Guest post by Gregory J. Rummo.
It was one week after the terrorist attacks on 9/11 when envelopes containing a white powder began showing up at random locations in four states; among them, a newspaper office in Florida, the Washington D.C. office of then-Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, NBC News and the New York Post. The white powder turned out to be anthrax spores, engineered to be readily dispersed and inhaled – a potentially deadly bioterrorism weapon.
Anthrax infections are treated with antibiotics. There are two that are most effective; ciprofloxacin and doxycycline. At that time, I was the CEO of a small pharmaceutical company that represented foreign API manufacturers in the US. We had a large, domestic customer base to which we marketed dozens of anti-infective agents, including antibiotics. Doxycycline was one of them.
We had been working with Zenith Laboratories, a generic pharmaceutical manufacturer in South Florida (currently a part of Teva Pharmaceuticals) to approve our doxycycline for use in its formulations. Normally, the turn-around time for the FDA to approve a drug, even a generic copy of an existing drug (which doxycycline was), is well over a year and often two.
But this was different. The US was facing a crisis in the form of a potential bioterrorism attack. The federal government’s response to anthrax quickly became a national emergency. Zenith Laboratories, along with other manufacturers, was awarded a contract to supply tablets and capsules to the Department of Defense’s Strategic National Stockpile. In less than one month, the Food and Drug Administration granted an emergency use authorization and overnight, we became approved suppliers of doxycycline.
Fortunately, anthrax never became the bioterrorism threat many had feared. Five people died as a result of coming into contact with envelopes contaminated with the spores that had been delivered through the postal system.
Our government’s coordinated response in 2001 to apply pressure to drug manufacturers and its own Food and Drug Administration to expedite approval of a life-saving treatment for a bioterrorism weapon bears an eerie similarity to the national health crisis in which we find ourselves.
Any drug, be it an antibiotic, a monoclonal antibody cocktail or a vaccine goes through a rigorous, scientific process long before ever falling into the hands of government regulators, let alone politicians. Drug development begins with a conceptual design model followed by research, engineering, small scale manufacturing and several phases of testing; usually first in animals and then humans. Failures are common along every step of this process. By some estimates over 90 percent of drugs never make it to market. Safety and efficacy must be demonstrated by the manufacturer before the FDA will approve any drug’s use in the general public.
What is currently known about the two leading candidates’ mRNA vaccines—Pfizer and Moderna Inc.—is that they are showing safety and efficacy in late stages of phase 3 clinical trials.
Participants like me have received the first and second booster injections and have provided blood samples to researchers. It is no stretch to believe we will have coronavirus vaccines approved under the FDA’s emergency authorization use as early as next month for distribution to, at the very least, healthcare workers and those most at risk of severe morbidity.
This is not politics but, in fact, the result of science – lots of science – and shame on those politicians who continue to make this an issue of anything but.
Gregory J. Rummo is a Lecturer of Chemistry at Palm Beach Atlantic University and a Contributing Writer for The Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation. He is the former CEO of New Chemic US Inc and patient 001 in Moderna’s mRNA-1273 Phase 3 trial currently being conducted at the Palm Beach Research Center in West Palm Beach, FL. The views expressed in his columns are his own.
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Has anybody died from covid who had a high amount of vitamin D, zinc, and takes quine?
My idea: I”ve read medical literature (results of a study) that vitamin A has anti-viral effects.
Covid seems to be very infectious, but if met with a strong immune system, supported by taking vitamins & minerals, it can be stopped at only mild or no effects (asymptomatic).
Or covid doesn’t lodge at all in the body.
With vitamin & mineral deficiency the virus is unopposed and, yes, spreads through the body and can kill.
Has anybody on this website seen or heard a government official announce the importance of taking vitamins & minerals in stopping the damaging effects of covid?
It’s damning that people in positions of authority remain silent regarding the importance of vitamins & minerals.
Is a vaccine necessary? or is it just a scam to make money?
Remember, follow the money.
c1ue…not close to zero, but zero. If what I’m reading is true.
