Chinese Media: Origins of COVID-19 from Maine Lobster Company

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Mark Godfrey via Seafood Source

Chinese media is suggesting COVID-19 first arrived in a market like this one from shipments of lobster from the U.S. state of Maine.

Reports appearing across China’s tightly controlled media are suggesting COVID-19 first arrived in the country in 2019 via a shipment of lobster from the U.S. state of Maine.

“In November 2019, a shipment of frozen Maine [lobster] arrived in Wuhan and shortly afterwards several people working in the market fell very ill with a strange pneumonia,” noted an article published this week in the New Observer, a state-owned periodical.

The article suggests the shipment from Maine was a “Pandora’s box” that spread the virus around China. It also states the “American side has not owned up to the origins of the virus.”

The Sina news portal – one of the most-read on China’s state-controlled internet – reported on the issue in more detail, suggesting a shipment from Maine consisting of 55 boxes of chilled Boston lobster weighing 823.4 kilograms arrived in Shanghai Pudong Airport on 11 November, 2019, aboard a China Eastern Airlines flight was then forwarded to 26 customers across the country. One of the customers was an unnamed vendor at the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, where the virus was first reported in late 2019, after an initial cover-up by local government.

The Sina article includes several maps of the Huanan market which link the Wuhan vendor with concentrations of COVID-19 infections within the market. The article also includes what it says are quotes from the report of the World Health Organization study trip to China, one of which states that “research shows that the new coronavirus can survive for a long time in conditions of frozen food, packaging, and cold-chain products.”

Sina linked the source of COVID-19 to a particular Maine county and company: the Seashell Company (the name appears in the article as 美国海贝公司 – the Mandarin article uses the term “Hai Bei,” which means sea shell). The article lists the company as being based in York County, which is in southern Maine, but SeafoodSource has been unable to confirm any such company exists.

However, a map in the article identifies the company’s headquarters, which are identical to those of York, Maine-based lobster exporter Maine Coast Shellfish, which is now owned by Premium Brands. The Sina article also lists the founding date of the company as 2011, which matches with Maine Coast’s date of founding.

“The lobsters that entered China were caught by the company from 20 October to 5 November, 2019, from the Atlantic Ocean’s FAO21 waters,” the Sina article said.

The article claims that the Maine Center for Disease Control had flagged the emergence of a series of what Sina termed “e-cigarette pneumonia” cases in July 2019 and that these cases were centered at the York Hospital, nearby the company’s headquarters. The cases were kept secret, the article claims, though it illogically also states that the outbreak was reported by local media.

“From July to the end of October 2019, the Maine Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, local media, and local residents’ personal social media accounts repeatedly reported ‘e-cigarette pneumonia,’ which is a suspected new coronary pneumonia case that has been kept secret in the United States,” the article states.

Despite the claim of a cover-up, in January 2020, the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention published a statement on its website stating the agency “is working with clinical and public health partners in Maine, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S. CDC), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and others to investigate an outbreak of lung injury associated with use of e-cigarette, or vaping, products.”

A Maine CDC update in February 2020 added that “national and state data from patient reports and product sample testing show tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)-containing e-cigarette, or vaping, products, particularly from informal sources like friends, family, or in-person or online dealers, are linked to most EVALI [ e-cigarette, or vaping, product use-associated lung injury] cases and play a major role in the outbreak.”

Robert Long of the Maine CDC told SeafoodSource that “there is no scientific evidence to support these claims.”

Maine Coast President Tom Adams said he has not been contacted by any Chinese media and has “no idea at all” why his company is being singled out.

“Public health organizations from around the world have stated with certainty that imported food is not the cause of COVID-19. Maine Coast has no information supporting this claim,” Adams told SeafoodSource on 1 October.

Adams expressed incredulity at the claims being made about his company’s alleged role in the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Even … a single shipment would have so many touchpoints and people along the way – drivers, handlers, customs officials in both countries, seafood handlers in the U.S. and China – if this were to be true, the potential for contamination would be high for all of them, so not having any cases along the way would be extremely surprising and unusual,” Adams said.

Adams said Maine Coast has “not heard any concern from our Chinese customers and it has not affected our current business.”

“It is my understanding that Chinese press has been since the beginning of COVID been trying to find other places, including foods from around the world, including Norwegian salmon, Australian seafood products, to blame the spread of COVID on with no success. I think we’ve all read those articles,” he said.

The World Health Organization, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization, and all major national food safety agencies report there is no connection between seafood, seafood packaging, and COVID-19, according to the National Fisheries Institute, a trade group representing the U.S. seafood industry.

“Simply stated, people cannot get COVID-19 from eating seafood. NFI’s Seafood Safety & COVID-19 website demonstrates over and over that the coronavirus is not related to seafood. Seafood is a safe and wholesome food with nutritional benefits that contribute to a strong immune system,” NFI said in a statement.

Even if unsupported by evidence, the linkage in China of COVID-19 with imported seafood cold chains has damaged the perception of imported seafood throughout the country, though Chinese distributors have been keen to focus the attention on countries where COVID-19 controls have been lax.

In a recent interview with SeafoodSource, the head of the Chinese Aquatic Products Processing and Marketing Association (CAPPMA) Cui He said China was forced to make enhancements to its COVID-19 controls because similar controls were not being instituted in some seafood-exporting countries. Indian and Ecuadorian companies – both major suppliers of shrimp to China – have faced temporary bans from the Chinese market after Chinese customs announced discovery of COVID-19 traces found on their shrimp packaging.

COVID-19 checks on inbound seafood shipments has crimped supply and put pressure on prices in Chinese markets. Traffic jams at Chinese ports exacerbated by the COVID-19 testing regime has also pushed up freight prices, depleting the margins of Chinese processors relying on export markets.

Photo courtesy of L Nunes/Shutterstock

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Confirmed: Natural Immunity Better than Vaxxed! So, Where is My Liberty?

