lot of lives lost unnecessarily, pain/suffering and families destroyed which isn't reflected in that seemingly low percentage number.![]()
The mass vaccination plan was a disaster and the group that opposes it most is the one that the pro-whites hate most and that is so-called blacks 18-39.Camille, you think we all should get vaccinated?
Is it enough to be diligent about wearing masks and keeping contact to a minimum (i.e. only gas station & grocery store, be brief & go when less crowded)
get the fuck outta here with this BULLSHIT>.
This is some experimental bullshit, forcing your body to produce a SPIKE PROTEIN since when did
fuckin VACCINES force your cells to make a fuckin SPIKE PROTEIN, what is the LONG TERM EFFECT of causing YOUR BODY TO MAKE A FUCKIN SPIKE PROTEIN....
Get a fuckin clue, unfuck your mind bruh..
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fuck outta here with this bullshit..
REAL FACTS..
29th November 2021 www.worldcouncilforhealth.org
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DECLARATION, CEASE AND DESIST AND NOTICE OF LIABILITY
WORLD COUNCIL FOR HEALTH CALLS FOR
AN IMMEDIATE STOP TO THE COVID-19 EXPERIMENTAL "VACCINES"
A. CONSENSUS OF WORLD'S FOREMOST EXPERTS
Globally renowned experts, including Dr. Paul Alexander, Dr. Byram Bridle, Dr. Geert Vanden
Bossche, Prof. Dolores Cahill, and Drs. Sucharit Bhakdi, Ryan Cole, Richard Fleming, Robert
W. Malone, Peter McCullough, Mark Trozzi, Michael Yeadon, Wolfgang Wodarg, and
Vladimir Zelenko, among many others, consistently warn the world about the adverse
effects resulting from Covid-19 experimental injections; they also warn about their long-
term effects, which cannot be known at this time since most clinical trials will be not
completed until 2023, and some as late as 2025.
In June 2021, Dr. Tess Lawrie, co-founder of the World Council for Health and member of
the Council's Steering Committee, courageously described the global crisis and called for
urgent action: “There is now more than enough evidence on the [UK] Yellow Card system to
declare the COVID-19 vaccines unsafe for use in humans. Preparation should be made to
scale up humanitarian efforts to assist those harmed by the COVID-19 vaccines and to
anticipate and ameliorate medium to longer term effects.”
B. DECLARATION
The World Council for Health declares that it is time to put an end to this humanitarian
crisis. Further, the Council also declares that any direct or indirect involvement in the
manufacturing, distribution, administration and promotion of these injections violates basic
principles of common law, constitutional law and natural justice, as well as the Nuremberg
Code, the Helsinki Declaration, and other international treaties.
C. UNCENSORED FACTS
We now know that children are over one hundred times more likely to die from these
experimental injections than Covid-19. Injected athletes, globally, are collapsing before our
very eyes. In spite of the fact that reporting systems are limited and passive, millions of
adverse effects have been recorded, which include death, paralysis, blood clots, strokes,
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myocarditis, pericarditis, heart attacks, spontaneous miscarriage, chronic fatigue and
extreme depression.
See: https://coronavirus-yellowcard.mhra.gov.uk/
See: https://vaers.hhs.gov/
See: https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/human-regulatory/research-
development/pharmacovigilance/eudravigilance
See: http://www.vigiaccess.org/ (search covid-19 vaccine)
D. VICTIM TESTIMONIES
The World Council for Health acknowledges and respects the experiences and testimony of
the victims of this worldwide medical experiment. We also declare and confirm that safe,
effective and affordable treatments for Covid-19 exist and should be made available to all
who need them.
See: https://www.wewanttobeheard.com/
See: https://nomoresilence.world/
See: https://www.vaxtestimonies.org/en/
E. NOT SAFE, NOT EFFECTIVE
Recent studies confirm the risks associated with Covid-19 experimental injections. Emerging
research establishes that the injections are neither safe nor effective, and, in fact, are toxic.
While some of the known ingredients of the injections cause biological harm, it is even more
concerning that the unknown and undisclosed ingredients may present an even greater
threat to human health.
F. CEASE AND DESIST
The World Council for Health is ethically and lawfully bound to issue this Declaration,
demanding that governments and corporations cease and desist from direct or indirect
participation in the manufacturing, distribution, administration or promotion of Covid-19
experimental injections.
The Council declares that every living man and woman has a moral and legal duty to take
immediate and decisive action to halt this unprecedented medical experiment, which
continues to cause unnecessary and immeasurable harm.
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G. NOTICE OF LIABILITY
The right of bodily integrity and the right to informed consent are inalienable and universal
human rights, which have been trampled by government mandates and corporate
imperatives. Thus, the World Council for Health declares that any person or organization
directly or indirectly participating in the manufacturing, distribution, administration or
promotion of Covid-19 experimental biologics will be held liable for the violation of
principles of justice grounded in civil, criminal, constitutional and natural law, as well
Its not just the media.The media will never share this, it's always black and brown are failing at COVID.
Let's get the rundown on the people you listed as reference material.
Paul E. Alexander
Paul Elias Alexander is a Canadian health researcher and a former Trump administration official at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services during the COVID-19 pandemic. Alexander was recruited from his part-time, unpaid position at McMaster University to serve as an aide to HHS assistant secretary for public affairs Michael Caputo in March 2020. In that role, Alexander pressured federal scientists and public health agencies to suppress and edit their COVID-19 analyses to make them consistent with Trump's rhetoric.
Wikipedia
Dr. Byram Bridle
BRIDLE'S CLAIMS
"… we never knew the spike protein itself was a toxin and was a pathogenic protein. So by vaccinating people we are inadvertently inoculating them with a toxin …"
"… it's the first time ever scientists have been privy to seeing where these messenger RNA go after vaccination …"
"… this has implications for blood donation ... this has implications for infants that are suckling ... this has serious implications for ... all of our children …"
Debunked
- There is no spike protein in the mRNA vaccines:
- absolutely nothing has changed with respect to our understanding of the incredible safety and efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccines – they are our best tools to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
- there are no peer-reviewed publications (or data, or pre-prints) which support Bridle's claims.
- all of the data Bridle claims to have "revealed" have been publicly available for months.
- There is no evidence to suggest the vaccines pose a risk to suckling or breastfeeding infants:
- Golan et al. (2021) show the vaccine is not passed through breast milk.
- Mattar et al (2021) show the vaccine is not passed through breast milk, and that vaccinated women did not produce an antibody response to syncytin proteins (present in the early stages of pregnancy).
- These data continue to support the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine's recommendation that vaccinated individuals who are lactating should not cease breastfeeding.
- There is no evidence to suggest the vaccines affect fertility:
- Bentov et al. (2021) show ovarian function is not affected by SARS-COV-2 or vaccination.
- Safrai et al. (2021) show the vaccine has no impact on women's fertility.
- Shanes et al. (2021) show the vaccine has no impact on maternal immunologic tolerance of the fetus.
- Morris (2021) shows the vaccine does not prevent embryo implantation or impair early pregnancy development.
- Several partcipants got pregnant during the Pfizer trial, and the only adverse outcome was in the placebo group.
- Gonzalez et al. (2021) show the vaccine results in no significant decrease in any sperm parameter.
- Safrai et al. (2021) show the vaccine does not affect sperm whereas SARS-CoV-2 infection does impair sperm.
- Shimabukuro et al. (2021) review V-safe and VAERS, and find no signals that demonstrate a risk to pregnancy from vaccination.
- Bridle is combining several different anti-vaccine claims that have already been addressed by experts:
- Dr. Derek Lowe describes the differences between the viral spike protein, and the protein produced by your cells.
- This explains why the spike protein produced by your cells can't hurt you.
- Dr. David Gorski further describes the spike protein, and addresses the source of this misconception in incredible detail.
- This explains why some people incorrectly believed the vaccine could hurt you.
- Edward Nirenberg demonstrates the amount of spike protein produced by your cells is 100,000x lower than the level of viral spike protein shown to cause harm.
- Recall, the spike protein produced by your cells is not the same as the viral spike protein and has been inactivated by design.
- Dr. Uri Manor [a co-author of the Lei et al. (2021) study], directly refutes the connection drawn between the spike protein and claims of harm from the vaccines.
- The Lei et al. (2021) study is often misrepresented to suggest the spike protein produced by your cells from the mRNA vaccines is a "toxin".
- Dr. Manor also agrees with Nirenberg's math, and reaffirms the safety of the vaccines.
- COVID-19 Resources Canada also addresses misinformation about the spike protein echoing the claims of Dr. Manor, and of Lei et al. (2021).
- In fact, they all note that "the spike proteins used by currently available vaccines actually offer a double layer of protection".
Geert Vanden Bossche
Written By Edward Nirenberg
The short version: Geert Vanden Bossche has recently published a letter in which he argues that the vaccination campaign against COVID-19 is going to precipitate a public health disaster because the vaccines will select for viral variants that can escape their protection and drive them towards higher virulence. His claims are speculative, he offers no evidence to support his arguments, and makes several comments which are blatantly incorrect. The core of his argument relies on the assumption that COVID-19 vaccines do not have a significant effect on transmission. This has been repeatedly confirmed to be false in multiple studies. Furthermore, even if his assumptions about the effects of the vaccine on transmission are true, his conclusions are incorrect based on established precedent from Marek’s disease, a viral illness of birds with a vaccine that does not strongly affect transmission- but it still shows meaningful public health benefits in the populations of chickens where it is used. The vaccines will absolutely be critical to ending the pandemic, and fortunately the modular nature of the technology allows for rapid reformulation and adjustment as necessary (and thus far, though precautions are being taken with novel variants to produce vaccines specific to their set of problematic mutations, there isn’t significant enough evidence to suggest that total reformulation of the vaccines is needed), but no issues raised in this letter warrant a re-evaluation of our current COVID-19 vaccination policy.
Prof. Dolores Cahill
The Strange Case of Dr. Cahill and Ms. Hyde
Professor Dolores Cahill’s scientific résumé can legitimize her false claims about COVID-19. Her crusade of misinformation raises the question of how far academic freedom goes.
Cahill, who until recently was teaching a class for first-year medical students called “Science, Medicine and Society,” has been making a number of staggeringly erroneous claims about COVID-19 and its associated vaccines since the beginning of the pandemic, never correcting her mistakes and always doubling down. She has said, falsely, that COVID-19 can be prevented by taking vitamin C, vitamin D and zinc, and that the most efficient treatment is in the form of hydroxychloroquine, a cheap medication against malaria and autoimmune diseases that turned into an object of worship for some individuals, even as the evidence clearly showed it did not work against COVID-19. She has boldly stated that children wearing a mask—the kind that doctors, nurses and dentists have been wearing for decades—would be starved of oxygen and see their IQ lowered. As for the RNA-based vaccines, she falsely claimed they did more harm than good. “If you paid me ten million,” she warned, “I wouldn’t take it. I would go to prison first. If someone vaccinated me [with an RNA vaccine], I would charge them with attempted murder.”
