Coronavirus (COVID-19) General News Collection & Resources

[dMog]

biggest mistake to be made in the USA was putting politics and personal ego and ambitions and agendas over science

[dufus]

May 24, 2020:  Philippe Douste-Blazy, Cardiology MD, Former France Health Minister and 2017 candidate for Director at WHO, former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, reveals that in a recent 2020 Chattam House closed door meeting, both the editors of the Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine stated their concerns about the criminal pressures of BigPharma on their publications. Things are so bad that it is not science any longer. 

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Va7I... (Video not posted on the BFMTV mainstream French website)

 

(Eng Subs) Hydroxychloroquine Lancet Study: Former France Health Minister blows the whistle

 

full video french

[dufus]

Over 95% of UK “Covid19” deaths had “pre-existing condition”

 

Over 95% of “COVID Deaths” recorded in England and Wales had potentially serious comorbidities, according to statistics released by NHS England.

 

The latest figures make for pretty stark reading. Or, rather, they would make for stark reading…if they didn’t follow the exact same pattern already shown in other nations around the world.

 

You can read the full report here. We’re going to focus on the comorbidity stats. Here are the number of deaths where Covid19 was listed as the only cause, split by age:

 

Ages 0-19: 3

 

Ages 20-39: 32

 

Ages 40-59: 255

 

Ages 60-79: 551

 

Ages 80+: 477

 

These are across all of England and Wales since the beginning of the “pandemic”.

 

Simply put: Of the 27045 deaths with Covid19 in English hospitals (up to June 3rd), only 1318 had no pre-existing conditions. That’s less than 5%.

 

This mirrors, almost exactly, the statistics reported in Italy back in March.

 

Christopher Bowyer has made some great graphs for the figures at Hector Drummond Magazine, none more impactful than this this:

 

 

Those big green bars are all the people who died “with” Covid19 AND some other serious disease. The little yellow bars are the people who died with Covid19 and nothing else.

 

In fact, the 25,727 other cases were listed as having over 42,000 comorbidities. That’s almost 2 each (the report itself points out that many patients had multiple conditions). This, again, aligns completely with the Italian figures which said over 80% of fatalities had at least 2 comorbidities.

 

What are these comorbidities? We don’t know. Not entirely specifically. The report lists ischemic heart disease, chronic kidney disease, asthma and dementia among others. But it also lists nearly 19,000 “other” conditions, presumably including liver failure, emphysema, AIDS, ALL forms of cancers and literally potentially thousands of other diseases.

 

Implicit in this is the possibility that these diseases were the actual cause of death, and that Covid19 played no direct role at all.

 

Further, the PCR test for coronavirus can return false positives in up to 80% of cases, so it’s entirely possible the majority of these deaths never even had the virus.

 

This isn’t breaking news. We have covered this numerous times. No matter how you switch them around the Covid numbers, as they currently stand, will never add up.

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[Jogs]

One thing that is true but most people find hard to believe that Homeopathy has the answer to COVID-19.

This is because the treatment done is very different and its not something that targets one kind of problem, like you don't need a specific cure for SARS or SARS 2 .

But that's a long story,  the fact is that many lives could have been saved.

[dufus]

Boris Johnson 'scrapped Cabinet pandemic committee six months before coronavirus hit UK'   Threats, Hazards, Resilience and Contingency Committee (THRCC) - was suspended by former prime minister Theresa May on the advice of Cabinet Secretary Sir Mark Sedwill. THRCC being scrapped in late 2018 by Sir Mark

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Trump fired America’s pandemic response team

In 2018, the government’s entire pandemic response chain of command was let go.

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as if by magic .....

[dufus]

 

The above video was sent to us on twitter. Dr Vernon Coleman, author and former general practitioner for the NHS, is reading the NICE care guidelines for critical care admissions during the Covid19 “pandemic”.

 

NICE – or the National Institute of Care and Excellence – is the official advisory board for the NHS. They prepare guidelines for care in all situations, for all conditions. They also have graded scale of “frailty”, ranging from 1 “perfectly healthy” to 9 “terminally ill”.