By Rachel Marsden, columnist, political strategist and host of an independently produced French-language program that airs on Sputnik France. Her website can be found at rachelmarsden.com

I’ve got immunity from having had the virus, so where’s my permanent health pass and end to testing hell? Governments are ignoring an avalanche of clinical studies proving the Covid-recovered could simply be left alone.

As someone who has recovered from Covid-19, I’m tired of spending the better part of a year now contending with brainwashed sheeple glued to every word of our flip-flopping, agenda peddling, manipulative government authorities trying to sell us on the idea that if you’ve already had the virus, you still need to get at least one approved anti-Covid jab.

The fact that governments can’t even agree on whether the Covid-recovered should get either one or two jabs to qualify for their government-issued QR code health pass, allowing them to live and travel freely as before this fiasco, should already make thinking people skeptical. Here in France, government propaganda requires the Covid-recovered to take just one jab to qualify for the national QR code health pass – which is insufficient for travel to my home country of Canada, which requires that all travelers be double-jabbed three months after any Covid infection.

But If I have evidence that my acquired immunity is equal to or superior to the jabs, then getting even a single dose implies potential risk for little or no reward – or even potential detriment. So why would I roll that dice? It’s not like hospitals are filling up with the unjabbed Covid-recovered. So why aren’t authorities acknowledging this and reacting accordingly to remove us from their jab treadmill.

An Israeli study is often cited to justify jabbing the Covid-recovered, claiming that they’re twice as protected from reinfection than if they relied solely on acquired immunity. But when you dig into the data, you realize that the odds of reinfection are already infinitesimal, and that two times nil is still nil.

Another study, published in the medical journal, Viruses, concluded that “compared with mRNA vaccination… natural infection induces a more robust humoral immune response,” meaning that the Covid-recovered have systems better primed with memory to respond to any future exposure even after blood antibody levels wane.

And in a bombshell undercover video sting published this week, Project Veritas revealed Chris Croce, a senior associate scientist at Pfizer, admitting on camera the advantage of acquired immunity over his company’s vaccine. “You’re protected most likely for longer since it’s a natural response,” Croce revealed.

Nick Karl, a Pfizer biochemist, told the undercover operative: “When somebody is naturally immune – like they got COVID – they probably have… more antibodies against the virus because what the vaccine is… that protein is just on the outside… It’s just one antibody against one specific part of the virus. When you actually get the virus, you’ll start producing antibodies against multiple pieces of virus, not only the outside portion but the inside portion, the actual virus, so your antibodies are probably better at that point than the vaccination.”

Another article published last month on Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s preprint server concluded: “While vaccinations are highly effective at protecting against infection and severe COVID-19 disease, our review demonstrates that natural immunity in COVID-recovered individuals is, at least, equivalent to the protection afforded by full vaccination of COVID-naïve populations. There is a modest and incremental relative benefit to vaccination in COVID-recovered individuals; however, the net benefit is marginal on an absolute basis.” The researchers recommended that “vaccination of COVID-recovered individuals should be subject to clinical equipoise and individual preference.”

And that’s not all. “Israelis who had an infection were more protected against the Delta coronavirus variant than those who had an already highly effective COVID-19 vaccine,” wrote Science Magazine of the benchmark Israeli study from August (while still, bizarrely, claiming vaccinations were “vital”). Since then, we’ve learned that the effectiveness of these ‘highly effective vaccines’ – like Pfizer/BioNTech’s – wanes after six months.

In Pfizrael, sorry, Israel – the primary ground for Covid-19 jab experimentation according to Dr. Philip Dormitzer, vice president and chief scientific officer at Pfizer, who called the country a “sort of laboratory” – a record explosion of Covid infection has resulted in calls for a FOURTH dose, even as the double-jabbed who haven’t yet received their third jab started losing their QR code health pass privileges this week.

It looks like endless jab hell. So how about just giving the Covid-recovered our lifelong health pass already and leaving us alone so we can ignore this circus and move on with our lives? Why are you holding us hostage? Let me take my own ‘jab’ at answering that.

What’s clearly lurking behind the reluctance of authorities to acknowledge acquired immunity is the fear that if they just decided to leave us alone while subjecting everyone else to their endless jab and pony show, then an increasing number of people would eventually decide to find a way to deliberately catch and recover from Covid so they could be left alone, too.

The authorities are literally going against the science and lying to victims of Covid in order to avoid creating a benefit that others might seek out at a potential risk. Except that they themselves are responsible for creating the restrictive system from which people are now literally seeking out infection to find relief – if only to acquire a health pass good for six months so they’re able to access everyday venues and basic freedoms.

As Sir Walter Scott once wrote in his epic poem: “O what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!” So maybe stop manipulating people in a lousy attempt at social engineering and start actually following your beloved ‘science’, rather than cherry picking it to suit your corrupt narrative, you inept clowns.

There Is No Pandemic

Research by an independent statistician, who goes by the pseudonym of John Dee, appears to confirm what many have suspected since the beginning of the Covid-19 pseudopandemic; that the government narrative about the disease is a confidence trick.

John Dee looked at more than 160,000 admissions via the Emergency Department of a busy hospital. His analysis shows that, for an unnamed NHS trust, between 1 January 2021 and 13 June 2021, of the 2,102 admissions coded as Covid-19, only 9.7% (204) had any supporting diagnosis of symptomatic disease.

For the remaining 90.3% (1,899) there was no discernible, clinical reason to describe them as Covid-19 patients. However, they were all admitted for the following reason:

Disease caused by 2019 novel coronavirus.

John Dee audit analysis concluded:

The ED electronic patient record system is awash with asymptomatic/false positive admissions that primarily require emergency care for non-COVID diseases and conditions whilst their data record is flagged as COVID.

These findings cast significant doubt upon the previous assumption that NHS admission and mortality data would “abide by expectation in terms of outcome and clinical diagnosis.” It seems to have fallen short of this expectation by some distance. Consequently, this casts considerable doubt on other “official” statistics we have been given.

