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I just listened to a friend of mine (a 50 year old woman double vaxxed and boosted) who has been diagnosed (Cleveland Clinic) with Pericarditis. The Drs at the clinic told her that there was virtually no national coordination for reporting, treating and monitoring of vaccine related pericarditis. Given this, how can we place any trust in statements by government public health officials about anything. Her Drs told her it is much more common than reported.

I've been trying to stay rational about this stuff but shit I think Alex Berenson, bad cattitude and eugyppius have been right all along.

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Mar 19, 2022·edited Mar 20, 2022

I don't know many many things; but considering that roughly 1/4-1/3 of FDA approved drugs (one source: https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/09/health/fda-approval-drug-events-study/index.html) subsequently have major problems and/or lose that approval: haven't we been on the Healthcare Industrial Complex of Corrupt Corporatism "ride" for decades?

Keep up the great work Dr Prasad!

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Mar 19, 2022·edited Mar 19, 2022

Right on point, Vinay. This is an utter failure of government (corrupt by nature), organized medicine, especially in pediatrics (I am so ashamed) and, since "I are one" academic medicine which should be the final gatekeeper against idiocy.

The rise of "follow the group, whether or not they are right" is destroying medicine as I know it. We are emphasizing everything to students EXCEPT taking good care of patients (apparently AAMC/LCME is circulating a set of requirements for DIE for medical schools to be accredited...but apparently following the science and taking good care of patients is not a criterion).

I despair for our profession. We each do what we can, but your eloquent writing stands out as being an important voice. Wish more heard it.

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If the FDA grants an EUA for a 4th dose to either Pfizer or Moderna without solid clinical evidence then they have shown their cards and we are seeing agency capture by vaccine manufacturers. The question is: will anyone do anything about it? Will HCWs say hell no? Will doctors push back? Or will we continue on as sheep.

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Mar 19, 2022·edited Mar 19, 2022

I am having cardiac issues imagining an 18 year old boy getting a 4th dose of Moderna 🤦‍♀️

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What the FDA and CDC have done in approving these vaccines and then not requiring mandatory reporting of adverse effects is abhorrent. Big Pharma and the agencies that supposedly regulate them are corrupt. Thank goodness a judge forced the release of the data Pfizer submitted to the FDA for the EUA of the covid vaccine. This happened because a Freedom of Information Act Request was submitted from an organization called Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency. Slowly the truth about these vaccines is coming to light. Check it out here https://phmpt.org

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Not only while no relevant evidence is generated to guide our actions, but while mounting evidence of unwanted outcomes is actively ignored. Data from the UK, Denmark, and other countries show case rates in the boosted outstripping those for unvaccinated people and those who have received either 1 or 2 doses. Protection against severe disease appears to be holding up, but we've been told repeatedly for a year that we must work to prevent *infections* because that's how the virus gets the opportunity to mutate. It appears, thanks to antigenic imprinting from multiple shots modeled on the ancestral strain, that we're creating the conditions for *increased* transmission and further immune-evading mutation.

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Dr V,

This is now a political problem. The CDC and FDA are essentially gone wild, and unaccountable. Many have figured it out and are largely ignoring them - which is good - but far too many entities still follow their edicts and issue coercive mandates accordingly

Elections will produce a correction, but the soonest that will really show an effect is in about a year. Meanwhile the harm will continue.

Never again will I get behind or comply with a mandate of any kind. These people need to be stopped.

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At age 68 I received all three shots. The booster caused so much inflammation in my back I had to get a spinal steroid injection. The MD in the pain clinic said he has seen several similar cases. I'm in excellent health. I will never get another Covid vaccination. I do what most people should do, stay healthy so that you have the physical resources to fight the infection. We should throw the masks away and send everyone a treadmill.

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Mar 19, 2022·edited Mar 19, 2022

Right on point per usual VP! Please keep doing what you are doing...its refreshing to read (and hear on your videos) how blunt & disgusted you've become at calling out what is happening on so many levels for what it is. You may not agree with all of his thoughts...but I think you should read Dr. Toby Rogers's many months take on why these "approaches" that you are calling out are happening and his theories of what might be going on in the minds of policy makers. You may not agree with all of his theories..but it is interesting, disgusting and scary quite frankly. You are disgusted by the 4th dose issue.....& probably still concerned like so many on the 6mo-4yr vaccine issue & Pfizer trying to get that still on EUA. Many are adding their voices to attempt to halt this. https://tobyrogers.substack.com/p/urgent-call-to-action-we-have-30?s=r

There are no common sense or evidence based reasons why so many Covid things from masking 2yr olds to pushing for more shots for EVERYONE are happening in the way they are....Its time to ask tough questions...why?! It does make you think....could there be something nefarious going on whether in this Administration or somewhere in the chain? If so why?!...& why aren't MORE speaking up?! I think you have woken up many MDs who were either not sure if they should...or afraid to speak up...I hope many more wake up....it has to be in larger numbers & those practicing close to the President and others at the FDA, etc etc. benefit, etc. Please keep up the great work, many are listening!

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I dislike Robert Malone—I feel he's on an egomaniacal grudge trip and he's a counter propagandist who jumps to the direst conclusions without evidence—but he's sometimes a good sentinel. He posted a CELL paper that really alarmed me. (I'm not a scientist, just a science copy editor, so I don't know if my alarm is warranted.) It showed that the vaccine mRNA persists in germinal centers in the lymph nodes far longer than endogenous RNA (which is destroyed quickly—I took the Moderna shot on that assumption), and so does the spike protein it produces. These were found in abundance "up to 8 weeks postvaccination in some cases" (that was the time limit of the study). Here it is in full. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867422000769 Malone speculated that maybe the synthetic substitute base that (his bête noire) Kati Kariko inserted to prevent the mRNA from triggering immune attack also made the mRNA persistent. And if it keeps producing spike, which binds to ACE receptors in many organ systems, which among other things regulate blood pressure ..?

A couple of weeks after getting a booster (I travel to visit my 98-year-old mother so was under family pressure to get the full suite to protect her), I had a mild cold and got tested to protect others. The test was negative, but they took my blood pressure and it was way higher (like 167/86) than it had ever been (max maybe 140/82). A second check was just as high. I bought a home monitor and a couple of days later in the morning it was something like 123/73 before coffee, 134/79 after. (I'm 75 and fit and a caffeine junkie.) What the hell was that?? I've been avoidant about continuing to check it.

All this adds up to being done with mRNA vaccines. I had wanted to get the Novavax protein vaccine in the first place—even volunteered for the trials, but too late—but it is STILL not approved, the FDA has not even named an advisory committee on its EUA application. Is Pfizer running our government??

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This is frightening. Absolutely frightening. The second mandates were put in place, the ordinary citizen became a slave.

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When will it stop? 5th dose? 6th dose?

Maybe they should at least wait for new version that's specific to the predominant strain. From the data I've seen there's some limited benefit of getting the 3rd dose for certain populations, but a 4th one? Let's say there's an additional 10% reduction in hospitalization/death. Sounds great if you're 85 with multiple underlying conditions, but for a healthy young adult whose chances of severe outcomes is already minimal? That's like saying medication A will reduce a man's chance of breast cancer by 50% ... when that probability is already miniscule. Or wearing a certain hat will reduce your chances of being struck by lightning a whopping 90%! Only to realize upon careful consideration that the chance of getting hit by lightning is already 1 in ... a million?

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Are the officials even examining data from the UK and Israel suggesting that the booster quickly becomes ineffective and that some vaccinated people's immune systems are not doing well against Omicron? Each dose has an effect on the risk/reward balance and that seems accumulative. I rejected the initial booster and won;t seek any more. I shall require more data before any more experimentation in me.

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Please pleases try to activate a group of balanced well respected doctors (eg include Paul offit, fda advisors) to create a document like Urgency of Normal. Even for the 3rd dose we still have NO data that the benefit to those with no risk factors is anything other than a short term reduction in chance of infection (some do get a flu for a week and feel crappy for 2 weeks but that is not justification for booster- and if that is the justification, boosters must be given every 12 weeks to minimize this risk and that risk is still far from zero). There ARE some studies that show benefits against severe disease in elderly (esp 70+) and there is also strong data it benefits those with risk factors (Israel’s large scale data published in Oct, pre omicron, showed that 75%+ of severe breakthroughs after 2 doses were in 70+ , then they cut the data by health risks and 75% had 3 OR MORE health risk factors (excluding age since). The cdc’s own data shows not one severe breakthrough in someone with zero risk factors after dose 2.

I would also love doctors to answer this question: it appears that there are no severe breakthroughs post 2 doses OR prior infection!! In people with no risk factors because healthy immune systems generate strong and enduring t and B cells that don’t protect against initial infection But remain strong to fight severe disease.

In elderly, and separately in those with health risk factors, did dose 2 not generate as strong t/b cells and then dose 3 increased them further? Or do these wane in those with risk factors but not in those with strong immune systems? This seems important to understand if a 4th dose will provide much if any incremental benefit in these segments over dose 3. If they just needed dose 3 to get the response the rest of us got with dose 2, dose dose 4 do anything? If these wane, how quickly? And are there any new adverse events if - from an efficiency standpoint- need to boost high risk populations every 12 weeks. (And to be clear, if a 45 yr old with no risk factors has zero incremental benefit against severe disease or even a 1 in million chance of severe diseases, then there needs to be zero risks of a boost; in an 80 yr old with heart and lung issues, there may be tolerance for a certain level of adverse events. As always the risk benefit calculation must be specific to each population.

In the meantime, the only data on 4th doses measures the efficacy at 14 -24 days post dose 4. In the healthcare provider study, although antibodies increased, there was minimal effect on disease (at a time when dose 4 should be giving its brief peak protection!). The other larger population study showed some impact but again 2-4 weeks or so after the boost. (Dose 4 roll out started jan 2, 2022 ). Finally- must start factoring in arms in studies that include people who have and have not had covid.

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Love VP but surprised he doesn’t call this what it is: corruption. Straight up mafia shit.

Are we supposed to keep discussing this as if it’s an actual matter of regulatory science and public health?

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