Between ‘Safe & Effective’ and Unsafe & Ineffective
John R. Houk, Blog Editor
© April 27, 2023
TODAY this is me harping again on the government lie (the
USA and other governments of the one-time free world) that the mRNA Jab was EVER
safe and effective. There is simply way too much data to contradict the lie!
Whenever you see the “safe and effective” lie in print or on some propaganda
video, I pray you train your mind to immediately go to UNSAFE &
INNEFFECTIVE. Refuse the brainwash.
In the spirit of
refuse the brainwash, I’m cross posting three science refutations/exposés hammering
safe and effective. BUT before the
cross posts, you should check out this Vlad Tepes post that is in
the same refuse the brainwash spirit yet time and attention span
would make my post way too long: “More
on Tucker, Vaxx corruption, and more: Links 1, April 27th, 2023”.
Titles of the cross posts:
o Red Line
Crossed: DNA Contamination of mRNA "Vaccines" Poses Risk to Everyone
on the Planet: Why the disturbing discovery of DNA contamination with
plasmids poses a severe risk to the mRNA-"vaccinated" and the people
around them; Posted by WCH
Substack; 4/27/23
o Pfizer
Gave Millions to ‘Independent’ Groups to Push COVID Vaccine Mandates;
By Brenda
Baletti, Ph.D.; The Defender;
4/26/23
o Doctors
Were Bribed for COVID Vaccination Coercion; Analysis by Dr. Joseph
Mercola; Mercola.com;
4/27/23
JRH 4/27/23
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Red Line Crossed: DNA Contamination of mRNA
"Vaccines" Poses Risk to Everyone on the Planet
Why the disturbing discovery of DNA contamination with
plasmids poses a severe risk to the mRNA-"vaccinated" and the people
around them.
Posted by WORLD
COUNCIL FOR HEALTH
April 27, 2023
Written by the WCH Health and Science Committee
The following article is the World Council for Health’s
summary and interpretation of the conclusions of the outstanding paper by
McKernan et al (2023): Sequencing
of bivalent Moderna and Pfizer mRNA vaccines reveals nanogram to microgram
quantities of expression vector dsDNA per dose
Another red line has been crossed…
In a recent publication by a group of experienced
geneticists, more contamination in mRNA “vaccines” (Pfizer and Moderna),
excluding metal residues, which had been identified in the past, was found.
Multiple methods highlighted high levels of DNA contamination.
Of special concern was that they found replicable DNA,
so-called plasmids, in both the monovalent and bivalent vaccines, which
should not be there at all. This time the researchers found DNA contamination
that far exceeded the European Medicines Agency (EMA) requirement and the U.S.
FDA’s dose requirements.
But why is this find so alarming?
The Threat of DNA Integration
As we knew from the beginning, Covid-19 (C19) injections
have been a gene therapy, and the definition of a vaccine had to be altered to
call them a vaccine. While we are still told of the safety and the
effectiveness of the injections, Swedish researchers have shown that the mRNA
of the Pfizer vaccine was integrated into liver cells.
This raised many eyebrows about whether the interference
with our genome could pose the risk of integration of the mRNA coding into our
genome. Usually, the body needs an enzyme called reverse transcriptase to
do so. But now, findings of this new paper suggest a different scenario in
which DNA integration may occur.
The Role of So-Called Plasmids
Plasmids are circular DNA that enable bacteria to exchange
information. When scientists became aware of this, they soon started using
these plasmids to produce custom-made proteins by genetically modifying their
information. This is, for example, how insulin is currently produced. Plasmids
are also the “production site” of the novel mRNA used in the Covid-19
injections. Once the DNA templates or plasmids are transcribed into strands of
mRNA the injection vials should be filtered out to prevent continuous production
of the information. Yet these plasmids are precisely what the scientists found.
Why it is there gives rise to many explanations ranging from carelessness, the
impossibility of ensuring complete separation, or even potential intent, which,
knowing what we know, can no longer be excluded.
