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UK Ex-PM Johnson Says He Planned Raid on Dutch Factory to Get COVID Vaccines
Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said he ordered military chiefs to plan a raid on a Dutch factory in March 2021 to secure 5 million COVID-19 vaccines that the European Union had threatened to bar from being exported to Britain.
Johnson said the deputy chief of Britain’s defense staff at the time, Lieutenant General Doug Chalmers, had told him a raid using small boats to cross the Channel and navigate Dutch canals would be possible — but warned him of diplomatic repercussions.
According to Johnson, Chalmers — who has since retired from the military — told him it would not be possible to carry out the mission undetected and that “if we are detected we will have to explain why we are effectively invading a long-standing NATO ally.”
“I secretly agreed with what they all thought but did not want to say aloud: that the whole thing was nuts,” Johnson said in an extract from his memoirs that was published in Saturday’s Daily Mail newspaper.
Antibiotic Resistant Infection Deaths on Track to Increase 70 Percent by 2050
The Vaccine Reaction reported:
A recent study projects that deaths around the world due to infections that are resistant to existing antibiotics could increase nearly 70% by 2050.
These antibiotic-resistant “superbugs” are fueled by what is known as antimicrobial resistance (AMR) caused by overuse and misuse of antibiotics as well as over-sanitization efforts.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has called AMR “one of the top global public health and development threats.” The study published in The Lancet last month states that from 2025 to 2050, the world could see more than 39 million deaths directly attributed to AMR.
Research from the U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention and the Pew Charitable Trusts shows that nearly one in three antibiotics prescribed at outpatient facilities is unnecessary.
Antibiotics are ineffective against viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 or the flu.
Earlier this year, the WHO presented findings of “extensive overuse” of antibiotics during the peak years of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Its data suggested that approximately 75% of patients were treated with antibiotics “just in case”, despite only 8% of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 having bacterial co-infections.
Two Studies Find SARS-CoV-2 Virus Becoming Resistant to Antiviral Drugs Used to Treat Patients
Two studies have found that the virus that causes COVID-19 is becoming resistant to two drugs used to treat patients with infections.
In the first study, a combined team from Cornell University and the National Institutes of Health studied the treatment outcomes for patients with compromised immune systems who were given the drug remdesivir.
They have published their results in the journal Nature Communications.
In the second study, a team of researchers from the University of Pittsburgh, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Stanford University and Harvard University studied the outcomes for COVID-19 patients given antiviral drugs over the years 2021 to 2023.
They published their results in the journal JAMA Network Open.
Rwanda Reports 8 Deaths Linked to Ebola-Like Marburg Virus Days After It Declared an Outbreak
Rwanda says eight people have died so far from the Ebola-like and highly contagious Marburg virus, just days after the country declared an outbreak of the deadly hemorrhagic fever that has no authorized vaccine or treatment.
Like Ebola, the Marburg virus originates in fruit bats and spreads between people through close contact with the bodily fluids of infected individuals or with surfaces, such as contaminated bed sheets.
Without treatment, Marburg can be fatal in up to 88% of people who fall ill with the disease.
Rwanda, a landlocked country in central Africa, declared an outbreak on Friday and a day later the first six deaths were reported.
