Politics of Covid 19 Vaccines

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COVID Was Never a Significant Danger to Kids, New Study Shows​

The study, which was published by the JAMA Network, showed that children are more than 100 times less likely to die from COVID than adults.

It also found that mortality rates by age group were astonishingly low.

• For infants under the age of 1, COVID death rates were 4.3 deaths per 100,000.
• Amongst those aged 1 to 4 years, rates were 0.6 per 100,000.
• For 5 to 9 year olds, it was 0.4 per 100,000.
• 0.5 per 100,000 for 10 to 14 year olds.
• 1.8 per 100,000 in those aged 15 to 19 years.

Overall, that translates to a rate of 1 per 100,000 from August 2021 through July 2022. During that time period, there were 821 COVID deaths where the disease was the underlying cause.

To put some context to just how low those numbers are, there were more than 360,000 COVID deaths in the U.S. from August 2021 to July 2022. That meant a rate of 109 per 100,000 people, compared to 1 per 100,000 in children and younger age groups.

The disparity is remarkably stark.



Yet teacher's unions, experts, politicians and the media did their best to ensure schools would close and remain closed.

It’s difficult to grasp that in some parts of the country, despite being entirely discredited as a useful intervention, masks have also become a recurring, potentially permanent part of in person schooling.

COVID Never Posed Much Danger
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Beyond the fact that the absolute rates are small, COVID also pales as a cause of death when compared to other causes.

According to the study, suicide caused 6.8% of deaths in these age groups, 6.9% were from assault, and 18.4% were from unintentional injuries. COVID, by comparison, was responsible for just 2% of deaths, ranking 8th among all causes.

It is important to remember that the CDC purposefully spread misinformation during this time period inaccurately inflating the risks to children. Their eagerness to promote restrictions outweighed any supposed commitment to being a dispassionate public health body.

Remarkably, even though the flu was still generally being outcompeted by COVID, “influenza and pneumonia” wasn’t far behind in terms of mortality rate.



Table 1 from JAMA study on leading causes of death amongst individuals aged 0 to 19 years.
Once again, when viewed with the proper perspective, the low risk from COVID is immediately compared to other causes.



Similarly, when compared to the total amount of deaths from all causes, it’s apparent that the disease has never been a significant threat to younger age groups.



Even the above data includes deaths that were not directly caused by COVID. Yet it still represents a tiny fraction of all those that occurred over the past several years.

When compared across time periods of the pandemic, the disease burden of COVID ranks similarly to influenza and pneumonia in 2019.



Quite simply, viral spread in the community never led to COVID outranking influenza/pneumonia in pre-pandemic periods.

Despite the study confirming that COVID was a much smaller danger to children than unintentional injuries, assault or suicide, the authors ignored their own conclusions.

Instead of celebrating that the risks of the virus to children are thankfully minimal, they call for further restrictions.

In their summary of the findings, they write that "COVID-19 posed a significant disease burden for children and young people, so pharmaceutical and nonpharmaceutical interventions continue to be important to limit transmission of the virus and to mitigate severe disease."

 

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Bivalent COVID Vaccines Perform Worse Against Variant Now Dominant in United States: Studies​

The new COVID-19 vaccines don’t work as well against XBB.1.5, the virus variant that’s now dominant in the United States, according to multiple studies.

In one of the papers, researchers found the vaccines boosted neutralizing antibodies, believed to be a measure of protection, but that the antibody levels declined to previous levels within three months.

Compared to the antibody responses to BA.5, the responses to XBB.1.5 were reduced 20-fold.

“Following bivalent mRNA boosting, responses to XBB.1.5 increase but remain low and wane within 3 months back to pre-boost levels. These data suggest that once a year boosters with the current mRNA vaccines may not provide adequate protection for an entire year for those at high risk of complications of COVID-19,” Dr. Dan Barouch, director of the Center for Virology and Vaccine Research at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and a co-author of the preprint study (pdf), told The Epoch Times via email.

 

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RedState’s sister site, Townhall, transcribed some of the exchange.