“It is a common misconception that an approved vaccine will provide “silver bullet” immunity, a scenario based more on a Hollywood film narrative than reality because no Covid vaccine trial protocol defines its “success” as:
– Providing immunity from infection from the SARS-COV-2 virus
– Reducing mortality risk from the COVID-19 disease
– Providing immunity from COVID-19 disease symptoms
Instead trial “success” is defined as an amelioration of COVID-19 symptoms in 50-60% of volunteers, who are healthy adults likely to be at risk only from a mild or asymptomatic infection and thus not even a population group facing significant mortality risk from COVID-19. These dud Covid vaccines aspire to be buckshot not silver bullets…”
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Early data from the Oxford study, for example, suggest the vaccine may not provide complete protection – perhaps only warding off Covid-19’s worst symptoms.
“Ideally we’d like immunity from a vaccine to completely wipe out a virus,” says Dr Andrew Preston of the University of Bath. “But if we can reduce Covid-19 to a seasonal cold, that would be good enough compared to the current alternative.”
“[The latest research suggests] there is no guarantee that a vaccine will be found that confers lasting immunity,” adds Stephen Evans, professor of pharmacoepidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. “It’s possible immunity will be short-lived or even non-existent.
telegraph.co.uk
14 July 2020
Seems anything that may prevent or treat covid is prohibited, discouraged or never mentioned. It’s vaccine or nothing.
Greg,
Is there any significant effort to track levels of Vitamin D, Zinc, or Selenium (or anything else) for comparison between the two(?) groups?
There are effective therapeutics being used by primary care physicians. Zinc, zinc ionophore, antibiotic has been used successfully given early in many outpatient settings and thousands have fully recovered in around a week for ~$30 with no ‘long COVID’ reactions. The treatment effectively ensures that the innate immune system is healthy. There are other therapeutics as was shown with the rapid recovery of president Trump.
Why are these therapeutics being ignored and why is it being stated (touted?) by the medical bureaucracy and the vaccine industry that normality is only possible with a COVID-19 vaccine? Could it be that the Zinc, zinc ionophore, antibiotic regimen is also effective against all RNA viruses and that is the last thing that the vaccine industry wants the world to know?
See 10.1371/journal.ppat.1001176 – Research showing that intracellular zinc blocks the use of the cell RNA transcription mechanism for replication and “….efficiently impair the replication of a variety of RNA viruses, including poliovirus and influenza virus…..
So ensuring that the innate immune system is fully functional by sufficiency in zinc, vitamin D3 and other trace elements would prevent influenza and polio? These are big earners for the vaccine industry and Bill Gates has been involved with the polio vaccine in India as he is in Corona Virus vaccines. It is no wonder they are continually ‘touting’ vaccines as the only way back to normal and are solidly against therapeutics which work simply and even more against people enuring their innate immune systems are strong. That is why you haven’t heard anyone of the talking heads telling you to get sufficient in zinc and vitamin D3. Had they done that in February tens of thousands of lives could have been saved. I hope that they can justify the delay in telling people.
Why are these therapeutics being ignored and why is it being stated (touted?) by the medical bureaucracy and the vaccine industry that normality is only possible with a COVID-19 vaccine?
Because big Pharma’s and Wall Street’s business and future profits are hanging in the balance from their expected high-growth vaccination and compliance industry.
I highly recommend people see the videos from the 2020 NAM Annual Meeting. There was no talk of herd immunity, vit D, zinc or anything other than getting that vaccine ready. They are very concerned about vaccine hesitancy and what to do about it.
I listened to Bill Gates and Anthony Fauci last week who spoke at the National Academy of Medicine annual meeting consider society’s triple challenge to be racial justice, climate change, and CV19. They said what I heard Gretchen Whitmer in Michigan tell us right away early on this year, that we must have the vaccine before we can go back to normal.
Who’s decision was that originally? They imposed that requirement out of nowhere, railroading us and President Trump.