For example, the recent Office of National Statistics (ONS) report on the distribution of Covid-19 mortality statistics by vaccination status are highly dubious. Dee’s research leaves a huge question mark over all official claims of Covid-19 mortality. Unless these issues are addressed, there is very little reason to accept any government or mainstream media (MSM) stories about the so-called pandemic.

This includes recent assertions about an alleged pandemic of the unvaccinated and Public Health England’s modelled prediction of vaccine efficacy. The data these claims are based upon cannot be deemed reliable and lend further weight to concerns that there is no statistical basis for politicians’ statements about vaccine efficacy. 

John Dee’s audit analysis has profound implications. It requires validation and others must have access to the anonymised NHS ICD10 coded admissions data, complete with corresponding diagnosis, in order to carry out broader study. If, for any reason, the NHS or other official sources withhold this information, it only adds credibility to Dee’s findings.

John Dee’s Facebook profile states that he is a consultant analyst and former head of clinical audit at an NHS hospital. He specialised in assessment of clinical outcomes and served on a regional clinical reference committee. He adds that he uses “data from official sources to reveal what the authorities should be telling us about the COVID-19 pandemic but are not.”

He runs John Dee’s Almanac, a public research group which says of itself:

John Dee’s Almanac is a public study group where unofficial analyses of official COVID data by a former NHS ‘official’ will be posted. Whilst this group does not and cannot offer medical advice it does concern itself with evidence-based medicine, with the aim of publication of rigorous analyses of authoritative data … My posts are regularly collated into PDF files, which may be found on the group Google Drive. Supporting materials will also be placed there.

The obvious caveat is that we do not know who John Dee is, nor do we know which hospital he obtained this data from. Dee states that his “is a pen name owing to the sensitivities involved but my CV, biography and published papers can be made available to any bone fide interested party.” The implication is that, should his own identity be made public, his source may be at risk. That source must have access to restricted hospital data. Hence the need for full disclosure from the NHS.

Dee received the data in June 2021 and used IBM SPSS software for the analysis. The NHS use the International Classification of Disease – ICD10 system to code patient diagnosis. Dee analysed the codes for 161,494 ED admissions for the 6 month study period. There were 867 unique coding entries across all ED admissions.

Dee noticed that the coding did not match the claimed reason for admission in a high proportion of Covid-19 patients. For example, there were 23 alleged Covid-19 patients admitted for abdominal pain where that pain was said to be “caused by 2019 novel coronavirus.” Of these, only 4 had a coded diagnosis of any abdominal disease.

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He shared this finding with qualified doctors and they concluded that for 19 of these 23 supposed Covid-19 patients, that neither the presence of a positive test result nor any other reason for attributing Covid-19 had any “inherent clinical meaning.” That is that there was no medical justification for the diagnosis of Covid-19.

Dee found that these admissions for Covid-19 were either asymptomatic or false positives. It should be noted that Dee assumed that a positive test, without any clinical evidence of Covid-19 disease, indicated a false positive.

Dee has called the absence of disease, in the presence of a positive SARS-CoV-2 (SC2) test, a “false positive.” A positive test result for SC2 is not and never has been evidence of a “case” of Covid-19. Even a genuine positive result does not necessarily indicate that the person has Covid-19 disease. Perhaps this is a semantic point. 

Regardless of test results, Dee initially found that there was no evident reason to ascribe Covid-19 to the vast majority of the abdominal pain admissions. Yet they were recorded as such. Dee and his research colleagues felt this may be significant, and undertook further investigation.

As Covid-19 is primarily a respiratory illness, he cross referenced the ICD10 coding with respiratory diagnosis. There are other claimed clinical markers of Covid-19 and Dee extended his matching criteria to include diagnosis of myocarditis, pericarditis, arrhythmia, deep-vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, myocardial infarction, intracranial haemorrhage, and thrombocytopenia.

He then looked at the complaint(s) the patients presented with at the ED: nasal congestion, persistent headache, loss of sensation etc.

He assigned a variable (COVcomp) to assess the relevance of the complaint to a Covid-19 diagnosis. For example, a cough would score as highly relevant, an abrasion as irrelevant. From 140 presenting complaints, Dee identified 26 chief complaints related to Covid-19.

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In combination, these markers of symptomatic illness and the chief complaint variable indicated a possible Covid-19 infection severe enough to warrant a Covid-19 admission. In these cases a Covid-19 ICD10 coding would have been appropriate. It is important to note Dee’s objective:

… To throw the clinical ‘net’ as wide as possible to capture all admissions that were presenting with conditions commensurate with symptomatic COVID-19 and development of the disease.

Dee was not trying to minimise possibly legitimate ICD10 codes for Covid-19. His audit analysis was designed to capture the maximum.

Of the 2,102 admissions, allegedly “caused by 2019 novel coronavirus” only 204 (9.7%) showed any fundamental basis for a diagnosis of Covid-19 disease. The rest were either asymptomatic, or tested positive for SC2, without any evidence that the test result corresponded to Covid-19 disease (Dee’s false positive).

The vast majority of recorded Covid-19 admissions appeared to be unrelated to symptomatic Covid-19. The implications of this research cannot be overstated. Bluntly, if accurate, it demonstrates that there is no pandemic.

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The recent ONS report about Covid-19 deaths reported by vaccination status becomes practically meaningless. The ONS stated how they arrived at their headline conclusion:

Count of deaths involving Covid-19 and percentage of all deaths by vaccination status, England, deaths occurring between 2 January and 2 July 2021.

It now seems that the count of deaths involving Covid-19 was wholly unreliable. The ONS get their vaccine status information from the National Immunisation Management System (NIMS) which records vaccination by NHS registration number. They then cross referenced this dataset with data from NHS Test and Trace, which records PCR test results by NHS registration number.

