Archive for September, 2020
September News
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Pentagon Study: Flu Shot Raises Risk of Coronavirus by 36% (and Other Supporting Studies)
By Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Chairman, Children’s Health Defense
On March 12th, 2020, Anderson Cooper and Dr. Sanjay Gupta held a global town hall on “Corona Facts and Fears.” During the discussion, Anderson said to the viewing audience, “And, again, if you are concerned about coronavirus, and you haven’t gotten a flu shot…you should get a flu shot.”
Setting safety and efficacy of influenza vaccination aside, is Anderson’s claim that the flu shot will help people fight COVID-19 remotely true? The short answer is no.
In fact, the results of many peer-reviewed, published studies prove that Anderson’s recommendation may have been the worst advice he could have given the public.
In searching the literature, the only study we have been able to find assessing flu shots and coronavirus is a 2020 US Pentagon study that found that the flu shot INCREASES the risks from coronavirus by 36%. “Receiving influenza vaccination may increase the risk of other respiratory viruses, a phenomenon known as “virus interference…’vaccine derived’ virus interference was significantly associated with coronavirus…” Here are the findings:
2020 Pentagon study: Flu vaccines increase risk of coronavirus by 36%
Examining non-influenza viruses specifically, the odds of coronavirus in vaccinated individuals were significantly higher when compared to unvaccinated individuals with an odds ratio (association between an exposure and an outcome) of 1.36. In other words, the vaccinated were 36% more likely to get coronavirus.
Many other studies suggest the increased risk of viral respiratory infections from the flu shot:
2018 CDC Study: Flu shots increase risk of non-flu acute respiratory illnesses (ARI) in children.
This CDC supported study concluded an increased risk of acute respiratory illness (ARI) among children <18 years caused by non-influenza respiratory pathogens post-influenza vaccination compared to unvaccinated children during the same period.
2011 Australian Study: Flu shot doubled risk of non-influenza viral infections and increased flu risk by 73%.
A prospective case-control study in healthy young Australian children found that seasonal flu shots doubled their risk of illness from non-influenza virus infections. Overall, the vaccine increased the risk of virus-associated acute respiratory illness, including influenza, by 73%.
Three New Studies Support Vitamin D’s Role in Preventing and Treating COVID-19
by Barbara Cáceres Published September 29, 2020 | Health, Holistic Health
Three new studies have reported the positive role of vitamin D in preventing COVID-19 and reducing the severity of illness in hospitalized patients with COVID-19 infection.
Researchers at Boston University conducted a retrospective, observational analysis1 of over 190,000 U.S. patients from 50 states with SARS-CoV-2 results performed mid-March through mid-June, 2020 and who had 25(OH)D (vitamin D) results from the preceding 12 months. Residential zip code data was matched with U.S. Census data to perform analyses of race/ethnicity proportions and latitude.
Vitamin D Deficiency Associated With 54 Percent Higher Risk for COVID-19
Those who had a circulating level of 25(OH)D below 20 ng/mL had a 54 percent higher positivity rate compared to those who had a blood level of 30–34 ng/mL. The risk of SARS-CoV-2 positivity continued to decline until the serum levels reached 55 ng/mL. The inverse relationship between SARS-CoV-2 positivity and 25(OH)D levels was most striking in predominately black non-Hispanic zip codes, followed by predominately Hispanic zip codes.
Calling the results “remarkable,” researcher Michael Holick, MD, PhD, summarized, “If you’re vitamin D deficient, you have a 54 percent higher risk of acquiring this infection compared to people who were vitamin D sufficient,” he said. “This was for all ages, for all ethnicities and for all latitudes in the United States in all 50 states. So whether you’re in California, Florida, or Alaska this still remained the same.”2
Vitamin D Supplementation Can Maintain Healthy Levels of Vitamin D
Approximately 42 percent of the US population is vitamin D deficient3 but 82 percent of blacks and 61 percent of Hispanics are deficient,4 and 60 percent of nursing home residents are deficient.5 Dr. Holick says that vitamin D insufficiency is very common in sunny states like California and Florida because of sunscreen use and the fact that people avoid the midday sun when UVB rays trigger a reaction in skin cells that makes vitamin D. He states that supplementation is a safe and effective way to maintain healthy levels of vitamin D, and that infants need 400-1000 units a day, children 600-1000 units a day, and teens and adults need 1500-2000 units a day, but “if you’re obese you need two to three times more.”6
Vitamin D Status Can Affect Risk of Mortality from COVID-19
A second study,7 also co-authored by Dr. Holick, is a cross sectional analysis of 235 hospitalized patients infected with COVID-19 that found those with sufficient vitamin D status had significantly better outcomes. Of patients over 40 years of age, 9.7 percent of patients who were vitamin D sufficient died compared to 20 percent who were vitamin D insufficient or deficient. Only 6.3 percent of the patients over 40 years died with a blood level of 25(OH)D of 40 ng/mL or higher. The data analyses also revealed that the severe decrease in infection was less prevalent in patients who had sufficient levels of vitamin D. The authors suggest that anti-inflammatory role of vitamin D helps modulate the immune response by reducing the risk for cytokine storm in response to this viral infection.