Bill Gates had just sponsored and conducted the Event201 pandemic exercise a few months before CV19 started up. It’s been Bill Gates telling us what we have to do, and I’m wondering who elected him to order the CDC, the WHO, and our governors around? Oh ya, that’s right, it’s his billions twisting arms.
You cannot even talk to these people who’ve been telling everyone that being against their agenda and not complying with their diktats is not democracy. If we don’t have any input or control over our own lives then it’s definitely not democracy, nor representative government, it’s a form of slavery under a UN medical dictatorship. I saw no real empathy for the chaos they created, just lip service.
You are right. As with climate, and any industry that can corral people by creating a hard to get solution through a sense of fear. Think, “State of Fear” vs climate… and it applies to health.
I have some people be offended by the idea that there are solutions to most problems, including Covid 19… but that medical industry will not allow it to be known.
Thanks mario. The word is getting out.
https://www.wakingtimes.com/2020/10/23/the-global-takeover-is-underway/
More vaccine safety information obtained by RFK Jr.
https://www.icandecide.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Stipulated-Order-copy-1.pdf
ICAN = Informed Consent Action Network
HHS = Heath and Human Services
ICAN therefore filed a Freedom of Information Act, FOIA, request on August 25th, 2017 to HHS seeking copies of the biennial reports that HHS was supposed to submit to Congress, starting in 1988, detailing the improvements it made every two years to vaccine safety. HHS stonewalled ICAN for eight months refusing to provide any substantive response to this request.
ICAN was therefore forced to file a lawsuit to force HHS to either provide copies of its biennial vaccine safety reports to Congress or admit it never filed these reports.
The result of the lawsuit is that HHS had to finally and shockingly admit that it never, not even once, submitted a single biennial report to Congress detailing the improvements in vaccine safety.
This speaks volumes to the seriousness by which vaccine safety is treated at HHS and heightens the concern that HHS doesn’t have a clue as to the actual safety profile of the now 29 doses, and growing, of vaccines given by one year of age.
FDA Lowering Effectiveness Requirements
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/child-health-topics/exposing-truth/fda-director-peter-marks-and-the-ever-shifting-covid-vaccine-narrative/
“In its guidance, FDA said it expected sponsors to demonstrate a vaccine is at least 50% effective in a placebo-controlled trial, with an adjusted lower bound of >30%.”
Are you not aware that Moderna skipped the animal testing phase?
Previous SARS-CoV Vaccine Attempts went bad when the subjects were exposed to the “wild” virus. That was in animals and they didn’t proceed to humans.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22536382/
At first, the experiment seemed successful as all the animals developed a robust antibody response to coronavirus. However, when the scientists exposed the vaccinated animals to the WILD VIRUS, the results were horrifying. Vaccinated animals suffered hyper-immune responses including inflammation throughout their bodies, especially in their lungs. Researchers had seen this same “enhanced immune response” during human testing of the failed RSV vaccine tests in the 1960s. Two children died.
That raises the concern of what happens when the vaccine is given to someone that has already developed antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 “wild virus”? Will they display an enhanced immune response going straight into a cytokine storm?
I don’t know if antibodies would trigger it but the vaccine is supposed to protect you from the wild virus not kill you.
I’ll pass on the vaccine. There are cures which have an effectiveness greater than 95%. Way more effective than a 30-50% effective vaccine.
Cures – If you doubt that prove the doctors promoting them wrong.
1) Inhaled steroids like Budesonide
The interview with Dr. Richard Bartlett has been BANNED BY YOUTUBE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDSDdwN2Xcg&feature=emb_logo
But you can still see it here starting around the 4 minute mark:
https://banned.video/watch?id=5f06524a672706002f481047
Cheap and can be used on very sick people with serious existing health conditions.
2) Ivermectin + Doxycycline + Zinc
Professor Thomas Borody developer of the triple therapy treatment for peptic ulcers in 1987.