This led the ONS to conclude, in this publication and throughout their other Covid-19 related reports, that any death of a person with a positive RT-PCR test “involved” Covid-19. John Dee’s research implies that these test results have no “inherent clinical meaning” in the vast majority of cases. It doesn’t matter what the decedent’s vaccine status was, the ONS cannot say from NHS Test and Trace data that their deaths involved Covid-19.   

Dee’s research indicates that Test and Trace is a fairly worthless exercise. We can barely place any credibility in the mortality statistics. The notion that death within 28 days of a positive test involves, let alone is caused by, Covid-19 is highly questionable. 

There is currently no justification for any mass Covid-19 vaccination program. Dee’s figures indicate that Covid-19 presents no more of a health risk than seasonal flu. Vaccines offered to the most vulnerable appears to be the full extent of precautionary necessity.

However, it is when we look at the mortality figures that perhaps the most worrying questions arise. While 2020 only ranked 9th for mortality, out of the first two decades of the 21st century, there were notable unseasonable spikes and unusual patterns of mortality. These have continued throughout 2021, again they have been attributed to Covid-19 largely according to NHS numbers.

Dee’s audit analysis suggests that only 10% or less of these NHS ICD10 coded deaths were genuinely attributable to Covid-19. So what caused these unseasonable spikes in excess mortality if not Covid-19?

Unless the NHS and the government account for Dee’s findings, not only is there no reason to believe a pandemic ever occurred, it is clear that unusual patterns of excess mortality were caused by something else. There are a number of possible antecedents and each warrant further investigation.

In the first claimed wave of Covid-19, mortality corresponded to lockdown policies, which appeared to increase the mortality risk. The second alleged wave, in the winter of 2020/2021, correlated with the vaccine roll out. In 2021, the suggested third wave of unusual summer, Covid-19 mortality stands in stark contrast to the same period in 2020, where Covid-19 mortality appeared to be lower without vaccines.

The conspicuous correlation between the use of palliative care medication, especially Midazolam, and the observed mortality spikes is another issue that requires explanation. Dee’s analysis provides further reason to suspect the majority of these deaths were not attributable to Covid-19.

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Throughout all proposed “waves” of the “pandemic”, and during all intervening periods, a persistent mortality anomaly has remained. ONS statistics have consistently shown elevated rates of excess mortality in the home. In the apparent absence of any pandemic disease, we must ask what accounts for this excess mortality.

Dee’s audit analysis is not categorical “proof” that everything we have been told about the supposed Covid-19 pandemic is a lie. But it strongly suggests the likelihood.

It is untenable for the government to maintain their Covid-19 narrative without acknowledging and explaining his findings. Until they do, we can legitimately state that the evidence shows that there is no pandemic.

Iain Davis

Author, blogger, researcher and short film maker who rants at in-this-together.com.

Vaccinated Individuals Can Still Spread Covid-19

This is common knowledge by now:

  • Emerging data suggest that Delta could spread more readily than other coronavirus variants among people vaccinated against COVID-19. (Nature, Aug. 12)
  • Vaccinated People With Breakthrough Infections Can Spread The Delta Variant, CDC Says (NPR, Jul. 30)
  • UC study finds similarities in COVID viral loads between vaccinated, unvaccinated people (KTXL, Oct. 6)
  • CDC study says COVID-19 can spread in vaccinated (AP, Sep. 21)

Alas, the president of the United States doesn’t doesn’t know that.

Dramatic Spikes in COVID-19 Deaths After Jabs in 40 Nations

by Patrick Delaney via Lifesite NewsStatistics continue to show the opposite of what would be expected from the COVID-19 vaccine campaign.
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A brief video published last week uses data from the Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center to illustrate dramatic spikes in COVID deaths in numerous countries across the globe after the introduction of experimental COVID

Titled “COVID Deaths Before and After Vaccination Programs,” the compelling presentation was produced by HART Group-affiliated quantitative data analyst Joel Smalley and appears to be the sequel to a similar video he released in May.

In a tweet introduction of the video, Smalley, a British national, challenges the notion that “vaccines” have shown sufficient efficacy to maintain their emergency use authorization.

“COVID vaccines are between 50% and 80% effective in reducing severe illness and death,” he wrote. “They have to be at least 50% to retain emergency use authorization. Such dramatic efficacy should be apparent in the empirical, ‘real-world’ data. There should be very few country exceptions.”

The video displays weekly COVID-19 deaths per country, before (blue) and after (red) experimental vaccination campaigns began, showing a dramatic correlation between vaccine uptake and spikes in death numbers in approximately 40 different countries.

Examples include sharp increases in COVID deaths in Israel, Taiwan, and Uganda.


While correlation does not prove causation, looking more broadly at relevant data, a worldwide trend of high rates of infections, hospitalizations, and deaths can be found among the vaccinated.

It was reported in July that 40% of COVID-19 hospitalizations in the UK were from the “fully vaccinated.” More recently, as emphasized by Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Public Health England revealed that 63% of Delta variant deaths in the UK are in the vaccinated.

In addition, Israel made headlines in recent months for skyrocketing COVID cases and hospitalization rates among the vaccinated. As of early August, Dr. Kobi Haviv, director of the Herzog Hospital in Jerusalem, noted on Israel’s Channel 13 that “most of the population” of Israel is vaccinated and that he was seeing “85-90% of hospitalizations” were “fully vaccinated.”

This phenomenon of rising cases occurring in association with high vaccine uptake has become a universal trend alongside the rising death rates from (or with) the disease as shown above.

Such a correlation was recognized by Pfizer itself as revealed in a briefing document they submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on September 17. The briefing included a report of one of the pharmaceutical giant’s own studies indicating higher rates of infection following injections, equating to jab recipients becoming more susceptible to contracting COVID-19.

In addition, Dr. Peter McCullough reported in August on a preprint study that “found vaccinated individuals carry 251 times the load of COVID-19 viruses in their nostrils compared to the unvaccinated.”

“While moderating the symptoms of infection, the jab allows vaccinated individuals to carry unusually high viral loads without becoming ill at first, potentially transforming them into presymptomatic super spreaders,” wrote McCullough, the editor of two major medical journals.