Plasmid Integration into Bacteria
So what could be so concerning about the integration of this
information? The human body contains far more bacteria than cells, known as the
human microbiome. The origin of the used plasmid stem from E. coli bacteria,
which also happens to be a part of our intestinal microbiome, suggesting that
there is the possibility for plasmid integration into our microbiome.
Plasmid Integration into Human Cells
While it was believed that plasmid integration was
restricted to bacteria, other researchers observed that integration could occur
in the telophase of cell division. Whether this can now occur with the
mRNA injections should be a top priority for all regulatory bodies like EMA and
FDA to address. Residual injected DNA can result in so-called type I interferon
responses and increase the potential for DNA integration. A so-called SV 40
promotor also enables the plasmid integration into human cells.
An urgent evaluation into these mechanisms in the context of
the covid mRNA-producing plasmids is needed to determine the extent to which
this foreign genetic information is able to become a part of us.
Implication of Integration
The highly concerning consequence of genomic integration
into microbiome cells is that this would ensure the ongoing production of mRNA
and, thus, the production of pathogenic viral particles, the spike proteins.
Typically, mRNA begins to degrade in the body after 10 minutes. Genetic
modification, however, has made the C19 ‘vaccines’ mRNA more stable and it has
now been observed to last up to 60 days. In autopsies in Germany, it was even
found that mRNA was produced in endothelial cells after 12 months. mRNA has
also been found in breast milk.
Could the persistence of plasmids and, thus, the integration
into our genome be the reason for this?
Potential of Shedding
In a recent publication: “Persistent
Nonviral Plasmid Vector in Nasal Tissues Causes False-Positive SARS-CoV-2
Diagnostic Nucleic Acid Tests” by Beck at al., asymptomatic
laboratory workers who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 were found to harbor a
laboratory plasmid vector containing SARS-CoV-2 DNA, which they had worked with
in the past, in their nasal secretions. While prior studies had documented
contamination of research personnel with PCR amplicons (bits of DNA sequences
artificially produced), their observation was novel, as these individuals shed
the laboratory plasmid over days to months, including during isolation in their
homes.
This suggests that the plasmid was in their nasal tissues or
that bacteria containing the plasmid had colonized their noses. Thus we
urgently ask the global health care systems to screen for plasmids in
vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals.
As we breathe out, we usually exhale multiple elements from
our gut microbiome. If we now can assume that cells from it have been
instructed to produce mRNA, what will be the consequence for people in
proximity to the individual spreading them? We need to find out as soon as
possible.
Plasmid Contamination
The paper also alerts us to plasmid contamination from E.
coli as preparations are often co-contaminated with lipopolysaccharides (LPS).
E. coli endotoxin contamination can lead to anaphylaxis upon injection and thus
should certainly not be present.
Antibiotic Resistance
For plasmids to remain stable, they are usually
antibiotic-resistant to two antibiotics (Neomycin, Kanamycin). This information
could also be integrated into the microbiome or body cells.
What WCH Health and Science Committee Conclude
First, it demonstrates again the apparent neglect of
scientific and regulatory board standards.
The Nuremberg Code (August 19, 1947) Article 10 clearly
states that:
"During the experiment,
the scientist in charge must be prepared to interrupt the experiment at any
moment when he begins to believe that the continuation of the experiment may
involve injury, disability, or death to the subject."
This has happened multiple times, and the crossing of
several safety signals questioning safety and efficiency has filled countless
pages.
Apart from the manufacturers' fraudulent approach, the more
concerning aspect is the regulatory bodies' failure to react to these apparent
problems. This is not surprising as they are mainly financed by the industry
itself (EMA around 90%). Ensuring the ongoing distribution of these harmful and
dangerous injections lacks any moral and ethical backbone.
This also highlights the EMA limits for DNA contamination,
which doesn’t consider the nature of the DNA contaminants.
Replication-competent DNA should arguably have a more stringent limit. DNA with
mammalian promoters or antibiotic resistance genes may also be of more concern
than just background E. coli genomic DNA from a plasmid preparation. More mRNA
means more production of the pathogenic part of SARS-CoV-2 that was chosen
to be produced by our own cells, namely the spike protein.
