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Dr. Alessandro Santin, a practicing oncologist and scientist who runs a large laboratory at Yale, believes firmly that ivermectin could vastly cut suffering from COVID-19. Santin joins a growing group of doctors committed to using the safe, generic drug both as an early home treatment to prevent hospitalization and alongside inpatient treatments like steroids and oxygen.
"The bottom line is that ivermectin works. I've seen that in my patients as well as treating my own family in Italy," Santin said in an interview, referring to his father, 88, who recently suffered a serious bout of COVID. "We must find a way to administer it on a large scale to a lot of people."
Here is what EudraVigilance states about their database:
This website was launched by the European Medicines Agency in 2012 to provide public access to reports of suspected side effects (also known as suspected adverse drug reactions). These reports are submitted electronically to EudraVigilance by national medicines regulatory authorities and by pharmaceutical companies that hold marketing authorisations (licences) for the medicines.
EudraVigilance is a system designed for collecting reports of suspected side effects. These reports are used for evaluating the benefits and risks of medicines during their development and monitoring their safety following their authorisation in the European Economic Area (EEA). EudraVigilance has been in use since December 2001.
This website was launched to comply with the EudraVigilance Access Policy, which was developed to improve public health by supporting the monitoring of the safety of medicines and to increase transparency for stakeholders, including the general public.
The Management Board of the European Medicines Agency first approved the EudraVigilance Access Policy in December 2010. A revision was adopted by the Board in December 2015 based on the 2010 pharmacovigilance legislation. The policy aims to provide stakeholders such as national medicines regulatory authorities in the EEA, the European Commission, healthcare professionals, patients and consumers, as well as the pharmaceutical industry and research organisations, with access to reports on suspected side effects.
Transparency is a key guiding principle of the Agency, and is pivotal to building trust and confidence in the regulatory process. By increasing transparency, the Agency is better able to address the growing need among stakeholders, including the general public, for access to information. (Source.)
Soon after two organizations calling themselves the "Center for Countering Digital Hate" and "Anti-Vax Watch" published a document titled, The Disinformation Dozen: Why Platforms Must Act on Twelve Leading Online Anti-Vaxxers on March 24th — which received international media amplification across at least 100 different news outlets — a tidal wave of social media responses inundated their posts on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter, calling them out for their clearly hypocritical behavior in viciously attacking and defaming 12 prominent health freedom advocates and whistleblowers.
As I've mentioned before, both the FDA and OSHA have made it clear over the years that only respirators, not masks, are considered valid PPE to block transmission of a respiratory virus. Which is why mask manufacturers must continue to place a disclaimer on their labels that the product does not work for airborne viruses. The CDC is lying to the public and giving them a false sense of security by suggesting masks are valid medical devices for COVID. That is why the FDA was forced to use an Emergency Use Authorization - the same process used for the vaccines - to approve masks as medical devices to be used as source control to reduce the spread of COVID on April 24, 2020.
Comment: See also:
- Russia's Lavrov seen wearing cheeky mask in China
- Sen. Paul spars with Fauci over wearing masks after COVID-19 vaccination: 'Isn't that theater?'
- 'Big Brother is watching you'? France to use 'smart' cameras to check how many transport passengers are wearing masks
- 'Our kids have thrived': The Texas school district that never required masks or social distancing
- Czech police tackle man, put him in headlock for not wearing mask as toddler cries in viral clip
- Nurse tells why she refused to wear mask, COVID test at airport
- Wyoming announces end to mask mandates, lockdown measures
Starting Monday, any customer with a valid COVID-19 vaccination card will receive a free Original Glazed doughnut at participating locations nationwide. The iconic doughnut shop specifies that any guests who have received at least one of the two shots of the Moderna or Pfizer vaccine, or one shot of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine qualify for the promotion.
All you need to show is your vaccination card to redeem your doughnut — a vaccine sticker is not valid.
Comment: Did the irony that a company selling bottom-of-the-barrel processed garbage would be offering freebies to people undergoing an undoubtedly detrimental health procedure just get completely missed?
See also: Vaccine Marketing: U.S. businesses offering freebies to vax recipients despite ongoing reports about side effects
So despite all the public service announcements and government pressure to take the shot, there are people who still don't want it - even health care workers.
Kroger isn't mandating COVID shots but is offering $100 to employees who take them. Some businesses are also offering other incentives to customers.
Comment: Back in 2014 the WHO engaged in a similar campaign to 'shape the public's behavior toward vaccination' Read more: WHO wants to market vaccines like soda & burgers
In October 2014, the WHO's Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) published an extensive report on vaccine hesitancy, looking at different approaches to help shape the public's behavior toward vaccination.24 The report specifically explored marketing strategies employed by other organizations such as the International Food and Beverage Alliance (IFBA), which includes companies like Coca Cola Company, Pepsico and McDonalds...
According to newspaper columnist Lawrence Solomon, "The World Health Organization Working Group recommended that this fact-free, emotion-laden Coca-Cola style marketing strategy be urged on the international "pro-vaccination lobbies." He added, "Aided by this 'Keep It Simple, Stupid' strategy, WHO is hopeful that the marketing wizardry that works for the food and beverage giants will help the pro-vaccination movement overcome the public's reluctance to vaccinate."24
There follows a guest post by Lockdown Sceptics' regular Guy de la Bédoyère.