Bolstered by Cahill’s academic and scientific credentials, her misinformed and hazardous claims have grown to the point where students at her university wrote a 33-page scientific rebuttal of these claims, a document that was signed by 133 students from the university’s own School of Medicine and sent to its administrators. One of the claims these students had to debunk: that once you get COVID-19, you are immune for life. This brazen assertion’s confidence is in contradiction with actual knowledge in the field, which is that we do not clearly know how long immunity does last. But this is the upside-down world at University College Dublin right now, where students are teaching their own professor basic facts about a topic she should be familiar with.
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The Strange Case of Dr. Cahill and Ms. Hyde
“If you’re under, like, 70 or 65 and you’ve no underlying conditions, this is all a hoax.” You’d be forgiven for thinking that this wild assertion about a pandemic that has killed over 4.3 million people worldwide and caused sequelae for an untold number of survivors came from someone who knows...www.mcgill.ca
Sucharit Bhakdi
Sucharit Bhakdi (สุจริต ภักดี [sut̚˨˩.t͡ɕa˨˩.rit̚˨˩ pʰak̚˦˥.diː˧]; born Sucharit Punyaratabandhu, สุจริต บุณยรัตพันธุ์, 1 November 1946, in Washington, D.C.) is a retired Thai-German microbiologist. In 2020 and 2021 Bhakdi became a prominent source of misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic, claiming that the pandemic was "fake" and that COVID-19 vaccines were going to decimate the world's population.[3][2]
He was a professor at the University of Mainz, where from 1991 to 2012 he was head of the Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene.[4] The university has disassociated itself from Bhakdi's views on the Coronavirus pandemic.[5] In 2021 Bhakdi's publisher broke off relations following the appearance of an online video in which Bhakdi made antisemitic comments.[6]
The claim: Coronavirus vaccines are killing people and will decimate the world’s population
Several widely shared videos and blog posts on Facebook say the COVID-19 vaccines are a matter of life and death – but not because of the risk of the disease.
In an article published April 22 and later taken down, a website called Red Pill University (a reference to the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory) wrote that COVID-19 vaccines “will decimate world’s population.” As evidence, it cites a video featuring Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi.
Bhakdi is a microbiologist who has promoted ideas that run counter to the scientific consensus about the coronavirus pandemic, including the claim that face masks don’t protect against infection. In the video, which originally was published by the New American, a conservative magazine, Bhakdi says COVID-19 vaccines are deadly.
“They are forcing vaccination on people, and I believe they are killing people with this vaccination,” he says during the video, which has more than 268,000 views on Rumble, a video-sharing platform.
“Guys, don’t get a third or fourth or fifth (shot), because if you do that, you are going to contribute to the decimation of the world’s population,” he says later.
Over the course of the 40-minute clip, Bhakdi calls the pandemic “a fake,” says wearing masks and quarantining is “absolutely ridiculous nonsense,” and coronavirus tests don’t work. In this fact-check, we’re focusing on the claim that COVID-19 vaccines are killing people.
That claim sounds scary coming from a scientist, but it's not accurate.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved three coronavirus vaccines for emergency use in the United States. Clinical trials involving tens of thousands of participants found the vaccines were safe and effective at preventing coronavirus infection, and millions of Americans have safely received them.
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There’s no evidence the vaccines cause death, or that they will depopulate the planet – and clear evidence to the contrary.
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Coronavirus vaccines are safe, effective
The three COVID-19 vaccines approved for emergency use in the U.S. are one from Pfizer-BioNTech, one from Moderna and one from Janssen, a pharmaceutical company owned by Johnson & Johnson. Public health officials say all are safe and effective at preventing COVID-19.
Over the course of several months in 2020, more than 100,000 people participated in clinical trials for the coronavirus vaccines as a group. None of those trials found that the vaccines caused death. The FDA approved the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines in December and the Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine in February.
Fact check:No, interacting with a vaccinated person won't cause miscarriage or menstrual changes
Since then, more than 144 million Americans have received at least one vaccine dose, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
If the vaccines were as deadly as Bhakdi says, we would surely see widespread and mounting deaths in the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), a federally managed database of self-reported vaccine side effects. There are reports of vaccine-related deaths in the VAERS database, but because anyone – from doctors and nurses to patients and parents – can submit cases, the CDC says those reports are unverified and may be inaccurate.
Ryan Cole
‘A health menace’: Doctors urge medical board to take action against Dr. Ryan Cole’s COVID-19 misinformation
Records obtained from the Washington Medical Commission detail complaints about the Garden City pathologist.
Detailed complaints about Dr. Ryan Cole released by Washington Medical Commission
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Author: Katie Terhune, Jeremy Stiles, Dani Allsop, Morgan Romero
Published: 6:20 PM MST December 17, 2021
Updated: 11:11 AM MST December 18, 2021
BOISE, Idaho — In five formal complaints against Idaho physician and Central District Health board member Ryan Cole in the state of Washington, doctors and others say falsehoods he has spread about COVID-19 and the vaccine to prevent it have added to a dangerous storm of misinformation and even contributed to patient deaths.
The complaints about Cole, who runs a diagnostic laboratory in Garden City, were submitted to the Washington Medical Commission between Aug. 28 and Sept. 30 and obtained by KTVB in their entirety on Thursday. Those records also include material submitted as information to support the complaints, and total nearly 300 pages.
Cole, a controversial figure who has referred to the COVID-19 vaccine as a "clot shot" and "needle rape" and falsely claimed it could cause cancer, is licensed as a physician in Idaho, Washington and several other states.
The Idaho Medical Association confirmed it filed a complaint with the Idaho Board of Medicine about Cole, but the Idaho board declined to say whether a formal investigation is underway. The board tells KTVB that formal actions are public record, but medical records, staff reports and investigative materials are confidential and unavailable to any source for review during the investigation.
In an email Friday, the Idaho Board of Medicine spokesperson said currently the board does not have any outstanding formal complaints; formal hearings only happen once formal complaints have been filed by the Board of Medicine.
After receiving records of the complaints filed in Washington, KTVB asked Cole for comment for this story. He did not respond.
The people and organizations who filed the complaints against Cole in Idaho and Washington are asking that his license be revoked.
If the Washington Medical Commission finds Cole has committed unprofessional conduct, possible sanctions may include revocation or suspension of his license.. But Washington state law also provides for a range of other possible sanctions, including restriction or limitation of his practice, requiring that he complete a specific program of remedial education or treatment, monitoring of his practice, censure or reprimand, probation, a fine of up to $5,000 for each violation, or refunding fees that his practice has billed to and collected from patients.
In letters to Cole informing him of the investigations in Washington, the investigator wrote: "When my investigation is complete, a panel of commission members will review it and determine whether to move forward with disciplinary action or close the case without taking further action. A majority of our investigations are closed without further action after this review. If the panel finds evidence of unprofessional conduct, they may take further action.
The complaints
A doctor at the Boise VA wrote in his complaint that Cole is "a major purveyor of misinformation" and called it "amazing" that the physician was continuing to publicly tout debunked information about COVID-19 more than a year into the pandemic.
"Cole is a health menace, abusing his status as a physician to mislead the public," the doctor wrote.
In an October memorandum from the Washington Medical Commission, investigators noted that Cole’s diagnostic lab denies that he sees patients directly.
"Regarding direct patient care, the respondent has publicly stated he is providing ivermectin to patients but when he, the complainant, called Cole Diagnostics, the respondent's practice, their recorded message indicated the respondent does not see patients."
Nonetheless, according to a doctor at Saint Alphonsus, a patient infected with COVID-19 had been prescribed ivermectin by Cole. Ivermectin is an anti-parasite drug that has not been found to have any effectiveness in treating, curing or preventing COVID-19, despite a number of viral online claims to the contrary.
That patient later died, according to the complaint.
At least three other doctors also signed affidavits accompanying a complaint about Cole prescribing ivermectin to patients.
"Some of my patients inform me that they are taking ivermectin for the prevention or treatment of COVID-19. A substantial percentage of them tell me it was prescribed or recommended by Dr. Cole, who they have trusted for medical advice due to his warnings about taking the COVID vaccine or his recorded lectures touting the dangers of the vaccine and the effectiveness of ivermectin," one of the doctors states in their affidavit, referring to patients the doctor sees when they come to a hospital emergency department for treatment of COVID-19.
Richard Fleming
AGENCY:
Food and Drug Administration, HHS.
ACTION:
Notice.
SUMMARY:
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or the Agency) is denying a request for a hearing submitted by Richard M. Fleming (Fleming) and is issuing an order under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act) debarring Fleming for 10 years from providing services in any capacity to a person that has an approved or pending drug product application. FDA bases this order on a finding that Fleming was convicted of two felonies under Federal law that involved fraud. Additionally, Fleming has demonstrated a pattern of conduct sufficient to find that there is reason to believe that he may violate requirements under the FD&C Act relating to drug products. In determining the appropriateness and period of Fleming's debarment, FDA considered the relevant factors listed in the FD&C Act. Fleming failed to file with the Agency information and analyses sufficient to create a basis for a hearing concerning this action.
DATES:
The order is applicable September 28, 2018.