He went on to speculate that this may be the reason so many places are experiencing such a “prominent outbreak,” even with a high level of herd immunity and vaccinated individuals.

COVID Outbreak Sparked by Fully Vaccinated Patient Challenges Vaccine-Induced Herd Immunity Theory

By Megan Redshaw via Childrens Health Defense

A paper published Sept. 30 in Eurosurveillance raises questions about the legitimacy of “vaccine-generated herd immunity.”

The study cites a COVID outbreak which spread rapidly among hospital staff at an Israeli Medical Center — despite a 96% vaccination rate, use of N-95 surgical masks by patients and full personal protective equipment worn by providers.

The calculated rate of infection among all exposed patients and staff was 10.6% (16/151) for staff and 23.7% (23/97) for patients, in a population with a 96.2% vaccination rate (238 vaccinated/248 exposed individuals).

The paper noted several transmissions likely occurred between two individuals both wearing surgical masks, and in one instance using full PPE, including N-95 mask, face shield, gown and gloves.

Of the 42 cases diagnosed in the outbreak, 38 were fully vaccinated with two doses of Pfizer and BioNTech’s Comirnaty vaccine, one had received only one vaccination and three were unvaccinated.

Of the infected, 23 were patients and 19 were staff members. The staff all recovered quickly. However, eight vaccinated patients became severely ill, six became critically ill and five of the critically ill died. The two unvaccinated patients tracked had mild COVID cases.

The authors concluded:

“This communication … challenges the assumption that high universal vaccination rates will lead to herd immunity and prevent COVID-19 outbreaks … In the outbreak described here, 96.2% of the exposed population was vaccinated. Infection advanced rapidly (many cases became symptomatic within 2 days of exposure), and viral load was high.”

According to the paper, the outbreak originated from a fully vaccinated haemodialysis patient in his/her 70s who was admitted with fever and cough and placed in a room with three other patients.

The patient had not been tested for SARS-CoV-2 on admission day, because his/her symptoms were mistaken for a possible bloodstream infection exacerbating congestive heart failure.

To determine the source of the outbreak, researchers conducted phylogenetic analysis on the whole-genome SARS-CoV-2 sequences that were available for 12 cases in the outbreak, including staff and patients from Wards A, B and C and dialysis departments.

All were infected with the Delta variant and epidemiologically and phylogenetically connected to the same outbreak, except for one case. That case and three staff members were not considered part of the outbreak.

“This is a very interesting paper and it is scientifically very sound,” said Dr. Brian Hooker, Ph.D., P.E., Children’s Health Defense chief scientific officer and professor of biology at Simpson University.

“The breakthrough rate of 96.2% of the vaccinated population shows that in this instance, the vaccine was virtually useless in preventing transmission,” Hooker said. “It should also be noted the two reported cases among unvaccinated patients were mild, whereas six of the vaccinated patients died.”

BioNTech CEO says new COVID vaccine will be needed in 2022

The head of BioNTech — the German company that co-developed a COVID vaccine with Pfizer — said a new formula will likely be needed by mid-2022 to protect against future mutations of the virus.

According to Bloomberg, Ugur Sahin, co-founder and CEO of BioNtech, told the Financial Times that while current COVID vaiants, such as the contagious Delta strain, were not different enough to undermine current vaccinations, new strains will emerge that can evade booster shots and the body’s immune defenses.

“This year [a different vaccine] is completely un-needed, but by mid-next year, it could be a different situation,” Sahin said. “This is a continuous evolution, and that evolution has just started.”

According to a new pre-print study submitted for peer review, Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine antibodies disappear in many by seven months.

Six months after receiving the second dose of Pfizer’s two-shot vaccine, many recipients no longer have vaccine-induced antibodies that can immediately neutralize worrisome SARS-CoV-2 variants, Reuters reported.

Researchers analyzed blood samples from 46 healthy, mostly young or middle-aged adults after receipt of the two doses and again six months after the second dose.

“Our study shows vaccination with the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine induces high levels of neutralizing antibodies against the original vaccine strain, but these levels drop by nearly 10-fold by seven months” after the initial dose, Bali Pulendran of Stanford University and Mehul Suthar of Emory University said in an email to Reuters.

In roughly half (47%) of all subjects, neutralizing antibodies that can block infection against COVID variants, such as Delta, Beta and Mu, were undetectable at six months after the second dose, the study showed.

Neutralizing antibodies are not the immune system’s only defense against the virus. Still, they “are critically important in protecting against SARS-CoV-2 infection,” said Pulendran and Suthar.

Researchers said the findings warrant administering a booster dose around six to seven months to enhance protection against SARS-CoV-2 and its variants.

Fauci says three shots of a COVID vaccine is ‘optimal regimen’

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said Tuesday he believes the “optimal regimen” of vaccination against the SARS-CoV-2 virus will include a booster shot.

Fauci’s comments come a week after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention authorized boosters for millions of Americans, including those whose professions make them “high risk.”

Nearly 1 million Americans have already scheduled appointments to receive a third dose of Pfizer’s COVID vaccine, according to the White House.

Pfizer and BioNTech on Sept. 30 submitted initial data from their vaccine trial on children between 5 and 11 years old to the FDA.

The FDA’s independent vaccine advisory committee will hold three meetings in October to discuss COVID booster shots, mix-and-match boosters and vaccines for children 5 to 11 years old, the agency announced Friday.

The first two meetings, on Oct. 14 and 15, will cover booster doses of Moderna and Johnson & Johnson’s COVID vaccines — both of which are authorized for use in adults.

During the second meeting, the committee also will discuss data from the National Institutes of Health on the safety and efficacy of getting initial doses of one COVID vaccine and, later, a booster dose of another manufacturer’s shot, Politico reported.

