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Family of Woman Who Died From Seizures Believes Death Was Linked to COVID Vaccine
Doctors who treated an elderly Longford woman who died following an unexplained series of seizures last year told an inquest it was possible that her death was linked to an adverse reaction to a COVID-19 vaccine.
However, two hospital consultants who treated the patient, Bridget Kerr (86), also stressed it was not in their area of expertise to state definitively that a reaction to the Pfizer vaccine was an explanation for her death.
An inquest at Dublin District Coroner’s Court heard a postmortem on the body of Ms. Kerr, a mother of seven from Cooleeney, Dublin Road, Longford, was inconclusive in establishing the cause of her death. Evidence was heard that several other possible explanations including stroke, brain tumor and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) had been ruled out.
Ms. Kerr died at the Mater Misericordiae Hospital in Dublin on April 27, 2021, after being transferred there from the Midlands Regional Hospital in Mullingar after suffering a number of seizures. Her family claims their mother only became unwell after receiving the COVID vaccine from her local GP two months earlier.
Toxic Concentrations of Chemicals Released in the Heart May Explain Myocarditis After COVID Vaccine
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention myocarditis after a COVID-19 vaccine has been reported in adolescents and young adult males within several days after the Pfizer and Moderna shots. It typically occurs after the second dose and usually within a week of vaccination. And now a first-of-its-kind study may explain why this happens.
In a paper published in JAMA Cardiology, scientists at Boston Children’s Hospital looked at 15 children ages 12 to 18 years old who were admitted to the hospital one to nine days after their COVID vaccine. A blood test showed the above-normal concentrations of the chemical troponin in each patient’s blood. High levels of troponin can lead to damaged heart cells, cell death and heart attacks.
“In this small case series study, myocarditis was diagnosed in children after COVID-19 vaccination, most commonly in boys after the second dose,” the authors say in the study. “In this case series, in short-term follow-up, patients were mildly affected. The long-term risks associated with post-vaccination myocarditis remain unknown. Larger studies with longer follow-up are needed to inform recommendations for COVID-19 vaccination in this population.”
Three COVID Questions Dr. Fauci Needs to Answer
Despite never having been elected to anything, the 81-year-old Dr. Anthony Fauci has imposed his iron will on Americans for nearly three years. After a half-century on the taxpayer dole, he has become the highest-paid employee in the federal government, overseeing the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and its $6 billion budget. The incoming House Republican majority would be wise to shed light on Fauci’s efforts to undermine the practice of medicine during the pandemic. Here are three specific areas worthy of investigation.
First, get to the bottom of the mask masquerade. During his final press conference, Fauci stressed the importance of facial accessories by cracking a joke about “looking terrific.” Early in the pandemic, he was singing a different tune, acknowledging in private emails, “the typical mask you buy at a drug store is not really effective at keeping out a virus.”
Second, explore Fauci’s constant shifting of the goalposts with COVID-19 vaccines. Alongside Biden, Fauci has become the face of the vaccine push. In fact, his parting words were a final plea to “get your updated COVID-19 shot.” Never did he offer a shred of remorse for all his failed claims about the efficacy of the vaccines. In December 2020, Fauci marveled at the purported 90% efficacy rate of the Pfizer vaccine, heralding the development as “just extraordinary.” As the pandemic wore on and “breakthrough cases” became the new norm, Fauci shifted to, “even if a vaccine fails to protect against infection, it often protects against serious disease.”
Making matters worse was Fauci’s relentless disinformation campaign against the use of safe, effective re-purposed generic drugs in favor of high-priced, patented pharmaceutical products. Fauci dismissed critics as opponents of science, even at one point claiming to represent science itself. Yet when data have countered his preferred narrative, science has faced no greater foe than Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Finally, as the Chinese people revolt against their government’s Draconian measures, the American public deserves to know exactly which elements Fauci borrowed from the Chinese Communist Party playbook.
‘Negative Efficacy’ Should Have Stopped COVID Vaccine Recommendations in Their Tracks
Recently, various health agencies around the world have approved and are actively pushing for another COVID booster shot, meant to enhance the vaccine efficacy against a COVID-19 infection.
However, many studies have found that the boosters do not make a significant difference in protection, especially in terms of protection against reinfection. In fact, the latest data shows vaccine efficacy against the coronavirus tends to even drop into the negatives after just a few months.
It is a well-known fact that COVID vaccine effectiveness wanes quickly as time goes on; this is confirmed by countless studies. Although the official narrative for COVID-19 vaccines nowadays only emphasizes their efficacy in protection against ICU admission and death rates, it actually implies the indisputable fact that vaccines don’t protect, contrary to their design, against infection or even symptomatic infection, especially after the emergence of various Omicron variants.
Even the protection two shots offer against hospitalization drops to about 40% after less than a year. It’s actually looking worse for protection against severe symptoms, as efficacy rates seem to drop into the negatives about five months into full vaccination. When a vaccine’s efficacy drops into the negatives, it means that vaccination actually elevates the risks of hospitalization and severe diseases rather than reducing the risks. In simple terms, it does more harm than good when the efficacy is negative.
CDC Awards Over $3 Billion to Strengthen U.S. Public Health Infrastructure
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Tuesday it is awarding more than $3 billion to help strengthen the public health workforce and infrastructure across the United States after the COVID-19 pandemic put severe stress on them.
The public health agency’s funding includes $3 billion from the American Rescue Plan announced by President Joe Biden‘s administration last year and would cover all state, local and territorial health departments across the country.
“The pandemic severely stressed (the health) agencies, which were already weakened by neglect and underinvestment,” said CDC Director Rochelle Walensky. “This grant gives these agencies critical funding and flexibility to build and reinforce the nation’s public health workforce and infrastructure.”
New York Nursing Home Sued for Fraud, Neglect by State Attorney General
The owners of a nursing home in Western New York allegedly “wove a complicated web of fraud” that resulted in patient neglect and caused the conditions that led to deadly problems exposed during the COVID-19 pandemic, New York Attorney General Letitia James alleged Tuesday in a new lawsuit.
The lawsuit, filed against the owners, operators, and related companies of The Villages of Orleans Health and Rehabilitation Center, said the defendants took advantage of the state’s Medicaid program to increase their personal profits, rather than use those funds for the intended purposes of staffing and patient care.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, The Villages management tried to keep positive cases secret and either delayed or entirely neglected to enforce proper protocols for quarantining infected residents, the lawsuit said, resulting in preventable deaths. Staff members were forced to report to work even when they were sick and were provided little to no personal protective equipment.
China Pushes Dubious Claim of Sick Jogger Causing COVID Outbreak
China is pushing a dubious study that claims an unmasked runner infected nearly 40 people with COVID on a half-hour jog through the park — despite experts worldwide downplaying the risk of outdoor spread.
In the November report, the Chinese Centers for Disease Control and Prevention claimed that “Patient Zero” jogged through a local park in the Chongqing municipality back in August and potentially exposed the virus to approximately 2,836 people and infected 39 with the virus.
According to the report, a total of 39 people tested positive for COVID, including 33 park visitors and two park cleaners. The employees then passed on the virus to four colleagues. Physician and epidemiologist Dr. Bob Morris shared the new report’s findings on Twitter, saying there was “overwhelming evidence of outdoor transmission of Omicron.” He added: “Nothing beats a surveillance state for contact tracing.”
But other experts expressed skepticism over the findings, noting that the scientists had not presented any evidence that the cases came from the same source.