The potential of shedding
even to the unvaccinated poses a serious question for the entire population of
this planet.
We can only speculate how it will end, but what needs to
happen today after the publication of this paper is an immediate stop of
the “Covid-19 vaccine” program.
Meanwhile, we should boost our oral and nasal microbiome by
walking in the woods and inhaling beneficial microbes. And improve our gut
microbiome through the consumption of fermented foods such as freshly
unpasteurized Sauerkraut or Kimchi and prebiotic foods such as colorful
root vegetables.
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Pfizer Gave Millions to ‘Independent’ Groups to Push
COVID Vaccine Mandates
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer in 2021 made numerous
grants to medical associations, consumer groups and civil rights organizations
for the purpose of creating the appearance of widespread support for COVID-19
vaccine mandates, investigative journalist Lee Fang reported.
April 26, 2023
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer in 2021 made numerous grants to
medical associations, consumer groups and civil rights organizations for the purpose
of creating the appearance of widespread support for COVID-19 vaccine mandates,
investigative journalist Lee
Fang reported.
As the vaccine mandates rolled out in 2021, Pfizer stayed
quiet on the question of mandates — but public health groups, patient advocacy
groups, doctors’ associations, community groups and others, along with the
Biden administration, actively advocated for vaccine mandates as a key measure
to protect public health.
New disclosures from Pfizer, posted by Fang on his Substack, show that many of
these same groups were taking money from Pfizer while they promoted the idea
that the COVID-19 mRNA
vaccines were “safe
and effective,” despite a lack
of scientific data to back those claims.
Prominent groups on the extensive list of those who
took Pfizer
funding while pushing the mandates included the Chicago Urban
League, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the National Consumers
League, The Immunization Partnership, the American Pharmacists Association, the
American College of Preventive Medicine, the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy,
the American Society for Clinical Pathology and the American College of
Emergency Physicians.
Many groups did not disclose their ties to Pfizer.
“[These groups] set the nature of the debate,” Fang told
comedian and political commentator Russell Brand on a recent
episode of “Stay Free.” “They appear in the news media, they
create events and they create a discourse that looks authentic, that looks
organic, but it benefits the bottom line of their benefactors, of companies
like Pfizer.”
Fang said many of these organizations, particularly civil
rights organizations like the Chicago
Urban League or the National
Consumers League — which actually has a Pfizer lobbyist on its
board — have powerful influence precisely because of their independent status.
When these groups speak out, Fang said:
“It affects how regulators see
these issues and how the public sees them. When they see these third-party
groups that have some credibility — these are famous organizations that are
known for standing up for the public interest.
“When they say ‘hey these mandates
are a good idea for the American public,’ it seems genuine.
“But they aren’t disclosing the
Pfizer money, which is a relevant factor when you are talking about a policy
that compels Americans to take this product.”
After the COVID-19 vaccines became widely available in early
2021, vaccine mandates followed in different forms across the country.
At the federal level, the U.S. Department of Defense mandated
vaccines for military personnel, and the Biden administration
mandated vaccines for federal
contractors and for all employers with 100 employees or more —
the latter was struck
down in federal court.
Universities
mandated vaccination for students and staff, and many public
and private employers across the country mandated vaccination for their
employees.
Several school districts across the country planned to mandate
vaccination for children to attend school, but most of those
plans have since been rolled back.
Those who instituted mandates justified them by asserting
that mass
vaccination — and only mass vaccination — would “stop the
spread” of COVID-19.
But it has since been revealed that in March 2021, when
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky
publicly and unequivocally stated
on MSNBC that vaccinated people would not get sick, there was
no evidence to support her statement.
In fact, the CDC
had to walk back the statement a few days later.
Biden
also falsely claimed that the vaccinated would not get
infected — in July 2021, just before COVID-19 vaccine mandates went into
effect.
The vaccine makers have since acknowledged they never tested
whether the vaccines would stop transmission, and the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) reported that vaccinated
people in both Pfizer and Moderna’s clinical trials contracted
the virus.
