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This week, Mary Holland, Children’s Health Defense (CHD) president on leave, and Polly Tommey, CHD.TV programming manager, covered the latest headlines on COVID-19, Big Pharma and other issues, including news that CHD founder Robert F. Kennedy Jr., filed to run for U.S. president.
Polly and Mary also discussed that the U.S. government will spend $5 billion on a program to accelerate the development of new coronavirus vaccines and therapeutics, White House officials announced this month.
Plus, documents reveal that the federal government and insurers incentivized healthcare providers in Kentucky and California to vaccinate Medicaid patients against COVID-19 by offering bonuses based on the percentage of patients successfully vaccinated.
Also on tap this week: In a move that shifts liability for COVID-19 vaccine injuries from the government to physicians, Switzerland stopped recommending COVID-19 vaccines for spring and summer, even for those people considered to be high risk.
More highlights:
- CHD put Washington, D.C., school officials on notice that CHD will sue the Office of the State Superintendent of Education if it mandates COVID-19 vaccines for schoolchildren. “We are there on the front lines,” said Polly.
- Dr. Madhava Setty and Dr. Elizabeth Mumper attended the World Vaccine Congress in Washington, D.C., where they observed that the more than 3,100 people, mostly from the pharma and biotech industries and regulatory affairs, who attended the event were highly focused on converting the vaccine-hesitant. “Dr. Setty and Dr. Mumper said they didn’t meet a single other practicing clinician at the event,” said Mary. “This tells you that this is about money, not treating people.”
- The Health and Resources Service Administration approved its first three payments to people injured by COVID-19 vaccines — one for anaphylaxis and two for myocarditis — amounting to a total of $4,634.89. “This is the most shocking article of the week,” said Polly.
- CHD sued the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for failing to produce documents related to correspondence between NIH researchers and individuals who contacted the agency regarding adverse events they experienced after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine. “We don’t know what the correspondence says but we know that we need to see it,” said Mary.
- Babies with underlying conditions will be offered a COVID-19 vaccine, U.K. health chiefs confirmed on April 6. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports myocarditis and pericarditis after mRNA COVID-19 vaccination. “This makes no sense to me,” said Polly.
- In a departure from its largely pro-COVID-19 vaccine coverage of the past several years, the BBC — Britain’s national broadcaster — reported that AstraZeneca is facing lawsuits over claims the drugmaker’s COVID-19 vaccine caused injuries and deaths. “I think we are seeing a shift here,” said Mary.
- The CDC must open up all data on COVID-19 cases and vaccination to researchers for urgent epidemiologic evaluation of disturbing trends related to increased maternal deaths. “This needs to be investigated,” said Mary.
- Americans lost nearly three years of life expectancy during 2020 and 2021, leading Dr. Steven Woolf, a professor of population health, to conclude that “all the medical advances over the past quarter century have been erased.”
- Americans are now dying younger on average than they used to. “This is a sharp signal that something is very, very wrong,” said Mary. “If children’s life expectancy is declining, then there is a conversation that needs to take place.”
- People who receive Pfizer’s respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine should be monitored for Guillain-Barré syndrome, according to the authors of a Pfizer-funded study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
- A lab-created bird flu virus accident shows the lax oversight of risky “gain-of-function” research. “This is bioweapons research,” said Mary.
- Within 30 minutes of receiving her one and only dose of the HPV vaccine, Kaley Stockton experienced a dramatic decline in her health. “This is an excellent interview,” said Polly.
- Instead of giving big corporations “bogus” carbon credits while they continue to degrade soil, air and water quality, we should pay authentic organic and regenerative farmers for the beneficial ecosystem services they provide. “This is very exciting news,” said Mary.
- Weekly injections for weight loss rob your body of the chance to balance its weight naturally. What are the risks?
- The American Academy of Pediatrics’ new clinical guidelines for treating childhood obesity recommend weight-loss drugs and surgery, prompting some to ask why the academy is focused on profit-generating treatments rather than addressing the root causes.
- Since 2018, industrial pork producers have been using customizable mRNA-based “vaccines” on their herds. “We need to find out exactly where our food comes from,” said Mary.
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