medical corruption

covid vaccine cardiomyopathy

Much of this is cross posted from my main blog.

 the nuances in this talk suggest that early in the epidemic, the original Covid killed people, but the vaccines were mainly given to high risk folks, so it probably saved hundreds of thousands of lives.

But now that covid has evolved into a disease that is similar to influenza, which mainly kills people who are old or frail, there is a big dehate if the side effects of the vaccine are worse than the disease, especially for the low risk young people, and especially the policy that insists that young people receive repeated booster shots, when data that is now being released shows that the complication rate, although low, is higher after second etc. boosters.

If there is an immune problem here, repeated booster shots would increase the risk of developing the problem.

Much of this is denied, but a study over a year ago in Taiwan showed a one percent problem of cardiac problems and worse after the secojnd dose. This study was done after the Moderna mRNA vaccine.

italics mine.

So why wait a year to allow this study to be published?

the BMJ did a study last year, but showed a very low incidence of myocarditis aftere a single shot, and said it was more common after Moderna than with the Pfizer vaccine. So this should have been a "headsup" to possible problems.

The reason the news is reporting so many sudden cardiac deaths might be becaause the rate seems to be higher after numerous doses, if the Taiwan study is correct.

Dr. C previously reported a study of autopsies from Germany that showed evidence of myocarditis.

Sigh.

the success of the various vaccine against the original covid strain probably saved hundreds of thousands of people.

A short shut down of meetings was probably a good thing (we do this for a month or two in bad flu outbreaks). Early in the epidemic, it was needed.

 But prolonged economic and school shutdowns was probably not needed, after the vaccines were given to the elders and high risk patients, which would have been three months after the vaccines were released.

But the irony is that riots and demonstrations were allowed, and some public health authorities said they were okay, because presumably the original covid supported BLM and the virus promised not to infect these people.

This is absurd, of course. And like the failure of the CDC to shut down the raves and parties that spread monkey pox, it shows how PC politics has infiltrated the US medical establishment.

The problems of side effects should have be given a headsup much earlier.

For example, I got the AZ British vaccine, which was found to cause blood clots, especially in the young. I even did a blog post about the risk, which was higher in the young than in we elders. So some countries banned this vaccine except for elders, where the risk of clots was lower and the risk of death was higher.

But it now turns out that there is a push to give repeated boosters of the mRNA vaccine, to the young, who don't need them since the Omicron strain is rarely fatal.

In the meanwhile, China is being confronted with a new version that is even less fatal and more infectious than the omicron. And the Sinovax, which didn't work very well against the original covid, doesn't work at all against this strain. So of course China 

as for the Philippines: Despite a push, they are having to throw out lots of expensive vaccine doses because people are just not willing to get boosters.

this, like the scandal of the Dengue vaccine, is going to make people distrust medical authorities, and like what we saw in the Phiippines, it will lead to deaths from preventable diseases prevented by vaccines that have been around for 20, 30 or even 100 years.

Sigh.

Haiti: Cholera again

From the CDC:

On October 2, 2022, two cases of Vibrio cholerae O1 infection were confirmed in the greater Port-au-Prince area. As of January 3, 2023, >20,000 suspected cholera cases had been reported throughout the country. What are the implications for public health practice? Multiple factors, including social unrest, have affected public health infrastructure and facilitated cholera resurgence. Although cases have declined, a multipronged approach, including sufficient and timely case management, strengthened surveillance, emergency water treatment, and targeted oral cholera vaccination campaigns are urgently needed.

the infrastructure has never quite recovered from the 2010 earthquake, and there has been political instability and anarchy from gang violence

And more recently a 2021 earthquake that destroyed much of what was rebuilt. From UNICEF:

Early in the morning of 14 August 2021, a 7.2 magnitude earthquake rocked Haiti, causing hospitals, schools and homes to collapse, claiming hundreds of lives, and leaving communities in crisis. By mid-September, around 650,000 people, including about 260,000 children, were estimated to be in need of humanitarian assistance.

Two reports on the background of the epidemic:  

From PBS Newshour:

from WION, an Indian news site.

 The prevention of Cholera is fairly straightforward: when we were in Africa, we were instructed about what to do if it hit our area (luckily it did not):  doctors or healthworkers should place patients in local schools etc that had running water since clinics had few beds, And with IVs and WHO Rehydration fluid, the death rate is much lower than in  the past. Stress on washing hands and boiling water, and giving cholera vaccine was done.