ADDRESSES:
Any application for termination of debarment by Fleming under section 306(d) of the FD&C Act (application) may be submitted as follows:
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Robert W. Malone
COVID-19
In early 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Malone was involved in research into the heartburn medicine famotidine (Pepcid) as a potential COVID-19 treatment following anecdotal evidence suggesting that it may have been associated with higher COVID-19 survival. Malone, then with Alchem Laboratories, suspected famotidine may target an enzyme that the virus (SARS-CoV-2) uses to reproduce, and recruited a computational chemist to help design a 3D-model of the enzyme based on the viral sequence and comparisons to the 2003 SARS virus.[21][22] After encouraging preliminary results, Alchem Laboratories, in conjunction with New York's Northwell Health, initiated a clinical trial on famotidine and hydroxychloroquine.[21] Malone resigned from Alchem shortly after the trial began and Northwell paused the trial due to a shortage of hospitalized patients.[20][23]
Malone received criticism for propagating COVID-19 misinformation, including making unsupported claims about the alleged toxicity of spike proteins generated by some COVID-19 vaccines;[2][12][4][24] using interviews on mass media to popularize self-medication with ivermectin;[25] and tweeting a study by others questioning vaccine safety that was later retracted.[2] He said LinkedIn suspended his account over what he claimed were posts he had made questioning the efficacy of some COVID-19 vaccines.[26] Malone has also claimed that the Pfizer–BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines could worsen COVID-19 infections.[1] Malone's Twitter account was suspended in December 2021.[27]
With another researcher, Malone successfully proposed to the publishers of Frontiers in Pharmacology a special issue featuring early observational studies on existing medication used in the treatment of COVID-19, for which they recruited other guest editors, contributors, and reviewers. The journal rejected two of the papers selected: one on famotidine co-authored by Malone and another submitted by physician Pierre Kory on the use of ivermectin.[23] The publisher rejected the ivermectin paper due to what it stated were "a series of strong, unsupported claims" which they determined did "not offer an objective nor balanced scientific contribution."[23] Malone and most other guest editors resigned in protest in April 2021, and the special issue has been pulled from the journal's website.[23]
Malone has also been criticized for falsely claiming that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had not granted full approval to the Pfizer vaccine in August 2021.[
Peter McCullough
During the COVID-19 pandemic, McCullough advocated for early treatment including hydroxychloroquine,[23][24] criticized the response of the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration,[23] dissented from public health recommendations, and contributed to COVID-19 misinformation.[25][26][27]
Early outpatient treatment advocacy
In April 2020, McCullough led a study of the antimalarial medication hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19 for the Baylor Scott & White Medical Center. McCullough told The Wall Street Journal that the urgency of the public health crisis justified compromises on best practices in medical research.[28][29] In July, after major studies found hydroxychloroquine was ineffective against COVID-19 and the Food and Drug Administration revoked its emergency use authorization (EUA), McCullough supported a second EUA.[23]
McCullough, Harvey Risch of the Yale School of Public Health, and co-authors published an observational study proposing an early outpatient treatment regimen for COVID-19 in August 2020 in the American Journal of Medicine. Based on previous evidence, the article made recommendations for treating ambulatory COVID-19 patients, but presented no new evidence. The article was shared on social media, mainly by groups which had previously published COVID-19 misinformation, in posts falsely interpreting the publication as an endorsement of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19.[30][31][32] The Ministry of Health of Brazil endorsed the article on its website, contributing to a severe COVID-19 misinformation problem in Brazil.[30][33][34] The article was criticized in letters to the editors;[35][36][37][38][39] the editors responded that the article included some "hopeful speculations...What seemed reasonable last summer based on laboratory experiments has subsequently been shown to be untrue."[31][34]
McCullough and Risch were two of three witnesses called by committee chair Senator Ron Johnson to testify before a United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing on COVID-19 treatments held in November 2020. McCullough testified in support of social distancing, vaccination, and treatments, including hydroxychloroquine. Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, called to testify by the ranking member, said the "clear consensus in the medical and scientific community, based on overwhelming evidence" is that hydroxychloroquine is ineffective as a treatment for COVID-19. McCullough said Jha was promoting misinformation and Jha's opposition to the drug was "reckless and dangerous for the nation."[24][40][41][42] Jha responded on The New York Times opinion page, "By elevating witnesses who sound smart but endorse unfounded therapies, we risk jeopardizing a century's work of medical progress."[43]
COVID-19 misinformation
Some of McCullough's public statements contributed to the spread of COVID-19 misinformation.[5][4]
McCullough testified before a committee of the Texas Senate in March 2021, posted to YouTube by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, in which he made false claims about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines, including that people under 50 years of age and survivors do not need the vaccine and that there is no evidence of asymptomatic spread of COVID-19.[25]
Posted on the Canadian online video sharing platform Rumble, McCullough gave an interview in April 2021 to The New American, the magazine of the right-wing John Birch Society, in which he advanced anti-vaccination messaging, including falsely claiming tens of thousands of fatalities attributed to the COVID-19 vaccines.[44] In May 2021, McCullough gave an interview in which he made claims about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines which were "inaccurate, misleading and/or unsupported by evidence," including that survivors cannot be re-infected and so do not require vaccination and that the vaccines are dangerous.[26]
In an interview on the Fox News program Tucker Carlson Tonight in May 2021, McCullough claimed that hydroxychloroquine is effective for treating COVID-19 despite there being no supporting evidence.[26] McCullough later made appearances on The Ingraham Angle. During television appearances, McCullough contradicted public health recommendations, including when asked about the aggressive spread of COVID-19 among children, by suggesting that healthy persons under 30 had no need for a vaccine,[27][45] and when asked about the relative merits of vaccination-induced immunity versus "natural" (survivor) immunity, by disputing the necessity of vaccinations to achieve herd immunity.[22][46][47][4]
Mark Trozzi
Two Ontario doctors have been barred from issuing medical exemptions for COVID-19 vaccines, masking requirements and testing.
The province's medical regulator says the restrictions imposed on Dr. Mark Trozzi and Dr. Rochagne Kilian took effect just before midnight Friday.
The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario says the doctors must also post signs regarding these restrictions in their offices and during virtual visits with patients.
The college says the interim orders were issued under provisions of the Regulated Health Professions Act, which allow the regulator to impose restrictions or conditions on a member's licence if it believes the conduct at issue "exposes or is likely to expose patients to harm or injury."
The organization says the physicians have not been referred to its tribunal in connection with the restrictions at this time.
The college's public records list Kilian as a family doctor in Owen Sound, Ont., but show no specialty or primary practice location for Trozzi.
This genius is against masks, vaccines and testing.
Michael Yeadon
Yeadon falsely claimed that the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom was "effectively over" in October 2020,[17][18] that there would be no "second wave" of infections,[6][19] and that healthy people could not spread the SARS-CoV-2 virus.[1][20] He has claimed without evidence that COVID-19 vaccines were unnecessary,[21][20][19] unsafe,[1][22] and could cause infertility in women.[1][6][23] In a letter to the European Medicines Agency, Yeadon and the German physician Wolfgang Wodarg called for all vaccine trials to be stopped, falsely suggesting[24][25][26] that mRNA vaccines could target the syncytin-1 protein needed for placenta formation.[27][a] In an interview with political strategist Steve Bannon, Yeadon falsely asserted that children were "50 times more likely to be killed by the COVID vaccines than the virus itself", citing a high number of events following COVID-19 vaccination reported on the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) database.[31][32][3] The US Centers for Disease Control, which operates the database, cautions that such reports are not verified and do not prove that vaccines caused any given adverse event.[31][32] Yeadon has also discouraged COVID-19 lockdowns and the use of face masks despite evidence for their effectiveness.[22] He has alleged that the vaccines cause recipients to become magnetic.[14] Several of Yeadon's claims have been amplified on social media
Wolfgang Wodarg
Wodarg gained notoriety during public discussion of the COVID-19 pandemic when he argued that SARS-CoV-2 was only one of many similar viruses which usually go undetected as part of an ordinary seasonal period of respiratory infections, and that the worldwide activities to stop the pandemic were "hype" caused by the selective perception of researchers.[6]
His comments on the COVID-19 pandemic drew criticism from German scientists and some German media outlets. According to the critics, Wodarg's claims largely contradicted the verifiable facts; some of his statements were neither verifiable nor falsifiable; and because the facts Wodarg presented had nothing to do with each other, his statements had proved to be misleading.[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20]
In a December 2020 petition to the European Medicines Agency, Wodarg and former Pfizer scientist Michael Yeadon called for all mRNA vaccine trials to be halted.[21] Their petition, which suggested without evidence that the vaccines could cause infertility in women by targeting the syncytin-1 protein necessary for placenta formation, soon began circulating on social media.[22] David Gorski wrote on Science-Based Medicine that Wodarg and Yeadon were "stoking real fear that the new COVID-19 vaccines will make women infertile and [...] doing it based on speculative nonsense".[23]
Transparency International Germany, on whose board of directors Wodarg serves, distanced itself from his statements on 17 March 2020: "Transparency International Germany rejects board member Dr Wolfgang Wodarg's sweeping criticism of the government measures to protect the population from the coronavirus. (...) Wolfgang Wodarg is speaking on this matter as a private individual and not in his capacity as a member of the Management Board."[12][24] On 25 March 2020, the board decided to suspend his membership in the association "until further notice", which means that Wodarg can no longer exercise any functions on the board or as head of the health working group for the time being. The Board of Directors will commission an independent committee to look into Wodarg's statements about the coronavirus and to determine whether his behaviour has harmed the interests of Transparency International Germany. Transparency Chairman Hartmut Bäumer said that the reason for this was that Wodarg had expressed his views on "radical media" such as KenFM, Rubikon, Geolitico, and in an interview with Eva Herman; all of "which regularly work with conspiracy theories, with anti-democratic and sometimes anti-Semitic prejudices" and "oppose the basic democratic principles of Transparency"; while "some of them are personally close to the AfD".[25][26][27]
Vladimir Zelenko
Vladimir Zelenko is a Ukrainian-American family physician known for promoting a three drug combination of hydroxychloroquine, zinc sulfate and azithromycin as part of an experimental outpatient treatment for COVID-19 that he has promoted as the Zelenko Protocol. Wikipedia
Damn homie you fell for the old okie-doke hook line and bait! Because those guys are the who's who of crackpot Trump loving quacks, not people to believe and trust!
Quoted before editing. Machine learning algorithms exposing poster search behavioral patterns.Its not just the media.
When i google "white population" death, covid, suicide, etc, the results ALWAYS come back about Black population.
But when i google image dreadlocks, cornrows and fades WHITE folks come up.
Hell, when i google BLACK hairstyles, WHITE FOLKS come up.
Math wench.Yeah but 100k vs 39k when you are 60-70% vs 13% of the population hits differently.
Did you read the article in the OP? I posted the part relevant to my comment below. Basically our percentage of deaths were higher than our percentage of the population, and whites were slightly lower than their pop in the beginning. Our deaths were disproportionate to our pop percentage vs other groups. Only Asians have been consistently low.
This tweet and the screen shot from the CDC's Demographic Trends of COVID-19 cases and deaths in the US reported to CDC were from August 21st, 2021.
At the time, the breakout looked like the table below. The death rate among Native Americans/Alaska Natives was massively disproportionate to their percent of the total U.S. population, while Asian Americans had been dying of COVID at a far lower rate relative to their total population.
Black Americans, Native Hawaiians & other Pacific Islanders were dying at a rate around 9-11% higher than their overall population, while Hispanic/Latinos were pretty much right in line proportionately.
Non-Hispanic White Americans, meanwhile, were slightly below their overall proportion:
The "Multiple/Other" category looks seriously out of whack, but it's combining people with ethnicities which don't fall into a simple category with people who define themselves as being multi-racial and so forth, so I'm not sure what to make of it.
It's important to note that this only incluced racial/ethnic status data for 433,000 deaths (the national total was around 632,000 at the time).
I decided to take another look at this CDC data to see where things stand today:
When you add another 4 months of COVID death data, you can see that the proportions have shifted within each category:
- Hispanic/Latino: From 18.4% to 17.4%, or from 0.5% lower than their national proportion to 6.1% lower.
- Native American/AK Native: From 1.2% to 1.1%...which may seem minor, but this means they're "only" dying at a rate 61.4% higher now instead of 65.2% higher.
- Asian: 3.8% to 3.5%...39% lower than their share of the U.S. population would indicate.
- Black: 13.9% to 13.6%...still higher than it "should" be, but "only" 8.5% higher now.
- Multiple/Other: Wow...it looks like they've made some major methodology/categorization improvements since August; this is now almost identical to the percent of the national population.
Notice how all 5 of the categories above have dropped as a portion of total deaths with racial/ethnic data available.
There's one exception, however: White Americans, who made up 58.7% of the total back in August, now make up 61.8%, a 3.1 percentage point increase. They went from running 2.3% less than their total portion of the U.S. population to 2.9% more.
This may not seem like a huge change, but the implications are enormous...especially when combined with the other COVID death rate trends I've been tracking for many months now.
Bullshit...I see a lot of black folk without mask. We've all seen the big parties with ,most of the people not wearing a mask or partially wearing them. Regardless of the race or ethnicity I see a mix of people not wearing mask, partially wearing a maks, and actually wearing it properly.I can tell just by the fact that basically every black person at the stores in the hood be masked up faithfully. You feel like an ass without your mask in black neighborhoods because so many people got em on.
