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This week, Mary Holland, Children’s Health Defense president, and Polly Tommey, co-producer of “Vaxxed,” cover the latest COVID headlines, including news that the pace of people getting COVID-19 vaccine booster shots in the U.S. has dropped to the lowest it has ever been, and that autopsies of two teenage boys who died days after receiving Pfizer’s vaccine prove the vaccine caused their deaths.

They also discussed that in the past six months, a slew of athletes have collapsed and died on the field. Yet, mainstream media appear to take this in stride, acting as if what is happening is completely normal. Plus, an executive officer at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) revealed the future of COVID policy and exposed ties between the agency and pharmaceutical companies.

Also on tap this week: Bill Gates said COVID risks have “dramatically reduced” but another pandemic is coming.

Here are more of this week’s highlights:

  • In a letter to Dr. Robert Malone, a Vermont mother who said she believes her daughters will be coerced into getting the COVID vaccine, asked Malone what he would do. Here’s her letter, and Malone’s response. “I love this article,” said Polly. “I think we have to take this very seriously,” said Mary.
  • Investment giants BlackRock and The Vanguard Group stand to benefit from their ownership stakes in most of the corporations that imposed COVID vaccine mandates, and in some of the technology firms developing vaccine passports, The Defender reported. “A great deep dive,” said Mary. “This is a really interesting, important article about what is going on.”
  • U.S. District Court Judge Tillman E. Self III issued a preliminary injunction for an Air Force Reserve officer who was denied a religious exemption from the military’s COVID vaccine mandate, calling the military’s process for granting religious exemption “illusory and insincere.” “This is great news,” said Mary.
  • Mary and Polly discussed this video that calls for the people of Canada to stock up on essentials. “This is a very powerful, short video,” said Mary.
  • The Austrian government said it plans to end the country’s main COVID restrictions on March 5, though wearing masks will remain obligatory in some places. “We all need to stay on alert,” said Mary.
  • Public Health Scotland will stop publishing data on COVID deaths and hospitalizations by vaccination status, over concerns “anti-vaxx campaigners” are misrepresenting the data. “I couldn’t believe this article,” said Polly. “This is extraordinary.”

  • Italy’s health ministry recommended people with a severely compromised immune system receive a fourth mRNA vaccine shot against COVID, provided that at least 120 days have passed from their previous booster.
  • Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II tested positive for coronavirus, Buckingham Palace announced. “Very interesting,” said Mary.
  • ​​Adidas will no longer require U.S. employees get vaccinated against COVID.
  • California became the first state to formally shift to an “endemic” approach to the coronavirus with Gov. Gavin Newsom’s announcement of a plan that emphasizes prevention and quick reaction to outbreaks over mandated masking and business shutdowns. “They are not backing away from the paradigm one bit,” said Mary.
  • Highly focused energy as a weapon is currently being developed/used by the U.S., Russia, China, India, the U.K., Iran and Turkey. “This is disturbing,” said Polly.
  • Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s record-smashing bestseller, “The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health,” demolishes the public images of Dr. Anthony Fauci and Bill Gates, said Steve Brown, former director of the Pacifica Radio Foundation and WBAI-FM in New York.  But the corporate establishment has circled the wagons to censor it — by pretending it doesn’t exist. “It’s an excellent article,” said Mary.
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