Big Pharma’s big reach
Pfizer isn’t the only actor in Big
Pharma that quietly funds third parties to do its work.
Fang told The Defender that
“Many pharmaceutical firms covertly shape public opinion and regulations
through the use of front groups and financial relationships with community
organizations.”
For example, Purdue
Pharma covertly funded third-party
advocacy groups to encourage looser criteria for prescribing
its highly addictive opioid painkillers, he reported.
As for Pfizer, Fang said, third-party funding is just one of
the many strategies the drugmaker deployed to drive COVID-19 policymaking.
“Pfizer flexed its lobbying muscles around many COVID-19
policies, including efforts to curb drug-pricing initiatives and a bid to
prevent the creation of generic COVID medications,” he said, adding, “The
vaccine mandate debate is yet another example of Pfizer’s reach into public
policy.”
Big Pharma — along with the Biden
administration and its intermediaries — also lobbied to
suppress those who questioned the vaccine program.
Pfizer BioNTech and Moderna pressured Twitter and other
social media platforms to set moderation rules that would flag purported
COVID-19-related “misinformation,” as part of the effort to drive the national
conversation about the COVID-19 vaccines, Fang reported as
part of the “Twitter
files.”
“Pharma is unique in the raw amount of money they spend to
control the entire public sector on regulatory, on policy, on everything in
terms of how it affects medicine as it is practiced in the United States,” Fang
said.
The pharmaceutical and health products lobby is one of the
biggest industry lobbies. According
to OpenSecrets.org, last year alone the industry spent $372 million
lobbying Congress and federal agencies, outspending every other industry — and
each year it increases its spending.
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla is on the board of Pharmaceutical
Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), the top individual lobbying
spender in the industry, which spent $29.2 million last year. Pfizer itself
spent more than any other drug company.
The industry also spends massive amounts of money on
advertising. Pfizer alone spent nearly $2.8 billion on advertising for all of
its products in 2022.
The COVID-19 vaccines netted
$37.8 billion for Pfizer in 2022, up from $36.7 billion in
2021. The company’s overall earnings hit a record $100 billion.
Big Pharma and the CDC did similar work to promote
mandates and vaccination
There is a “revolving door” between pharma industry
lobbyists and the government — nearly
65% of lobbyists formerly worked for the government.
And the strategies used to build support for Big Pharma’s
products are some of the same strategies used by federal government agencies
like the CDC.
Since 2021 — the same time Pfizer started funding community
groups — the CDC
has doled out hundreds of millions of dollars in grants for
the creation of “culturally tailored” pro-vaccine materials and for training
“influential messengers” to promote COVID-19 and flu vaccines to communities
of color in every state across the country.
For those grants, the CDC sought out community organizations
that would communicate the CDC’s message without the CDC’s trademark, so the
messages would appear to come organically from within local communities rather
than from the government, particularly among communities of color.
In another case, the CDC
hired a public relations firm to write what looked like news
articles but were actually ad placements created to persuade parents of young
children and elderly people — with a focus on Spanish speakers — to get
vaccinated.
Both Pfizer and the CDC used their funding to target black
and Latino communities that had lower vaccination rates. In one case, they both
funded the same organization — the National Hispanic Medical Association
(NHMA).
According to Fang, the organization worked with a public
relations firm called Culture
ONE World to distribute “press releases and media placements”
that “called on employers of essential workers to mandate COVID-19 vaccines.”
Fang
also wrote that the NHMA also signed joint statements lobbying
in favor of Biden’s vaccine mandate and that “it received $30,000 from BIO
[Biotechnology Innovation Organization], a vaccine industry lobby group that
represents
The Defender found that NHMA received $2,070,000
in two annual grants so far for their “Vacunas! Si Se Puede,
Immunization Campaign for Hispanics” program, which later became “We Can Do This,” to
create culturally tailored content to be circulated throughout Latino
communities.
American Academy of Pediatrics received multiple grants
from Pfizer in 2021
The AAP also appeared on Fang’s list of notable
organizations that received direct Pfizer funding.