So you're one of those people who like to ruin conspiracy parties. Fuckin Debbie Downers.Yeah but 100k vs 39k when you are 60-70% vs 13% of the population hits differently.
Did you read the article in the OP? I posted the part relevant to my comment below. Basically our percentage of deaths were higher than our percentage of the population, and whites were slightly lower than their pop in the beginning. Our deaths were disproportionate to our pop percentage vs other groups. Only Asians have been consistently low.
This tweet and the screen shot from the CDC's Demographic Trends of COVID-19 cases and deaths in the US reported to CDC were from August 21st, 2021.
At the time, the breakout looked like the table below. The death rate among Native Americans/Alaska Natives was massively disproportionate to their percent of the total U.S. population, while Asian Americans had been dying of COVID at a far lower rate relative to their total population.
Black Americans, Native Hawaiians & other Pacific Islanders were dying at a rate around 9-11% higher than their overall population, while Hispanic/Latinos were pretty much right in line proportionately.
Non-Hispanic White Americans, meanwhile, were slightly below their overall proportion:
The "Multiple/Other" category looks seriously out of whack, but it's combining people with ethnicities which don't fall into a simple category with people who define themselves as being multi-racial and so forth, so I'm not sure what to make of it.
It's important to note that this only incluced racial/ethnic status data for 433,000 deaths (the national total was around 632,000 at the time).
I decided to take another look at this CDC data to see where things stand today:
When you add another 4 months of COVID death data, you can see that the proportions have shifted within each category:
- Hispanic/Latino: From 18.4% to 17.4%, or from 0.5% lower than their national proportion to 6.1% lower.
- Native American/AK Native: From 1.2% to 1.1%...which may seem minor, but this means they're "only" dying at a rate 61.4% higher now instead of 65.2% higher.
- Asian: 3.8% to 3.5%...39% lower than their share of the U.S. population would indicate.
- Black: 13.9% to 13.6%...still higher than it "should" be, but "only" 8.5% higher now.
- Multiple/Other: Wow...it looks like they've made some major methodology/categorization improvements since August; this is now almost identical to the percent of the national population.
Notice how all 5 of the categories above have dropped as a portion of total deaths with racial/ethnic data available.
There's one exception, however: White Americans, who made up 58.7% of the total back in August, now make up 61.8%, a 3.1 percentage point increase. They went from running 2.3% less than their total portion of the U.S. population to 2.9% more.
This may not seem like a huge change, but the implications are enormous...especially when combined with the other COVID death rate trends I've been tracking for many months now.
Let's get the rundown on the people you listed as reference material.
Paul E. Alexander
Paul Elias Alexander is a Canadian health researcher and a former Trump administration official at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services during the COVID-19 pandemic. Alexander was recruited from his part-time, unpaid position at McMaster University to serve as an aide to HHS assistant secretary for public affairs Michael Caputo in March 2020. In that role, Alexander pressured federal scientists and public health agencies to suppress and edit their COVID-19 analyses to make them consistent with Trump's rhetoric.
Wikipedia
Dr. Byram Bridle
BRIDLE'S CLAIMS
"… we never knew the spike protein itself was a toxin and was a pathogenic protein. So by vaccinating people we are inadvertently inoculating them with a toxin …"
"… it's the first time ever scientists have been privy to seeing where these messenger RNA go after vaccination …"
"… this has implications for blood donation ... this has implications for infants that are suckling ... this has serious implications for ... all of our children …"
Debunked
- There is no spike protein in the mRNA vaccines:
- absolutely nothing has changed with respect to our understanding of the incredible safety and efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccines – they are our best tools to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
- there are no peer-reviewed publications (or data, or pre-prints) which support Bridle's claims.
- all of the data Bridle claims to have "revealed" have been publicly available for months.
- There is no evidence to suggest the vaccines pose a risk to suckling or breastfeeding infants:
- Golan et al. (2021) show the vaccine is not passed through breast milk.
- Mattar et al (2021) show the vaccine is not passed through breast milk, and that vaccinated women did not produce an antibody response to syncytin proteins (present in the early stages of pregnancy).
- These data continue to support the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine's recommendation that vaccinated individuals who are lactating should not cease breastfeeding.
- There is no evidence to suggest the vaccines affect fertility:
- Bentov et al. (2021) show ovarian function is not affected by SARS-COV-2 or vaccination.
- Safrai et al. (2021) show the vaccine has no impact on women's fertility.
- Shanes et al. (2021) show the vaccine has no impact on maternal immunologic tolerance of the fetus.
- Morris (2021) shows the vaccine does not prevent embryo implantation or impair early pregnancy development.
- Several partcipants got pregnant during the Pfizer trial, and the only adverse outcome was in the placebo group.
- Gonzalez et al. (2021) show the vaccine results in no significant decrease in any sperm parameter.
- Safrai et al. (2021) show the vaccine does not affect sperm whereas SARS-CoV-2 infection does impair sperm.
- Shimabukuro et al. (2021) review V-safe and VAERS, and find no signals that demonstrate a risk to pregnancy from vaccination.
- Bridle is combining several different anti-vaccine claims that have already been addressed by experts:
- Dr. Derek Lowe describes the differences between the viral spike protein, and the protein produced by your cells.
- This explains why the spike protein produced by your cells can't hurt you.
- Dr. David Gorski further describes the spike protein, and addresses the source of this misconception in incredible detail.
- This explains why some people incorrectly believed the vaccine could hurt you.
- Edward Nirenberg demonstrates the amount of spike protein produced by your cells is 100,000x lower than the level of viral spike protein shown to cause harm.
- Recall, the spike protein produced by your cells is not the same as the viral spike protein and has been inactivated by design.
- Dr. Uri Manor [a co-author of the Lei et al. (2021) study], directly refutes the connection drawn between the spike protein and claims of harm from the vaccines.
- The Lei et al. (2021) study is often misrepresented to suggest the spike protein produced by your cells from the mRNA vaccines is a "toxin".
- Dr. Manor also agrees with Nirenberg's math, and reaffirms the safety of the vaccines.
- COVID-19 Resources Canada also addresses misinformation about the spike protein echoing the claims of Dr. Manor, and of Lei et al. (2021).
- In fact, they all note that "the spike proteins used by currently available vaccines actually offer a double layer of protection".
Geert Vanden Bossche
Written By Edward Nirenberg
The short version: Geert Vanden Bossche has recently published a letter in which he argues that the vaccination campaign against COVID-19 is going to precipitate a public health disaster because the vaccines will select for viral variants that can escape their protection and drive them towards higher virulence. His claims are speculative, he offers no evidence to support his arguments, and makes several comments which are blatantly incorrect. The core of his argument relies on the assumption that COVID-19 vaccines do not have a significant effect on transmission. This has been repeatedly confirmed to be false in multiple studies. Furthermore, even if his assumptions about the effects of the vaccine on transmission are true, his conclusions are incorrect based on established precedent from Marek’s disease, a viral illness of birds with a vaccine that does not strongly affect transmission- but it still shows meaningful public health benefits in the populations of chickens where it is used. The vaccines will absolutely be critical to ending the pandemic, and fortunately the modular nature of the technology allows for rapid reformulation and adjustment as necessary (and thus far, though precautions are being taken with novel variants to produce vaccines specific to their set of problematic mutations, there isn’t significant enough evidence to suggest that total reformulation of the vaccines is needed), but no issues raised in this letter warrant a re-evaluation of our current COVID-19 vaccination policy.
Prof. Dolores Cahill
The Strange Case of Dr. Cahill and Ms. Hyde
Professor Dolores Cahill’s scientific résumé can legitimize her false claims about COVID-19. Her crusade of misinformation raises the question of how far academic freedom goes.
Cahill, who until recently was teaching a class for first-year medical students called “Science, Medicine and Society,” has been making a number of staggeringly erroneous claims about COVID-19 and its associated vaccines since the beginning of the pandemic, never correcting her mistakes and always doubling down. She has said, falsely, that COVID-19 can be prevented by taking vitamin C, vitamin D and zinc, and that the most efficient treatment is in the form of hydroxychloroquine, a cheap medication against malaria and autoimmune diseases that turned into an object of worship for some individuals, even as the evidence clearly showed it did not work against COVID-19. She has boldly stated that children wearing a mask—the kind that doctors, nurses and dentists have been wearing for decades—would be starved of oxygen and see their IQ lowered. As for the RNA-based vaccines, she falsely claimed they did more harm than good. “If you paid me ten million,” she warned, “I wouldn’t take it. I would go to prison first. If someone vaccinated me [with an RNA vaccine], I would charge them with attempted murder.”
Bolstered by Cahill’s academic and scientific credentials, her misinformed and hazardous claims have grown to the point where students at her university wrote a 33-page scientific rebuttal of these claims, a document that was signed by 133 students from the university’s own School of Medicine and sent to its administrators. One of the claims these students had to debunk: that once you get COVID-19, you are immune for life. This brazen assertion’s confidence is in contradiction with actual knowledge in the field, which is that we do not clearly know how long immunity does last. But this is the upside-down world at University College Dublin right now, where students are teaching their own professor basic facts about a topic she should be familiar with.
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The Strange Case of Dr. Cahill and Ms. Hyde
“If you’re under, like, 70 or 65 and you’ve no underlying conditions, this is all a hoax.” You’d be forgiven for thinking that this wild assertion about a pandemic that has killed over 4.3 million people worldwide and caused sequelae for an untold number of survivors came from someone who knows...www.mcgill.ca
Sucharit Bhakdi
Sucharit Bhakdi (สุจริต ภักดี [sut̚˨˩.t͡ɕa˨˩.rit̚˨˩ pʰak̚˦˥.diː˧]; born Sucharit Punyaratabandhu, สุจริต บุณยรัตพันธุ์, 1 November 1946, in Washington, D.C.) is a retired Thai-German microbiologist. In 2020 and 2021 Bhakdi became a prominent source of misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic, claiming that the pandemic was "fake" and that COVID-19 vaccines were going to decimate the world's population.[3][2]
He was a professor at the University of Mainz, where from 1991 to 2012 he was head of the Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene.[4] The university has disassociated itself from Bhakdi's views on the Coronavirus pandemic.[5] In 2021 Bhakdi's publisher broke off relations following the appearance of an online video in which Bhakdi made antisemitic comments.[6]
The claim: Coronavirus vaccines are killing people and will decimate the world’s population
Several widely shared videos and blog posts on Facebook say the COVID-19 vaccines are a matter of life and death – but not because of the risk of the disease.
In an article published April 22 and later taken down, a website called Red Pill University (a reference to the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory) wrote that COVID-19 vaccines “will decimate world’s population.” As evidence, it cites a video featuring Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi.
Bhakdi is a microbiologist who has promoted ideas that run counter to the scientific consensus about the coronavirus pandemic, including the claim that face masks don’t protect against infection. In the video, which originally was published by the New American, a conservative magazine, Bhakdi says COVID-19 vaccines are deadly.
“They are forcing vaccination on people, and I believe they are killing people with this vaccination,” he says during the video, which has more than 268,000 views on Rumble, a video-sharing platform.