 

Back in March they prepared their initial guidelines for dealing with Covid19 patients (they have been regularly updated since). Troublingly, these guidelines state:

 

Sensitively discuss a possible ‘do not attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation’ decision with all adults with capacity and an assessment suggestive of increased frailty (for example, a CFS score of 5 or more)

 

For your reference, on their “frailty scale” lists a CFS score of 5 as “mildly frail”. Is the NHS really recommending DNRs for absolutely anyone who is “mildly frail”? It seems so.

 

This goes hand-in-hand with numerous anecdotal reports of coerced signings, or even DNRs being added to a patient’s file in secret. Some GP surgeries have been sending out letters instructing terminally ill patients to sign DNRs, and that they will not be admitted to hospitals if they become seriously ill.

 

Worse, carers are reporting that those with learning difficulties are signing “unprecedented” numbers of DNRs, many of them unlawful. In early April, an autistic persons’ group in Somerset was told they all needed to sign DNR forms.

 

Similar situations have been reported by the “undercover nurse” in the US, and nursing homes in Canada.

 

We believe this is a big story, and will be doing more on it in the coming days.

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[rasbridge]

Sweden's COVID-19 expert calls global lockdown 'madness' 

Source: https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3090464/swedens-covid-19-expert-calls-global-lockdowns-madness-even

[Jogs]

Lock down is not a good solution, but there is none other.

[rasbridge]

Italy could be near "herd immnity" from coronavirus 

Source:  https://nypost.com/2020/06/10/italy-could-be-nearing-heard-immunity-from-coronavirus/

 

Sweden says "herd immunity" very close

Source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/sweden-says-herd-immunity-very-close/ar-BB12WUj1#:~:text=Parts of Sweden are on track to achieve,among the first places to develop such immunity.

Edited June 28, 2020 by rasbridge

[dMog]

Sweden is also totally  telling  lies about the death rate. This would be far different if the death rate was the same as the  the flu but i is significantly higher. Herd immunity was the best mankind could hope for in the days of knights and wars were won or lost with swords. The Spanish flu epidemic was brutal in the death count and if the world would not have shut down the way it did this covid19 death count would have far surpassed that Spanish flu count in the first wave. SCIENCE is real people the truth of how to fight this virus does NOT lay in the political whims and insane tweets of  lunatics.

Edited June 29, 2020 by dMog
grammer corrections

[dufus]

 

2022: A Vaccination Passport. The EU Keeps Quiet Over Suspicious Documents

 

Surprise, surprise, the European Commission (EC) had a “Roadmap on Vaccination” ready months before the COVID-19 pandemic broke out.

 

The Roadmap should lead to a “commission proposal for a common vaccination card / passport for EU citizens by 2022”.

 

Last updated during the third quarter of 2019, the 10-page document was followed, on September 12th, by a “global vaccination summit” jointly hosted by the EC and the World Health Organization (WHO).

 

Under the header “Ten Actions Towards Vaccination for All – Everyone should be able to benefit from the power of vaccination”, the summit manifesto laments that:

 

“Despite the availability of safe and effective vaccines, lack of access, vaccine shortages, misinformation, complacency towards disease risks, diminishing public confidence in the value of vaccines and disinvestments are harming vaccination rates worldwide.”

 

And with them, arguably, the pharmaceutical companies’ profits.

 

In July 2017, for example, Italy made 12 vaccinations compulsory for children. In the aftermath, the prices of these very vaccines went up by 62%: from an average price per dose of € 14.02 up to € 22,74.

 

The global vaccination market is currently worth USD 27 billion a year. According to WHO estimates, it will reach USD 100 billion by 2025.

 

Since the EC-WHO global vaccination summit also discussed a renewed immunization agenda for 2030, the big pharma’s shareholders need not worry for the long-term performance of their stock.

 

One ought really not to “harm vaccination rates worldwide”.

 

The manifesto of the global vaccination summit goes on to list 10 “lessons (…) and actions needed towards vaccination for all”.

 

Each “lesson” is a gem of what the Italian neo-Marxist philosopher Diego Fusaro calls “the therapeutic capitalism”.

 

The wording is peremptory and leaves no room for nuance and debate. Adjectives such as “all” “everyone” “indisputably” abound. Statements in the conditional mood are absent.

 

More than a cautious, scientifically inspired and open-to-doubt plan of action, the tone – “to protect everyone everywhere”, “to leave no one behind” – is unsuitably messianic.