“The American Academy of
Pediatrics was one of the most visible organizations working to build public
support for vaccine mandates. The organization received multiple, specialized
grants from Pfizer in 2021.
“Pfizer also provided grants to
individual state chapters of the AAP earmarked for lobbying on vaccine policy.
The Ohio AAP chapter,
for instance, lobbied the Ohio legislature against bills to curb coercive
COVID-19 vaccine policies, while receiving an ‘immunization legislation’
advocacy grant from Pfizer.”
Beyond its COVID-19 vaccine mandate work, the organization
also was a public advocate for COVID-19
vaccines for children. Its then-president, UCLA professor Moira Szilagyi, M.D., Ph.D., publicly
advocated, on media outlets such as CNN, for vaccinating children.
The organization, “dedicated to the health of all children,”
previously issued policy
guidance to its members stating that it is an “acceptable
option to pediatric care clinicians to dismiss families who refuse vaccines.”
And in June 2022, the AAP issued a press release applauding
the CDC’s recommendation of “safe, effective COVID-19
vaccines” for babies as young as 6 months old, despite concerns raised — by the
FDA vaccine advisory commission, among many others — regarding a lack of
clinical data for the vaccines in children.
In addition to the Pfizer funding, the AAP receives much of
its funding directly from the CDC, raising questions about the organization’s
ability to act independently, particularly with respect to vaccine
recommendations, BMJ editor Peter Doshi wrote in
2017.
Brenda
Baletti Ph.D. is a reporter for The Defender. She wrote and
taught about capitalism and politics for 10 years in the writing program at
Duke University. She holds a Ph.D. in human geography from the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a master's from the University of Texas at
Austin.
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The Defender HOMEPAGE
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Doctors Were Bribed for COVID Vaccination Coercion
Analysis by Dr. Joseph
Mercola
April 27, 2023
Mercola.com
[Blog Editor: Occasionally Dr. Mercola moves articles to a Substack Paid Subscription
only page]
STORY AT-A-GLANCE
Ø In late
March 2020, the U.S. Congress passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic
Security (CARES) Act. Within this $2 trillion stimulus package, $100 billion
was earmarked for hospitals and local health centers that treated COVID
patients
Ø Hospitals
were reimbursed an extra 20% for each Medicare patient hospitalized with COVID,
and the only criteria to receive that bonus was a COVID-positive PCR test
Ø The
federal COVID-19 Treatments Add-On Payment program also paid hospitals bonuses
for every COVID-19 patient treated with emergency-authorized COVID medications
(Remdesivir, convalescent plasma, Baricitinib, Molnupiravir and Nirmatrelvir)
Ø Hospitals
also received a 300% upcharge for COVID patients placed on ventilators, even
after it became apparent that this was a death sentence. Somewhere between 50%
and 86% of all ventilated COVID patients died, yet government never dropped the
incentive to use ventilators. Why?
Ø Throughout
2020, evidence mounted showing the PCR test is incredibly unreliable above 35
cycles, and health agencies instructed labs to use 40 to 45 cycles. In essence,
we had an epidemic of false positives, and financial incentives then drove
hospitals to mistreat and kill countless patients, many of whom may not even
have had COVID
As detailed in “How COVID Patients Died for Profit,” hospitals were
financially incentivized to diagnose patients with COVID and treat them with
protocols known to be lethal, in part to “protect” the staff from infection.
As if that weren’t bad enough, primary care providers across
the U.S. were also bribed to coerce patients into getting the toxic COVID shot.
The following document was posted to Twitter in mid-April 2023 by Rep. Thomas
Massie, an award-winning scientist and Republican Congressman for Kentucky.1
“Ethically, shouldn’t doctors
disclose when they’re profiting by recommending a drug or treatment —
especially a drug or treatment for which there is no medical malpractice
liability?” Massie said.2
COVID-19 Vaccine Provider Incentive Program [Click embedded link for larger picture]
Doctors Were Incentivized to Jab Babies Too
Once the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized the
COVID shot for children, similar vaccination incentives were extended to them
as well. As detailed in an Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Medicaid provider
bulletin3 dated July 2022, doctors received $50 for each
Medicaid patient aged 6 months and older, who got the experimental shot.