“Guys, don’t get a third or fourth or fifth (shot), because if you do that, you are going to contribute to the decimation of the world’s population,” he says later.
Over the course of the 40-minute clip, Bhakdi calls the pandemic “a fake,” says wearing masks and quarantining is “absolutely ridiculous nonsense,” and coronavirus tests don’t work. In this fact-check, we’re focusing on the claim that COVID-19 vaccines are killing people.
That claim sounds scary coming from a scientist, but it's not accurate.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved three coronavirus vaccines for emergency use in the United States. Clinical trials involving tens of thousands of participants found the vaccines were safe and effective at preventing coronavirus infection, and millions of Americans have safely received them.
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There’s no evidence the vaccines cause death, or that they will depopulate the planet – and clear evidence to the contrary.
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Coronavirus vaccines are safe, effective
The three COVID-19 vaccines approved for emergency use in the U.S. are one from Pfizer-BioNTech, one from Moderna and one from Janssen, a pharmaceutical company owned by Johnson & Johnson. Public health officials say all are safe and effective at preventing COVID-19.
Over the course of several months in 2020, more than 100,000 people participated in clinical trials for the coronavirus vaccines as a group. None of those trials found that the vaccines caused death. The FDA approved the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines in December and the Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine in February.
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Since then, more than 144 million Americans have received at least one vaccine dose, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
If the vaccines were as deadly as Bhakdi says, we would surely see widespread and mounting deaths in the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), a federally managed database of self-reported vaccine side effects. There are reports of vaccine-related deaths in the VAERS database, but because anyone – from doctors and nurses to patients and parents – can submit cases, the CDC says those reports are unverified and may be inaccurate.
Ryan Cole
‘A health menace’: Doctors urge medical board to take action against Dr. Ryan Cole’s COVID-19 misinformation
Records obtained from the Washington Medical Commission detail complaints about the Garden City pathologist.
Detailed complaints about Dr. Ryan Cole released by Washington Medical Commission
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Author: Katie Terhune, Jeremy Stiles, Dani Allsop, Morgan Romero
Published: 6:20 PM MST December 17, 2021
Updated: 11:11 AM MST December 18, 2021
BOISE, Idaho — In five formal complaints against Idaho physician and Central District Health board member Ryan Cole in the state of Washington, doctors and others say falsehoods he has spread about COVID-19 and the vaccine to prevent it have added to a dangerous storm of misinformation and even contributed to patient deaths.
The complaints about Cole, who runs a diagnostic laboratory in Garden City, were submitted to the Washington Medical Commission between Aug. 28 and Sept. 30 and obtained by KTVB in their entirety on Thursday. Those records also include material submitted as information to support the complaints, and total nearly 300 pages.
Cole, a controversial figure who has referred to the COVID-19 vaccine as a "clot shot" and "needle rape" and falsely claimed it could cause cancer, is licensed as a physician in Idaho, Washington and several other states.
The Idaho Medical Association confirmed it filed a complaint with the Idaho Board of Medicine about Cole, but the Idaho board declined to say whether a formal investigation is underway. The board tells KTVB that formal actions are public record, but medical records, staff reports and investigative materials are confidential and unavailable to any source for review during the investigation.
In an email Friday, the Idaho Board of Medicine spokesperson said currently the board does not have any outstanding formal complaints; formal hearings only happen once formal complaints have been filed by the Board of Medicine.
After receiving records of the complaints filed in Washington, KTVB asked Cole for comment for this story. He did not respond.
The people and organizations who filed the complaints against Cole in Idaho and Washington are asking that his license be revoked.
If the Washington Medical Commission finds Cole has committed unprofessional conduct, possible sanctions may include revocation or suspension of his license.. But Washington state law also provides for a range of other possible sanctions, including restriction or limitation of his practice, requiring that he complete a specific program of remedial education or treatment, monitoring of his practice, censure or reprimand, probation, a fine of up to $5,000 for each violation, or refunding fees that his practice has billed to and collected from patients.
In letters to Cole informing him of the investigations in Washington, the investigator wrote: "When my investigation is complete, a panel of commission members will review it and determine whether to move forward with disciplinary action or close the case without taking further action. A majority of our investigations are closed without further action after this review. If the panel finds evidence of unprofessional conduct, they may take further action.
The complaints
A doctor at the Boise VA wrote in his complaint that Cole is "a major purveyor of misinformation" and called it "amazing" that the physician was continuing to publicly tout debunked information about COVID-19 more than a year into the pandemic.
"Cole is a health menace, abusing his status as a physician to mislead the public," the doctor wrote.
In an October memorandum from the Washington Medical Commission, investigators noted that Cole’s diagnostic lab denies that he sees patients directly.
"Regarding direct patient care, the respondent has publicly stated he is providing ivermectin to patients but when he, the complainant, called Cole Diagnostics, the respondent's practice, their recorded message indicated the respondent does not see patients."
Nonetheless, according to a doctor at Saint Alphonsus, a patient infected with COVID-19 had been prescribed ivermectin by Cole. Ivermectin is an anti-parasite drug that has not been found to have any effectiveness in treating, curing or preventing COVID-19, despite a number of viral online claims to the contrary.
That patient later died, according to the complaint.
At least three other doctors also signed affidavits accompanying a complaint about Cole prescribing ivermectin to patients.
"Some of my patients inform me that they are taking ivermectin for the prevention or treatment of COVID-19. A substantial percentage of them tell me it was prescribed or recommended by Dr. Cole, who they have trusted for medical advice due to his warnings about taking the COVID vaccine or his recorded lectures touting the dangers of the vaccine and the effectiveness of ivermectin," one of the doctors states in their affidavit, referring to patients the doctor sees when they come to a hospital emergency department for treatment of COVID-19.
Richard Fleming
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SUMMARY:
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or the Agency) is denying a request for a hearing submitted by Richard M. Fleming (Fleming) and is issuing an order under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act) debarring Fleming for 10 years from providing services in any capacity to a person that has an approved or pending drug product application. FDA bases this order on a finding that Fleming was convicted of two felonies under Federal law that involved fraud. Additionally, Fleming has demonstrated a pattern of conduct sufficient to find that there is reason to believe that he may violate requirements under the FD&C Act relating to drug products. In determining the appropriateness and period of Fleming's debarment, FDA considered the relevant factors listed in the FD&C Act. Fleming failed to file with the Agency information and analyses sufficient to create a basis for a hearing concerning this action.
DATES:
The order is applicable September 28, 2018.
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Robert W. Malone
COVID-19
In early 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Malone was involved in research into the heartburn medicine famotidine (Pepcid) as a potential COVID-19 treatment following anecdotal evidence suggesting that it may have been associated with higher COVID-19 survival. Malone, then with Alchem Laboratories, suspected famotidine may target an enzyme that the virus (SARS-CoV-2) uses to reproduce, and recruited a computational chemist to help design a 3D-model of the enzyme based on the viral sequence and comparisons to the 2003 SARS virus.[21][22] After encouraging preliminary results, Alchem Laboratories, in conjunction with New York's Northwell Health, initiated a clinical trial on famotidine and hydroxychloroquine.[21] Malone resigned from Alchem shortly after the trial began and Northwell paused the trial due to a shortage of hospitalized patients.[20][23]
Malone received criticism for propagating COVID-19 misinformation, including making unsupported claims about the alleged toxicity of spike proteins generated by some COVID-19 vaccines;[2][12][4][24] using interviews on mass media to popularize self-medication with ivermectin;[25] and tweeting a study by others questioning vaccine safety that was later retracted.[2] He said LinkedIn suspended his account over what he claimed were posts he had made questioning the efficacy of some COVID-19 vaccines.[26] Malone has also claimed that the Pfizer–BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines could worsen COVID-19 infections.[1] Malone's Twitter account was suspended in December 2021.[27]
With another researcher, Malone successfully proposed to the publishers of Frontiers in Pharmacology a special issue featuring early observational studies on existing medication used in the treatment of COVID-19, for which they recruited other guest editors, contributors, and reviewers. The journal rejected two of the papers selected: one on famotidine co-authored by Malone and another submitted by physician Pierre Kory on the use of ivermectin.[23] The publisher rejected the ivermectin paper due to what it stated were "a series of strong, unsupported claims" which they determined did "not offer an objective nor balanced scientific contribution."[23] Malone and most other guest editors resigned in protest in April 2021, and the special issue has been pulled from the journal's website.[23]
Malone has also been criticized for falsely claiming that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had not granted full approval to the Pfizer vaccine in August 2021.[
Peter McCullough
During the COVID-19 pandemic, McCullough advocated for early treatment including hydroxychloroquine,[23][24] criticized the response of the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration,[23] dissented from public health recommendations, and contributed to COVID-19 misinformation.[25][26][27]
Early outpatient treatment advocacy
In April 2020, McCullough led a study of the antimalarial medication hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19 for the Baylor Scott & White Medical Center. McCullough told The Wall Street Journal that the urgency of the public health crisis justified compromises on best practices in medical research.[28][29] In July, after major studies found hydroxychloroquine was ineffective against COVID-19 and the Food and Drug Administration revoked its emergency use authorization (EUA), McCullough supported a second EUA.[23]
McCullough, Harvey Risch of the Yale School of Public Health, and co-authors published an observational study proposing an early outpatient treatment regimen for COVID-19 in August 2020 in the American Journal of Medicine. Based on previous evidence, the article made recommendations for treating ambulatory COVID-19 patients, but presented no new evidence. The article was shared on social media, mainly by groups which had previously published COVID-19 misinformation, in posts falsely interpreting the publication as an endorsement of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19.[30][31][32] The Ministry of Health of Brazil endorsed the article on its website, contributing to a severe COVID-19 misinformation problem in Brazil.[30][33][34] The article was criticized in letters to the editors;[35][36][37][38][39] the editors responded that the article included some "hopeful speculations...What seemed reasonable last summer based on laboratory experiments has subsequently been shown to be untrue."[31][34]
McCullough and Risch were two of three witnesses called by committee chair Senator Ron Johnson to testify before a United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing on COVID-19 treatments held in November 2020. McCullough testified in support of social distancing, vaccination, and treatments, including hydroxychloroquine. Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, called to testify by the ranking member, said the "clear consensus in the medical and scientific community, based on overwhelming evidence" is that hydroxychloroquine is ineffective as a treatment for COVID-19. McCullough said Jha was promoting misinformation and Jha's opposition to the drug was "reckless and dangerous for the nation."[24][40][41][42] Jha responded on The New York Times opinion page, "By elevating witnesses who sound smart but endorse unfounded therapies, we risk jeopardizing a century's work of medical progress."[43]
COVID-19 misinformation
Some of McCullough's public statements contributed to the spread of COVID-19 misinformation.[5][4]
McCullough testified before a committee of the Texas Senate in March 2021, posted to YouTube by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, in which he made false claims about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines, including that people under 50 years of age and survivors do not need the vaccine and that there is no evidence of asymptomatic spread of COVID-19.[25]
Posted on the Canadian online video sharing platform Rumble, McCullough gave an interview in April 2021 to The New American, the magazine of the right-wing John Birch Society, in which he advanced anti-vaccination messaging, including falsely claiming tens of thousands of fatalities attributed to the COVID-19 vaccines.[44] In May 2021, McCullough gave an interview in which he made claims about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines which were "inaccurate, misleading and/or unsupported by evidence," including that survivors cannot be re-infected and so do not require vaccination and that the vaccines are dangerous.[26]
In an interview on the Fox News program Tucker Carlson Tonight in May 2021, McCullough claimed that hydroxychloroquine is effective for treating COVID-19 despite there being no supporting evidence.[26] McCullough later made appearances on The Ingraham Angle. During television appearances, McCullough contradicted public health recommendations, including when asked about the aggressive spread of COVID-19 among children, by suggesting that healthy persons under 30 had no need for a vaccine,[27][45] and when asked about the relative merits of vaccination-induced immunity versus "natural" (survivor) immunity, by disputing the necessity of vaccinations to achieve herd immunity.[22][46][47][4]
Mark Trozzi
Two Ontario doctors have been barred from issuing medical exemptions for COVID-19 vaccines, masking requirements and testing.