“It’s easier than treating the flu now”. “You can actually eradicate it”. “We know it’s curable”
http://covexit.com/we-know-its-curable-its-easier-than-treating-the-flu-professor-thomas-borody/
3) Swiss Policy Research HCQ+ Treatment Protocol (5 to 7 day regimen)
https://swprs.org/on-the-treatment-of-covid-19/
Zinc — 50 milligrams [mg] to 100 mg per day
Hydroxychloroquine — 400 mg per day
Quercetin — 500 mg to 1,000 mg per day
Bromhexine — 50 mg to 100 mg per day
Azithromycin — up to 500 mg per day
Heparin — usual dosage
TRM…please explain how you plan to access those treatments. Thanks!
Moderna (Gates & Fauci, etc have a BLATANT conflict of interest)
“It’s completely correct to say that NIAID will reap a profit on the Moderna/NIAID vaccine. There are 6 NIAID scientists who work for Dr. Fauci, each of whom would get $150,000/year indefinitely as their reward. So that’s $900,000 to his subordinates every year in perpetuity.”
– Mary Holland, General Counsel, RFK Jr’s “Children’s Health Defense”
So I will ask the same question again. If the Phase 3 trials are 2 years to read out then by any normal safety standards the safety of these vaccines will not be known until 2023. What am I missing here?
See above
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/10/22/we-will-have-vaccines-soon-because-of-science-not-politics/#comment-3109556
that does not seem to answer my question. If it’s double blind you don’t know which group is having the complications until read out in 2023.
I see your point, but I think it’s a wrong assumption that nobody is able to analyze the data (know which subject is in which group), just because the clinicians and patients are kept in the dark. Obviously, someone knows during the trial, otherwise nobody could know after the trial completes. Also, when someone has serious complications, it would be important to know how best to treat the patient.
Oh dear, the world is in a pickle. But as Roosevelt famously said “the only thing to fear is fear itself”. The biggest challenge with COVID19 is the failure to modify policies based on the accumulated data we now have showing the virus disproportionately affects a few people with underlying health issues while leaving the bulk of the population largely unaffected. While the virus has indeed killed people, particularly the elderly, the overall excess morbidity rates haven’t changed substantially. COVID19 is therefore only slightly worse than the regular flu. However, if the shutdowns are allowed to continue unabated, societal death rates may then increase alarmingly.
Criminally, the high rate of false-positive test results (especially for PCR tests) have made people fearful almost to the point of dysfunctionality and corrupt politicians have used this as an opportunity for power grabbing. Furthermore, the makers of PCR tests have undoubtedly made unconscionable amounts of money and probably don’t even want a vaccine to be developed.
History shows that all great events are usually preceded by seemingly small incidents that quickly amplify larger issues. The textbook example is the assassination of the ArchDuke Ferdinand. There are countless others. In this case, lawsuits lying in the shadows will eventually topple the system. Once the true false-positive rate for PCR testing is revealed in court, then the liabilities will weigh in favor of discrediting the test in the same way that lie detector testing is inadmissible.
Once the case data is disputed people will look around and see that anecdotally not many people they know are infected. They will then come to rational conclusions and discount hysteria. However some people may need a placebo injection to feel better (regular flu shot?). Thus ends the crazy year of 2020. The politicians will head for the hills………..
Destroying the fabric of society is the end goal of these “health” “professional”, IMO. They are naturally communists: these highly educated morons think they know a lot (they don’t), that they know about the unknown (they absolutely don’t) and they can’t be fooled easily (they are probably the easiest to fool). These intrinsic properties make them natural communists: they believe only their minds can make planning work (they couldn’t make plans for a small business).
They want (perhaps non-consciously) modern Western societies to fail to:
1a) select those who get to reopen and keep part of their business
1b) give away money to the victims of economy (victims of these demented decisions actually)
2) implement central planning
You ate mistaken about excess deaths. The current numbers are about 10x the typical flu season.
See my comment above
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/10/22/we-will-have-vaccines-soon-because-of-science-not-politics/#comment-3109558
Lockdowns are indeed very dangerous and deadly, in addition to being useless. Thanks for pointing it out.
I would agree that lockdowns are likely pretty useless judging from the number of infections that occurred despite the lockdowns.
There’s also probably a case to be made that lockdowns cause a net increase in deaths apart from covid factors (more people die from suicide, substance abuse, and other lockdown impacts than the reduction of traffic accidents). That means that they’re counterproductive from a cost-benefit perspective.
But none of that says that covid hasn’t been responsible for many more deaths than the typical flu season.
The right approach seems to be to protect the vulnerable (which we failed to do), and allow the bulk of the population to get it harmlessly and develop immunity. Then it will die out because it can’t find a susceptible host.
Would you be so kind as to explain this? Thanks!
“The CDC attributed the apparent “disappearance” of flu numbers during the COVID pandemic to “widespread adoption of community mitigation measures to reduce transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.” Specifically in the U.S., samples submitted that turned out to be positive for influenza cases during this time period dropped by 98% compared to other seasons.”
Where Did the Flu Go?
WHO Stats Show Influenza Almost Nonexistent
mercola . com
Oct. 16, 2020
The flu didn’t “go” anywhere. Any flu deaths likely got coded as covid. I’m not disputing that at all. In a typical year that might account for 30k deaths. What about the other 220k?
Excess mortality measures how many more dead bodies show up (from any and all causes), than the average number that had been the case in prior years in the same week of the year. It is not determined by adding up deaths in various categories. So it doesn’t matter if all or none of the deaths were correctly diagnosed, just how many deaths in total.
The point I am making is that there have been about a quarter million more deaths in the past nine months than there were in prior comparable periods over the prior seven years. We don’t know exactly how to partition those deaths between different causes, but something is much different from the past seven years.
If you think that it was actually a virulent influenza strain that k!lled 10x as many people as the typical flu season, in theory that could explain the excess death total. Maybe all those undiagnosed mystery flu patients also had a benign sars-cov2 infection? Or maybe you think that the ~250k extra deaths were mostly opioid overdoses, alcohol-related, or suicides due to lockdowns. That could also explain it in theory.
Of course both of those hypotheses could be tested, and it’s clear that there’s no evidence to support them and lots of evidence to refute them.
I’m just cautioning that covid skeptics need to reconcile any hypothesis with the total excess deaths.
“something is much different from the past seven years”
Yes, and that unique thing is:
LOCKDOWNS
You think that lockdowns caused an extra quarter million deaths? How?
Calling something “science” seems to make people think they have some kind of license to commit crimes on another person’s body ‘for the greater good’. The current situation has little to do with medical science and everything to do with psychological conditioning. If you support the official narrative about Covid, you are part of the problem.
What is really needed is an effective treatment. Here is a clue: https://twitter.com/gummibear737/status/1283840177497088001?lang=en
And the Zelenko protocol has shown an 80% reduction in bad outcomes for people infected with covid-19.
https://tinyurl.com/y68z2ahj
“Science, Not Politics”
Sorry to rain on your parade. Medical doctors and other biomed scientists have accepted or are ON RECORD saying that they don’t want to discuss the nasty SE of vaccines because they fear people would refuse to vaccinate. Medicine is overly political. The medical boards are used for enforcement – a case of “cancel culture” that so called “conservatives” have historically accepted, even praised!
Gregory J. Rummo
thank you for your service
“The Cornwall Alliance is a network of evangelical Christian scholars”
Sorry, but this is where I lose it.
At least they are not anti-vaxxers, unlike some other denominations. I wonder what ISIS say about vaccinations – are they prohibited?
Robert Kennedy, Jr, anti-vaxxer extraordinary looks like the exception that proves the rule.
As Leibniz pointed out “lazy reason”, was known to the ancients, but lingers on today.
Can you name a recommended human vaccine that has evidence of usefulness in the 1st world world?
Europe or US.
Many vaccines have limited or eradicated diseases which used to kill millions in Europe and the Americas, plus the rest of the world.
