A study of almost 10 million people in Wuhan, China, found that asymptomatic spread of COVID-19 did not occur at all, thus undermining the need for lockdowns, which are built on the premise of the virus being unwittingly spread by infectious, asymptomatic people. Published in November in the scientific journal Nature Communications, the paper was compiled by 19 scientists,…
Month: December 2020
The Federalist reports “Congress’s Spending Binge Gifts American Children Longer Lockdowns And An Even Bigger National Debt”
There is no way to sugarcoat it. The Washington establishment — and the big-spending congressional appropriators, lobbyists, and bureaucrats who comprise it — jammed through a massive “omnibus” spending package and combo COVID-19 relief bill with a price tag of more than $2.3 trillion. President Trump was correct to initially balk at the absurd spending…
New York Times reports ” Growing Number of Countries Find Cases of the New Virus Variant”
Japan, Spain, France, Sweden and Canada have found small numbers of infections involving a new, potentially more transmissible variant of the coronavirus, most linked to travel from Britain, where it was first detected. The rapid spread of the variant led to the lockdown of London and southern England this week, prompted a temporary French blockade of the…
Corman-Drosten Review Report reports “External peer review of the RTPCR test to detect SARS-CoV-2 reveals 10 major scientific flaws at the molecular and methodological level: consequences for false positive results”
The published RT-qPCR protocol for detection and diagnostics of 2019-nCoV and the manuscript suffer from numerous technical and scientific errors, including insufficient primer design, a problematic and insufficient RT-qPCR protocol, and the absence of an accurate test validation. Neither the presented test nor the manuscript itself fulfils the requirements for an acceptable scientific publication. Further,…
Lifesite News reports “Minnesota lawmakers claim 40-percent inflation in state COVID death numbers”
State senator Scott Jensen, a practicing physician who is calling for an audit, noted that ‘doctors and hospitals have an incentive to, if you will, massage the numbers.’ Two Minnesota lawmakers have called for an investigation of the state’s COVID-19 mortality data after finding that hundreds of recent deaths may have been misattributed to the…
Lifesite News reports “Former Pfizer VP: ‘No need for vaccines,’ ‘the pandemic is effectively over’”
Dr. Mike Yeadon, Pfizer’s former Vice President and Chief Scientist for Allergy & Respiratory, states that the drive for a universal vaccine has ‘the whiff of evil’ which he ‘will oppose … vigorously.’ While Pfizer pharmaceutical made headlines announcing the imminent release of their COVID-19 vaccine, to much fanfare, a former Vice President and Chief Scientist for the…
Public Health Ontario reports “An Overview of Cycle Threshold Values and their Role in SARS-CoV-2 Real-Time PCR Test Interpretation”
This document provides an overview of Ct values with a focus on how they are determined, their relationship to viral load, and how Ct values may contribute to the interpretation of positive rRT-PCR results among patients with low pretest probability. Key factors that contribute to test performance are also discussed, and guidance on investigating a…
NPR reports “I Felt Fine, But Tested Positive For The Coronavirus. What’s That Really Mean?”
When they called to tell me my COVID-19 test was positive, I thought there must have been a mistake. I felt perfectly fine, and in the long months of the pandemic my husband, Jeff, and I had been behaving the way much of the United States had: hyper-vigilant about where we went and who we…
Business Today reports “‘Not certain’: Pfizer CEO on whether COVID vaccine stops transmission”
As US-based pharma major Pfizer Inc and its German partner BioNTech SE get two back-to-back emergency approvals from the UK and Bahrain health regulatory bodies, the vaccine frontrunner seems to be clueless about one major question — can their coronavirus vaccine prevent the virus’ transmission after vaccination? During a recent interview with NBC’s Lestor Holt,…
Dr. Mercola reports “COVID-19 Testing Scandal Deepens”
Experts are now coming forward in growing numbers denouncing mass PCR testing as foolhardy and nonsensical if not outright criminal PCR tests cannot distinguish between “live” viruses and inactive (noninfectious) viral particles and therefore cannot be used as a diagnostic tool. They also cannot confirm that 2019-nCoV is the causative agent for clinical symptoms as…