A pilot study conducted in Cordoba, Spain, and published in the Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology found that the administration of high dose calcifediol (a main metabolite of Vitamin D endocrine system) significantly reduced the need for ICU treatment of patients requiring hospitalization due to proven COVID-19.8
The study evaluated 76 consecutive patients hospitalized with COVID-19 infection and randomly assigned two thirds of the patients to receive oral calcifediol in addition to standard care (per hospital protocol). One third of the patients received only standard care.
Of 50 patients treated with calcifediol, one required admission to the ICU (2 percent), while of 26 untreated patients, 13 required admission (50 percent). Of the patients treated with calcifediol, none died, and all were discharged without complications. The 13 patients not treated with calcifediol, who were not admitted to the ICU, were discharged. Of the 13 patients admitted to the ICU, two died and the remaining 11 were discharged.
The study authors suggested that activation of the vitamin D receptor (VDR) signaling pathway may generate beneficial effects in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) by decreasing the cytokine/chemokine storm; regulating the renin‑angiotensin system; modulating neutrophil activity and by maintaining the integrity of the pulmonary epithelial barrier; stimulating epithelial repair, and tapering down increased coagulability of the blood.
Read more here: https://thevaccinereaction.org/2020/09/three-new-studies-support-vitamin-ds-role-in-preventing-and-treating-covid-19/
Bad Medicine
by Maureen McDonnel | Sep 25, 2020 | COVID-19, Uncategorized
Millions Against Medical Mandates’ Collaborative Communication Committee (comprised of over 30 people from different organizations within our movement) has been generating “packaged messages” in an attempt to reach and influence those unaware of fact-based science regarding vaccine safety and effectiveness. Here is our next message about “bad medicine,” including influenza vaccines. We are asking everyone to review the message below, extract what is relevant for your specific audience, or use the message in its entirety and send it out to your members, family, friends, followers, etc. Please help us push these messages out so more people can wake up to the deeper issues and rise up in solidarity against oppressive and unhealthy directives.
BAD MEDICINE
What is bad medicine? It is both the use of medical interventions that cause more harm than good as well as the failure to use helpful interventions. Moreover, “bad medicine” is the failure to personalize medicine to an individual patient’s needs. With the SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 crisis that has put our nation – and much of the world – on an unending lockdown, medicine has run amuck.
Why, more than six months into this situation is Anthony Fauci just now mentioning the value of Vitamins C and D, both of which are highly protective for contracting viruses. Why wasn’t he loudly and regularly encouraging every American to protect and boost their immune systems with these widely available inexpensive (hello sunshine and Vitamin D!) vitamins from the very beginning?
Read on to learn more about bad medicine:
- Misuse and overuse of ventilators for COVID-19 patients
- SARS-CoV-2 vaccine trials
- Failure to use effective (and often inexpensive) treatments
- And maybe the biggest “bad medicine” debacle out there – the flu vaccine!
1. Over-Use of Ventilators for COVID-19 Patients was Bad Medicine
Early reports of large percentages of patients dying when placed on ventilators were deeply concerning. Doctors since have learned that not all COVID-19 patients need ventilation, that they were ventilating too many patients, and too soon. Where was the precautionary principle among the panic? https://bit.ly/363aDM3; https://wapo.st/3kJa2TY
2. SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Trials are Bad Medicine
Many pages could be devoted to issues in the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine trials. Vaccine development is indeed proceeding at warp speed but we need to ask, at what cost? We now have a serious neurological injury –including at least one case and possibly two cases transverse myelitis – in the Oxford/Astra Zeneca trials: https://nyti.ms/2FXcjMB and other significant injuries in the early Moderna trials: https://bit.ly/307MAYB We must demand greater transparency on all injuries to fully understand vaccine risks The most compelling questions are the long and short term potential harms signaled from the clinical trials.
- What impact will messenger RNA (mRNA), used in several vaccine candidates, have on vaccinated people? Even very “pro” mRNA vaccine professionals recognize that there are risks associated with mRNA vaccines – none of which has yet made it to commercial production – including, in particular, the risk of autoimmune diseases (https://go.nature.com/2EzKpFQ) – despite no evidence the public will be screened for autoimmune risks before mass vaccination.
- What about the use of aborted fetal cell lines in the manufacture of several candidate vaccines: https://bit.ly/2G0JVZT? These male and female human DNA cells in various vaccines are being questioned as possible contributors to the exponential rise in gender dysphoria: https://bit.ly/3czcZUq
- What about the use of polyethylene glycol (PEG), a synthetic chemical to which over 70% of people are sensitive –a significant number sensitive to the point of risking anaphylaxis? Moderna has added this dangerous chemical to its vaccine and went so far as to warn its shareholders that the use of PEG was risky to the bottom-line but does not tell clinical trial participants of the risk to them and does not test participants for PEG sensitivity. https://bit.ly/3i2YlWt Not only does PEG carry safety risks, but it may also reduce vaccine efficacy!
