Leftists Who Insisted Covid Health Care Was ‘Racist’ Test Positive For Confirmation Bias

The view that systemic racism contributed to Covid-19 misery continues to hold sway in medical articles today — but it's false.

Horowitz: Record infections in super-vaxxed UK seniors as double-vaxxed show negative efficacy against COVID death



Just because Volodymyr Zelenskyy is the new Fauci, it doesn’t mean COVID is over. In fact, cases are surging in many European countries, and U.K. seniors are now experiencing record numbers. “Covid infections surge to record high for over-70s in UK” was the title of a Financial Times article from Friday. But how can there be record infections precisely after nearly every senior was vaccinated and 90% were boosted, even though many already have had prior infection? Or are the record infections because of the shots, not despite them, and does this mean that they are preventing people from achieving immunity?

Ireland is one of the most vaccinated countries in the European Union, yet hospitalizations are rising.

Ireland - The situation is worrying \n\nHospitalization rate is now going vertical \n_\nH/T @amused_as_hellpic.twitter.com/ORw3N2gIgK
— Gabriel H\u00e9bert-Mild\u2122 \u24e5 (@Gabriel H\u00e9bert-Mild\u2122 \u24e5) 1647860251

There are now more people in Irish hospitals than at any point in 12 months. Nearly 95% of all adults are fully vaccinated, and nearly 100% of seniors are vaccinated and boosted.

The number of COVID cases has nearly tripled in the U.K. since the nadir of the post-winter drop four weeks ago. Moreover, deaths are still hovering around 125 a day, whereas after the 2021 winter wave (with a much lower prior infection rate), deaths were nearly reduced to zero. Furthermore, Scotland, which has the highest vaccination rate of anywhere in the U.K. and is the only region with mask mandates, seems to be worse off than ever before. “Scotland recorded its highest infection rates of the pandemic so far, with one in every 14 people infected with the virus in the week to mid-March, up from one in 18 a week earlier,” reported the Financial Times.

Roughly 90% of all people over age 12 in Scotland have two shots, and 73% have boosters. Among seniors, boosters are nearly universal. Thus, there is nowhere to run or hide from the vaccine failures. The negative efficacy is out of control. What about protection against death? Well, we can’t exactly see where the deaths are coming from because Scotland conveniently stopped providing that data, but the U.K. government will still offer the weekly reports for a few more weeks.

According to the latest U.K. health surveillance report, roughly 95% of those over 70 are double-vaccinated and about 90%-93% of the age cohorts over 70 are boosted. Just 1.6% of the senior cases between weeks 7 and 10 of this year were among the unvaccinated, which is below the 5% share of the population pie they compose. The triple-boosted are 90% of the cases.

Although the shots do offer some protection for some people against critical illness for a certain period of time, numerous data points have shown that the protection not only wanes but goes negative. The U.K. data now shows that the double-vaccinated have negative protection and the triple-vaxxed are headed in that direction.

Table 12b shows COVID deaths within 60 days of a positive SARS-CoV-2 test during weeks 7 through week 10 of this year.

As you can see, 15% of all the deaths were among the double- (but not triple-) jabbed, whereas only about 4% of this population falls into that category. That is straight-up negative efficacy even against death. Thus, they placed people into a position forcing them to get boosters; otherwise they would be worse off than with nothing! But what does that portend for the triple-jabbed? Remember how early on, it looked like the boosters accorded broad protection against death, even though cases skyrocketed among them? Well, now, 77% of all deaths among those over 70 are triple-jabbed! That is still somewhat below their share of the population, but not by much, and the gap is closing with every subsequent weekly report.

When it comes to case rates, the U.K. is now reporting that in some age cohorts, the triple-jabbed are more than four times as likely to test positive, which would net an efficacy rate of -300%!

Hence, they needed Ukraine to distract from the narrative, because clearly there is something unsettling going on with these shots. One would think that by now there would be enough built-up immunity from prior infection to preclude waves like this. Yet the data raises the question: Are the shots sliding back people’s natural immunity and creating some form of original antigenic sin and antibody dependent disease enhancement, in which the shots wipe out their T cells and innate immunity, thereby preventing them from enjoying durable immunity from prior infection? In other words, can this keep going forever in a vicious cycle of more cases inducing more vaccine campaigns, which in turn create more infections?

A recent study from Stanford published in Cell might shed light on this phenomenon. Researchers observed a decreased immune response to new variants among those vaccinated for the original strain because the shots are teaching the body to respond improperly. “We find that prior vaccination with Wuhan-Hu-1-like antigens followed by infection with Alpha or Delta variants gives rise to plasma antibody responses with apparent Wuhan-Hu-1-specific imprinting manifesting as relatively decreased responses to the variant virus epitopes, compared with unvaccinated patients infected with those variant viruses,” observed the Stanford pathologists. They note that the extent to which this causes original antigenic sin “will be an important topic of ongoing study.”

