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© Neutrogena/Johnson & JohnsonJohnson & Johnson is recalling five of its aerosol sunscreen products. Above, images of Neutrogena Ultra Sheer aerosol sunscreen, one of the recalled products.
The company made the announcement this week after conducting its own internal tests. The recalled products are: Neutrogena Beach Defense aerosol sunscreen, Neutrogena Cool Dry Sport aerosol sunscreen, Neutrogena Invisible Daily defense aerosol sunscreen, Neutrogena Ultra Sheer aerosol sunscreen and Aveeno Protect + Refresh aerosol sunscreen, according to a statement from the company. The recall applies to all sizes and SPFs of these products, according to The Washington Post.
Comment: And this is one of the manufacturers that has been entrusted to make coronavirus vaccines? More blood clots: US govt pauses rollout of Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine
See also: US Alzheimer drug received FDA approval despite no proven benefits, investigation launched
It's closely related to the question of whether lockdowns work. If lockdowns work then, as per SAGE and Imperial orthodoxy, the restrictions successfully prevent the virus from reaching most people, who remain unexposed and susceptible - and hence in need of vaccination to protect them when the protective restrictions are lifted. If lockdowns don't work, however, then they don't prevent the virus spreading, and thus the majority of people will be exposed to it as it spreads around unimpeded by ineffectual restrictions.
Another related question is: What proportion of exposed people are infected? Using ONS data we can estimate that around 10-15% of the country tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 over the autumn and winter. How many were exposed to the virus to produce this number of infections? Was it, say, 10-20%, with half to all of them catching the virus? Or was it more like 80-90%, with around 10% being infected? It's a question that makes all the difference in our understanding of the virus and how to respond to it.
© PATRICK T. FALLON/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGESSigns made by family and friends of people who died after being poisoned by pills containing fentanyl in Santa Monica, Calif., in June
The estimated 93,331 deaths from drug overdoses last year, a record high, represent the sharpest annual increase in at least three decades, and compare with an estimated toll of 72,151 deaths in 2019, according to provisional overdose-drug data released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Comment: At this point, it is fair to say that the sheer amount of unnecessary death and suffering caused by lockdowns far outweighed the purported benefits:
- Killer lockdown: 43,000 non-covid excess deaths at home since last march
- Estimating the True Magnitude of the Pandemic and Lockdown Deaths
- Wall Street Journal: Do lockdowns save many lives? In most places, the data say NO
- The lockdown kills too: More people dying at home during UK lockdown
- New analysis finds UK in grip of mental health crisis, with children worst affected
© Being Patient
The Cleveland Clinic issued a statement on Wednesday saying its panel of experts decided against carrying the drug Aduhelm, also called aducanumab, after having "reviewed all available scientific evidence."
"Based on the current data regarding its safety and efficacy, we have decided not to carry Aducanumab at this time. However, we support continued research in this area, and when additional data become available, we will re-evaluate this medication for use in our patients."A spokesperson for the Cleveland Clinic clarified to The Hill that individual physicians will be allowed to prescribe Aduhelm. But patients would need to have the drug administered intravenously monthly from a different health provider.
Comment: The controversy surrounding the authorization and usage of this drug should be cut and dry. It is either a viable, safe and beneficial choice...or it isn't. This is another case of serving profit over health in collusion with the FDA.
© APNeutrogena products with benzene off the shelves
The lawsuit, filed by Johanna Dominguez and Sharron Meijer in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, seeks an injunction and damages on behalf of consumers who purchased the affected products.
The affected products include the Aveeno Protect + Refresh aerosol sunscreen and four Neutrogena sunscreens: Beach Defense aerosol sunscreen, CoolDry Sport aerosol sunscreen, Invisible Daily Defense aerosol sunscreen and UltraSheer aerosol sunscreen.
The recalled products were named in a May report by Valisure, an independent testing lab in New Haven, Connecticut, for having high levels of benzene in at least some batches.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says benzene can cause leukemia or other cancers after long-term exposure to high levels.
Product-safety trial lawyer Andy Birchfield of the Beasley Allen law firm, which is representing the plaintiffs in the suits said:
"It should not have taken the publication of a third party's tests to bring this critically important information to the public, and J&J's response so far is not enough. We will find out how long J&J knew about these concerns and why it took so long to take action."