 

What about those who do not want to be “protected” that way? In Germany alone, roughly 10% of the whole population, or 8 million people, are strongly against a Corona vaccination.

 

But let’s look at what we can learn, so to speak, from these “lessons”.

 

Lesson 1 begins with: “Promote global political leadership and commitment to vaccination” – this seems what we are witnessing now, with governments worldwide suggesting that masks and social distancing will remain in place until a vaccine for Corona-Sars2 is found.

 

And what about those politicians who are against vaccinations?

 

Will their voters be told, as the EU budget commissioner Gunther Oettinger (in)famously did with Italian Lega voters in 2018, that “markets will teach them to vote for the right thing?”.

 

Will a new pandemic break out to teach people to vote for the right thing?

 

Lesson 4, “Tackle the root-causes of vaccine hesitancy, increasing confidence in vaccination,” looks like the blueprint for a major propaganda campaign, one that foresees – we read on the EU Roadmap on Vaccinations – the “development of e-learning training modules targeting GPs and primary healthcare providers focused on improving skills to address hesitant populations and promote behavioral change”.

 

Lesson 5, “Harness the power of digital technologies, so as to strengthen the monitoring of the performance of vaccination programs”, raises, in times of tracing apps and electronic wristbands, legitimate concerns over the further encroachment of technology in our lives – and bodies.

 

Which digital technologies are we talking about? Maybe a subcutaneous chip, like the one recently patented with the satanic-sounding number 060606 by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation?

 

Lesson 9 is, for the non-mainstream journalist, and for freedom of speech in general, the most threatening [the bolded type is mine]:

 

“Empower healthcare professionals at all levels as well as the media, to provide effective, transparent and objective information to the public and fight false and misleading information, including by engaging with social media platforms and technological companies.”

 

There we go: the fight against so-called Fake News is back. More work for Facebook’s self-appointed “Facts-Checkers”.

 

Fake News is of course Orwellian Newspeak for any non-aligned information, no matter its contents, origins and verifiability.

 

Indeed, the global vaccination manifesto provides no definition for “objective information”, or for “false and misleading information”.

 

If vaccines are as safe as the EU and WHO claim without offering any evidence, why then did the U.S. government create, already in the 1980’s, a body called National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP)?

 

To provide, we read in the VICP’s official website, “a no-fault alternative to the traditional legal system for resolving vaccine injury petitions.”

 

Quite successfully, it would seem.

 

In the period between 10/01/1988 (when the VICP begun awarding damage compensation) and 06/01/2020 (last available data), the VICP has awarded a total of USD 4,385,672,580.43 mpensation.

 

This figure excludes the compensation resulting from actual legal action, notably class actions, against Big Pharma.

 

This figure excludes the compensation resulting from actual legal action, notably class actions, against Big Pharma.

 

But, as the Italian documentary-maker Massimo Mazzucco explains, the U.S. authorities did not stop there to protect Big Pharma from legal action.

 

In 2010, a landmark ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court quoted the U.S. Code Title 42 thus:

 

“The Act eliminates manufacturer liability for a vaccines unavoidable, adverse side effects.”

 

The same ruling further elaborates:

 

“No vaccine manufacturer shall be liable in a civil action for damages arising from vaccine-related injury or death associated with the administration of a vaccine after Oct.1, 1988…

 

…if the injury or death resulted from side-effects that were unavoidable even though the vaccine was properly prepared and was accompanied by proper directions and warnings”

 

1988 was of course the year in which the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program begun awarding compensations to the victims of vaccine injury – sparing legal headaches to Big Pharma in the process.

 

As system biologist Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai points out, the impossibility to sue pharmaceutical companies over vaccines, combined with falling profits from drug sales, turned vaccines into Big Pharma’s new business model.

 

And now the EU and the Bill Gates-financed WHO go along with it.

 

“The government of the modern state,” Karl Marx famously wrote in his Communist Manifesto, “is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie”.

 

Were Marx alive today, he might have concluded that governance by international organization is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the global elites.

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[rasbridge]

Coronavirus: Immunity may be more widespread than tests suggest

 

 "For every person testing positive for antibodies, two were found to have specific T-cells which identify and destroy infected cells."

 Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-53248660?

[dMog]

good news is always welcome.

[aum]

20 hours ago, dMog said:

good news is always welcome.

 

 

... and bad news is unavoidable. 

[aum]

Explainer: what's the new coronavirus saliva test, and how does it work?

 

A cornerstone of containing the COVID-19 pandemic is widespread testing to identify cases and prevent new outbreaks emerging. This strategy is known as "test, trace and isolate".

 

The standard test so far has been the swab test, in which a swab goes up your nose and to the back of your throat.

 

But an alternative method of specimen collection, using saliva, is being evaluated in Victoria and other parts of the world. It may have some benefits, even though it's not as accurate.

 

Saliva testing can reduce risks for health workers

 

The gold standard for detecting SARS-CoV-2 (the coronavirus that causes COVID-19) is a polymerase chain reaction (PCR). This tests for the genetic material of the virus, and is performed most commonly on a swab taken from the nose and throat, or from sputum (mucus from the lungs) in unwell patients.

 

In Australia, more than 2.5 million of these tests have been carried out since the start of the pandemic, contributing significantly to the control of the virus.

 

Although a nasal and throat swab is the preferred specimen for detecting the virus, PCR testing on saliva has recently been suggested as an alternative method. Several studies demonstrate the feasibility of this approach, including one conducted at the Doherty Institute (where the lead author of this article works). It used the existing PCR test, but examined saliva instead of nasal samples.

 

The use of saliva has several advantages:

• it is easier and less uncomfortable to take saliva than a swab
• it may reduce the risk to health-care workers if they do not need to collect the sample
• it reduces the consumption of personal protective equipment (PPE) and swabs. This is particularly important in settings where these might be in short supply.

But it's not as sensitive

 

However, a recent meta-analysis (not yet peer-reviewed) has shown detection from saliva is less sensitive than a nasal swab, with a lower concentration of virus in saliva compared to swabs. It's important to remember, though, this data is preliminary and must be treated with caution.

 

Nonetheless, this means saliva testing is likely to miss some cases of COVID-19. This was also shown in our recent study, which compared saliva and nasal swabs in more than 600 adults presenting to a COVID-19 screening clinic.

 

Of 39 people who tested positive via nasal swab, 87% were positive on saliva. The amount of virus was less in saliva than in the nasal swab. This most likely explains why testing saliva missed the virus in the other 13% of cases.

 

The laboratory test itself is the same as the PCR tests conducted on nasal swabs, just using saliva as an alternative specimen type. However, Australian laboratories operate under strict quality frameworks. To use saliva as a diagnostic specimen, each laboratory must verify saliva specimens are acceptably accurate when compared to swabs. This is done by testing a bank of known positive and negative saliva specimens and comparing the results with swabs taken from the same patients.

 

When could saliva testing be used?

 

In theory, there are several settings where saliva testing could play a role in the diagnosis of COVID-19. These may include:

• places with limited staff to collect swabs or where high numbers of tests are required
• settings where swabs and PPE may be in critically short supply
• some children and other people for whom a nasal swab is difficult.

The use of saliva testing at a population level has not been done anywhere in the world. However, a pilot study is under way in the United Kingdom to test 14,000 health workers. The US Food and Drug Administration recently issued an emergency approval for a diagnostic test that involves home-collected saliva samples.

 

In Australia, the Victorian government is also piloting the collection of saliva in limited circumstances, alongside traditional swabbing approaches. This is to evaluate whether saliva collection is a useful approach to further expanding the considerable swab-based community testing occurring in response to the current outbreaks in Melbourne.

 

A saliva test may be better than no test at all

 

Undoubtedly, saliva testing is less sensitive than a nasal swab for COVID-19 detection. But in the midst of a public health crisis, there is a strong argument that, in some instances, a test with moderately reduced sensitivity is better than no test at all.

 

The use of laboratory testing in these huge volumes as a public health strategy has not been tried for previous infectious diseases outbreaks. This has required a scaling up of laboratory capacity far beyond its usual purpose of diagnosing infection for clinical care. In the current absence of a vaccine, widespread testing for COVID-19 is likely to occur for the foreseeable future, with periods of intense testing required to respond to local outbreaks that will inevitably arise.