Contrast the week 11 report to the week 5 report from just six weeks ago. You will see that in most age groups, the case rates among the triple-vaxxed were between 1.5 and 2 times greater, not between 3 and 4 times greater as they are today.

One would think that with so much infection for so many months among this group, at some point it would exhaust the pool of eligible people and perhaps revert back to the unvaccinated having a higher case rate. But in fact, the opposite is true; it’s getting worse every week for the triple-jabbed, especially among seniors.

And we already know from an Israeli study published in the New England Journal of Medicine that the fourth shot won’t make things better. "We observed low vaccine efficacy against infections in health care workers, as well as relatively high viral loads suggesting that those who were infected were infectious,” concluded the authors of the study comparing quadruple-jabbed Israeli health care workers to those with fewer shots.

It’s also important to remember that any degree of vaccine efficacy gleaned from any hard data or studies is factoring in the first 14 days post-vaccinated as “unvaccinated” and the first 14 days of the booster as double-vaccinated. It is already proven that this is a period of immunosuppression on the front end of the efficacy curve. Some have estimated that if you factor in those 14 days with elevated risk, there is negative efficacy for these shots out of the gate.

At the end of the day, we are 11 billion doses into this unparalleled global mass injection regime, and yet more than 72% of 6.1 million confirmed COVID-19 deaths have occurred since vaccine rollout. Half the deaths have occurred since mid-April, after all of the vulnerable population had ample time to get fully vaccine.

Perhaps this is why the U.K. Health Security Agency announced in this week’s report (p. 37) that “from early April onwards this section of the report will not be updated.” That’s the section with case and death rates by vaccination status.

CDC slashed COVID-19 deaths in children by 24% after correcting a 'coding logic error'



The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reportedly removed tens of thousands of deaths linked to COVID-19 on Wednesday due to a "coding logic error." The CDC also quietly decreased the total of children who died with COVID-19 by nearly a quarter, according to reports.

In the "Footnotes and Additional Information" section of the CDC's COVID Data Tracker, the U.S. health agency noted, "On March 15, 2022, data on deaths were adjusted after resolving a coding logic error. This resulted in decreased death counts across all demographic categories."

Before the change, the CDC's COVID Data Tracker reported 1,755 all-time COVID-19 deaths for Americans under 18 years old. By Tuesday, the all-time pediatric COVID death figure plummeted to 1,339 – a decrease of 23.7%.

Commentators reacted to the data correction by suggesting that the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) has been more accurate in death counts than the COVID Data Tracker.

American Commitment president Phil Kerpen wrote on Twitter, "CDC Data Tracker, the totally opaque and out-of-line with CDC's more accurate (NCHS) count of pediatric COVID-associated deaths beloved by grifters and journalists was substantially (~24%) revised downward today."

Former Fox News writer Kyle Becker reacted by saying, "The CDC's Covid tracker quietly dropped childhood mortality by *416* reported deaths (24%). The NCHS, oddly, has pediatric deaths even lower: 921 (out of 73,508 from all causes). 'Experts' knowingly panicked parents and damaged America's kids for political reasons. Criminals."

Daniel Horowitz – senior editor at TheBlaze – wrote on Twitter, "The update saw the CDC cut 416 deaths among children and over 71,000 elsewhere, arriving at a total of just under 780,000."

Before the correction, the CDC counted a total of 852,178 COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. for all ages. After the correction, there were 779,921 COVID deaths.

The Epoch Times noted that the CDC also adjusted its COVID-19 death count in August 2021 "after the identification of a data discrepancy."

In January, Fox News anchor Bret Baier asked CDC Director Rochelle Walensky if she could explain how many COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. are "from COVID" versus "with COVID" but were coupled with other co-morbidities.

Walensky did not provide a specific answer, but said the "data will be forthcoming."

"Yes, of course with Omicron we’re following that very carefully," Walensky responded. "Our death registry, of course, takes a few weeks to — and is a — takes a few weeks to collect, and of course, Omicron has just been with us for a few weeks, but those data will be forthcoming."

Asked "how many of the 836,000 deaths in the U.S. linked to Covid are FROM Covid or how many are WITH Covid," CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky says "those data will be forthcoming."pic.twitter.com/JVcFk3aunc
— RNC Research (@RNC Research) 1641739321

Audit finds New York's health department under Andrew Cuomo 'misled the public,' undercounted at least 4,100 COVID nursing home deaths



Under former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the state's health agency undercounted at least 4,100 COVID-related nursing home deaths, according to a state audit. The audit conducted by state comptroller Thomas DiNapoli claimed that the Department of Health "misled the public" about nursing home deaths during the pandemic to fit a "narrative."

The 58-page report said the New York Department of Health "was not transparent in its reporting of COVID-19 deaths at nursing homes."