I, along with many Americans, have long-term effects from COVID,” Mace revealed. “Not only was I a long hauler, but I have effects from the vaccine. It wasn’t the first shot, but it was the second shot that I now developed asthma that has never gone away since the second shot. I have tremors in my left hand and I have the occasional heart pain that no doctor can explain and I’ve had a battery of tests. I find it extremely alarming [that] Twitter’s unfettered censorship spread into medical fields and affected many Americans by suppressing expert opinions from doctors and censoring those who disagree with the CDC.

Mace used that as a jumping-off point to roast Yoel Roth, Vijaya Gadde, and the rest of the former Twitter top dogs tapped as witnesses, noting that none of them had the medical expertise to decide what was or wasn’t “disinformation” regarding COVID-19. Still, Twitter’s censors waged a war against anyone who dared to question the conventional wisdom, even when the conventional wisdom was so obviously wrong (i.e. mask efficacy and the lab leak theory).

Nancy Mace Shocks in Hearing by Revealing Alleged COVID-19 Vaccine Injury, Roasts Former Twitter Executives

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Officials at the public health agency now recommend that children between six months and 15 months old receive a two-dose or three-dose primary series and booster; from 18 months to adulthood, children should likewise receive the primary series and boosters, according to the agency. Children more than six months old can receive the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine or the Moderna vaccine, while children more than 12 years old can also receive the Novavax vaccine. The CDC recommended the three-dose series for children who are “moderately or severely immunocompromised.”

Vaccination schedules for adults also recommend two-dose or three-dose primary series and boosters. COVID vaccines were placed in a distinct call out box in previous schedules; this year is the first in which the inoculations are considered routine.

The CDC noted that the doses are not covered by the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, an “alternative to the traditional legal system for resolving vaccine injury claims.” The agency added that COVID vaccines fall under the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP).

CDC Adds COVID Vax To Routine Immunization Schedules For Both Children And Adults | The Daily Wire

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My primary care physician must be really leery. He mentioned zero vaccines during my physical in December.

 

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DEVASTATING Australian NSW data showing the quadrupled COVID mRNA vaccinated (4 shots) have massive spikes in hospitalization & death! Data as of December 2022 and NOTE: dose response & no vaxx​

 

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Dr Terry Adirim, the government bureaucrat behind the infamous and unlawful Pentagon vaccine mandate, will “leave her post in the coming days,” reports FedScoop.

Adirim is currently the executive director of the VA’s electronic health record modernization integration office, having held the role since late 2021.

While she was in the Pentagon as the acting assistant secretary of defense for health affairs (serving as a Biden Admin political appointee), Dr Adirim, signed her name to an order forcing service members to take the emergency use authorization (EUA) vaccine. Adirim’s memo attempted to justify mandating EUA shots as if they were FDA approved, which was not the case at the time, and remains the same today. The mandate led to countless vaccine injuries, the worst recruiting crisis since the formation of the all-volunteer military, and thousands of service members discharged for refusing to take the mRNA experimental gene serum.

Biden appointee behind unlawful military vaccine mandate to step down

Terry Adirim issued the infamous memo, which has resulted in disaster for military recruitment and readiness.

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Dr Terry Adirim, the government bureaucrat behind the infamous and unlawful Pentagon vaccine mandate, will “leave her post in the coming days,” reports FedScoop.

Adirim is currently the executive director of the VA’s electronic health record modernization integration office, having held the role since late 2021.

While she was in the Pentagon as the acting assistant secretary of defense for health affairs (serving as a Biden Admin political appointee), Dr Adirim, signed her name to an order forcing service members to take the emergency use authorization (EUA) vaccine. Adirim’s memo attempted to justify mandating EUA shots as if they were FDA approved, which was not the case at the time, and remains the same today. The mandate led to countless vaccine injuries, the worst recruiting crisis since the formation of the all-volunteer military, and thousands of service members discharged for refusing to take the mRNA experimental gene serum.

Biden appointee behind unlawful military vaccine mandate to step down

Terry Adirim issued the infamous memo, which has resulted in disaster for military recruitment and readiness.

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Another govt official, if I retire you will protect me right .

 

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Since we all know the COVID "vaccine" is worthless, maybe now would be a good time to look, visually, at the totality of what parents allow their children to experience.

