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Results from a recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report suggest the COVID-19 bivalent booster does little more than restore protection levels to pre-vaccination levels.In September, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) — over the objections of the agency’s own advisors — authorized Pfizer’s COVID-19 bivalent booster on an emergency basis, without any testing or demonstration that the products had any benefit in human beings.The only “emergency” was that collapsing demand for Pfizer’s original shots had caused a lapse in the drugmaker’s windfall profits.Responding to this embarrassment, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) last week published...

A new vaccine manufactured in Europe by Sanofi and GSK claims 100% efficacy against severe disease and hospitalizations, and it could be an effective booster after other COVID-19 shots, according to the manufacturers. The companies received billions of dollars from Donald Trump’s brainchild, “Operation Warp Speed.” Since Biden isn’t calling it that anymore, how are they going to describe where the money came from? The two-shot Sanofi-GSK vaccine is expected to be approved by the FDA for emergency use in next few weeks.New York Times:In laboratory studies, two doses of the Sanofi-GSK vaccine stimulated the production of more neutralizing antibodies...

I’ve been getting frequent requests for at least the last six months to write about the Novavax covid vaccine. I’ve been resisting, mainly because it’s seemed uncertain whether it would ever actually be approved in the western world. Now that it’s been approved for use in the EU, however, that has changed, and I figure that I can put it off no longer.I guess the reason so many people are excited about the Novavax vaccine is that it uses a traditional technology that’s been used many times previously, rather than the new-fangled technologies used in the mRNA and adenovector vaccines...

<p>It is a “waste of time” to keep vaccinating people against the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, the former chairman of Britain’s Vaccines Taskforce has said.</p><p>Dix said the focus now should be on protecting vulnerable people, such as those over 60, 2 percent of whom remain unvaccinated.</p>

The Biden administration and the mainstream media have been pushing a mandate of the experimental COVID vaccines for the American people. Their talking point is that "COVID vaccines are effective and work against the pandemic." That's not true. I have been following the "U.K. vaccine surveillance report" since last September and have seen enough evidence about the real efficacy of the COVID vaccines to show that they're not as good as advertised. My last essay revealed that more vaccinated people have been using the health care system in U.K. than unvaccinated people. Now I am going to talk about how...

Former President Donald Trump backed the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines during an interview with conservative media personality Candace Owens on Wednesday after she attempted to undermine the vaccines’ success. “I came up with a vaccine, with three vaccines,” Trump said during the interview. “All are very, very good. Came up with three of them in less than nine months. It was supposed to take five to 12 years.” “Yet more people have died under COVID this year, by the way, under Joe Biden, than under you and more people took the vaccine this year,” Owens interjected. “So people are questioning...

Alex Berenson, the former New York Times science writer who has been a voice of reason on the COVID epidemic, assembles evidence that the mandated COVID pseudo-vaccines have failed all over the world, in a Substack post titled "Worldwide vaccine failure."If the COVID jabs are so effective that constitutionally dubious vaccine mandates are being pushed by the Biden regime, then those locales with the highest vaccination rates must have brought the virus under better control than elsewhere, obviously. But that is not the case. The countries with the highest vaccination rates are seeing soaring cases and even deaths.Here is Singapore,...

In Sweden, a new study followed 840,000 people who were double vaccinated for nine months which is longer than any previous study. The researchers matched them or “paired them” with another 840,000 people who were the same, age, sex and from the same area. Out of this 1.6 million pooled sample, 27,000 people went on to get infected, and most of them were unvaccinated (21,000). So that’s not surprising, but underlying this data was an extraordinary trend showing efficacy falling month after month. In the first two to four weeks, the double vaccinated were very well protected. But by nine...

UK Vaccination rates approach 90 percent but it’s not helping… Cases are exploding despite the very high Vaccination rate 86% of everyone over 12 in the UK is at least partially vaccinated, yet cases continue to rise and are well above where they were last year.I do not know if you could design a dumber, less scientifically justifiable policy than vaccine passports to “stop transmission” pic.twitter.com/zbRVleLSfU— IM (@ianmSC) October 16, 2021 Infection rate for the Vaccinated is 100% higher than for the Unvaccinated According to the British government, the infection rate in double-vaccinated people in their 40s was 100% higher...

Have any prominent/powerful Dems or 'Progressives' become ill and/or hospitalized from COVID? I ask because I cannot recall anyone (on that side of the aisle or cultural debate)of real power, privilege or influence becoming ill, NOT just "I tested positive", and/or hospitalized. I recall Mr. and Mrs. Tom HAnks were 'ill' but not hospitalized, but cannot think of ANY since. Any prominent member of the House, Senate or Media? We've seen numerous "far right!!!" people fall ill, and several recently passing away. This leads me to wonder, did 'they' (members of the Inner Party)get the REAL vaccine? I mean after...

...Between July 27, 2020 and October 29, 2020, 45,441 ≥16-year-olds were screened, and 44,165 randomized at 152 sites (US [n=130], Argentina [n=1], Brazil [n=2], South Africa [n=4], Germany [n=6], Turkey [n=9]) in the phase 2/3 portion of the study. Of these participants, 44,060 were vaccinated with ≥1 dose (BNT162b2, n=22,030; placebo, n=22,030), and 98% received dose 2 (Fig.1). During the blinded period, 51% of participants in each group had 4 to ...Figure 2 Efficacy of BNT162b2 against COVID-19 Occurrence after Dose 1 During the Blinded Placebo-controlled Follow-up Period. ...VE=vaccine efficacy...... During the blinded, controlled period, 15 BNT162b2 and 14 placebo...