COVID-19 Vaccine Provider Incentive Program ages 6 months+ [Click embedded link for larger picture]
Hospitals Received at Least $100 Billion From Taxpayers
In late March 2020, the U.S. Congress passed the Coronavirus
Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act.4 Within this $2
trillion stimulus package, $100 billion was earmarked for hospitals and local
health centers that treated COVID patients.5
And, rather than simply agreeing to pay COVID patients’
bills, the government decided to pay hospitals extra — a lot extra — over and
above the standard bill, provided they treated patients in a certain way. By
the end of October 2020, $96 billion had already been disbursed.6
Ostensibly, the additional bonuses for COVID patients were
supposed to help hospitals recoup revenue that was lost due to the cancelation
of elective procedures. But hospitals were supposedly filled to the brim with
COVID patients, so just how much revenue was lost?
The bonuses were also supposed to cover additional costs
associated with caring for COVID patients, such as additional personal
protective equipment (PPE) and sanitation, but that could have just as easily
been covered as an extra line item, rather than a flat double-digit percentage
over and above the actual cost of the treatment.
COVID-Positive Medicare Patients Worth 20% More
As reported by KGNS.TV, a local Nebraska news station, in
late March 2022:7
“According to the state, since
COVID hit Webb County in March of 2020, about 85,000 people have contracted the
virus, with roughly half of them serious enough to be admitted into the
hospital. Almost immediately, the federal government stepped in to help pay for
their care with millions of dollars.
KGNS took a deeper look into
this to answer the question, ‘Is there a difference in how much hospitals get
paid back by the government when caring for a positive COVID patient versus a
non-COVID patient?’ The answer to that is ‘yes.’ People on government programs,
such as Medicare, are worth more.
According to section 3710 of the
Cares Act, hospitals are reimbursed by the government an extra 20% for each
hospitalized Medicare patient. The only criteria for that extra money? A
positive COVID test.8,9,10
For instance, hospital Medicare
patient with pneumonia — without COVID — is worth about $7,700 to the hospital.
But with COVID, that reimbursement jumps to over $9,200.
A Medicare patient with Acute
Respiratory Distress Syndrome requiring a ventilator? Without COVID, the bill
is around $34,000. But with COVID, that Medicare patient now worth almost
$40,000. And the list goes on.”
On top of those incentives, the federal COVID-19 Treatments
Add-On Payment program also paid hospitals bonuses for every COVID-19 patient
treated with emergency authorized COVID medications (Remdesivir, convalescent
plasma, Baricitinib, Molnupiravir and Nirmatrelvir) and mechanical ventilation.11
It doesn’t seem like decisionmakers considered the
possibility that incentivizing hospitals to diagnose patients as having COVID
might impact patient care, outcomes and/or COVID statistics, but it most
certainly did. To presume hospitals would think twice about treating patients
with a particular drug or put them on a ventilator when they get reimbursed top
dollar for it is naïve in the extreme. Especially when all they needed was a
positive PCR test to justify it.
Throughout 2020, evidence mounted showing the PCR test is incredibly unreliable above 35
cycles, and health agencies instructed labs to use 40 to 45 cycles. In essence,
we had an epidemic of false positives, and financial incentives then drove
hospitals to mistreat and kill countless patients, many of whom may not even
have had COVID.
Former CDC director Robert Redfield and Brett Giroir,
assistant secretary for health in the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services, have both stated they believe financial incentives drove up the
COVID-19 death rate in the U.S.12
Vented COVID Patients Earned Hospitals 300% Upcharge
I strongly suspect the reason why so many COVID patients
died was because they were forced onto mechanical ventilation, and the reason
for that was because hospitals received a 300% bonus for patients requiring
ventilation! That’s no minor incentive. As reported by USA Today back in April
2020:13
“Sen. Scott Jensen, R-Minn., a
physician in Minnesota, was interviewed by ‘The Ingraham Angle’ host Laura
Ingraham on April 8 on Fox News and claimed hospitals get paid more if Medicare
patients are listed as having COVID-19 and get three times as much money if
they need a ventilator ...
