Insights into the COVID Pandemic

[gnosis12]

Video Shows Fauci Lied to Congress About Funding Virus Weaponization at Wuhan


Fox News Channel’s Steve Hilton aired a video from December 17, 2012, showing Dr. Anthony Fauci explaining what types of research experiments constitute “gain-of-function” — and that, surprise, surprise, those very types of experiments were funded by NIH at that time and continued through 2020, despite government moratoriums on such research.

He first described “natural” gain of function, where investigators examine the changes in a virus after it has mutated in the wild. Then he says:

“What historically investigators have done is actually create gain-of-function by making mutations, passage adaptation, or other newer genetic techniques such as reverse genetics and genetic reassortment….

“But the bottom line is that gain and loss of function research is critical to understanding disease pathogenesis, antimicrobial resistance, and host responses, as well as to developing better techniques of surveillance, vaccines, and therapeutics.

He then explained to the attendees what types of research would be considered gain-of-function for purposes of federal grants and the research moratorium.

Specifically…what we’re talking about now is the gain-of-function research in studies that increased predominantly the transmissibility, increase the pathogenicity, and/or alter the host range of these viruses.

If you give a gain of function of a pathogenic virus to make it more transmissible, that’s a whole different story than some of the other things we faced.

Fauci also approved a $3.7 million grant to Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance — of which $500,000 was sent to Wuhan — in June 2014 (during the moratorium) for a study titled “Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence.” Its purpose:

https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2021/06 ... an-n392473


The Fauci Email Scandal Somehow Manages to Make Liz Cheney Look Even Worse

Over the last two days, the release of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s emails has lit the internet on fire. While the mainstream media have sought to bury the revelations and paint Fauci as a misunderstood hero, right-leaning outlets have been hard at work mining for information, exposing numerous, scandalous admissions

As RedState reported, Fauci ignored warnings that COVID-19 looked engineered and was thanked by a funder of the Wuhan lab for dismissing the lab leak theory publicly. Fauci was also admitting privately that masks don’t work, even as he claimed that he only said that publicly to protect PPE stocks. And while no political figure was more vindicated after the release than Sen. Rand Paul, there’s another politician who managed to make herself look even worse.

And she didn’t even have to say anything new to do it.

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2021/06/03 ... se-n390994

[Budge]

Here's a two hour podcast/interview from the FLCCC Alliance website laying out the background to the battle to find treatment(s) to fight Covid and, once Ivermectin showed promise, the difficulty to get it recognized. The title of the interview includes the phrase "the crime of the century". I think that may well be a generous judgement in hindsight.

"Dr. Pierre Kory, Chief Medical Officer of the FLCCC Alliance, joins Bret Weinstein, host of The DarkHorse Podcast to discuss “Covid, Ivermectin and the Crime of the Century.” This program, which many quickly called “the best podcast I have ever listened to” lays out the truth about ivermectin and how the suppression of its efficacy against COVID-19 has cost hundreds of thousands of people their lives."

https://covid19criticalcare.com/videos- ... erre-kory/

[Yodean]

In California’s seventh largest county, Alameda, health officials have made a rather bombshell admission — 25% of all deaths attributed to COVID-19 in the county of 1.6 million people, were actually not caused by the virus at all.

As TFTP reported in March, similar findings came out of Illinois. Monroe County Coroner Bob Hill made waves in his home state of Illinois after he examined a portion of the list of possible COVID-19 deaths. What he found was utterly shocking and has led to calls for an audit of COVID-19 deaths in his state.

“My concern is, I’ve reviewed several cases, (of 100 cases) about ten of them here in Monroe County, that the state has deemed COVID-related deaths and none of them have had underlying conditions or contributing factors to COVID,” Hill said. “So my concern is no matter when the person was tested positive, the state is automatically giving them a death classification as related to COVID.”

One glaring case the coroner found during his review was a man who died from an accidental drug overdose. The man died in January from the overdose but tested positive three months prior in October for COVID-19. His death was recorded as a COVID-19 death, according to Hill.

“We’re seeing people on the list that they’ve put as a COVID death that have tested positive 9 months ago that have since recovered that have died from other issues unrelated to COVID,” Hill said.

As stated above, there are cases like this from coast to coast. One insanely glaring case comes from New York in which a man was shot 7 times by police.

Ricardo Cardona, 55, was shot 7 times by New York police officers and died five days later in the hospital. His cause of death was not listed as gun shots, however. According to reports, he died of COVID-19 despite the seven bullet holes in his body.

https://www.naturalblaze.com/2021/06/ti ... id-19.html

[ultramartian]

In case you need a doctor to prescribe you with HCQ or ivermectin you can try here:

https://frontlinemds.com/intakeform/

Remember HCQ needs to be taken with plenty of zinc, and I am not giving medical advice here.

[Yodean]

A number of doctors and scientists are raising very serious concerns about the COVID-19 “vaccines”.

Dr. Peter McCullough points out that deaths from COVID “vaccines” exceed deaths from all 70 vaccines ever given in the US — and those numbers may represent just 1-10% of the COVID vaccine deaths. He is concerned that the injections are being given to people who should not get them. Michael Yeadon, Ph.D., former Pfizer VP, issues a strong warning against getting “booster shots” which he believes may kill millions of people.

There are now 10,000 “break-through cases” — people who got COVID from the “vaccines”. A growing number of doctors report that the only COVID patients in hospitals now are people who got the “vaccines”. CDC statistics for COVID-19 indicate there is a 99% survival rate for people under age 70. People over 70 can also investigate any of the three potential treatments. So, while COVID poses little threat to younger age groups, the COVID “health” policies — especially “vaccines” — have caused massive harm to the health and rights of millions of Americans.

https://www.naturalblaze.com/2021/06/se ... -grow.html

[Yodean]

Canadian politician Derek Sloan and three medical professionals — who say they represent hundreds of their colleagues — said last week in a press conference on Parliament Hill the Canadian government is suppressing information about the harmful effects of lockdowns, vaccine risks in children and the efficacy of certain COVID treatments.

The government’s attempt to intimidate doctors had the opposite effect, said Sloan. Instead, his office was flooded with calls from doctors, nurses and other scientific medical experts who said they’ve been threatened and blocked from sharing their stories.

In search of a place where he could speak freely, Bridle joined the Canadian COVID Care Alliance, a group of independent Canadian doctors, scientists and healthcare practitioners committed to providing balanced evidence-based information to the Canadian public about COVID.

Also speaking at the press conference was Dr. Patrick Phillips, family and emergency medicine physician, and Dr. Don Welsh, professor of physiology and pharmacology at Western University.

Both expressed concerns about their inability to speak the truth about the negative effects of lockdowns and the benefits of using treatments such as vitamin D for COVID.

Phillips said “massive lockdowns” have caused a lot of harm and, until now, he’s never seen so many suicidal children in his practice.

“Science has not been functioning properly for the last 15 months,” Welsh said. The government’s lockdowns, masks, infectious disease tracing and social distancing have “created a remarkable list of hardships for Canadians that will take this country many years to recover from.”

https://www.naturalblaze.com/2021/06/ca ... -kids.html

[Yodean]

Lol, something decent came out of my alma mater besides Ivanka.

[Eric]

https://youtu.be/o9IpsZFCZcI
"I never shoulda taken that untested, experimental, non-FDA approved mRNA vaccine. Sure it was great at first but the next time I caught a common cold I died."

[Yodean]

An “urgent preliminary report of Yellow Card data” issued by the UK-based Evidence-Based Medicine Consultancy Ltd submitted to the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) states that “the MHRA now has more than enough evidence on the Yellow Card system to declare the COVID-19 vaccines unsafe for use in humans.”

Similar to the U.S. Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS), the MHRA describes the purpose of its Yellow Card system as providing “an early warning that the safety of a medicine or a medical device may require further investigation.”

“We are sharing this preliminary report due to the urgent need to communicate information that should lead to cessation of the vaccination roll out while a full investigation is conducted. According to the recent paper by Seneff and Nigh, potential acute and long-term pathologies include:

Pathogenic priming, multisystem inflammatory disease and autoimmunity
Allergic reactions and anaphylaxis
Antibody dependent enhancement
Activation of latent viral infections
Neurodegeneration and prion diseases
Emergence of novel variants of SARSCoV2
Integration of the spike protein gene into the human DNA

“It is now apparent that these products in the blood stream are toxic to humans. An immediate halt to the vaccination programme is required whilst a full and independent safety analysis is undertaken to investigate the full extent of the harms, which the UK Yellow Card data suggest include thromboembolism, multisystem inflammatory disease, immune suppression, autoimmunity and anaphylaxis, as well as Antibody Dependent Enhancement (ADE).”

The report concludes: “The MHRA now has more than enough evidence on the Yellow Card system to declare the COVID-19 vaccines unsafe for use in humans. Preparation should be made to scale up humanitarian efforts to assist those harmed by the COVID-19 vaccines and to anticipate and ameliorate medium to longer term effects.

https://americasfrontlinedoctors.org/fr ... in-humans/

[Yodean]

25-minute clip, quite good, evidence-based summary of current vaccine data; relevant to everyone, but perhaps most important to women of reproductive age and those with small ones:

https://rumble.com/viwq25-the-truth-abo ... -show.html

[George1010]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSKY4Oz9IXQ

[Budge]

Sorry George, but I think this is a load of mumbo jumbo crap from an ex-cardiologist turned psycho-babble pill peddler.

[ultramartian]

A lot of information was outdated as this video was posted in April 2020. For instance we now know that this virus is not a cousin of a common flu but a bio-weapon engineered and leaked from a lab.