If anyone thinks that getting so many injections in such a short period of time is healthy, then they have been properly brainwashed with propaganda.

 

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The Federal Government Is Tracking the Unvaccinated​

The new International Classification of Diseases (ICD) codes were introduced during the Sept. 14–15, 2021, ICD-10 Coordination and Maintenance Committee meeting. The ICD committee includes representatives from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the NCHS.3

Below is a screenshot of page 194 of the agenda4 distributed during that meeting. According to the NCHS, “there is interest in being able to track people who are not immunized or only partially immunized,” and they figured out a way to do just that, by adding new ICD-10 codes.

As you can see below, ICD-10 code Z28.310 identifies those who have not received a COVID jab and Z28.311 identifies those who are not up to date on their shots.

Tracking Unjabbed Is Part of the Biosecurity Agenda​

Why do they want to track the unvaccinated? For what purpose? The short answer: to facilitate the implementation of vaccine passports. As noted by Malone:5

“Code Number Z28.310 listed above is not a code for an illness or diagnosis, but rather for noncompliance of a medical procedure … Once a person’s vaccination status is coded and uploaded into [a] large data base, it can be accessed by government and private health insurers alike.

“The administrative state officers at the CDC have not made immunization status a reportable disease (yet) but immunization status is listed as one of the reasons for mandatory reporting.6 They are just one step away from being able to collect this information without your permission. Ergo: Vaccine passports made easy. In this country, not having your vaccine records ‘up to date’ might mean:

“• The government will not restrict your travel, airlines will.
“• The government will not restrict your travel, other nations will.
“• The government will not restrict your travel, auto rental companies will.
“• The government will not restrict your travel, public transport will.
“• The government will not restrict your travel, private companies will.”


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They’re Tracking Reasons for Jab Refusal, Too​

If you need proof that these codes will be used for reasons unrelated to your health, consider this: These institutions also using codes to describe WHY you didn’t get the primary series or stopped getting boosters. Those codes are listed in the screenshot below, under Z28.3 Underimmunization Status.12

The use of “delinquent immunization status” under code Z28.39 also tells us something about where this is all headed. “Delinquent” means being “neglectful of a duty” or being “guilty of an offense.” Is refusing boosters a criminal offense? Perhaps not today, but someday, it probably will be.

All Missed Vaccinations Will Be Tracked​

Another tip-off that these codes are part and parcel of the biosecurity control grid is the fact that code Z28.39—”Other underimmunization status”13—is to be used “when a patient is not current on other, non-COVID vaccines.” As detailed on the American Academy of Family Physicians website:14

“The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have announced three new diagnosis codes, including two for COVID-19 immunization status …

“According to ICD-10-CM guidelines,15 clinicians may assign code Z28.310, ‘Unvaccinated for COVID-19,’ when the patient has not received a dose of any COVID-19 vaccine.

“Clinicians may assign code Z28.311, ‘Partially vaccinated for COVID-19,’ when the patient has received at least one dose of a multidose COVID-19 vaccine regimen, but has not received the doses necessary to meet the CDC definition of ‘fully vaccinated’ at the time of the encounter … New code Z28.39 is for reporting when a patient is not current on other, non-COVID vaccines.”

In other words, they have already begun tracking ALL of your vaccinations, not just the COVID shot, and they can use the Z28.3 sub-codes to identify why you refused a given vaccine.


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You Can Now Be Billed for Immunization Safety Counseling​

As if all of that weren’t tyrannical enough, they’ve also added a billable ICD-10 code for “immunization safety counseling.” That’s right. If you’ve decided you’re not willing to partake in the mRNA experiment, or you just don’t think you need some other vaccine that’s recommended, your doctor can bill your insurance for regurgitating the WHO’s vaccine propaganda.

They have codes identifying whether you declined the COVID jab and/or any other vaccine, and for each vaccine refusal, there’s a code detailing why you declined it. ‘Belief or group pressure’ is one of those, and you can bet that code will automatically qualify you for immunization safety counseling, whether you want it or not.