Jensen took it to his own
Facebook page April 15, saying, in part ‘How can anyone not believe that
increasing the number of COVID-19 deaths may create an avenue for states to
receive a larger portion of federal dollars? Already some states are
complaining that they are not getting enough of the CARES Act dollars because
they are having significantly more proportional COVID-19 deaths.’
On April 19, he doubled down on
his assertion via video on his Facebook page. Jensen said, ‘Hospital
administrators might well want to see COVID-19 attached to a discharge summary
or a death certificate. Why?
Because if it's a
straightforward, garden-variety pneumonia that a person is admitted to the
hospital for — if they're Medicare — typically, the diagnosis-related group
lump sum payment would be $5,000. But if it's COVID-19 pneumonia, then it's
$13,000, and if that COVID-19 pneumonia patient ends up on a ventilator, it
goes up to $39,000.’
Jensen clarified ... that he
doesn't think physicians are ‘gaming the system’ so much as other ‘players,’
such as hospital administrators, who he said may pressure physicians to cite
all diagnoses, including ‘probable’ COVID-19, on discharge papers or death
certificates to get the higher Medicare allocation allowed under the
Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act ...
USA TODAY reached out to Marty
Makary, a surgeon and professor of health policy and management at Johns
Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, about the claim. Makary said in an
email April 21 that ‘what Scott Jensen said sounds right to me.’"
Why Did Government Continue Paying for Deadly Protocol?
Why wasn’t the 300% bonus payment eliminated once it became
apparent that putting COVID patients on ventilators was a death sentence? As
early as April 9, 2020, Business Insider reported14 that 80% of
COVID-19 patients in New York City who were placed on ventilators died, which
caused a number of doctors to question their use.
“Somewhere
between 50% and 86% of all ventilated COVID patients died, yet government never
dropped the financial incentive to use ventilators. Why?”
The Associated Press15 also publicized
similar reports from China and the U.K. A U.K. report put the figure at 66%,
while a small study from Wuhan, China, put the ratio of deaths at 86%. Data
presented by attorney Thomas Renz in 2021 showed that in Texas hospitals, 84.9%
of patients died after more than 96 hours on a ventilator.16
The lowest figure I’ve seen is 50%.17 So,
somewhere between 50% and 86% of all ventilated COVID patients died, yet
government never dropped the financial incentive to use ventilators. Why?
Incentives Put Nursing Home Patients at Risk Too
Nursing homes in some states also received incentive
payments if they accepted hospital discharges. For example, in Wisconsin, the
Department of Health Services (DHS) paid out $2,900 for every admission a
nursing home received directly from a hospital.18
This, even though by then, it was well-known that more than
80% of deaths occurred in nursing homes, assisted living facilities and live-in
rehab centers. More than 90% of residents of these centers have at least one
chronic disease and more than 70% have two conditions, which in turn can weaken
their immune systems.19
They also live in close quarters and share staff, which
facilitates the spread of pathogens. But rather than protecting the elderly by
NOT admitting potentially infected patients, the DHS paid these facilities to
take them in.
Incompetence or Malice?
In the final analysis, it’s quite clear that the COVID
pandemic was grossly mishandled. Either U.S. health agencies and political
decisionmakers were inept and unqualified for the job at hand, or they acted
with malice, and the outcomes of their financial incentivization of bad
medicine were intended ones.
Either way, their strategies were ill-conceived and resulted
in needless death and suffering. Adding insult to injury, billions of taxpayer
dollars were used to pay for it all. Financially incentivizing doctors and
pediatricians to inject an experimental gene therapy into babies is, in my
view, completely unconscionable, and should never have happened, but the same
can be said for the continued use of ventilators.