Comment: This example shows how haphazardly a product is tested and quality-controlled before hitting the market shelf in your neighborhood. J&J has a long history of selling health debilitating products to the public and they are still in business.
Joe Goode, a CVS spokesman, said in an email to The Post:
"CVS Pharmacy is cooperating with Johnson & Johnson's voluntary recall of certain Neutrogena and Aveeno sunscreen products. Out of an abundance of caution, we've also halted the sale of two products — CVS Health After Sun Aloe Vera and CVS Health After Sun Aloe Vera Spray and are working with our supplier to take appropriate additional steps."See also:
- More Johnson & Johnson Drug Factories Cited for Terrible Quality Control
- Pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson loses second ovarian cancer case, must pay $55mn to South Dakota woman
- Asbestos in baby powder: Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay $4.7bn in talc cancer lawsuit
- Johnson & Johnson prevails in New Jersey talc cancer trial
- Poll: 73% of unvaccinated Americans say they won't take the Johnson & Johnson shot
- Vaginal mesh implant victim to be paid $20mn by Johnson & Johnson, PA state court jury orders
- Expanded Tylenol recall aggravates Johnson & Johnson headache
- Johnson & Johnson fined for bribing doctors
Best of the Web: Dr. Yeadon warns: Children 50 TIMES more likely to die from covid vaccine than from virus
"These covid vaccines are not safe," he told War Room, Wednesday.
"The gene based design makes your body manufacture virus spike protein, and we know and we've known for years that virus spike protein triggers blood clots," Yeadon explains. "That's a fundamental problem."
Comment: See also:
- Dr. Wodarg and Dr. Yeadon request a STOP of all corona vaccination studies due to safety concerns and call for co-signing the petition
- YouTube censors lockdown-sceptical interview with renowned immunologist Dr Mike Yeadon for 'violating terms of service'
- Dr Mike Yeadon: Three Coronavirus facts No 10's experts got wrong
The COVID shots are also five times more dangerous than the pandemic H1N1 vaccine, which had a 25-per-million severe side effect rate.2,3 In a June 24, 2021, peer-reviewed article4 in the medical journal Vaccines, titled, "The Safety of COVID-19 Vaccination — We Should Rethink the Policy," an international team of scientists warns that we're killing nearly as many with the shots as would die from COVID-19 itself.
UPDATE: This peer reviewed article was retracted. Please see twitter thread for details.
For Every Three COVID Deaths Spared, Two Die From the Jabs
To compare the risks and benefits, they calculated the number needed to vaccinate (NNTV) to prevent one COVID-19 death. The data came from a large Israeli field study and two adverse drug reactions databases, one with the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and one with the Dutch National Register.
© ISTOCK.COM, LMGORTHANDCases of influenza and other respiratory viruses sank dramatically during the pandemic, with potential implications for both people and pathogens.
"It's really dramatic how the flu disappeared this year," says Ellen Foxman, an immunologist at Yale University. At Yale-New Haven Hospital, where Foxman works, there were around 3,000 confirmed flu cases in the first three months of 2020, Foxman tells The Scientist. "This year, from the first of January until now, there's zero."
Comment: Whilst overall flu transmission was blocked by lockdowns, it's also likely that a number of genuine flu cases were wrongly attributed to coronavirus.
© Shekhar Yadav, EPSA health worker prepares to administer Covid vaccine to a beneficiary in Delhi.
Even though a majority of adverse reactions of Covid vaccines have been mild events like fever and myalgia so far, a recent study claims that Covishield vaccine has more serious side-effects in the form of thromboembolic events and autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) in individuals.
The study, titled 'Auto-immune hepatitis following Covid vaccination', conducted by The Institute of Liver Disease and Transplantation, Dr Rela Institute and Medical Centre and Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research, Chennai, and published in the journal Elsevier claimed that while AIH triggered by viruses has been well reported, AIH after vaccination, though described previously, is extremely rare.
Comment: Nearly every experimental coronavirus vaccine that has been pushed onto the market using emergency legislation has been dogged by reports of unusual, severe, and even deadly, side effects:
- The Inanity of RNA Vaccines For COVID-19
- US infants struck by winter virus in summer after lockdowns disrupt immunity & transmission
- Black fungus cases surge in India, mostly in patients who recovered from coronavirus
Comment: More from the referenced article: