Top government health chief declares 'long COVID' doesn't really exist, study finds flu impairs more people in the long term



A new study has found that the post-viral effects of COVID-19 are no worse than other respiratory illnesses, such as the flu. The study's author – a top government health official in Australia's state of Queensland – declared that it is time to retire the "long COVID" term because it is harmful and misleading.

Dr. John Gerrard is Queensland's Chief Health Officer, a leading infectious disease specialist, and previously was the Director of Infectious Diseases at the Gold Coast Hospital.

Gerrard is also the lead author of a recent study that found the post-viral effects of COVID-19 to be equal to or even less severe than other respiratory illnesses.

"We believe it is time to stop using terms like 'long Covid.' They wrongly imply there is something unique and exceptional about longer-term symptoms associated with this virus," Gerrard proclaimed. "This terminology can cause unnecessary fear, and in some cases, hypervigilance to longer symptoms that can impede recovery."

The study examined 5,112 adults who had symptoms of a respiratory illness and underwent PCR testing between May and June 2022. Of those individuals, 2,399 tested positive for COVID-19, while 995 tested positive for influenza, and 1,718 tested negative for both.

A year after their PCR tests, the participants in the study were asked about ongoing symptoms.

Of the respondents, 16% said they felt ongoing symptoms a year later, and 3.6% reported moderate-to-severe impairment.

In fact, the people who were infected with the flu had a higher rate of impairments a year later, according to the study.

According to the progressive outlet The Guardian, "The 3% of the study participants who had ongoing impairments after COVID-19 infection was similar to the 3.4% with ongoing impairments after influenza."

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported, "Dr. Gerrard said 94 percent of participants who reported the moderate to severe level of functional limitations experienced fatigue, post-exertion symptom exacerbation, brain fog and changes to taste and smell a year after their infection."

Gerrard will present the study next month at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases in Barcelona.

"Our evidence suggests that there isn't, that it is not dissimilar to other viruses," Gerrard declared. "That does not mean that you can't get these persistent symptoms following COVID-19, but you're no more likely to get it after COVID than with other respiratory viruses."

Gerrard emphasized, "But in the vast majority of people, recovery is the norm."

Gerrard said during a Friday press conference, "I want to make it clear that the symptoms that some patients described after having COVID-19 are real, and we believe they are real. What we are saying is that the incidence of these symptoms is no greater in COVID-19 than it is with other respiratory viruses, and that to use this term 'long COVID' is misleading and I believe harmful."

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'There's something going on': Scientists acknowledge the severity of 'long vax' as well as their reluctance to pursue research that might furnish skeptics with a 'sensational headline'



Science, the peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, has just published damning admissions substantiating fears about COVID-19 vaccines that would have up until recently been verboten to express online.

Just as there is allegedly "long COVID," in which persons who contracted the virus suffer various symptoms long after they should have recovered, the American medical establishment now appears comfortable admitting there is similarly "long vax."

After the obligatory claim that COVID-19 vaccines have saved lives, Science correspondents Gretchen Vogel and Jennifer Couzin-Frankel noted that COVID-19 vaccines aren't just causing side effects, such as "abnormal blood clotting and heart inflammation," but have been linked to "a debilitating suite of symptoms that resembles Long Covid."

"You see one or two patients and you wonder if it’s a coincidence," Dr. Anne Louis Oaklander, neurologist and researcher at Harvard Medical School, told the journal. "But by the time you’ve seen 10, 20. .... Where there's smoke, there's fire."

Vogel and Couzin-Frankel suggested that symptoms of vaccine fallout "can include persistent headaches, severe fatigue, and abnormal heart rate and blood pressure. They appear hours, days, or weeks after vaccination and are difficult to study. But researchers and clinicians are increasingly finding some alignment with known medical conditions."

One of these conditions is reportedly small fiber neuropathy, whereby "nerve damage can cause tingling or electric shock-like sensations, burning pain, and blood circulation problems."

Another is postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), which can manifest as "muscle weakness, swings in heart rate and blood pressure, fatigue, and brain fog."

The National Institutes of Health noted in December 2022 that researchers examining linkages between COVID-19 vaccines and "uncommon side effects" had found "a slight increase in the number of people who have experienced postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) following vaccination."

Some patients are reportedly unfortunate enough to suffer "features of one or both conditions."