"While the Department’s duty is to act solely to promote public health, we determined that, rather than providing accurate and reliable information during a public health emergency, the Department instead conformed its presentation to the Executive’s narrative, often presenting data in a manner that misled the public," the report stated.

"Whether due to the poor-quality data that it was collecting initially or, later, a deliberate decision, for certain periods during the pandemic, the Department understated the number of deaths at nursing homes by as much as 50%," the report declared.

Nearly 14,000 people died in nursing homes due to COVID-19 between March 2020 and May 2021, according to the audit.

The report also stated, "Persistent underinvestment in public health over the last decade may have limited the Department’s ability to prepare and respond in the most effective way."

DiNapoli said in a statement, "The pandemic was devastating and deadly for New Yorkers living in nursing homes. Families have a right to know if their loved one’s COVID-19 death was counted, but many still don’t have answers from the state Department of Health."

"Our audit findings are extremely troubling," DiNapoli said. "The public was misled by those at the highest level of state government through distortion and suppression of the facts when New Yorkers deserved the truth."

The report found that the New York Department of Health failed to meet federal directives to inspect for infection control problems, reporting on only 20% of facilities between March and May 2020 – compared to over 90% for other states.

Cuomo's spokesperson – Rich Azzopardi – tried to discredit the audit.

"As the number of out of facility deaths were reported last January this is not news, however what is peculiar is the Comptroller's release of this audit now — but no one has ever accused him of being above politics," Azzopardi said.

New York State Attorney General Letitia James said the audit supported her own January 2021 investigation into allegations of the Cuomo administration undercounting COVID nursing home deaths.

"This audit affirms many of the findings that we uncovered last year about the state’s response to COVID, most notably that DOH and the former governor undercounted the number of deaths in nursing homes by as much as 50%," James said in a statement. "I am grateful to Comptroller DiNapoli for bringing much needed transparency to this critical issue. My office will continue to monitor nursing home conditions and ensure the safety of our most vulnerable residents. If anyone has concerns about nursing home conditions, I urge them to contact my office."

In August 2020, Cuomo told the public to "look at the basic facts on where New York is versus other states." The disgraced Democratic ex-governor bragged at the time, "You look at where New York is as a percentage of nursing home deaths. It's all the way at the bottom of the list of states."

In February 2021, Cuomo proclaimed that he "fully reported" deaths and blamed nursing home staff for spreading COVID-19.

In February 2021, Cuomo's top aide privately told Democratic lawmakers that his administration took months to release data on COVID nursing home death because they "froze" in fear that the data was “going to be used against us."

"Basically, we froze because then we were in a position where we weren’t sure if what we were going to give to the Department of Justice or what we give to you guys and what we start saying was going to be used against us, and we weren’t sure if there was going to be an investigation," Melissa DeRosa told state Democratic leaders, according to the New York Post.

In November 2020, Cuomo was selected to receive an International Emmy Founder's Award "in recognition of his leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic and his masterful use of television to inform and calm people around the world."

In August 2021, the award was rescinded "in light of the New York Attorney General's report, and Andrew Cuomo's subsequent resignation as Governor."

In December 2021, the state's Joint Commission on Public Ethics ordered Cuomo to pay New York the $5.1 million in profits from his book, "American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic."

Cuomo resigned due to sexual harassment allegations against him by 11 women.

Massachusetts health department admits 'significant overcount' of COVID-19 deaths — and the number could still be much too high



The Massachusetts Department of Health announced this week that it would be tweaking its health tracking methodology after the approach led to a "significant overcount" in COVID-19 deaths in the state.

In a press release Thursday, the department acknowledged it would be retroactively removing 4,081 deaths from the state's overall count while adding 400 deaths, making the net change a decrease of roughly 3,700.

The overcount was reportedly the result of a faulty criterion for inclusions that logged deaths as resulting from COVID-19 if the individual had a confirmed positive test within a certain timeframe prior to their passing.

WHDH-TV reported that under the old methodology, Massachusetts deemed a fatality COVID-related if it met at least one of three criteria:

  1. A case investigation determined the virus "caused" or "contributed" to the death;
  2. The death certificate listed COVID-19 or an "equivalent term" as the cause; or
  3. The deceased individual had a COVID-19 diagnosis within 60 days of death.

In accordance with guidance from the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the department decided to cut that timeframe in half. Moving forward, the state will log a COVID-19 death insofar as the individual had a confirmed positive test within 30 days of their passing.

"This strategy worked well at the beginning of the pandemic," Public Health Commissioner Margret Cooke told the outlet. "But over time, our approach proved to be too expansive and led to a significant overcount of deaths in Massachusetts. People who had gotten COVID earlier in 2020 and died for other reasons ended up still being included in COVID-associated death counts."

