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This week, Mary Holland, Children’s Health Defense (CHD) president, and Polly Tommey, CHD.TV programming manager, covered the latest headlines on COVID-19, Big Pharma and other issues, including news that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a fourth COVID-19 vaccine for children under age 5.

Polly and Mary also discussed that Dr. Anthony Fauci insisted he has always been honest throughout his career after he was accused by lawmakers of engaging in a “cover-up” in light of fresh intelligence disclosures concerning the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Plus, details continue to emerge about cover-ups and fraud during Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine trials as Die Welt, a mainstream media outlet in Germany, revealed that numerous subjects who suffered adverse events, including deaths, were removed from the trial data.

Also on tap this week: Lawmakers misrepresented a bill requiring the declassification of documents related to the origins of COVID-19, according to several experts who warned that contrary to what the public was told, the legislation limits the types of documents the government must declassify — and that raises questions about the bill’s real intent.

More of this week’s highlights:

  • A neurologist said a single dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine caused a woman’s transverse myelitis. “Why is this not mainstream news?” said Polly. “This is incredibly serious.”
  • Since the COVID-19 pandemic, Bell’s palsy diagnoses have been skyrocketing. What is causing this increase? “We have to keep educating on this,” said Polly.
  • The FDA flagged Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine for its myocarditis risk. “They are all dangerous,” said Mary.
  • The transition to daylight saving time is linked to “serious” health effects, including increased heart attacks.
  • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) doled out hundreds of millions of grants to push vaccines and collect data on people of color. “They are really going out of their way to put these products in the hands of the people,” said Mary.
  • Private WhatsApp messages shared with The Telegraph reveal how U.K. health officials, including former health secretary Matt Hancock, made COVID-19 policy decisions based on political expediency rather than science. “Hancock, it’s over for you,” said Polly.
  • An elderly lion in an Indiana zoo transmitted COVID-19 to the zookeepers who handfed the severely ill big cat. It is the first recorded time a zoo animal has passed the virus to a human.
  • New York City rats can carry COVID-19 variants, a new study found. “This is just nutty to me,” said Mary.
  • Dr. Robert Redfield, former director of the CDC, said he has “no doubt” the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Fauci funded gain-of-function research that likely resulted in the creation of COVID-19 and its subsequent leak.
  • A study published March 13 in JAMA attributed a surge in deaths among children and teens to “drugs, guns and automobiles.” “This is an ideological spin statement,” said Mary.
  • Moderna is eyeing possible human testing of shots to fight mpox and bird flu this year. “They never test these against true placebos,” said Mary.
  • Despite research showing remdesivir is ineffective against COVID-19 and can cause high rates of organ failure, the FDA authorized the experimental antiviral drug for use against COVID-19 — and it’s still being used. “It’s shocking how many people I know have lost people to remdesivir,” said Polly.
  • The global Autism Spectrum Disorder treatment market is projected to reach $11.42 billion by 2028, according to a new report by 360 Research Reports. Critics called the report “heartbreaking” and called for more focus on prevention by keeping “toxicants out of kids’ bodies.” “Don’t use these products,” said Mary.
  • Under a new (free but not fair) trade agreement, the U.S. aims to force Mexico to not only accept genetically modified corn but also to overturn their ban on the herbicide Roundup (glyphosate), a probable carcinogen.
  • Supporters of Helium 5G technology call it “the people’s network” because it creates wireless internet coverage without relying on the services of an internet provider, but critics say it comes at a cost — to your health, privacy and liberty — as corporations profit from mining your data. “These will be affecting people’s health everywhere,” said Mary.
  • Federally controlled digital currencies could “signal the end of liberty” by giving the federal government “complete surveillance” over people.
  • Radiofrequency (RF) radiation can lead to brain damage, dementia and Alzheimer’s disease according to 9 leading experts in the RF radiation field. “This is very distressing,” said Mary.
  • A new report showed most states fall short in providing oversight for lead in schools — and the testing that has happened to this point shows widespread contamination from rural towns to major cities.
  • Thousands of records about U.S. government involvement in the research and development of facial recognition technology fueled fresh calls for a federal ban on such tools. “This is an invitation to totalitarianism,” said Mary.
  • The authors of a peer-reviewed study showing microplastics passed pregnant rats’ intestinal and placental barriers, leading to impaired fetal development, concluded the same could be true for humans. “People need to be concerned about their use of plastics,” said Mary.
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