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6 stories tagged "covid"

Investigations

Fifty Sworn Witnesses, 1,400 Who Applied, and Not One Official From Health Canada

A sitting MP put Canadians who say the COVID shots injured them under oath on Parliament Hill. Health Canada, which authorized the products and tracks their harms, sent no one.

Cancer

A Top Cancer Researcher Logged 333 Tumor Reports After COVID Shots and Infection. Now He Wants the Study the Agencies Won't Fund.

Wafik El-Deiry helped map how the p53 gene guards against cancer. Now he has co-authored a review of 333 tumor reports that surfaced or came roaring back after COVID vaccination or infection, plus a blunt admission that no one has produced the population study to rule the vaccine link out.

Infectious Disease

A 2014 Trial Warned That Correcting Vaccine Fears Backfires on the Hesitant. Public Health Corrected Harder.

A randomized trial found that correcting MMR-autism fears left the most hesitant parents less likely to vaccinate. A decade later, a panel of credentialed doctors in Sydney shows the trust cost of correcting harder anyway.

Infectious Disease

Five Years After COVID, Japan Is Still Dying at Pandemic Rates, and Confirmed COVID Explains Only a Tenth

Japan's excess deaths peaked at 7.55 percent in 2022 and still ran at 5.76 percent through 2023, after Tokyo downgraded COVID to a routine infectious disease, in one of the most heavily mRNA-dosed countries on earth.

Investigations

Kennedy Ended the COVID Emergency Authorizations. The Document That Blocks Injury Lawsuits Wasn't the One He Signed.

The emergency use authorizations wind down within a year. The liability shield that routes injured people to a program denying more than 98% of claims runs untouched through 2029.

Investigations

The Crisis Was Unexpected. The Org Chart Wasn't.

Internal NIH correspondence and the public record both point to a pandemic-response architecture, and the people to run it, assembled years before Covid arrived.