This may become more or less automatic because, again, they have codes identifying whether you declined the COVID jab and/or any other vaccine, and for each vaccine refusal, there’s a code detailing why you declined it. “Belief or group pressure” is one of those, and you can bet that code, Z.28.1, will automatically qualify you for immunization safety counseling, whether you want it or not.

They also intend to indoctrinate your children and make you pay for it. The immunization safety counseling code, Z71.85, was described in the September 2021 issue of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Pediatric Coding Newsletter. You have to be a member to read the entire article, but here’s the publicly available preview:17

“Reporting Encounters for Immunization Safety Counseling.​

“As physicians and other qualified health care professionals field increasing numbers of concerns about immunization safety, International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) offers a new code, Z71.85, for identifying immunization safety counseling as a reason for an encounter provided on or after Oct. 1, 2021.

“Use this code when reporting counseling provided to patients and caregivers who are vaccine hesitant, wish to follow an alternative immunization schedule, or otherwise require time spent in counseling at lengths beyond that typical of routine immunization counseling.

“Code Z71.85 may be reported to indicate the principal or first-listed reason for an encounter or as a secondary reason.

“Documentation of time spent in preventive medicine counseling and separate time spent in immunization administration counseling should be explicit in the encounter note to support that the preventive medicine counseling was significant and separately identifiable.”

Unjabbed Teachers Flagged​

In related news, in early February 2023, it was revealed that New York City teachers who did not get the jab were “flagged” with a “problem code” in their personnel files, triggering their fingerprints to be sent to the FBI and the New York Criminal Justice Services.18

The purpose of this is unclear, but former public school teacher Michael Kane, founder of Teachers for Choice, believes “that unvaccinated NYC educators were being set up to be viewed as ‘right-wing extremists’ or even ‘terrorists.'”

Kane was among those who got fired for refusing the COVID jab. The revelation that teachers’ fingerprints were illegally entered into not just one, but two, criminal databases is “certain to open up a new round of lawsuits,” Kane writes.

 

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The Maryland state health department called on Monday. I had a nice 15 minute conversation with the woman who called.
Apparently the positive COVID test I had on 12 FEB by a Lab was reported, but the positives I (and my wife) had at MedEx were not.
It is now on record that my cardiologist thinks my elevated heart rate the past couple years is due to the Pfizer 2-part I received in May-June 2021.

BTW, home test yesterday was a solid negative for both the Mrs. and me.

 

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The Maryland state health department called on Monday.

What was the point of the conversation ?

Covid has a 99% survival Rate

 

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New Medical Codes for COVID Vaccination Status Raise Concerns Among Experts​

“People have now been having immunizations for a number of months, and these provide protection for people who are immunized, but there has been interest expressed in being able to track people who are not immunized or who are only partially immunized,” Dr. David Berglund, a CDC medical officer, said during a meeting that went over the proposal.

At the current time, there can be considered to be a significant modifiable risk factor for morbidity and for mortality and it can be of interest for clinical reasons, as well as being a value for public health reasons, to be able to track this.”

COVID-19 hospitalization and death rates are higher among the unvaccinated, according to data published by the CDC. The data do not take into account key factors such as age or prior infection, and other figures show the vaccinated being hospitalized or dying at higher rates in some states.

The proposal was backed by meeting participants during the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) Coordination and Maintenance Committee meeting.

 

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Regretting COVID Vaccination​

Many in conservative media, including us at PJ Media, had been pointing out the benefits of natural immunity. As PJM editor Paula Bolyard noted, “there’s lots and lots and lots of science showing that [natural immunity is] superior to double-vaxxing.” But that didn’t stop the Biden administration from pretending that natural immunity isn’t a thing and actively campaigning against it. And, of course, the mainstream media treated natural immunity like a right-wing conspiracy.

Until now.

“Immunity acquired from a Covid infection provides strong, lasting protection against the most severe outcomes of the illness, according to research published Thursday in The Lancet — protection, experts say, that’s on par with what’s provided through two doses of an mRNA vaccine,” reports Dr. Akshay Syal, M.D. at NBC News. “Infection-acquired immunity cut the risk of hospitalization and death from a Covid reinfection by 88% for at least 10 months, the study found.

 

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Regretting COVID Vaccination​

Many in conservative media, including us at PJ Media, had been pointing out the benefits of natural immunity. As PJM editor Paula Bolyard noted, “there’s lots and lots and lots of science showing that [natural immunity is] superior to double-vaxxing.” But that didn’t stop the Biden administration from pretending that natural immunity isn’t a thing and actively campaigning against it. And, of course, the mainstream media treated natural immunity like a right-wing conspiracy.

Until now.

“Immunity acquired from a Covid infection provides strong, lasting protection against the most severe outcomes of the illness, according to research published Thursday in The Lancet — protection, experts say, that’s on par with what’s provided through two doses of an mRNA vaccine,” reports Dr. Akshay Syal, M.D. at NBC News. “Infection-acquired immunity cut the risk of hospitalization and death from a Covid reinfection by 88% for at least 10 months, the study found.

Too bad the physical damage us already done, and trust is shattered.

 

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Too bad the physical damage us already done, and trust is shattered.

Well .... To be fair, there were many warnings provided by the hundreds of thousands from the very beginning. Many posted here against the dangers. Unfortunately 'the many' simply did not listen. Instead to have accepted the COVID BS at face value with their blind faith in governments, and the medical establishment, that have been screwing them since birth.

 

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Another Study Confirms Natural Immunity is More Protective and Durable Than Vaccination​

Mother Jones, which describes itself as "A voice of reason," and "a daily dose of sanity," was one such example. In May 2020, they headlined a story, "Anti-Vaxxers Have a Dangerous Theory Called 'Natural Immunity.' Now It’s Going Mainstream."

Of course, Dr. Fauci contributed mightily to the misinformation. In May 2021, Business Insider explained how Fauci viewed natural immunity. Spoiler alert: he maintained that the COVID vaccines were better.

"Dr. Fauci explains why COVID-19 vaccines work much better than natural immunity to protect you from the coronavirus"

The article begins with another declarative statement from the country’s leading medical expert.

“Dr. Anthony Fauci is calling it: mRNA COVID-19 vaccines can provide people with better protection against new viral variants than a prior coronavirus infection alone can.”

He continued, saying that the vaccines could do “better than nature.”

"Vaccines, actually, at least with regard to SARS-CoV-2 [the coronavirus] can do better than nature," stated Fauci, America's leading infectious disease expert.

“You had interesting increased protection against the variants of concern.”

Even so-called "experts" from Johns Hopkins were patronizingly dismissive of natural immunity. The Mother Jones story quoted an epidemiologist shrugging off the importance of infection-conferred protection.

"This is the coronavirus edition of their pervasive belief in 'natural immunity,' said Rupali Limaye, a Johns Hopkins epidemiologist. "We have heard from those that are concerned about vaccines the argument that they prefer to allow their immune system to be naturally exposed to a specific pathogen to gain immunity."

New information emerged recently confirming that a group of government experts also worked together to publicly dismiss the importance of natural immunity.

 

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‘See You in Court, Criminals!’ Pfizer Whistleblower Case is Being Taken to the Next Level




She provided a copy of the legal document showing the court date and location. The following legal motions will be under consideration at the court hearing:

1. Pfizer’s Motion to Dismiss Realtor’s Amended Complaint
2. ICON PLC’s Motion to Dismiss Relator’s Amended Complaint
3. Ventavia Research Group, LLC’s Corrected Motion to Dismiss

The case is extraordinary in many regards, but most concerning is that the United States has taken a position against the U.S. citizen seeking accountability against the allegedly offending corporate interests.

On October 4, 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) took “the extraordinary step of filing a Statement of Interest Supporting Dismissal of the Amended Complaint,” the case notes. “It is not unprecedented for the Government to file statements of interest supporting plaintiffs in declined qui tam actions. But the Statement of Interest here is entirely different. It sides with the defendant, Pfizer, and the other defendants, and urges the Court to dismiss Relator’s lawsuit because it fails to identify any ‘false or misleading’ claims, its allegations are ‘implausible,’ and the United States continues to have ‘full confidence’ in Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine.”