The province's medical regulator says the restrictions imposed on Dr. Mark Trozzi and Dr. Rochagne Kilian took effect just before midnight Friday.
The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario says the doctors must also post signs regarding these restrictions in their offices and during virtual visits with patients.
The college says the interim orders were issued under provisions of the Regulated Health Professions Act, which allow the regulator to impose restrictions or conditions on a member's licence if it believes the conduct at issue "exposes or is likely to expose patients to harm or injury."
The organization says the physicians have not been referred to its tribunal in connection with the restrictions at this time.
The college's public records list Kilian as a family doctor in Owen Sound, Ont., but show no specialty or primary practice location for Trozzi.
This genius is against masks, vaccines and testing.
Michael Yeadon
Yeadon falsely claimed that the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom was "effectively over" in October 2020,[17][18] that there would be no "second wave" of infections,[6][19] and that healthy people could not spread the SARS-CoV-2 virus.[1][20] He has claimed without evidence that COVID-19 vaccines were unnecessary,[21][20][19] unsafe,[1][22] and could cause infertility in women.[1][6][23] In a letter to the European Medicines Agency, Yeadon and the German physician Wolfgang Wodarg called for all vaccine trials to be stopped, falsely suggesting[24][25][26] that mRNA vaccines could target the syncytin-1 protein needed for placenta formation.[27][a] In an interview with political strategist Steve Bannon, Yeadon falsely asserted that children were "50 times more likely to be killed by the COVID vaccines than the virus itself", citing a high number of events following COVID-19 vaccination reported on the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) database.[31][32][3] The US Centers for Disease Control, which operates the database, cautions that such reports are not verified and do not prove that vaccines caused any given adverse event.[31][32] Yeadon has also discouraged COVID-19 lockdowns and the use of face masks despite evidence for their effectiveness.[22] He has alleged that the vaccines cause recipients to become magnetic.[14] Several of Yeadon's claims have been amplified on social media
Wolfgang Wodarg
Wodarg gained notoriety during public discussion of the COVID-19 pandemic when he argued that SARS-CoV-2 was only one of many similar viruses which usually go undetected as part of an ordinary seasonal period of respiratory infections, and that the worldwide activities to stop the pandemic were "hype" caused by the selective perception of researchers.[6]
His comments on the COVID-19 pandemic drew criticism from German scientists and some German media outlets. According to the critics, Wodarg's claims largely contradicted the verifiable facts; some of his statements were neither verifiable nor falsifiable; and because the facts Wodarg presented had nothing to do with each other, his statements had proved to be misleading.[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20]
In a December 2020 petition to the European Medicines Agency, Wodarg and former Pfizer scientist Michael Yeadon called for all mRNA vaccine trials to be halted.[21] Their petition, which suggested without evidence that the vaccines could cause infertility in women by targeting the syncytin-1 protein necessary for placenta formation, soon began circulating on social media.[22] David Gorski wrote on Science-Based Medicine that Wodarg and Yeadon were "stoking real fear that the new COVID-19 vaccines will make women infertile and [...] doing it based on speculative nonsense".[23]
Transparency International Germany, on whose board of directors Wodarg serves, distanced itself from his statements on 17 March 2020: "Transparency International Germany rejects board member Dr Wolfgang Wodarg's sweeping criticism of the government measures to protect the population from the coronavirus. (...) Wolfgang Wodarg is speaking on this matter as a private individual and not in his capacity as a member of the Management Board."[12][24] On 25 March 2020, the board decided to suspend his membership in the association "until further notice", which means that Wodarg can no longer exercise any functions on the board or as head of the health working group for the time being. The Board of Directors will commission an independent committee to look into Wodarg's statements about the coronavirus and to determine whether his behaviour has harmed the interests of Transparency International Germany. Transparency Chairman Hartmut Bäumer said that the reason for this was that Wodarg had expressed his views on "radical media" such as KenFM, Rubikon, Geolitico, and in an interview with Eva Herman; all of "which regularly work with conspiracy theories, with anti-democratic and sometimes anti-Semitic prejudices" and "oppose the basic democratic principles of Transparency"; while "some of them are personally close to the AfD".[25][26][27]
Vladimir Zelenko
Vladimir Zelenko is a Ukrainian-American family physician known for promoting a three drug combination of hydroxychloroquine, zinc sulfate and azithromycin as part of an experimental outpatient treatment for COVID-19 that he has promoted as the Zelenko Protocol. Wikipedia
Damn homie you fell for the old okie-doke hook line and bait! Because those guys are the who's who of crackpot Trump loving quacks, not people to believe and trust!
Damn you just exposed
How the dude that types like thid
Hoping to look smsrt
Is really dumb as a box of rocks
Good job.
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Since May 2021, people living in counties that voted heavily for Donald Trump during the last presidential election have been nearly three times as likely to die from COVID-19 as those who live in areas that went for now-President Biden.
Lol A lot of people is being exposed right now on BGOL with this thread.And I'm leaving in all the typos too!!!
This has been the case for the longest and they didn’t believe it until recentlyI think this article brings context to this conversation. Segregation is playing a huge role in this.
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Pro-Trump counties now have far higher COVID death rates. Misinformation is to blame
An analysis by NPR shows that since the vaccine rollout, counties that voted heavily for Donald Trump have had more than twice the COVID mortality rates of those that voted for Joe Biden.www.npr.org
A couple thingsBullshit...I see a lot of black folk without mask. We've all seen the big parties with ,most of the people not wearing a mask or partially wearing them. Regardless of the race or ethnicity I see a mix of people not wearing mask, partially wearing a maks, and actually wearing it properly.
Let's get the rundown on the people you listed as reference material.
Paul E. Alexander
Paul Elias Alexander is a Canadian health researcher and a former Trump administration official at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services during the COVID-19 pandemic. Alexander was recruited from his part-time, unpaid position at McMaster University to serve as an aide to HHS assistant secretary for public affairs Michael Caputo in March 2020. In that role, Alexander pressured federal scientists and public health agencies to suppress and edit their COVID-19 analyses to make them consistent with Trump's rhetoric.
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Dr. Byram Bridle
BRIDLE'S CLAIMS
"… we never knew the spike protein itself was a toxin and was a pathogenic protein. So by vaccinating people we are inadvertently inoculating them with a toxin …"
"… it's the first time ever scientists have been privy to seeing where these messenger RNA go after vaccination …"
"… this has implications for blood donation ... this has implications for infants that are suckling ... this has serious implications for ... all of our children …"
Debunked
- There is no spike protein in the mRNA vaccines:
- absolutely nothing has changed with respect to our understanding of the incredible safety and efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccines – they are our best tools to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
- there are no peer-reviewed publications (or data, or pre-prints) which support Bridle's claims.
- all of the data Bridle claims to have "revealed" have been publicly available for months.
- There is no evidence to suggest the vaccines pose a risk to suckling or breastfeeding infants:
- Golan et al. (2021) show the vaccine is not passed through breast milk.
- Mattar et al (2021) show the vaccine is not passed through breast milk, and that vaccinated women did not produce an antibody response to syncytin proteins (present in the early stages of pregnancy).
- These data continue to support the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine's recommendation that vaccinated individuals who are lactating should not cease breastfeeding.
- There is no evidence to suggest the vaccines affect fertility:
- Bentov et al. (2021) show ovarian function is not affected by SARS-COV-2 or vaccination.
- Safrai et al. (2021) show the vaccine has no impact on women's fertility.
- Shanes et al. (2021) show the vaccine has no impact on maternal immunologic tolerance of the fetus.
- Morris (2021) shows the vaccine does not prevent embryo implantation or impair early pregnancy development.
- Several partcipants got pregnant during the Pfizer trial, and the only adverse outcome was in the placebo group.
- Gonzalez et al. (2021) show the vaccine results in no significant decrease in any sperm parameter.
- Safrai et al. (2021) show the vaccine does not affect sperm whereas SARS-CoV-2 infection does impair sperm.
- Shimabukuro et al. (2021) review V-safe and VAERS, and find no signals that demonstrate a risk to pregnancy from vaccination.
- Bridle is combining several different anti-vaccine claims that have already been addressed by experts:
- Dr. Derek Lowe describes the differences between the viral spike protein, and the protein produced by your cells.
- This explains why the spike protein produced by your cells can't hurt you.
- Dr. David Gorski further describes the spike protein, and addresses the source of this misconception in incredible detail.
- This explains why some people incorrectly believed the vaccine could hurt you.
- Edward Nirenberg demonstrates the amount of spike protein produced by your cells is 100,000x lower than the level of viral spike protein shown to cause harm.
- Recall, the spike protein produced by your cells is not the same as the viral spike protein and has been inactivated by design.
- Dr. Uri Manor [a co-author of the Lei et al. (2021) study], directly refutes the connection drawn between the spike protein and claims of harm from the vaccines.
- The Lei et al. (2021) study is often misrepresented to suggest the spike protein produced by your cells from the mRNA vaccines is a "toxin".
- Dr. Manor also agrees with Nirenberg's math, and reaffirms the safety of the vaccines.
- COVID-19 Resources Canada also addresses misinformation about the spike protein echoing the claims of Dr. Manor, and of Lei et al. (2021).
- In fact, they all note that "the spike proteins used by currently available vaccines actually offer a double layer of protection".
Geert Vanden Bossche
Written By Edward Nirenberg
The short version: Geert Vanden Bossche has recently published a letter in which he argues that the vaccination campaign against COVID-19 is going to precipitate a public health disaster because the vaccines will select for viral variants that can escape their protection and drive them towards higher virulence. His claims are speculative, he offers no evidence to support his arguments, and makes several comments which are blatantly incorrect. The core of his argument relies on the assumption that COVID-19 vaccines do not have a significant effect on transmission. This has been repeatedly confirmed to be false in multiple studies. Furthermore, even if his assumptions about the effects of the vaccine on transmission are true, his conclusions are incorrect based on established precedent from Marek’s disease, a viral illness of birds with a vaccine that does not strongly affect transmission- but it still shows meaningful public health benefits in the populations of chickens where it is used. The vaccines will absolutely be critical to ending the pandemic, and fortunately the modular nature of the technology allows for rapid reformulation and adjustment as necessary (and thus far, though precautions are being taken with novel variants to produce vaccines specific to their set of problematic mutations, there isn’t significant enough evidence to suggest that total reformulation of the vaccines is needed), but no issues raised in this letter warrant a re-evaluation of our current COVID-19 vaccination policy.