One reason our area might not have had the problem: We had village health workers in many small villages to encourage these things, and we had a well digging project funded by Oxfam to provide cleaner water (that still had to be boiled, but was less contaminated than using river water, and with more water available nearby, washing hands etc. was easier to do).

But if you want health care workers to work in these areas, you need to guarantee them physical safety. 

So what is going on in Haiti?

So who was rebuilding the infrastructure? Why aren't locals, especially those with an education, taking jobs helping to rebuild their country?

Answer: Lots of chaos political instablity earthquakes and hurricanes don't help.

To make things worse, many who could rebuild the country, i.e. those with energy and education will flee the country to make a life elsewhere: 

from the MiamiHerald July 2022:

The university-educated Philippeson, who is fluent in five languages, is part of a generation of Haitians who have migrated to Brazil, Chile and other South American nations following their country’s devastating 2010 earthquake. After years of living in South America, they decided to make their way north in a treacherous 7,000-mile trek through the road-less jungles of Central America to Mexico in the hopes of living in the U.S...

A recent national survey by the country’s Citizen Observatory for Institutionalization of Democracy found that 82% of Haiti’s nearly 12 million people would migrate if they had the chance.

The deep disenchantment with the country and democracy has been shaped by the volatile nation’s downward spiral over the past six years..

So send in the marines? The US and UN has done this in the past, and it didn't work. 

And often those trying to help become scapegoats for the problems.

For example: Some blamed the failure of rebuilding the infrastucture after the 2010 earthquake many years ago on the Clinton fund scandal, including many in the US Hatian community, but that aid has to be put into the context of the problem of foreign aid in general. 

BBC report on the Clinton fund problems gives insight into the problems of foreign aid in general.

 

A US Government Accountability Office report discovered no hint of wrongdoing, but concluded the IHRC's decisions were "not necessarily aligned with Haitian priorities". Mr Clinton's own office at the UN found 9% of the foreign aid cash went to the Haitian government and 0.6% to local organisations.

The bulk of it went to UN agencies, international aid groups, private contractors and donor countries' own civilian and military agencies. ...

part of the problem: Do you let efficient, trained, and honest outsiders handle the aid, or encourage and help locals do it, knowing that they are often untrained and alas too often corrupt and so much of the money will be stolen by them or by local gangs?

Jake Johnston, an analyst with the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a nonpartisan group that has studied the quake reconstruction, told the BBC "it's hard to say it's been anything other than a failure".

But he believes the State Department and IHRC simply replicated the mistakes of the whole foreign aid industry by chasing short-term gains instead of building longer-term capacity on the ground.

"They relied too much on outside actors," Mr Johnston says, "and supplanted the role of the Haitian government and domestic producers."

 Sigh.

and now the UKGuardian reports famine is coming.

cross posted to my main blog.

guess what? Psychodelics have side effects

 I have watched cynically how various psychodelics have been pushed as miracle drugs for depression etc. in the lay press, and alas even in some so called medical journals.

Those pushing them come from well funded institutes that start with the idea that they work, and then they experiment with patients who often are desparate (where placebo effect would be high) or who already have used similar drugs and are eager to do so again and cure themselves (again high placebo effect).

I wonder who is pushing these institutes and funding their studies?

I am cynical, because a lot of these drugs led to mental illness when they were used in the 1960s, 

and even the use of them in ceremonies by Native Americans was usually in a ceremony, where only the patient took the drug, complete with community and religious aspects: 

the Native American church took it regularly, but one wonders if this was done traditionally as a regular practice, instead of a single ceremony. 

The dosage also is something not discussed. Mother Drexel once took peyote in a ceremony to understand those she worked with, and she claims the experience was similar to the deep prayer after communion. She did not hallucinate, but many taking it said they did hallucinate.

And is there brain damage? LSD leaves a hole in the brain on PET scans, meaning permenant damage. Any studies here? I don't know because I haven't done the research and of course I distrust the research because the experments were done to prove they work, not from a neutral point of view.

These drugs, if used correctly, could be letting one go into one's deep psyche. Similar to self hypnosis, meditation and other ways to get peace via rituals.

(one could say the same thing about vision quests, with fasting and prayer to get a vision. Not something one does all the time).

But even with TM types of meditation, the dirty little secret about these things is that a certain number of people freak out or get psychotic breaks: 

Well, anyway, the goofiness of Prince Harry might be because he took these drugs, says an article in the UKMail.

where an expert admits there can be problems.Even with a great therapist and a perfect situation, Dr Johnson said a person using these drugs is still vulnerable to having their view warped.