However, Pfizer has made several ‘false or misleading’ claims. Firstly, Pfizer’s CEO Albert Bourla has falsely implied that the mRNA vaccines “stop the spread” of viral infection and transmission.

“Ensuring as many people as possible are fully vaccinated with the first two dose series and a booster remains the best course of action to prevent the spread of COVID-19,” Pfizer’s CEO Albert Bourla said in a release in December 2021. A Harvard-led international study published in September 2021 had established that “increases in COVID-19 are unrelated to levels of vaccination across 68 countries and 2947 counties in the United States.”

 

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Horowitz: Major German paper reveals Pfizer fabricated clinical trials to cover up deaths​

According to new provisional data from the Scottish government, there were 7,314 deaths registered in January 2023, an increase of 17.7% compared to the average of 6,212. For the second week of January, there were more deaths in Scotland than ever before, including during the peak of the pandemic. Concurrently, there were 4,159 births registered in January 2023, a decrease of 6.8% compared to the average of 4,463. In other words, between a dearth of births and a plethora of deaths, there were roughly 1,400 fewer souls, the equivalent of roughly 86,000 in the United States. This is long after COVID. Why is there zero concern?

What on earth will it take to pull these death shots from the market?

Die Welt, a paper based in the home country of Pfizer partner BioNTech, revealed last week in a long expose what many of us have long known. All those sudden deaths, heart attacks, and strokes we’ve been witnessing over the past two years were indeed observed during the Pfizer clinical trial that supposedly showed the shots to be 100% safe and effective. The company simply covered up the severe adverse events by kicking those participants out of the trial and/or suggesting without evidence that the deaths had nothing to do with the experiment.

Remember, the CDC announced a few weeks ago that it had finally study a potential association between the COVID shots and strokes. Well, it turns out the agency had the opportunity to study it already in 2020 before a single human being outside the trial was injected. “Patient no. 11621327” was more than a mere number. He was a human being found dead from a stroke in his apartment just three days after the second dose. Typically, with a novel product in trial, any death – even one not so sudden – makes the product suspect until it is proven innocent. Yet in this case, Pfizer simply dismissed the death as not related to the vaccine, just as the company did with Patient #11521497, who died 20 days later from cardiac arrest.

 

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Holy Grail of COVID-19 Spike Protein Detoxification​

Far and away the most common question I get from those who took one of the COVID-19 vaccines is: “How do I get this out of my body.” The mRNA and adenoviral DNA products were rolled out with no idea of how or when the body would ever break down the genetic code. The synthetic mRNA carried on lipid nanoparticles appears to be resistant to breakdown by human ribonucleases by design so the product would be long-lasting and produce the protein product of interest for a considerable time period.

This would be an advantage for a normal human protein being replaced in a rare genetic deficiency state (e.g., alpha galactosidase in Fabry’s disease). However, it is a big problem when the protein is the pathogenic SARS-CoV-2 spike. The adenoviral DNA (Janssen) should be broken down by deoxyribonuclease, however, this has not been exhaustively studied.

This leaves dissolution of spike protein as a therapeutic goal for the vaccine injured. With the respiratory infection, spike is processed and activated by cellular proteases including transmembrane serine protein 2, cathepsin, and furin. With vaccination, these systems may be avoided by systemic administration and production of spike protein within cells. As a result, the pathogenesis of vaccine injury syndromes is believed to be driven by accumulation of spike protein in cells, tissues, and organs.

Nattokinase is an enzyme is produced by fermenting soybeans with the bacteria Bacillus subtilis var. natto and has been available as an oral supplement. It degrades fibrinogen, factor VII, cytokines, and factor VIII and has been studied for its cardiovascular benefits. Out of all the available therapies I have used in my practice and among all the proposed detoxification agents, I believe nattokinase and related peptides hold the greatest promise for patients at this time.

Tanikawa et al. examined the effect of nattokinase on the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2. In the first experiment, they demonstrated that spike was degraded in a time and dose-dependent manner in a cell lysate preparation that could be analogous to a vaccine recipient. The second experiment demonstrated that nattokinase degraded the spike protein in SARS-CoV-2 infected cells. This was reproduced in a similar study done by Oba and colleagues in 2021.