Prof. Dolores Cahill
The Strange Case of Dr. Cahill and Ms. Hyde
Professor Dolores Cahill’s scientific résumé can legitimize her false claims about COVID-19. Her crusade of misinformation raises the question of how far academic freedom goes.
Cahill, who until recently was teaching a class for first-year medical students called “Science, Medicine and Society,” has been making a number of staggeringly erroneous claims about COVID-19 and its associated vaccines since the beginning of the pandemic, never correcting her mistakes and always doubling down. She has said, falsely, that COVID-19 can be prevented by taking vitamin C, vitamin D and zinc, and that the most efficient treatment is in the form of hydroxychloroquine, a cheap medication against malaria and autoimmune diseases that turned into an object of worship for some individuals, even as the evidence clearly showed it did not work against COVID-19. She has boldly stated that children wearing a mask—the kind that doctors, nurses and dentists have been wearing for decades—would be starved of oxygen and see their IQ lowered. As for the RNA-based vaccines, she falsely claimed they did more harm than good. “If you paid me ten million,” she warned, “I wouldn’t take it. I would go to prison first. If someone vaccinated me [with an RNA vaccine], I would charge them with attempted murder.”
Bolstered by Cahill’s academic and scientific credentials, her misinformed and hazardous claims have grown to the point where students at her university wrote a 33-page scientific rebuttal of these claims, a document that was signed by 133 students from the university’s own School of Medicine and sent to its administrators. One of the claims these students had to debunk: that once you get COVID-19, you are immune for life. This brazen assertion’s confidence is in contradiction with actual knowledge in the field, which is that we do not clearly know how long immunity does last. But this is the upside-down world at University College Dublin right now, where students are teaching their own professor basic facts about a topic she should be familiar with.
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The Strange Case of Dr. Cahill and Ms. Hyde
“If you’re under, like, 70 or 65 and you’ve no underlying conditions, this is all a hoax.” You’d be forgiven for thinking that this wild assertion about a pandemic that has killed over 4.3 million people worldwide and caused sequelae for an untold number of survivors came from someone who knows...www.mcgill.ca
Sucharit Bhakdi
Sucharit Bhakdi (สุจริต ภักดี [sut̚˨˩.t͡ɕa˨˩.rit̚˨˩ pʰak̚˦˥.diː˧]; born Sucharit Punyaratabandhu, สุจริต บุณยรัตพันธุ์, 1 November 1946, in Washington, D.C.) is a retired Thai-German microbiologist. In 2020 and 2021 Bhakdi became a prominent source of misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic, claiming that the pandemic was "fake" and that COVID-19 vaccines were going to decimate the world's population.[3][2]
He was a professor at the University of Mainz, where from 1991 to 2012 he was head of the Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene.[4] The university has disassociated itself from Bhakdi's views on the Coronavirus pandemic.[5] In 2021 Bhakdi's publisher broke off relations following the appearance of an online video in which Bhakdi made antisemitic comments.[6]
The claim: Coronavirus vaccines are killing people and will decimate the world’s population
Several widely shared videos and blog posts on Facebook say the COVID-19 vaccines are a matter of life and death – but not because of the risk of the disease.
In an article published April 22 and later taken down, a website called Red Pill University (a reference to the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory) wrote that COVID-19 vaccines “will decimate world’s population.” As evidence, it cites a video featuring Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi.
Bhakdi is a microbiologist who has promoted ideas that run counter to the scientific consensus about the coronavirus pandemic, including the claim that face masks don’t protect against infection. In the video, which originally was published by the New American, a conservative magazine, Bhakdi says COVID-19 vaccines are deadly.
“They are forcing vaccination on people, and I believe they are killing people with this vaccination,” he says during the video, which has more than 268,000 views on Rumble, a video-sharing platform.
“Guys, don’t get a third or fourth or fifth (shot), because if you do that, you are going to contribute to the decimation of the world’s population,” he says later.
Over the course of the 40-minute clip, Bhakdi calls the pandemic “a fake,” says wearing masks and quarantining is “absolutely ridiculous nonsense,” and coronavirus tests don’t work. In this fact-check, we’re focusing on the claim that COVID-19 vaccines are killing people.
That claim sounds scary coming from a scientist, but it's not accurate.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved three coronavirus vaccines for emergency use in the United States. Clinical trials involving tens of thousands of participants found the vaccines were safe and effective at preventing coronavirus infection, and millions of Americans have safely received them.
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There’s no evidence the vaccines cause death, or that they will depopulate the planet – and clear evidence to the contrary.
Fact check:Biden didn't say July 4 celebrations may be canceled if people don't get COVID vaccinations
USA TODAY reached out to Red Pill University and the New American for comment.
Coronavirus vaccines are safe, effective
The three COVID-19 vaccines approved for emergency use in the U.S. are one from Pfizer-BioNTech, one from Moderna and one from Janssen, a pharmaceutical company owned by Johnson & Johnson. Public health officials say all are safe and effective at preventing COVID-19.
Over the course of several months in 2020, more than 100,000 people participated in clinical trials for the coronavirus vaccines as a group. None of those trials found that the vaccines caused death. The FDA approved the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines in December and the Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine in February.
Fact check:No, interacting with a vaccinated person won't cause miscarriage or menstrual changes
Since then, more than 144 million Americans have received at least one vaccine dose, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
If the vaccines were as deadly as Bhakdi says, we would surely see widespread and mounting deaths in the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), a federally managed database of self-reported vaccine side effects. There are reports of vaccine-related deaths in the VAERS database, but because anyone – from doctors and nurses to patients and parents – can submit cases, the CDC says those reports are unverified and may be inaccurate.
Ryan Cole
‘A health menace’: Doctors urge medical board to take action against Dr. Ryan Cole’s COVID-19 misinformation
Records obtained from the Washington Medical Commission detail complaints about the Garden City pathologist.
Detailed complaints about Dr. Ryan Cole released by Washington Medical Commission
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Author: Katie Terhune, Jeremy Stiles, Dani Allsop, Morgan Romero
Published: 6:20 PM MST December 17, 2021
Updated: 11:11 AM MST December 18, 2021
BOISE, Idaho — In five formal complaints against Idaho physician and Central District Health board member Ryan Cole in the state of Washington, doctors and others say falsehoods he has spread about COVID-19 and the vaccine to prevent it have added to a dangerous storm of misinformation and even contributed to patient deaths.
The complaints about Cole, who runs a diagnostic laboratory in Garden City, were submitted to the Washington Medical Commission between Aug. 28 and Sept. 30 and obtained by KTVB in their entirety on Thursday. Those records also include material submitted as information to support the complaints, and total nearly 300 pages.
Cole, a controversial figure who has referred to the COVID-19 vaccine as a "clot shot" and "needle rape" and falsely claimed it could cause cancer, is licensed as a physician in Idaho, Washington and several other states.
The Idaho Medical Association confirmed it filed a complaint with the Idaho Board of Medicine about Cole, but the Idaho board declined to say whether a formal investigation is underway. The board tells KTVB that formal actions are public record, but medical records, staff reports and investigative materials are confidential and unavailable to any source for review during the investigation.
In an email Friday, the Idaho Board of Medicine spokesperson said currently the board does not have any outstanding formal complaints; formal hearings only happen once formal complaints have been filed by the Board of Medicine.
After receiving records of the complaints filed in Washington, KTVB asked Cole for comment for this story. He did not respond.
The people and organizations who filed the complaints against Cole in Idaho and Washington are asking that his license be revoked.
If the Washington Medical Commission finds Cole has committed unprofessional conduct, possible sanctions may include revocation or suspension of his license.. But Washington state law also provides for a range of other possible sanctions, including restriction or limitation of his practice, requiring that he complete a specific program of remedial education or treatment, monitoring of his practice, censure or reprimand, probation, a fine of up to $5,000 for each violation, or refunding fees that his practice has billed to and collected from patients.
In letters to Cole informing him of the investigations in Washington, the investigator wrote: "When my investigation is complete, a panel of commission members will review it and determine whether to move forward with disciplinary action or close the case without taking further action. A majority of our investigations are closed without further action after this review. If the panel finds evidence of unprofessional conduct, they may take further action.
The complaints
A doctor at the Boise VA wrote in his complaint that Cole is "a major purveyor of misinformation" and called it "amazing" that the physician was continuing to publicly tout debunked information about COVID-19 more than a year into the pandemic.
"Cole is a health menace, abusing his status as a physician to mislead the public," the doctor wrote.
In an October memorandum from the Washington Medical Commission, investigators noted that Cole’s diagnostic lab denies that he sees patients directly.
"Regarding direct patient care, the respondent has publicly stated he is providing ivermectin to patients but when he, the complainant, called Cole Diagnostics, the respondent's practice, their recorded message indicated the respondent does not see patients."
Nonetheless, according to a doctor at Saint Alphonsus, a patient infected with COVID-19 had been prescribed ivermectin by Cole. Ivermectin is an anti-parasite drug that has not been found to have any effectiveness in treating, curing or preventing COVID-19, despite a number of viral online claims to the contrary.
That patient later died, according to the complaint.
At least three other doctors also signed affidavits accompanying a complaint about Cole prescribing ivermectin to patients.
"Some of my patients inform me that they are taking ivermectin for the prevention or treatment of COVID-19. A substantial percentage of them tell me it was prescribed or recommended by Dr. Cole, who they have trusted for medical advice due to his warnings about taking the COVID vaccine or his recorded lectures touting the dangers of the vaccine and the effectiveness of ivermectin," one of the doctors states in their affidavit, referring to patients the doctor sees when they come to a hospital emergency department for treatment of COVID-19.
Richard Fleming
AGENCY:
Food and Drug Administration, HHS.
ACTION:
Notice.
SUMMARY:
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or the Agency) is denying a request for a hearing submitted by Richard M. Fleming (Fleming) and is issuing an order under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act) debarring Fleming for 10 years from providing services in any capacity to a person that has an approved or pending drug product application. FDA bases this order on a finding that Fleming was convicted of two felonies under Federal law that involved fraud. Additionally, Fleming has demonstrated a pattern of conduct sufficient to find that there is reason to believe that he may violate requirements under the FD&C Act relating to drug products. In determining the appropriateness and period of Fleming's debarment, FDA considered the relevant factors listed in the FD&C Act. Fleming failed to file with the Agency information and analyses sufficient to create a basis for a hearing concerning this action.
DATES:
The order is applicable September 28, 2018.
ADDRESSES:
Any application for termination of debarment by Fleming under section 306(d) of the FD&C Act (application) may be submitted as follows:
Electronic Submissions
- Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the instructions for submitting comments. An application submitted electronically, including attachments, to https://www.regulations.gov will be posted to the docket unchanged. Because your application will be made public, you are solely responsible for ensuring that your application does not include any confidential information that you or a third party may not wish to be posted, such as medical information, your or anyone else's Social Security number, or confidential business information, such as a manufacturing process. Please note that if you include your name, contact information, or other information that identifies you in the body of your application, that information will be posted on https://www.regulations.gov.
