Left off the list of vaccine updates are healthy people from ages 5 to 65 who have already gotten their bivalent booster. They are not currently eligible for another booster, the FDA noted. Instead, it referenced its plans to follow an annual fall booster plan, saying, " The FDA intends to make decisions about future vaccination after receiving recommendations on the fall strain composition at an FDA advisory committee in June."
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As the pandemic coronavirus spread between March 2020 and April 1, 2021, people from both parties saw similar surges in excess deathsâthat is, deaths above what would be expected had there not been a global health crisis. But after April 1, when all adults in both states were eligible for vaccination, a gap emerged in the rate of excess deaths between Republican and Democratic voters. Republicans had an excess death rate 7.7 percentage points higher than their blue counterparts, amounting to a 43 percent difference in the excess death rates.
In case this sounds familiarâŚ
The study is just the latest to find a connection between political party affiliation and deaths during the pandemic. But, it takes the connection a step further, going beyond county-level political leanings and looking at how party affiliation linked to deaths at the individual level. The authorsâall researchers at Yale Universityâfocused on Ohio and Florida because those were the only two states with readily available public data on voter registration.
The study involved death data on 538,159 people in Ohio and Florida, age 25 and older, and their linked voter registration files. The researchers did not have complete dataâthe linked data didnât contain a cause of death or vaccination status. But, they could evaluate excess weekly deaths by age, state, county, and party affiliation. They found that the gap in excess deaths was larger in counties with lower vaccination rates, suggesting that lack of vaccination among Republican voters may partly explain the higher death rates.
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Iâll take âThings that did not surprise me because theyâre obvious for $1000â. Oh, interesting, âWhat is âidiots being idiotsâ?â
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I know I saw it mentioned in another thread, but just thought Iâd highlight:
If she had cooperated with the investigation, the board intended to ask Tenpenny about her recommendations and administrations of vaccines, and whether any of her patients had contracted vaccine-preventable illnesses. They also had questions about the evidence she had to support various eyebrow-raising public claims, including those:
regarding COVID-19 vaccines causing people to become magnetized or creating an interface with 5G towers; ⌠and regarding some major metropolitan areas liquefying dead bodies and pouring them into the water supply.
Iâd picked up on the magnetization and 5G claims, but soylent green in the water? These people are so weird.
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Oddly enough, that might be the most real of all that wackoâs conspiracy theories.
Alkaline hydrolysis is an option in some areas, vs cremation or burial. And disposal of the remains down the drain is a thing they can do. But thatâs not pouring it into the water supply any more than flushing a toilet is pouring poop into the water supply.
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So what youâre saying is, that my POOP CAN BE MAGNETIZED?!!!?!?!!!? I knew it!
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Hope itâs not attracted to
Oh forget it.
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But even if you think your poo is magnetic and smells like roses, itâs not a good idea to try replacing your fridge magnets with it.
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Before the pandemic, Pedersen claimedâto little notice, apparentlyâthat his products could treat various ailments, including arthritis, diabetes, influenza, and pneumonia. But, when the pandemic struck, he claimed they could also treat and prevent COVID-19. In online videos and promotions, Pedersen claimed that having silver in your bloodstream could âusherâ the virus out of your body and that silver nanoparticles could block the virus from entering your cells.
Specifically, he claimed that his âstructural alkaline silverâ product âresonates, or vibrates, at a frequency that destroys the membrane of the virus, making the virus incapable of attach to any healthy cell, or to infect you in any way.â
According to prosecutors, he made these claims while falsely posing as a medical doctor and expert, though he does not have a medical degree or license. He falsely claimed to have PhDs in immunology, biology, and naturopathic medicine, a masterâs degree in âcardiac rehabilitation and wellness,â and claimed he was board-certified in anti-aging and regenerative medicine. In online videos, he has appeared in a white coat monogrammed with âDr. Gordon Pedersenâ and with a stethoscope around his neck.
I wonder if silver in your bloodstream would keep away vampire werewolvesâŚ
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Modernaâs updated COVID-19 vaccine provided a âsignificant boostâ in peopleâs neutralizing antibody levels against the latest omicron SARS-CoV-2 subvariants circulating in the US, that is, EG.5 and FL.1.5.1, according to a press release from the company.
But also:
The CEOs of more than 300 publicly traded health care companies collectively raked in $4 billion last year as Americans struggled under high inflation, according to an analysis by Stat News.
Topping the income chart is the CEO of Moderna, the company that developed one of the leading COVID-19 vaccines in the worldâwith significant support from US taxpayers and federal scientists.
Bancelâs haul was largely from pre-planned stock sales, and he has said that he will donate much of it to charity. Still, the pandemic made Bancel a billionaire; his net worth is estimated to be over $4 billion, and Moderna made roughly $36 billion in worldwide sales from the vaccine, its only product.
Rich people giving to charity is such a scamâŚ
Overall, as many Americans struggled to make ends meet amid high inflation, health care CEOs made an average of $13 million, with a median of around $4.3 million. The majority of CEOs made at least 64 times more than the average employee. The median CEO bonus was around $700,000, nearly 10 times the median US household income.
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I hate how terrible the pharma companies are, to the point that vaccine skepticism becomes a widely misapplied âfuck youâ that kills hundreds of millions of people worldwide. We need to redefine the exclusivity of patents.
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Not specifically about Covid, butâŚ
Talking about RFK Jrâs talking point of saying he wants all vaccines to be compared specifically against a saline solution placebo, rather than anything else. And how utterly unethical that would actually be in practice.
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I forget â where is his PhD in pharmacology, bioethics, epidemiology and statistics from again?
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Mercola had tried to argue that YouTube owed him more than $75,000 in damages for breaching its own user contract and denying him access to his videos. However, in an order dismissing Mercolaâs complaint, US magistrate judge Laurel Beeler wrote that according to the contract Mercola signed, YouTube was âunder no obligation to hostâ Mercolaâs content after terminating his channel in 2021 âfor violating YouTubeâs Community Guidelines by posting medical misinformation about COVID-19 and vaccines.â
âThe court found no breach because âthere is no provision in the Terms of Service that requires YouTube to maintain particular contentâ or be a âstorage site for usersâ content,ââ Beeler wrote.
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I wish Teddy, Jr. would run. But heâs got more sense than that.
In case this is useful:
Text, as Iâm not sure if my pic has loaded:
PSA: the CDC has a program that pays for your COVID vaccine if your insurer wonât. The guy at CVS told me that my insurer had not added the new vaccine to its formulary yet, so Iâd need to pay $190. I told him about this program, showed him the website, and paid nothing.
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/programs/bridge/index.html
The program is also supposed to help uninsured people, as well as those whose insurance doesnât cover the shot.
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