- What about risk of antibody-dependent enhancement (or “pathogenic priming”), which creates a possibility that a vaccinated person later exposed to the disease develops far worse symptoms or even dies from a hyper-immune reaction? This risk was seen in animal trials for SARS vaccines years ago and in the recent scandal with Dengvaxia, a dengue fever vaccine, in the Philippines. https://bit.ly/33V6Q0N
- A silver lining here? The distrust surrounding the pharmaceutical industry and government has resulted in Pharma taking the unprecedented step of releasing several trial protocols but we must look at that carefully to determine if these trials were set up for “success” even if the vaccines are not actually safe or effective: https://wb.md/2S9F77f
3. Ignoring or Disparaging Good Medicine is Bad Medicine
The Alliance for Natural Health (ANH-USA) details in their article titled “COVID 411” many specific nutrients that are among the most noteworthy preventives for boosting our immune systems before we get sick. https://bit.ly/2QMBh3d. In particular, a number of therapies and medicines, particularly when combined with zinc, are promising:
- Hydroxychloroquine: https://bit.ly/2ChKtc3; https://bit.ly/3eBTmuf; https://bit.ly/3jbGxtW
- Ivermectin: https://bit.ly/3gSnnqS; https://bit.ly/3hU0GDM; https://bit.ly/32UOn45; https://bit.ly/2YXrWtE
- Quercetin: https://bit.ly/32PwhAh; https://bit.ly/2R1oDxr
- Hinokitiol: https://prn.to/2Z1MalY; https://bit.ly/34W501O
Additionally, there are many other natural treatments and oxidative therapies (using ozone or hydrogen peroxide, for example) that doctors such as David Brownstein, MD, are using with great success: https://bit.ly/34Xz9xA; https://bit.ly/3gQU6Ne. The MATH+ protocol from the Front Line Covid-19 Critical Care (FLCCC) Alliance for severely ill patients is also a good resource: https://bit.ly/3h0Hnrr; https://bit.ly/3bjgOfP.
4. Influenza and Flu Vaccines Shenanigans are Bad Medicine
Del Bigtree really nailed the coffin on flu vaccines on the September 24, 2020 episode of The High Wire, entitled, “Twindemic 2020?” Watch this episode for the most up to date information https://bit.ly/3i3iBqT – the flu issue is addressed beginning around minute 48.
The influenza vaccine’s risk/benefit ratio is high – vaccinating can cause very serious conditions, including neurological harm, autoimmune disease, and death. https://bit.ly/2RYS3wm We also know that getting a flu shot increases your risk of developing more serious non-flu respiratory infections (including some coronavirus infections). https://bit.ly/3ctdbo0 How do we justify the continued push for universal flu shots when the harm outweighs the good?
Yet, the pharmaceutical industry, with its allies in public health and at CDC, present flu as a major cause of death in the U.S., and push flu shots as if they have saved many lives. This information may help put things in perspective:
- Flu shots have caused more bad reactions than all other vaccines combined according to the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS), and the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. “Seven out of ten petitions filed between 2016 and 2017 to the NVICP were related to damages following influenza vaccine to adults or children…” https://bit.ly/2G4XFm8
- Flu shots only prevent actual influenza A or B infections, and their effectiveness varies from 10-60% and in most years recently are under 50% effective and often under 30% effective. https://bit.ly/2FRnypY; https://bit.ly/2G4XFm8
- The CDC reported that in the 2018-19 flu season: “Among adults hospitalized for the flu, the vaccine’s effectiveness against the H3N2 strain was reported at -43 percent.” This indicates that those who got their flu shot were more likely to be hospitalized for flu than those who did not get the vaccine! https://bit.ly/2FWKoMM
- A 2009 study by the American Thoracic Society found “…children who had received the flu vaccine [trivalent inactivated flu vaccine—TIV] had three times the risk of hospitalization, as compared to children who had not received the vaccine. In asthmatic children, there was a significantly higher risk of hospitalization [all emphasis mine] in subjects who received the TIV, as compared to those who did not…” This makes the emphasis for asthmatics to take flu shots particularly alarming. https://bit.ly/3ctdMpK
- Over 80% of influenza-like illness – what people generally call “the flu” – are NOT type A or B influenza. They are viral or bacterial flu-like illnesses that are not covered by influenza vaccines. https://bit.ly/2FRnypY
- According to the American Lung Association, flu-caused deaths, as recorded on death certificates over a 13-year period, range between a mere 257-1812 deaths per year in the entire U.S.! https://bit.ly/3652eYD (p.5).
- CDC lumps the pneumonia deaths together with flu deaths, but most pneumonia deaths are unrelated to influenza and therefore could not be prevented or lessened by a flu shot – even if they worked! https://bit.ly/3652eYD
- Universal flu shots violate science and common sense given their high risk to benefit ratio and fact that “Only about 3 percent of pneumonia and influenza deaths occurred in those under age 45.” https://bit.ly/3652eYD (p.6).
CALL TO ACTION:
- Contact FDA and demand transparency in all aspects of the SARS-CoV-2 clinical trials. 1-888-463-6332 Choose option 3 then 1
- Call your governor and state and federal legislators and challenge them on flu vaccine mandates.
- Call vaccine manufacturers and demand transparency.
Read more and take action here: https://mamm.org/bad-medicine/