 

In addition to swab-free specimens like saliva, testing innovations include self-collected swabs (which has also been tested in Australia), and the use of batch testing of specimens. These approaches could complement established testing methods and may provide additional back-up for population-level screening to ensure testing is readily available to all who need it.

 

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[dMog]

1 hour ago, aum said:

 

 

... and bad news is unavoidable. 

the leader of the USA avoids the truth(bad news) all the time by calling it fake news

[aum]

Do you recommend the *above approach* to *always* have *good* news, eh?  😉

[dMog]

4 hours ago, aum said:

Do you recommend the *above approach* to *always* have *good* news, eh?  😉

I have no idea what you are saying or trying to say,

[aum]

54 minutes ago, dMog said:

I have no idea what you are saying or trying to say,

Trying to say jokingly that burying one's head in the sand (fake news) makes not bad news disappear (hence the smiley).  Sorry that the message bombed out.

 

Cheers.

 

Edited July 3, 2020 by aum

[dMog]

I was referring to ACTUAL good news..you know the real truth  and when it actually is good news...it does happen from time to time

 

[aum]

Monkeys infected with novel coronavirus developed short-term immunity

[dufus]

A Special Edition of Path Forward with Bill and Melinda Gates

 

 

U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation

 

This special edition of Path Forward will explore the work the Gates Foundation has been doing to fight the coronavirus. We will discuss the importance of a coordinated international response to the pandemic, the lasting changes we might see coming out of the crisis, how to ensure equitable access to COVID-19 treatment and vaccines, and much more.
 

just watch ....

[zanderthunder]

World Health Organisation Acknowledges Emerging Evidence Of Airborne COVID-19 Transmission

 

Countries worldwide currently have social distancing measures in place to avoid the spread of COVID-19. These are mostly based on evidence that the disease spreads via droplets of an infected person. But now, the World Health Organisation is acknowledging emerging evidence that an airborne spread of the disease is possible.

This follows an open letter to the Organisation, published in the Clinical Infectious Diseases journal. In it, 239 scientists from 32 countries outlined evidence that shows the floating novel coronavirus particles infecting people who breathe them in. This could lead to a change in prevention guidelines. This is especially around the severity of the social distancing we are currently practising.

 

As mentioned, current guidelines are based on the droplets-based transmission model of the novel coronavirus. Evidence points to the virus spreading via an infected person coughing or sneezing, which can eject the virus particles as far as 1m away. These then drop onto surfaces, where they can stay infectious for hours. Which is why current guidelines include keeping a distance of 1m away from the next person, and frequent hand washing.

For now, it remains to be seen in what way these guidelines will be changed. But the World Health Organisation said it will publish a brief summarising what we know on the way the disease is spread “in the coming days”. Any changes in the guidelines will likely come after that, if at all.

Source:

1. World Health Organisation Acknowledges Emerging Evidence Of Airborne COVID-19 Transmission (via Lowyat.NET) - main article

2. WHO acknowledges 'evidence emerging' of airborne spread of COVID-19 (via Reuters) - reference to main article

[dMog]

https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/this-map-shows-why-it-would-be-terrifying-to-open-canada-u-s-border-1.5012933        So, what is Canada doing that the USA is NOT doing. One thing, we are doing what the doctors and infectious disease experts are telling us to do, NOT listening to political agendas from raving lunatic who does not believe in science. ..and THAT is a truthful and all to kind synopsis of the facts

 

Edited July 8, 2020 by dMog

[dufus]

Ensuring Uptake of Vaccines against SARS-CoV-2

 

As Covid-19 continues to exact a heavy toll, development of a vaccine appears the most promising means of restoring normalcy to civil life. Perhaps no scientific breakthrough is more eagerly anticipated.

 

But bringing a vaccine to market is only half the challenge; also critical is ensuring a high enough vaccination rate to achieve herd immunity. Concerningly, a recent poll found that only 49% of Americans planned to get vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2.1

 

One option for increasing vaccine uptake is to require it. Mandatory vaccination has proven effective in ensuring high childhood immunization rates in many high-income countries. However, except for influenza vaccination of health care workers, mandates have not been widely used for adults.

 

full article     The New England Journal of Medicine

Edited July 8, 2020 by dufus