Wuhan Scientists and US Researchers Planned to Create a New Coronavirus in 2018

By CHARLOTTE MITCHELL FOR MAILONLINE

  • A 2018 grant proposal sought to combine data from similar strains for new virus
  • It was submitted by scientists from US, China and Singapore, but was rejected 
  • A genetics expert from the WHO told The Telegraph that such work could explain why a close ancestor for Covid-19 has yet to be found in nature
  • The Wuhan Institute of Virology has consistently denied creating Covid-19 
  • US and Chinese scientists were planning to create a new coronavirus before the pandemic erupted, leaked proposals show. 

    Last month, a grant application submitted to the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) revealed that an international team of scientists had planned to mix genetic data of similar strains to create a new virus.

    The grant application was made in 2018 and leaked to Drastic, the pandemic origins analysis group.  

    ‘We will compile sequence/RNAseq data from a panel of closely related strains and compare full length genomes, scanning for unique SNPs representing sequencing errors.

    ‘Consensus candidate genomes will be synthesised commercially using established techniques and genome-length RNA and electroporation to recover recombinant viruses,’ the application states.

    US and Chinese scientists were planning to create a new coronavirus before the pandemic erupted, leaked proposals show. Pictured: The Wuhan Institute of Virology, whose scientists were involved in a grant proposal for the research
     

    US and Chinese scientists were planning to create a new coronavirus before the pandemic erupted, leaked proposals show. Pictured: The Wuhan Institute of Virology, whose scientists were involved in a grant proposal for the research

    This would result in a virus which had no clear ancestor in nature, a World Health Organization (WHO) expert told The Telegraph.

    The expert, who asked the paper not to publish their name, said that, if such a method had been carried out, it could explain why no close match has ever been found in nature for Sars-CoV-2.

    The closest naturally occurring virus is the Banal-52 strain, reported in Laos last month. It shares 96.8 per cent of Covid-19’s genome. 

    No direct ancestor, which would be expected share around 99.98 per cent, has been found so far. 

    The WHO expert told The Telegraph that the process detailed in the application would create ‘a new virus sequence, not a 100 per cent match to anything.’

    Footage shows the Wuhan Institute of Virology surrounded by security personnel. The lab is drawing international attention as the possible site of the COVID lab leak.

    ‘They would then synthesise the viral genome from the computer sequence, thus creating a virus genome that did not exist in nature but looks natural as it is the average of natural viruses.

    ‘Then they put that RNA in a cell and recover the virus from it. 

    ‘This creates a virus that has never existed in nature, with a new ‘backbone’ that didn’t exist in nature but is very, very similar as it’s the average of natural backbones,’ the expert said.

    The proposal was rejected and the database of viral strains at the Wuhan Institute of Virology was taken offline some 18 months later, making it impossible to check what scientists there were working on.

    The institute’s scientists have consistently denied creating the coronavirus in their lab.

    The grant application proposal was submitted by British zoologist Peter Daszak on behalf of a group, which included Daszak EcoHealth Alliance, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the University of North Carolina and Duke NUS in Singapore, The Telegraph reported. 

    The grant application proposal was submitted by British zoologist Peter Daszak on behalf of a group, which included Daszak EcoHealth Alliance

    The grant application proposal was submitted by British zoologist Peter Daszak on behalf of a group, which included Daszak EcoHealth Alliance

    Experts told the paper that creating an ‘ideal’ average virus could have been part of work to create a vaccine that works across coronaviruses. 

    Last month, it emerged that the US had funded similar research to that outlined in the 2018 grant proposal. 

    Files obtained by The Intercept as part of an FOI request to drill down the possible root of COVID and whether the US had any role in it showed that in 2014, the National Health Institute (NIH) approved a five-year, yearly grant of $666,000 a year for five years ($3.3million) for EcoHealth Alliance, a US research organization, into bat coronavirus. 

    EcoHealth Alliance, in its proposal to the NIH, acknowledged the risks involved were ‘the highest risk of exposure to SARS or other CoVs’ among staff, who could then carry it out of the lab.

    The NIH gave them the money anyway – something Dr Anthony Fauci was previously forced to admit when testifying before Congress in May this year. EcoHealth Alliance then gave $599,000 of the money to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

    At the time and repeatedly since, Fauci has denied that the research constituted what’s known as ‘gain-of-function’ research. 

    Gain-of-function research is the scientific term given to research that deliberately changes an organism to make give it new functions in order to test a theory. 

    When applies to studying human viruses, it can mean making the virus more transmissible and or even deadly in order to test what can and can’t survive it. 

    ‘The documents make it clear that assertions by the NIH Director, Francis Collins, and the NIAID Director, Anthony Fauci, that the NIH did not support gain-of-function research or potential pandemic pathogen enhancement at WIV are untruthful,’ Richard Ebright, a molecular biologist at Rutgers University, tweeted. 

    Ebright studied the papers and alleged that the scientists performed ‘the construction – in Wuhan – of novel chimeric SARS-related coronaviruses that combined a spike gene from one coronavirus with genetic information from another coronavirus and confirmed the resulting viruses could infect human cells’. 

Project Veritas Video: Pfizer Scientists on “Covid Money” and the Benefits of Natural Immunity

via RT
An undercover Project Veritas video allegedly showing Pfizer scientists talking about the company running on “Covid money” and the benefits of natural immunity has sparked another heated debate on coronavirus vaccines in the US.

In the latest investigative video from Veritas, one scientist identified as Nick Karl says “natural immunity” to the virus is “probably better”than any vaccination.

Karl says at one point he believes vaccine mandates are a positive thing, though he admits the goal of cities like New York is to make life “inconvenient” for the unvaccinated more than anything else.

“It’s just about making it so inconvenient for unvaccinated people to the point where they’re just like, ‘F**k it, I’ll get it.’ You know?” he says.

Another person in the video, identified as senior scientist Chris Croce, later says the antibodies created when someone gets Covid-19 protect them for “longer” than vaccines. Pfizer has already offered a booster shot to help with the effectiveness of their vaccine, which the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently recommended for seniors and others in high-risk categories. Other vaccines could be introducing booster shots soon, as well.