Local research claims Pfizer shot now only 41% effective against symptomatic COVID, while British stats have it at 88%New data from Israel and the United Kingdom painted a confusing and contradictory picture on Thursday as to the effectiveness of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine in fighting off the Delta variant of the coronavirus. New Health Ministry statistics indicated that, on average, the Pfizer shot — the vaccine given to nearly all Israelis — is now just 39% effective against infection, while being only 41% effective in preventing symptomatic COVID. Previously, the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was well over 90% effective against infection. Meanwhile, a...

Two recently-released studies examine the efficacy of single coronavirus vaccine doses against the delta variant showed vastly disparate outcomes.The first, a Canadian pre-print study posted on medRxiv earlier this month, concluded that a single dose of the Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca vaccines provide “good to excellent protection” against the delta variant of coronavirus. But a single dose of the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines was shown to have relatively low efficacy combating the variant, according to a U.K. study published this week in The New England Journal of Medicine.“Effectiveness was notably lower after the first vaccine dose among persons with the...

"Vaccine efficacy is generally reported as a relative risk reduction (RRR). It uses the relative risk (RR)—ie, the ratio of attack rates with and without a vaccine—which is expressed as 1–RR. Ranking by reported efficacy gives relative risk reductions of 95% for the Pfizer–BioNTech, 94% for the Moderna–NIH, 90% for the Gamaleya, 67% for the J&J, and 67% for the AstraZeneca–Oxford vaccines. However, RRR should be seen against the background risk of being infected and becoming ill with COVID-19, which varies between populations and over time. Although the RRR considers only participants who could benefit from the vaccine, the absolute...

The Covid-19 vaccine manufactured by Pfizer has been shown to be 91.3 percent effective against infection even after six months according to findings released by the company. The findings come from a growing body of data on how volunteers in the shot’s late-stage trials are responding to the vaccine. The data determined whether or not the volunteers contracted Covid with or without symptoms. That the vaccine still proved to be so effective after six months is an excellent sign it may last even longer. From the Wall Street Journal: Pfizer said it hopes to provide more information on protection beyond...

I’ll bet you haven’t heard this: more congenital anomalies/birth defects and emergency room visits were reported after getting a COVID vaccine in the U.S. than after any of the other 93 vaccine types in the CDC’s VAERS database. And more deaths than 92 other vaccine types.Here is how COVID vaccines rank among 94 vaccine types in terms of reported post-vaccine adverse effects.Congenital anomaly/birth defect: 1.Emergency room: 1.Death: 2.Life threatening: 5.“Serious” adverse effects: 7.Hospitalized: 10.Permanent disability: 12.Total adverse effects: 15.Here, for example, is the screen shot of the CDC’s sorted list for the adverse effect of congenital anomaly/birth defect.See that 144...

Polack et al. (Dec. 31)1 report a vaccine efficacy of 94.8% against Covid-19 after two doses of the messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine BNT162b2 (Pfizer–BioNTech). The authors also report a vaccine efficacy of 52.4% from after the first dose to before the second dose, but in their calculation, they included data that were collected during the first 2 weeks after the first dose, when immunity would have still been mounting.1 We used documents submitted to the Food and Drug Administration2 to derive the vaccine efficacy beginning from 2 weeks after the first dose to before the second dose (Table 1). Even...

•100% of the 35 studies to date report positive effects. Early treatment is more successful, with an estimated reduction of 84% in the effect measured using a random effects meta-analysis, RR 0.16 [0.08-0.33]. Prophylactic use also shows high effectiveness. •100% of the 17 Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) report positive effects, with an estimated reduction of 71%, RR 0.29 [0.17-0.51].•The probability that an ineffective treatment generated results as positive as the 35 studies to date is estimated to be 1 in 34 billion (p = 0.000000000029).IntroductionWe analyze all significant studies concerning the use of ivermectin for COVID-19. Search methods, inclusion criteria,...

Dr. Eric Berg quoted observations made by Dr. Anthony Cardillo, who recounted his success in significantly improving the medical conditions of coronavirus patients after giving them anti-malaria medication (hydroxychloroquine) along with the zinc supplement. According to Dr. Berg, the anti-malarial medication allows zinc to infiltrate cells and prevent the coronavirus from multiplying. He emphasized that the drug should not be taken by healthy individuals or with the absence of a doctor's prescription. He also noted that many coronavirus patients had been observed to have zinc deficiencies. Video

An Assistant State’s Attorney in Foxx’s office sent the following essay to express a view from inside the office. We publish the piece in its entirety. The author asked to remain anonymous. The State’s Attorney’s Office is an international laughingstock, as politicians, comedians, scholars, legal pundits and citizens blast its handling of the Jussie Smollett case. The criticism pointed squarely at Kim Foxx, the first African American female elected to fill the prestigious role of Cook County State’s Attorney. In the wake of criticism, Ms. Foxx spoke at a Rainbow PUSH meeting and stated she cannot run an office “driven...