Critics will note that the state's new methodology — though an improvement — will likely still produce inflated results since, remarkably, it continues to log deaths as COVID-19 deaths so long as the deceased merely presented with an infection before they passed away, regardless of whether the virus could be determined as an actual cause of death.

Notwithstanding, state epidemiologist Dr. Catherine Brown said the update will "make sure that what we are capturing is the acute impact of COVID."

"People who are seriously ill and hospitalized for longer and end up dying after that 30 days have almost invariably had COVID listed on their death certificate, so they end up being counted under another method," she explained.

As of the time of this article's publication, more than 23,000 COVID-related deaths had been reported in Massachusetts. The department has not made clear how many COVID-19 deaths out of the whole have been counted using the infection timeframe criterion.

TheBlaze reached out to the Massachusetts Department of Health requesting that information and will update this article if it becomes available.

Columnist taken to woodshed for 'heartless' idea to mock people who die from COVID after not getting vaccine



Los Angeles Times columnist Michael Hiltzik was rhetorically ripped to shreds Monday after publishing an essay saying that people who are not vaccinated against COVID-19 and die from the virus should be mocked.

What did Hiltzik say?

Hiltzik, a Pulitzer Prize winner, said that people who die from COVID while not being vaccinated against the virus "can be viewed as receiving their just deserts."

Focusing on the recent death of Kelly Ernby, a southern California Republican who advocated against COVID vaccine mandates, the thesis of Hiltzik's argument is that mocking people who die from COVID and were not vaccinated against COVID is a sufficient "teachable moment" to scare people into complying with COVID vaccine mandates.

"It may be not a little ghoulish to celebrate or exult in the deaths of vaccine opponents. And it may be proper to express sympathy and solicitude to those they leave behind," Hiltzik wrote.

"But mockery is not necessarily the wrong reaction to those who publicly mocked anti-COVID measures and encouraged others to follow suit, before they perished of the disease the dangers of which they belittled," he continued. "Nor is it wrong to deny them our sympathy and solicitude, or to make sure it’s known when their deaths are marked that they had stood fast against measures that might have protected themselves and others from the fate they succumbed to."

"There may be no other way to make sure that the lessons of these teachable moments are heard," Hiltzik declared.

Column: Mocking anti-vaxxers' deaths is ghoulish, yes \u2014 but necessaryhttps://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-01-10/why-shouldnt-we-dance-on-the-graves-of-anti-vaxxers\u00a0\u2026
— Michael Hiltzik (@Michael Hiltzik) 1641845248

Interestingly, Hiltzik did not apply his argument to clinically obese Americans who are likely to develop cardiac diseases or diabetes, two of the leading causes of death in America. Nor did Hiltzik apply his thesis, for example, to smoking, which is known to cause cancer.

One thus wonders: Should those who die from lifestyle diseases also be mocked?

What was the response?

Hiltzik was thoroughly slammed by critics across the bipartisan divide for his admittedly "ghoulish" idea.

  • "Appallingly heartless take. Nobody’s covid death should ever be mocked. They are all tragic victims, particularly so if they’ve been brainwashed into rejecting a vaccine that could have saved them," Piers Morgan said.
  • "This is disgraceful, disgusting, and evil," former Rep. Justin Amash said.
  • "I want people to get vaccinated but will never accept that those who fail to do so deserve a death sentence. This is a disgraceful (and typically right wing!) viewpoint. Should smokers deaths of lung cancer be celebrated? Addicts who overdose? Sick stuff," podcast host Krystal Ball said.
  • "I was hesitant on getting the vaccine, but then when I heard that Michael Hiltzik is going to publicly mock my death, he made me feel safe about getting the jab —all my worries are gone, and now I’m totally convinced!" reporter Alana Mastrangelo mocked.
  • "This embrace of ghoulish posturing by a pro-lockdown conventional media source, @latimes, is bad for public health. Who will trust public health if it does not convey compassion even unto the dead? De mortuis nil nisi bonum," Stanford professor Dr. Jay Bhattacharya said.
  • "Even if the vaccines are good and necessary — this ain't it, chief. Mocking deaths is one surefire way to not only be unconvincing, but also to push people away who would otherwise agree with you," one person said.
  • "Each day I'm further convinced the way forward lies in abandoning Blue America. It's not just policy; just look at these people, overtaken by an arrogant, self-righteous delusion that's emboldened them to dance on graves with wanton, almost orgiastic abandon," another person reacted.

Hiltzik actually responded to Ball's question of whether his standard should be applied to smokers and other drug addicts. Hiltzik said it should not because "smokers and overdosing addicts don't commonly advocate that innocent people subject themselves to life-threatening disease."

However, being vaccinated will not prevent you from transmitting the virus, thus harming "innocent people."

After all, breakthrough cases happen every day, fully vaccinated people are still dying of COVID (although the majority have several co-morbidities), and the CDC even says that fully vaccinated people still transmit the virus.