At another point, Croce discusses his company’s reliance on the coronavirus pandemic to profit.

“Our organization is run on Covid money,” he says, referring to it as an “evil corporation.”

The Veritas journalist also asked Croce about “monoclonal antibody treatments.” They are typically viewed as far more expensive treatments compared to vaccines, which are currently offered at no cost. Croce says these treatments have been “pushed to the side” in favor of vaccines because of “money.”

“I mean, I’m there to help people, not to make millions of millions of dollars. So, I mean, that’s the moral dilemma,” Croce says, later admitting his “millions” estimation is just him “being nice” after the journalist suggests the company could rake in billions in profit.

A third person, identified as scientist Rahul Khandke, adds in the video that “seminars” have trained employees how to release selective information to the public.

“We’re bred and taught to be like, ‘vaccine is safer than actually getting Covid.’ Honestly, we had so many seminars on this,” he said. “You have no idea. Like, we have to sit there for hours and hours and listen to…. ‘You cannot talk about this in public.’”

The video is the latest in a series of reports meant to “expose” pharmaceutical companies involved in Covid-19 vaccines. Conservative pundits and others opposed to vaccine mandates have been quick to celebrate the latest Veritas video, with many saying the private, but positive words about antibody treatments and natural immunity mean a vaccine mandate for everyone is unnecessary.

“The only reason Natural Immunity isn’t part of America’s pandemic response is… Big Pharma can’t make MONEY off it,” Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Florida) tweeted on Tuesday in reaction to the video.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky), who has gotten into heated verbal clashes with health officials like Dr. Anthony Fauci over “natural immunity,” called the video a “truth bomb.”

When confronted about natural immunity in the past, Fauci made the point that it does not protect you “for an indefinite amount of time.”

“So it is conceivable that you got infected, you’re protected, but you may not be protected for an indefinite amount of time,” he said last month. “So, I think that is something that we need to sit down and discuss seriously because you very appropriately pointed out, it is an issue and there could be an argument [for it].”

More liberal reactions to the Veritas report have waved off the video, suggesting it doesn’t present the bombshell data its supporters think it does, with many arguing the best and easiest way to receive antibodies against the virus is to get inoculated.

Government health officials have argued that vaccines provide the easiest protection against Covid-19, with the risk of hospitalization and death being typically drastically lower after inoculation in ‘breakthrough’ cases of the virus.

A peer-reviewed study released last month of more than three million people showed the Pfizer vaccine remains 90% protective against hospitalization and death. The effectiveness, however, does drop over time, according to the study, from 88% to 47% six months after people have received their second dose.

Pfizer has stood by the effectiveness of its vaccine and been trying to expand its outreach, with the company even calling it “safe” for children ages 5-11 after recent trial testing.

The company has not reacted to the latest Project Veritas video at the moment of this article’s publication.

US State With Highest Vaxx Rate Sees Record Surge In COVID Cases, Deaths

Authored by Ivan Pentchoukov via The Epoch Times,

Vermont, the state with the highest vaccination rate in the United States, is experiencing a Covid virus surge at levels not seen since the pandemic’s peak last winter.

The number of cases in Vermont is at a record level, hospitalizations are close to the records notched last winter, and the state recorded the deadliest day and the second deadliest month of the pandemic in September.

“I think it’s clearly frustrating for all of us,” Michael Pieciak, the commissioner of the Vermont Department of Financial Regulation who monitors CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus statistics for the state.

More than 69 percent of Vermont’s population has been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as of Sept. 24, according to the CDC, far above the national rate of 56 percent.

The state recorded the highest rate of hospitalizations per 100,000 residents on Sept. 30, breaching a record set on Jan. 31 last year. Eight people died of the CCP virus in Vermont on Sept. 13, the highest grim total recorded since the outbreak of the virus.

In late August, four of ten cases of COVID-19 in Vermont were among vaccinated people, according to a letter signed by 90 employees of the Vermont Health Department, including state Epidemiologist Patsy Kelso.

Gov. Phil Scott (R) lifted the state of emergency in Vermont in June when 80 percent of the population had received at least one shot of the vaccine. He has since indicated he is wary of reimposing the state of emergency.

“We can’t be in a perpetual state of emergency,” Scott said this week.

The four states which follow Vermont in terms of the highest vaccination rates in the nation are also experiencing alarming signs.

The head of UMass Memorial Health, the largest health system in central Massachusetts, said recently that regional hospitals were seeing nearly 20 times more COVID-19 patients than in June and there isn’t an ICU bed to spare. Massachusetts has the fifth-highest vaccination rate in the nation.

In Connecticut, the second most vaccinated state in the U.S., the legislature recently extended the governor’s emergency powers to make it easier to cope with the latest wave of the pandemic.

On Sept. 22, Maine, the third most-vaccinated U.S. state, had nearly 90 people in intensive care units, a pandemic peak for the state.

Dear Dr.Fauci, please explain…

Pfizer Confirms Covid-Vaccinated People Can “Shed” Spike Protein and Can Harm the Unvaccinated

by: CFT Team also written by ampproject.org

In their latest issue brief, America’s Frontline Doctors (AFLDS) warned how spike proteins resulting from experimental COVID-19 gene therapy vaccines have the capacity to 1.) pass through the “blood-brain barrier” causing neurological damage, 2.) be “shed” by the vaccinated, bringing about sickness in unvaccinated children and adults, and 3.) cause irregular vaginal bleeding in women.

Released last week and titled “Identifying Post-vaccination Complications & Their Causes: an Analysis of Covid-19 Patient Data,” the stated purpose of the document is “to provide additional information for concerned citizens, health experts, and policymakers about adverse events and other post-vaccination issues resulting from the three experimental COVID-19 vaccines currently administered under EUA (emergency use authorization)” by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

The non-profit organization highlighted the thousands of adverse events which are related to these “vaccines” and captured by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). “Yet these complications have received a fraction of the attention paid to J&J’s blood-clotting controversy,” they lamented with dismay, asking, “Why?”