Peter Marks, director of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, which oversees vaccines, told the journal, "We can't rule out rare cases" where vaccines have triggered small fiber neuropathy or POTS and further stressed the importance of health care providers taking "seriously the concept [of] a vaccine side effect."

However, Marks appears to be worried that admitting vaccines are hurting people in the long term could give rise to a "sensational headline" that would, as Vogel and Couzin-Frankel phrased it, "mislead the public."

The article alludes to the German health minister's recent acknowledgement that COVID-19 vaccines, which were similarly de facto mandatory in his country, have been shown to result in long-term consequences.

Karl Lauterbach, the minister in question, reportedly told Christian Sievers of the ZDF Heute Journal that what has happened to people affected by vaccine injuries "is absolutely dismaying and every single case is one too many. I honestly feel very sorry for these people. There are severe disabilities, and some of them will be permanent," adding "1 in 10,000 is the frequency of serious side effects."

DW reported that the Paul Ehrlich Institute, the German Federal Institute for Vaccines and Biomedical Drugs, "has registered 333,492 cases of suspected harmful vaccination side effects and 50,833 suspected cases of serious side effects since the start of the vaccination campaign: a reporting rate of 1.78 per 1,000 vaccine doses."

Vogel and Couzin-Frankel stressed that researchers studying the long-term fallout of the vaccines, such as Harlan Krumholz, a cardiologist at Yale University, are worried about "undermining trust."

Krumholz reportedly indicated he was initially reluctant to "dive in" for fear of bringing to light truths that might be seized upon by vaccine critics.

Notwithstanding his reservations, Krumholz said, "I’m persuaded that there’s something going on” with these side effects. "It’s my obligation, if I truly am a scientist, to have an open mind and learn if there’s something that can be done."

Krumholz and Yale immunologist Akiko Iwasaki have started a post-vaccination study called LISTEN, for Listen to Immune, Symptom and Treatment Experiences Now, reported the New York Post.

They are attempting to "understand long COVID, post-vaccine adverse events and the corresponding immune responses by collecting information about symptoms and medical history from participants."

Theirs is not the only show in town, however.

Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center analyzed a health database of nearly 300,000 people in Los Angeles, all of whom had received at least one COVID-19 shot.

"They found that within 90 days after a shot, the rate of POTS-related symptoms was about 33% higher than in the 3 months before; 2581 people were diagnosed with POTS-related symptoms after vaccination, compared with 1945 beforehand," Vogel and Couzin-Frankel indicated.

Some researchers suspect that the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, delivered by the vaccines, may be responsible for "long vax," as it may instigate an immune overreaction and destabilize ACE2 signaling.

Although the specifics of how precisely the vaccines are upending some patients' lives are presently being worked out, Lawrence Purpura, an infectious disease specialist at Columbia University, is certain about the consequences.

Postvaccination illness is "a long, relentless disease," said Purpura.

In recent years, amid a broader effort to censor down vaccine skepticism, the Biden White House has pressured social media companies to silence those who raised concerns about the short- and long-term effects of COVID-19 vaccines, including Tucker Carlson.

While curbing dissenting views and squelching expressions of concern, the Biden administration imposed vaccine mandates, knowing full well there were "breakthrough" infections despite COVID-19 vaccination, contrary to how they were sold to the public.

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Horowitz: Paxlovid and the need to end human experimentation

The more you “pax,” the more you vaxx.

You have to hand it to Pfizer. The company concocted a brilliant marketing strategy for two products that self-fulfill a need for each other. The more you vaxx, the more likely you are to get COVID. Then they offer the therapeutic Paxlovid upon getting the virus, in which case you get a rebound of the virus and take even more Paxlovid. Then, because of the rebound, you are so scared that you get more boosters, which of course, erase your natural immunity and make it even more likely that you get the virus again … and need Pfizer’s pair of products a second time. Rinse and repeat while Pfizer’s Albert Bourla and his FDA and NIH cronies laugh all the way to the bank.

What is the statistical likelihood that the president, the first lady, the CDC director, and Dr. Fauci all got the virus shortly after their booster shots and all got a rebound of the virus after taking Paxlovid – if it’s really a rare phenomenon? On Monday, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky announced that three weeks after getting her fifth COVID shot in less than two years and contracting COVID nonetheless, and a week after taking Paxlovid, she got the mysterious “Paxlovid rebound” and tested positive again. How can the government continue to support, market, and endorse both of these products after all of the known and unknown problems – after the president himself conceded the emergency is over?