If you want to submit an application with confidential information that you do not wish to be made available to the public, submit the application as a written/paper submission and in the manner detailed (see “Written/Paper Submissions” and ”Instructions”).
Robert W. Malone
COVID-19
In early 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Malone was involved in research into the heartburn medicine famotidine (Pepcid) as a potential COVID-19 treatment following anecdotal evidence suggesting that it may have been associated with higher COVID-19 survival. Malone, then with Alchem Laboratories, suspected famotidine may target an enzyme that the virus (SARS-CoV-2) uses to reproduce, and recruited a computational chemist to help design a 3D-model of the enzyme based on the viral sequence and comparisons to the 2003 SARS virus.[21][22] After encouraging preliminary results, Alchem Laboratories, in conjunction with New York's Northwell Health, initiated a clinical trial on famotidine and hydroxychloroquine.[21] Malone resigned from Alchem shortly after the trial began and Northwell paused the trial due to a shortage of hospitalized patients.[20][23]
Malone received criticism for propagating COVID-19 misinformation, including making unsupported claims about the alleged toxicity of spike proteins generated by some COVID-19 vaccines;[2][12][4][24] using interviews on mass media to popularize self-medication with ivermectin;[25] and tweeting a study by others questioning vaccine safety that was later retracted.[2] He said LinkedIn suspended his account over what he claimed were posts he had made questioning the efficacy of some COVID-19 vaccines.[26] Malone has also claimed that the Pfizer–BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines could worsen COVID-19 infections.[1] Malone's Twitter account was suspended in December 2021.[27]
With another researcher, Malone successfully proposed to the publishers of Frontiers in Pharmacology a special issue featuring early observational studies on existing medication used in the treatment of COVID-19, for which they recruited other guest editors, contributors, and reviewers. The journal rejected two of the papers selected: one on famotidine co-authored by Malone and another submitted by physician Pierre Kory on the use of ivermectin.[23] The publisher rejected the ivermectin paper due to what it stated were "a series of strong, unsupported claims" which they determined did "not offer an objective nor balanced scientific contribution."[23] Malone and most other guest editors resigned in protest in April 2021, and the special issue has been pulled from the journal's website.[23]
Malone has also been criticized for falsely claiming that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had not granted full approval to the Pfizer vaccine in August 2021.[
Peter McCullough
During the COVID-19 pandemic, McCullough advocated for early treatment including hydroxychloroquine,[23][24] criticized the response of the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration,[23] dissented from public health recommendations, and contributed to COVID-19 misinformation.[25][26][27]
Early outpatient treatment advocacy
In April 2020, McCullough led a study of the antimalarial medication hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19 for the Baylor Scott & White Medical Center. McCullough told The Wall Street Journal that the urgency of the public health crisis justified compromises on best practices in medical research.[28][29] In July, after major studies found hydroxychloroquine was ineffective against COVID-19 and the Food and Drug Administration revoked its emergency use authorization (EUA), McCullough supported a second EUA.[23]
McCullough, Harvey Risch of the Yale School of Public Health, and co-authors published an observational study proposing an early outpatient treatment regimen for COVID-19 in August 2020 in the American Journal of Medicine. Based on previous evidence, the article made recommendations for treating ambulatory COVID-19 patients, but presented no new evidence. The article was shared on social media, mainly by groups which had previously published COVID-19 misinformation, in posts falsely interpreting the publication as an endorsement of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19.[30][31][32] The Ministry of Health of Brazil endorsed the article on its website, contributing to a severe COVID-19 misinformation problem in Brazil.[30][33][34] The article was criticized in letters to the editors;[35][36][37][38][39] the editors responded that the article included some "hopeful speculations...What seemed reasonable last summer based on laboratory experiments has subsequently been shown to be untrue."[31][34]
McCullough and Risch were two of three witnesses called by committee chair Senator Ron Johnson to testify before a United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing on COVID-19 treatments held in November 2020. McCullough testified in support of social distancing, vaccination, and treatments, including hydroxychloroquine. Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, called to testify by the ranking member, said the "clear consensus in the medical and scientific community, based on overwhelming evidence" is that hydroxychloroquine is ineffective as a treatment for COVID-19. McCullough said Jha was promoting misinformation and Jha's opposition to the drug was "reckless and dangerous for the nation."[24][40][41][42] Jha responded on The New York Times opinion page, "By elevating witnesses who sound smart but endorse unfounded therapies, we risk jeopardizing a century's work of medical progress."[43]
COVID-19 misinformation
Some of McCullough's public statements contributed to the spread of COVID-19 misinformation.[5][4]
McCullough testified before a committee of the Texas Senate in March 2021, posted to YouTube by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, in which he made false claims about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines, including that people under 50 years of age and survivors do not need the vaccine and that there is no evidence of asymptomatic spread of COVID-19.[25]
Posted on the Canadian online video sharing platform Rumble, McCullough gave an interview in April 2021 to The New American, the magazine of the right-wing John Birch Society, in which he advanced anti-vaccination messaging, including falsely claiming tens of thousands of fatalities attributed to the COVID-19 vaccines.[44] In May 2021, McCullough gave an interview in which he made claims about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines which were "inaccurate, misleading and/or unsupported by evidence," including that survivors cannot be re-infected and so do not require vaccination and that the vaccines are dangerous.[26]
In an interview on the Fox News program Tucker Carlson Tonight in May 2021, McCullough claimed that hydroxychloroquine is effective for treating COVID-19 despite there being no supporting evidence.[26] McCullough later made appearances on The Ingraham Angle. During television appearances, McCullough contradicted public health recommendations, including when asked about the aggressive spread of COVID-19 among children, by suggesting that healthy persons under 30 had no need for a vaccine,[27][45] and when asked about the relative merits of vaccination-induced immunity versus "natural" (survivor) immunity, by disputing the necessity of vaccinations to achieve herd immunity.[22][46][47][4]
Mark Trozzi
Two Ontario doctors have been barred from issuing medical exemptions for COVID-19 vaccines, masking requirements and testing.
The province's medical regulator says the restrictions imposed on Dr. Mark Trozzi and Dr. Rochagne Kilian took effect just before midnight Friday.
The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario says the doctors must also post signs regarding these restrictions in their offices and during virtual visits with patients.
The college says the interim orders were issued under provisions of the Regulated Health Professions Act, which allow the regulator to impose restrictions or conditions on a member's licence if it believes the conduct at issue "exposes or is likely to expose patients to harm or injury."
The organization says the physicians have not been referred to its tribunal in connection with the restrictions at this time.
The college's public records list Kilian as a family doctor in Owen Sound, Ont., but show no specialty or primary practice location for Trozzi.
This genius is against masks, vaccines and testing.
Michael Yeadon
Yeadon falsely claimed that the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom was "effectively over" in October 2020,[17][18] that there would be no "second wave" of infections,[6][19] and that healthy people could not spread the SARS-CoV-2 virus.[1][20] He has claimed without evidence that COVID-19 vaccines were unnecessary,[21][20][19] unsafe,[1][22] and could cause infertility in women.[1][6][23] In a letter to the European Medicines Agency, Yeadon and the German physician Wolfgang Wodarg called for all vaccine trials to be stopped, falsely suggesting[24][25][26] that mRNA vaccines could target the syncytin-1 protein needed for placenta formation.[27][a] In an interview with political strategist Steve Bannon, Yeadon falsely asserted that children were "50 times more likely to be killed by the COVID vaccines than the virus itself", citing a high number of events following COVID-19 vaccination reported on the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) database.[31][32][3] The US Centers for Disease Control, which operates the database, cautions that such reports are not verified and do not prove that vaccines caused any given adverse event.[31][32] Yeadon has also discouraged COVID-19 lockdowns and the use of face masks despite evidence for their effectiveness.[22] He has alleged that the vaccines cause recipients to become magnetic.[14] Several of Yeadon's claims have been amplified on social media
Wolfgang Wodarg
Wodarg gained notoriety during public discussion of the COVID-19 pandemic when he argued that SARS-CoV-2 was only one of many similar viruses which usually go undetected as part of an ordinary seasonal period of respiratory infections, and that the worldwide activities to stop the pandemic were "hype" caused by the selective perception of researchers.[6]
His comments on the COVID-19 pandemic drew criticism from German scientists and some German media outlets. According to the critics, Wodarg's claims largely contradicted the verifiable facts; some of his statements were neither verifiable nor falsifiable; and because the facts Wodarg presented had nothing to do with each other, his statements had proved to be misleading.[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20]
In a December 2020 petition to the European Medicines Agency, Wodarg and former Pfizer scientist Michael Yeadon called for all mRNA vaccine trials to be halted.[21] Their petition, which suggested without evidence that the vaccines could cause infertility in women by targeting the syncytin-1 protein necessary for placenta formation, soon began circulating on social media.[22] David Gorski wrote on Science-Based Medicine that Wodarg and Yeadon were "stoking real fear that the new COVID-19 vaccines will make women infertile and [...] doing it based on speculative nonsense".[23]
Transparency International Germany, on whose board of directors Wodarg serves, distanced itself from his statements on 17 March 2020: "Transparency International Germany rejects board member Dr Wolfgang Wodarg's sweeping criticism of the government measures to protect the population from the coronavirus. (...) Wolfgang Wodarg is speaking on this matter as a private individual and not in his capacity as a member of the Management Board."[12][24] On 25 March 2020, the board decided to suspend his membership in the association "until further notice", which means that Wodarg can no longer exercise any functions on the board or as head of the health working group for the time being. The Board of Directors will commission an independent committee to look into Wodarg's statements about the coronavirus and to determine whether his behaviour has harmed the interests of Transparency International Germany. Transparency Chairman Hartmut Bäumer said that the reason for this was that Wodarg had expressed his views on "radical media" such as KenFM, Rubikon, Geolitico, and in an interview with Eva Herman; all of "which regularly work with conspiracy theories, with anti-democratic and sometimes anti-Semitic prejudices" and "oppose the basic democratic principles of Transparency"; while "some of them are personally close to the AfD".[25][26][27]
Vladimir Zelenko
Vladimir Zelenko is a Ukrainian-American family physician known for promoting a three drug combination of hydroxychloroquine, zinc sulfate and azithromycin as part of an experimental outpatient treatment for COVID-19 that he has promoted as the Zelenko Protocol. Wikipedia
Damn homie you fell for the old okie-doke hook line and bait! Because those guys are the who's who of crackpot Trump loving quacks, not people to believe and trust!
Damn you just exposed
How the dude that types like thid
Hoping to look smsrt
Is really dumb as a box of rocks
Good job.
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And I'm leaving in all the typos too!!!
You shouldve just left yourself out the equation,
All you do is attack the messenger, you really have no idea how played out your
tactic is do you??
you and your cheerleaders have no idea how stupid yall lookin right now,
talkin about typos and shit..
As if that has anything to do with an experimental drug being forced on people,
no wonder they are able to pull this shit off, they got brain dead sheep like you
and your pom pom girls, doing the dirty work for them...
Yall some really dumb fuckin hoes fo real!!