[gnosis12]

Ray Peat has some interesting views on COVID

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikdmnn7YwSU

The video is about 1 year old, but it does contain some interesting information

[SOL]

Rationale: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) can cause disruption of the renin-angiotensin system in the lungs, possibly contributing to pulmonary capillary leakage. Thus, angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) may improve respiratory failure.

Objective: Assess safety of losartan for use in respiratory failure related to COVID-19 (NCT04335123).

Methods: Single arm, open label trial of losartan in those hospitalized with respiratory failure related to COVID-19. Oral losartan (25 mg daily for 3 days, then 50 mg) was administered from enrollment until day 14 or hospital discharge. A post-hoc external control group with patients who met all inclusion criteria was matched 1:1 to the treatment group using propensity scores for comparison.

Measures: Primary outcome was cumulative incidence of any adverse events. Secondary, explorative endpoints included measures of respiratory failure, length of stay and vital status.

Results: Of the 34 participants enrolled in the trial, 30 completed the study with a mean age SD of 53.8 ± 17.7 years and 17 males (57%). On losartan, 24/30 (80%) experienced an adverse event as opposed to 29/30 (97%) of controls, with a lower average number of adverse events on losartan relative to control (2.2 vs. 3.3). Using Poisson regression and controlling for age, sex, race, date of enrollment, disease severity at enrollment, and history of high-risk comorbidities, the incidence rate ratio of adverse events on losartan relative to control was 0.69 (95% CI: 0.49–0.97)

Conclusions: Losartan appeared safe for COVID-19-related acute respiratory compromise. To assess true efficacy, randomized trials are needed.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7926174/



Cinanserin Is an Inhibitor of the 3C-Like Proteinase of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus and Strongly Reduces Virus Replication In Vitro†

Identification of cinanserin by virtual screening.
The substrate-binding pocket formed by residues within a radius of 6 Å around the catalytic center (His41 and Cys145) of the model structure of SARS-CoV 3CLpro (54) was used as the target site for virtual screening. The MDL-CMC database was searched for potential binding molecules using the program DOCK for primary screening, and the top 100 molecules were rescored using CScore (5), a consensus scoring method that integrates five popular scoring functions. The 10 compounds that showed the highest scores and were positively evaluated by at least four of the five scoring functions of CScore are shown with their clinical applications in Table ​Table11 (see Fig. S1 in the supplemental material for their structures). The binding affinities (Ki values) of these compounds to SARS-CoV 3CLpro were predicted by AutoDock (34) (Table ​(Table1).1). When the crystallographic data of SARS-CoV 3CLpro became available (55), the docking simulation was repeated with these data for the top 10 compounds. The root-mean-square deviation (RMSD) between the model and crystal structure for the residues composing the substrate-binding pocket was only 0.18 Å (see Fig. S2 in the supplemental material). Accordingly, the calculations with the real structure confirmed the data obtained with the model (Table ​(Table1).1). In this study, we focus on 1 of the 10 compounds, namely cinanserin, as it was immediately available for experimentation and showed promising results in preliminary tests. The interaction models of cinanserin with the model structure (54) and the X-ray crystal structure of SARS-CoV 3CLpro (55) are shown in Fig. ​Fig.1.1. Docking simulations with the crystal structures of the 3CL proteinases of HCoV-229E and porcine transmissible gastroenteritis coronavirus (2) predicted that cinanserin also fits into the active sites of these enzymes (see Fig. S3 and Table S1 in the supplemental material).

Binding affinity of cinanserin to SARS-CoV 3CLpro, HCoV-229E 3CLpro, and HRV-14 3Cpro.
The binding of cinanserin to the bacterially expressed proteinases in vitro was determined using SPR biosensor technology. For kinetic analysis on the Biacore 3000 instrument, various concentrations of cinanserin were injected for 120 min at a flow rate of 20 μl/min to allow for interaction with the enzymes immobilized on the surface. The interaction kinetics with cinanserin and its hydrochloride are shown in Fig. ​Fig.2.2. A significant and dose-dependent increase in the SPR response was seen if the sensor chip was coated with SARS-CoV 3CLpro and HCoV-229E 3CLpro (Fig. 2A to D). Cinanserin and its hydrochloride presented characteristic square-wave binding curves, indicating a rapidly formed but unstable complex. The concentration series were fitted to a steady-state affinity model and a 1:1 Langmuir binding model for KD determination by Biacore 3000 evaluation software, resulting in KD values of 49.4 μM/78.0 μM (cinanserin/cinanserin hydrochloride) for SARS-CoV 3CLpro and 18.2 μM/36.6 μM for HCoV-229E 3CLpro. In contrast, neither cinanserin nor cinanserin hydrochloride showed binding affinity to HRV-14 3Cpro (Fig. 2E and F).

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1112131/