Consider the following: Paxlovid is an experimental drug mixed with a heavy-duty AIDS drug with over 30 categories of contraindications with common medicines that most seniors take. It clearly causes a rebound of the virus, which is already mild to begin with for the Omicron variants, and leaves people with a metallic taste in their mouths. No long-term genotoxicity and carcinogenicity studies were conducted, and a new study shows that it might cause blood clots, just like the Pfizer shots. Yet this drug is being funded by the government and now being dispensed at pharmacies without a doctor’s prescription, while safe, Nobel Prize-winning drugs are being denied by pharmacists even with a doctor’s prescription!

But they are not done yet. Now, the NIH is rewarding Pfizer’s executives for their malfeasance by studying Paxlovid as the first candidate for “long COVID treatment.” This is the brilliance of their marketing at work. If their products actually worked, they would only make a finite amount of money. But with their products causing counterproductive reactions and relapses of the virus, they create a perpetual circuitous cycle and pretext to use them over and over again at “the speed of science.” Paxlovid has brought in $7.5 billion in sales just for Q3 alone and $22 billion for the year, a pretty good return for the greatest rebounder since Dennis Rodman.

This farce is no longer funny any more. It’s no longer enough for Republicans to merely inveigh against mandates while asserting the shots don’t stop transmission. The shots and Paxlovid actually have negative efficacy and many known and unknown side effects. They need to be immediately pulled from the market, the entire approval process needs to be investigated and overhauled, and legislation needs to be established to prevent this from ever happening again, including provisions limiting liability protections and government endorsement and funding of such emergency products.

There’s been much acerbic debate surrounding the Atlantic article by Emily Oster calling for a “pandemic amnesty” for those who pushed these demonic policies on the public. The piece was rightfully maligned by the public because the perpetrators of COVID fascism never even admitted they were wrong. But it’s worse than that. They haven’t even stopped the implementation of this iteration of biomedical terrorism and are already working on the next steps. They are still pushing these same shots and other similar ones in production without any liability. They are still blocking research and treatment of COVID and vaccine injury. They are still engaging in gain-of-function research. And they still have not even signed on to legislation ending the president’s ability to indefinitely declare a public health emergency, regulate human bodily autonomy, and discriminate against people for personal health care choices.

Thus, it’s no longer even about the malfeasance of lockdowns and mandates, as horrific as they were. They are still promoting death shots and the proliferation of the technologies, surveillance, and biomedical security apparatus that allowed them to enter the bodies of the supermajority of adults in the world. Every single biomedical product pushed on the American people – from the shots and Paxlovid to remdesivir – were extremely dangerous and destructive. Republicans cannot simply walk away from this without legislation imposing basic liability exposure on the drug makers, investigating those behind the maleficent approval, and preventing this from happening in the future.

We thought the era of human experimentation was buried with the Nuremberg trials, but clearly there is a need to reaffirm the Nuremberg Code with Nuremberg 2.0 to ensure that the worst pharma actors are not the ones with the greatest exemptions from human rights violations.

President Biden says victims of 'long COVID' might qualify for disability



President Joe Biden said this week that people who suffer from "long COVID" may qualify for Social Security disability support.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention describes "long COVID" as coronavirus-related symptoms that are long-term — weeks, months, and longer — after having recovered from a COVID-19 infection.

What are the details?

Biden said on Monday that those suffering from the lengthy affliction could receive assistance and support through the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, according to a Tuesday report from Insider.

"Many Americans who seemingly recover from the virus still face lingering challenges like breathing problems, brain fog, chronic pain, and fatigue," Biden said in remarks from the White House Rose Garden. "These conditions can sometimes rise to the level of a disability."

He added, "So, we're bringing agencies together to make sure Americans with long COVID, who have a disability, have access to the rights and resources that are due under the disability law, which includes accommodations and services in the workplace, in school, and our healthcare system so ... they can live their lives in dignity and get the support they need as they continue to navigate these challenges."

His remarks came in a speech commemorating the 31st anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

In Monday guidance, the Department of Health and Human Services and the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice said that not everyone who suffers from long COVID would qualify for disability.

"An individualized assessment is necessary to determine whether a person's long COVID condition or any of its symptoms substantially limits major life activity," the organizations said in joint guidance.

In June, FAIR Health released research revealing that a quarter of people who were diagnosed with COVID-19 sought care for new or continuing medical problems for at least 30 days after being diagnosed with the virus.

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