Coronavirus 2019-nCoV

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Fact check: COVID-19 vaccines not linked to deaths in children (usatoday.com)

Whenever a MSM media outlet drops a “fact check”, I hysterically laugh.

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Fact check: COVID-19 vaccines not linked to deaths in children (usatoday.com)

Death is not the only bad outcome of being vaccinated.

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Whenever a MSM media outlet drops a “fact check”, I hysterically laugh.

So should everyone else after hearing facebook/meta's defense to the lawsuit brought about by John Stossel:

https://nypost.com/2021/12/14/facebook-admits-the-truth-fact-checks-are-really-just-lefty-opinion/

[MikeKennedyRulZ]

Whenever a MSM media outlet drops a “fact check”, I hysterically laugh.

Yep. These idiots are dishonest and skewed in everything else, what makes anyone think they can accurately fact check anything?

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It takes a while to understand how all this works together. Example when the fact checkers fact check Trump claims of, whatever, and he said it was a third, but really it was '29%' so they say it was false, then they do this to literally everything he says. After a year, you hear pundits say 'Trump has been documented by fact checkers to have lied 2300 times since being in office'. That's how this works.

It's all a big circle jerk by a web of media outlets to con people who don't know any better.

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The problem is that we all know it's BS, but a lot of people don't have time or care to understand. It's easier to just believe the fact checkers. After all you hear the same thing from everyone, except Fox News. And they are loons.

[1972Shocker]

Latest Omicron Data Directly Counters the Tyrannical Proclamations by Western Leaders

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2021/12...eaders-n492783 The South African health minister delivered some encouraging news Friday about the rapidly spreading Omicron variant, citing a much lower rate of hospitalizations amid a milder form of the illness.

Only 1.7 percent of COVID-19 patients were admitted in the second week of infections during the fourth wave of the pandemic, compared to 19 percent in the same week of the third Delta-driven wave, Joe Phaahla told reporters, Bloomberg News reported…

…“We believe that it might not necessarily just be that Omicron is less virulent, but … coverage of vaccination [and] … natural immunity of people who have already had contact with the virus is also adding to the protection,” Phaahla said, according to Reuters.

This is excellent news for those who don’t rely on COVID-19 to maintain their notoriety, financial gains, and power. And while South Africa’s health minister is also crediting vaccinations, the country has only administered enough doses to fully vaccine 23% of the population. In other words, South Africa is far worse off than the “unvaccinated” areas in the United States that politicians are constantly preaching doom about.

[1972Shocker]

Biden Tells Another Giant Lie About the Severity of Omicron

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2021/12/17/biden-tells-another-giant-lie-about-the-severity-of-omicron-n2600725

Speaking during a Wuhan coronavirus task force briefing Thursday evening, President Joe Biden claimed the latest variant of the disease is going to lead to overwhelmed hospitals, severe illness and death.

"It's here now, and it's spreading, and it's gonna increase. For unvaccinated we're looking at a winter of severe illness and death for unvaccinated. For themselves, their families and the hospitals they will soon overwhelm," Biden said, pushing booster shots.

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However, Dr. Angelique Coetzee, who announced the new variant to the world says:

"After four weeks, this is now our fourth week, there's no reason you can't trust us when we say it's mild disease," South African Doctor Angelique Coetzee, who announced the new variant to the world, said in a recent interview. "There's no need to hospitalize any of these mild cases. There's really no need. In these patients, recover within about five days. Whether you are a child or 80-years of age. Whether you've been vaccinated, whether you've not been vaccinated. Whether you've suffered mild diseases, other comorbidities, this is what we see. This is the real experience."

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During the daily briefing at the White House shortly before Biden's remarks, Deputy Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked why Biden continues to say the vaccinated can't spread the disease. According to the CDC and a number of studies, the vaccinated spread the virus at similar rates.

Her response:

Jean-Pierre: "What I know and what the president believes is that we have to listen to the science, we have to listen to our public health officials..."

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Ya, the lies and misinformation being thrown around by Sleepy Joe and his administration with respect to Omicron is insane. I think they see their power grip slipping away so they are trying to hang on as long as they can. It also takes away from the complete disaster that is his presidency. They are not listening to the science at all!

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I'm surprised that Dr Jill Biden isn't more front and center on this. She probably knows all about this. Being a doctor and all.