Just when you thought the Covid madness couldn't take any more twists, here comes another one but you'd better brace yourself. The BBC's Science Correspondent James Gallagher has a startling revelation that the common cold (the rhinovirus) can suppress COVID-19 because it's so tough the SARS-CoV-2 virus gets pushed out of the way to make room for it. The news comes from the Journal of Infectious Diseases.
Here's the summary:
Human rhinovirus triggers an innate immune response that blocks SARS-CoV-2 replication within the human respiratory epithelium. Given the high prevalence of human rhinovirus, this interference effect might cause a population-wide reduction in the number of new COVID-19 infections.
From a host's perspective, HRV [Human Rhinovirus] infections, which are usually associated with mild disease, stimulate an antiviral response that prevents infections by more severe (and sometimes lethal) viruses such as SARS-CoV-2.
AstraZeneca cherry-picked data, misrepresented vaccine's efficacy, independent medical board alleges

A health worker administers a dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine at a coronavirus vaccination location in London on Tuesday.
The Data and Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) alleged that AstraZeneca misrepresented the results of its coronavirus vaccine trial when it announced Monday morning that the vaccine had 79% efficacy at preventing symptomatic coronavirus, according to the NYT. The panel wrote a sharply-worded letter to the British pharmaceutical company and U.S. health officials hours after the results were released, triggering the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to issue a statement expressing concern.
The DSMB's letter said AstraZeneca calculated its efficacy rate based on data that was "most favorable for the study as opposed to the most recent and most complete," the NYT reported.
Comment: While the above is undoubtedly true, its interesting that AstraZeneca is getting all the press for its problems, while the big players like Pfizer and Moderna are seemingly getting a pass (despite problems). Could it be that there's a subtle push toward the mRNA vaccines by making the non-mRNA ones look bad?
See also:
- 'Nothing else explains it': Norwegian scientists say AstraZeneca DID cause blood clots; British and Dutch experts dismiss theory
- Toronto lockdown czar's husband has 'financial ties' to Pfizer, AstraZeneca
- Spain investigating woman's death two weeks after dose of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine
- Italy opens manslaughter case after teacher dies hours after getting AstraZeneca vaccine
- Journalist proclaims she would "love to die" from the AstraZeneca vaccine if it helps others
- The EU-AstraZeneca row: a complete timeline
- Multiple vaccine connected deaths in Italy leads to batch of AstraZeneca to be banned
- Another one bites the dust: Netherlands latest to suspend AstraZeneca over blood clot fear

Bertrand Mayor Yvon Godin, who is head of the Forum of Acadian Peninsula Mayors, says residents are 'very, very worried' about the mystery disease identified on the peninsula and in the Moncton area.
Comment: Note how differently governments are handling Covid-19, with relentless and detailed broadcasts of cases, locations, variants, Test and Trace, and so on.
News last week that a cluster of cases of an unknown neurological disease has been found in New Brunswick immediately had residents of several communities on edge.
First diagnosed in 2015, according to a Public Health memo sent this month to medical professionals, the disease appears to be concentrated in the Acadian Peninsula in northeast New Brunswick and the Moncton region in the southeast. Forty-three cases have been identified, and five people have died.
Comment: Also in the news this week is the death of renowned cancer researcher at AstraZeneca, who reportedly died of CJD:
José Baselga, a storied oncology researcher and pharmaceutical executive whose discoveries helped pave the way for new breast cancer therapies, died Sunday at the age of 61.See also:
His death was confirmed by AstraZeneca, where Baselga had been serving as executive vice president for research and development in oncology. The company did not provide a cause of death; the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia reported it was Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare brain infection that causes degeneration and death.
- Flesh-eating ulcer spreads to inner Melbourne suburbs
- Rare case of brain eating amoeba confirmed in Florida
- New virus passed via tick bites emerges in China, seven killed so far
- Eight people test positive for Ebola in Guinea, first resurgence in the country since world's worst outbreak
The reason proponents of a low fat diet are so against the ketogenic diet is because they believe that fat, and in particular saturated fat, causes heart disease. But this belief has become increasingly hard to maintain over the last couple of decades. In spite of the fact that populations around the world have been dutifully following advice from nutritionists to cut down on fat intake, they've actually gotten fatter and more diabetic. The prevalence of metabolic syndrome (a combination of central obesity, type 2 diabetes, and high blood pressure) has exploded since governments started recommending that people cut down on fat. And metabolic syndrome is one of the leading risk factors for heart disease.
This suggests that the nutrition establishment has got everything terribly wrong. It suggests that it's a high intake of carbohydrates that is responsible for the current poor metabolic health of western populations, rather than a high fat/saturated fat intake. Of course, the data suggesting this is all observational, and observational data can show correlation, but they cannot prove causation.
So, let's look at what the randomized controlled trials of the ketogenic diet have to say on the matter. A systematic review and meta-analysis was published in Nutrients in July 2020 that gathered together all the trials of a ketogenic diet. The review was funded by the South Korean government.
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