In taking a closer look at this data, AFLDS presents “some major categories of concern as-yet publicly unaddressed by either the FDA or CDC,” asserting that failure of these regulators “to consider these and other ‘known unknowns’ is a dereliction of basic medical research.”

They breakout their general categories of concern as shown below:

First, there are significant fears regarding the wide distribution of these new vaccines, which employ a new technology and remain only experimental without full approval from the FDA. Instead of employing an attenuated antigen response – as happens with conventional vaccines – these experimental agents introduce something called a “spike protein” into one’s system.

“It takes years to be sure something new is safe,” the AFLDS document confirms. “No one knows definitively the long-term health implications for the body and brain, especially among the young, related to this spike protein. In addition, if documented problems with the protein do arise, there will never be any way to reverse the adverse effects in those already vaccinated.”

Second, unlike conventional vaccines, these spike proteins, along with “lipid nanoparticles” have the capacity to pass through the “blood-brain barrier” which provides special protection for these sensitive areas of the body.

“There simply has not been enough time to know what brain problems and how often a brain problem will develop from that,” the document warns.

Risks from such penetration include “chronic inflammation and thrombosis (clotting) in the neurological system, contributing to tremors, chronic lethargy, stroke, Bell’s Palsy and ALS-type symptoms. The lipid nanoparticles can potentially fuse with brain cells, resulting in delayed neuro-degenerative disease. And the mRNA-induced spike protein can bind to brain tissue 10 to 20 times stronger than the spike proteins that are (naturally) part of the original virus.”

Third, as these experimental vaccines produce many trillions of spike proteins in their recipients, these vaccinated individuals “can shed some of these (spike protein) particles to close contacts,” causing disease in them.

In an email correspondence with LifeSiteNews, Dr. Simone Gold, the founder of AFLDS, directed this writer to an April 29 tweet where she posted a document from Pfizer’s experimental trials in which the pharmaceutical giant “acknowledges this mechanism” of potential shedding, she wrote.

As the document states, one can be “exposed to [the] study intervention due to environmental exposure,” including “by inhalation or skin contact” with someone involved in the study, or with another who has been exposed in the same way.

And this, according to AFLDS, can be dangerous. As the issues brief continues, “the spike proteins are pathogenic (‘disease causing’) just like the full virus.” Furthermore, these “spike proteins bind more tightly than the fully intact virus” and thus cases around the world of “pericarditis, shingles, pneumonia, blood clots in the extremities and brain, Bell’s Palsy, vaginal bleeding and miscarriages have been reported in persons who are near persons who have been vaccinated.” Such shedding also “appears to be causing wide variety of autoimmune disease (where the body attacks its own tissue) in some persons.”

In addition, other more serious dangers to even the unvaccinated are possible due to the fact that these “spike proteins can cross the blood brain barrier, unlike traditional vaccines.”

Fourth, such shedding leaves children vulnerable if they are in proximity to parents and teachers who have received these experimental vaccines. While the threat of COVID-19 to the young is rightly described as “irrelevant,” including a 99.997% survival rate for those under 20 years of age, AFLDS is concerned some children may become symptomatic due to such proximity to the vaccinated.

At such point there is a danger that “public health bureaucrats” might use such cases to “speculate that a child’s illness is related to a SARS-CoV-2 ‘variant,’” when it is a result of contact with vaccinated adults.

“Our other concern is that children could develop long-term chronic autoimmune disease including neurological problems due to the fact that children have decades ahead of them and trillions of the spike proteins mentioned above.”

Fifth, “AFLDS is aware of thousands of reports involving vaginal bleeding, post-menopausal vaginal bleeding, and miscarriages following COVID-19 vaccination as well as anecdotal reports of similar adverse events among those in close contact with the vaccinated.” While at this point the independent physicians organization “cannot comment definitively on the close contacts” other than to mention they “have heard reports of this worldwide,” the many reported incidents of post-vaccination vaginal bleeding establishes a clear “connection between the vaccine and irregular bleeding.”

“Despite this clear-cut evidence, menstrual-cycle changes were not listed among the FDA’s common side effectsin its phase-three clinical participants. Women’s reproductive health needs to be taken seriously rather thanwaved away by agenda-driven public health officials,” the brief reads.

Finally, acknowledging the “irrepressible economic incentive among pharmaceutical companies” to market unnecessary and dangerous childhood COVID vaccines, boosters, and the like, AFLDS insists “Public health experts should stop and assess data on possible vaccine side effects and related post-vaccination questions before it is too late.”

So Pfizer’s own internal report (on page 69) warns health care workers about being exposed to people who have been vaccinated — which is rather ironic considering most health care workers are required to be vaccinated themselves.
Anyone walking in to a hospital or doctor’s office will be exposed to the spike proteins being shed by virtually the entire staff of workers — but the concentrations will be low compared to what is in the blood streams of the vaccinated.
Of course, the amount of spike proteins you could actually breathe in is miniscule compared to the amount that these vaccines are programming vaccinated people’s bodies to manufacture — non-stop 24/7.
A recent study confirms that the spike proteins produced by the mRNA vaccines can indeed cause serious health problems as they continuously build up in the vaccinated.
As literally trillions of these spike proteins build up and overwhelm your body, your internal organs will begun to shut down and your brain will stop functioning — which is why a U.K. government report is predicting a huge percentage of doubly vaccinated people will be dying in the coming “Third Wave” of the fake pandemic.
This coming massive death toll will, of course, be blamed on new, exotic-sound virus “variant” — or better yet, “scare-iants” — and the “selfish unvaccinated.”
Needless to say, it would behoove everyone who is unvaccinated to avoid extended exposure to the vaccinated, especially in confined spaces.
The entire world has never been deceived on such a massive scale.
It would appear that Satan indeed has been loosed from his prison — and he knows his time is short to make this final move to dominate this world before he is destroyed.