He said he has heard of cases where patients were effectively brainwashed using psychedelic therapy. 

But the expert added that for many people, '[They] can come to terms withpersonal issues with others... [and] feel that they have gained closure.'

Dr Johnson has seen many positive cases in clinical trials, though. Sometimes, a person will finally understand a loved one, and even break estrangement to reconnect.

the psychiatric equivalent of Russian Roulette

and one wonders if taking placebo with a sympathetic psychiatrist would work just as well.

Side effects from mRNA vaccines

 I am waiting for Dr C to be cancelled for criticizing the coverup of mRNA covid vaccine side effects.

the point is that initially we saw a lot of high risk people (and even low risk middle age and pregnant) people getting covid and dying. But now, with the mildren varient, why the push to keep getting booster after booster, and pushing it on people whose risk of serious disease and death from covid is low?

Earlier discussion of the latest outbreak of a milder but more infectious covid omicron outbreak in China.

... . 

Population 1,412,600,000 

 Daily new infection rate over an 8 week period Per week = 176,575,000 

 Per day = 25,225,011 

 World meter https://www.worldometers.info/coronav... 

. Over the next 3 months 

 about 100,000 deaths per month About 3,300 per day 

 Population 1,412,600,000 

 Infection fatality rate = 0.000207 

 Over the next 3 months Therefore about 100,000 deaths per month About 3,300 per day 

population 1,412,600,000 

 Infection fatality rate = 0.000207 

translation: lots of people sick, few dying, and most of them are dying of other things with covid, not from covid itself

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Vaccination by WHO

 

Lies, damn lies, and statistics

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some of this I know because we used to talk about these things in our weekly journal club (where risks and benefits touted in the medical literature, and then amplified by the press) were found to be tiny in realiy.

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Other links:
I did a discussion of the Uganda ebola outbreak on my regular blog. LINK

I get annoyed when the anti vax hysteria seems to condemn all public health officials and all vaccines. 

Sheesh. Maybe they need to live in the third world, where epidemics kill folk, but public health and vaccines saves lives.

StrategyPage has a long essay about the various tribal wars in Central Africa/DRC area, and how a Russian mercenary group is looting gold and diamonds to sell via the UAE. 

 But they do have this good news in their report:

November 30, 2022: In western Uganda, the Ebola outbreak that began in September has seen a decline in cases because of rapid medical response. Reported cases have declined but despite that decline, Uganda has closed schools nation-wide in an attempt to curb the spread of the Ebola virus. In November eight children died from Ebola in Uganda. The spread of Ebola to neighboring Congo seems to have been halted.....

Andrew Wefwafa had a series of videos about this

 

.....this was caused by the Sudan variation of the Ebola virus, and the problem is that the vaccines that helped stop the previous epidemics in central Africa were for a different strain. 

Just recently, a new experimental vaccine for this Ebola strain has been sent there. LINK

 

The doses are from the Sabin Vaccine Institute (SVI), according to Reuters. The SVI vaccine is a modified chimpanzee adenovirus (ChAd3) vector vaccine.

note: The adenovirus vector is the technique that was used to develop the british AZ vaccine for covid, and it was also used to develop previous Ebola vaccines .

Health officials had earlier cleared plans to study three candidate Ebola Sudan vaccines. The others are from Merck and Oxford University. 

In the middle of November, a WHO working group recommended that ring vaccine trials prioritize the Merck candidate first, owing to the safety and efficacy of the VSV-EBOV platform used for the Zaire Ebola vaccine, followed by the SVI vaccine, then the Oxford vaccine. A sharp decline in Uganda's Ebola cases presents an obstacle to ring vaccination trials. '

 essentially the disease was stopped by isolation etc. so they will not be able to prove the vaccine works.

 

/sarcasm.

Actually from a scientific point of view, this means that they can't prove it works, but in serioius diseases, when the choice means saving lives, usually the saving lives is more important than purity in scientific experimentation.

I wrote about this awhile back, when I noted that diphtheria anti toxin was so impressive in saving lives that doctors didn't have the heart not to treat children in the "control"group.

There are also ways to stop the spread of disease, such as masks (which keep you from spreading infected saliva when you talk or sneeze), isolation, hand washing etc.

And if you don't want to vaccinate everyone, or if there is not enough vaccine for everyone, you use the "ring vaccination"procedure.

WHO Report.

The ring procedure is to isolate the cases, and vaccinate the ones in contact, then vaccinate the ones who were in contact with the contacts, etc.

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