[1972Shocker]

Jean-Pierre: "What I know and what the president believes is that we have to listen to the science, we have to listen to our public health officials..."

Interpretation: Science = Fauxci (because Fauxci said he is science = public health officials. I guess actual practicing scientists and practicing health professionals in the private sector are to be ignored (unless they agree with Fauxci).

So the quote is: "What I know and what the president believes is we have to listen to Fauxci."

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Well, at least we know Biden's lies are grammatically correct.

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The Atlantic is not exactly a right wing media outlet.

The CDC’s Flawed Case for Wearing Masks in School

The agency’s director has said, repeatedly, that schools without mask mandates have triple the risk of COVID outbreaks. That claim is based on very shaky science.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/12/mask-guidelines-cdc-walensky/621035/

This is not the only study cited by Walensky in support of masking students, but it’s among the most important, having been deployed repeatedly to justify a policy affecting millions of children—and having been widely covered in the press. The agency’s decision to trumpet the study’s dubious findings, and subsequent lack of transparency, raise questions about its commitment to science-guided policy.

The extent of the benefits of wearing masks for preventing COVID remains uncertain, but it’s wrong to say we don’t know anything at all. “One thing you can extrapolate well is that masks have some effect,” Haber told me. “But the level of effectiveness depends on an enormous array of very important factors, and high-quality direct evidence is difficult to come by, particularly for schools.”

Given its apparent flaws, the Arizona study would seem to bear out Haber’s point, offering little evidence, one way or another, on whether mask mandates “work” in schools, or to what degree. Even taken at face value, though, its findings don’t appear to fit with those from other research.

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Novavax has been approved in a couple countries already, but today received approval from WHO for use with it's Covax program to get shots to poorer countries.

Novovax Gets WHO Nod for Covid Shot for Developing Countries - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...ping-countries

The World Health Organization gave emergency-use status to a Covid-19 vaccine developed by Novavax Inc., the first protein-based shot to get approval against the virus.

The WHO said Friday the vaccine, known as Covovax, could be used globally and will help accelerate vaccination drives in lower-income countries. Covovax is a product based on Nuvaxovid, a vaccine made by Novavax that’s still under assessment by the European Medicines Agency. Novovax shares rose as much as 8.7%.

The approval is welcome news for the Covax global vaccine-distribution scheme as Novavax and the Serum Institute of India, which produces Covovax under license, have pledged to provide the program with 1.1 billion doses. Novavax had suffered months of delay after manufacturing problems despite securing some of the largest funding from the Trump administration in the early stages of the pandemic.

The WHO said it will give its opinion on Nuvaxovid once the EMA issues its recommendation. The EMA has said it will meet on the matter on Dec. 20.

The Maryland-based company’s vaccine mimics the coronavirus’s spike protein, sparking an immune response that prepares the body for a real infection. It requires two doses three weeks apart and can be stored at refrigerator temperatures, making it easier to transport than some messenger RNA shots.

Earlier this year, the drugmaker submitted clinical data to Britain’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency from a trial of 15,000 volunteers across the U.K. The results showed efficacy of 96.4% against the original Covid strain and 86.3% against the alpha variant that first arose in the U.K. Data from a 30,000-person trial in the U.S. and Mexico has also demonstrated 100% protection against moderate and severe disease.

Novavax has not yet disclosed how its vaccine fares against the fast-spreading omicron variant but has said its working on a version of its vaccine that will target the strain first detected in South Africa.

Novavax has already applied to the U.K. for authorization of its Covid-19 vaccine. The drugmaker has previously said it’s planning to apply for authorization in the U.S. by year-end. The shot has already gained approval in the Philippines and Indonesia.

I've seen articles that state if the UK approves it, it'll be used likely as a booster for those who received the AstraZeneca shot. Also, some articles are saying they think the shot will help with vaccine hesitancy in some countries because it's a protein-based shot vs a mRNA type.

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Also, some articles are saying they think the shot will help with vaccine hesitancy in some countries because it's a protein-based shot vs a mRNA type.

i have had hesitant family members, friends and acquaintances tell me they would be less hesitant to take the Novavax jabs vs the mRNA jabs.

However, not sure will see the Novavax approved in the United State anytime soon.