Hmm! Was it then about science when they had so many killed or injured by that Swine flu vaccine they rushed through in 1976? Was it the scientists that suffered from the slings and arrows that followed? NO! It was the politicians! So I ain’t buying your argument.
Science is getting pretty abused as a term these days. The human immune system ha proven 99% effective across all demographics against the un-isolated, sequenced by ‘consensus’, ‘doesn’t infect human cells ‘(assuming you trust the CDCs own literature) so called coronavirus. So is it scientific to call it a ‘deadly pandemic’? Is it scientific to demand a ‘50% is good enough’ vaccine when 99% innate immunity is already established for free and by doing nothing? What pray tell is the scientific basis? Does ‘science’ not require a virus to be isolated, purified and verified in a host before we even call it a virus? Does the guy pitching ‘science’ even grasp that nothing close to this has been done? Is fast tracking a vaccine with no liability over FDA approved Hydroxychloroquine, which has proven more than 70% effective, has a 65 year safety record and is already in every pharmacy everywhere a scientific decision? HOW? I’m sorry I keep hearing ‘science’ but I’m just not seeing it. Nothing in this article has any scientific basis at all. Or even any factual basis. Besides two scenarios where government ignored it’s own safety measures to play hero in the face of a non existent threat. And the author thought that somehow counted as ‘science’. What a joke. Why would WUWT even publish this? For shame.
“Vaccines Unlikely to Prevent Infection”
https://lockdownsceptics.org/2020/10/23/latest-news-171/#medical-journals-refuse-to-publish-landmark-danish-mask-study
“Instead trial “success” is defined as an amelioration of COVID-19 symptoms in 50-60% of volunteers, who are healthy adults likely to be at risk only from a mild or asymptomatic infection and thus not even a population group facing significant mortality risk from COVID-19.8 These dud Covid vaccines aspire to be
buckshot not silver bullets: if they are the answer, what was the question?”
Lest We Forget….
“The U.S. Military and the Influenza Pandemic of 1918–1919
Carol R. Byerly, PhDa
From: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2862337/
“While the implementation of treatment and prevention measures varied from camp to camp, medical officers generally tried “all preventive measures which seemed logical,” according to Braisted. Quarantines were almost impossible to maintain and had little effect. The Navy, rushing to transport troops across the Atlantic, imposed modified quarantines at many stations but “…invariably this measure failed to prevent the introduction of influenza.”5 (p. 2486) As the Army Medical Department explained, “…to be of avail in excluding influenza, quarantine must more nearly approach perfection than proved practicable in the large camps of the war.”2 (p. 116) Other prevention measures included daily inspections and temperature-taking, patient isolation, face masks and gowns for attendants, good ventilation, screening between beds, prohibition of indoor gatherings, nose and throat sprays for the healthy, and experimental vaccines. In assessing these measures, however, Braisted concluded that “each particular preventive measure failed in some instances to accomplish recognizable results.”5 (p. 2483) The Army Medical Department similarly admitted that “the best result to be expected from any or all of these measures is a slowing of the progress of an epidemic rather than any considerable diminution in the number of cases.”2 (p. 123-4)”
“To control influenza and pneumonia, the hospital provided patients with 100 square feet of floor space, separated beds by sheets, and furnished face masks to everyone in the camp. As pneumonia spread, medical officers also sprayed the mouths and throats of 800 healthy men daily with the solution of dichloramine-T as a preventive measure, but when they compared their influenza rates with 800 untreated men, they were disappointed to find that “…over a period of twenty days the incidence in the two groups was the same.”2 (p. 121)
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”
― H.L. Mencken,
To paraphrase:
This in not science but, in fact, the result of politics – lots of politics – and shame on those politicians who continue to make this an issue of anything but money* – lots and lots of money!!
*Potentially the largest money grab by pharmaceutical companies in history! And the US government long ago exempted them from all legal liability for death or injury caused by any vaccine. The only recourse for compensation comes through “The Vaccine Court” funded by your own tax paying pockets!