It seems medicine during the COVID pandemic became all about
maximizing profits, without regard for health outcomes, and that is something
that our health agencies must be held to account for.
Think Globally, Act Locally
National vaccine policy recommendations in the U.S. are made
at the federal level but vaccine laws are made at the state level. It is at the
state level where your action to protect your vaccine choice rights can have
the greatest impact.
It is critical for EVERYONE to get involved now in standing
up for the legal right to make voluntary vaccine choices in America because
those choices are being seriously threatened.
Not only are lobbyists representing drug companies, medical
trade associations and public health officials trying to persuade legislators
to strip all vaccine exemptions from public health laws, but global political
operatives lobbying the United Nations and World Health Organization are
determined to take away the human right to autonomy and protection of bodily
integrity.
We must take action to defend our constitutional republic
and civil liberties, including the right to autonomy, in America. That includes
reforming oppressive mandatory vaccination laws and stopping the digital health
ID that will make vaccine passports a reality for us, our children and
grandchildren if we don’t take action today.
Signing up to use the free online Advocacy Portal sponsored
by the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) at www.NVICAdvocacy.org gives
you immediate, easy access to your own state and federal legislators on your
smartphone or computer so you can make your voice heard.
NVIC will keep you up to date on the latest bills
threatening to eliminate — or expand — your legal right to make vaccine choices
and give you guidance about what you can do to support or oppose those bills.
So, please, as your first step, sign up for the NVIC Advocacy Portal.
CLICK HERE TO JOIN [NVIC Advocacy Portal]
Internet Resources Where You Can Learn More
I encourage you to visit the four websites of the National
Vaccine Information Center, at www.NVIC.org, a nonprofit charity that has been
educating the public about the need to prevent vaccine injuries and deaths
since 1982. The information you get on their websites is fully referenced and
will help you become an effective vaccine choice advocate in your community:
·
NVIC.org —
This website was established in 1995 and is the oldest and largest consumer
operated website publishing information on diseases and vaccines on the
internet. Learn about vaccine reactions, injuries and deaths and the history
and current status of vaccine science, policy, law and ethics in the U.S. on
more than 2,000 web pages.
·
NVICAdvocacy.org — This communications and
advocacy network, established in 2010, is your gateway to taking action to
protect your right to make vaccine choices where you live.
·
TheVaccineReaction.org —
This weekly journal newspaper published by NVIC since 2015 is dedicated to
encouraging an “enlightened conversation about vaccination, health and
autonomy.”
·
MedAlerts.org — This is a user-friendly search
engine for the federal Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS)
established under the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act and sponsored
by NVIC since 2006. Search for descriptions of vaccine injuries and deaths
reported to VAERS on this popular website.
Find a Doctor Who Will Listen and Care
If your doctor or pediatrician refuses to provide medical
care to you or your child unless you agree to get vaccines you don't want, I
strongly encourage you to have the courage to find another doctor. Harassment,
coercion and refusal to provide medical care to someone declining one or more
doses of government recommended vaccines is a violation of the informed consent
ethic.
Unfortunately, it is becoming routine among members of the
medical establishment to be reluctant to share vaccine decision-making power
with patients and parents of minor children, especially during the aggressive
push for all Americans to get COVID shots.
There are doctors out there who respect the precautionary
and informed consent principles, so take the time to locate a doctor who treats
you with compassion and is willing to listen and respect the health care
choices you make for yourself or your child.
Sources and References
1, 2 Twitter Thomas Massie April 13, 2023
3 Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Medicaid Provider Bulletin
July 2022
4 Revcycle Intelligence March 26, 2020
5 Fierce Health Care March 25, 2020
7, 11 KGNS.TV March 28, 2022
8 Healthcare Finance News August 18, 2020
10 AHA.org Guidance for CARES Act Provisions April 16, 2020
12 Organic Lifestyle Magazine August 25, 2020
13 USA Today April 24, 2020, Updated April 27, 2020
14 Business Insider April 9, 2020
15 The
Associated Press April 8, 2020
16 Citizens Journal December 20, 2021
17 Wall Street Journal December 20, 2020
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