RFK Jr Pauses Multi-Million Dollar Contract To Develop New COVID-19 Vaccine

Authored by Jeff Louderbeck via The Epoch Times,

Clinical trials for a new COVID-19 vaccine were halted after a multi-million contract authorized by the Biden administration to develop the inoculation was paused by Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Kennedy implemented a 90-day stop-work order on Feb. 21 regarding the HHS contract with Vaxart Inc., according to the announcement, which was first reported by Fox News Digital on Feb. 25.

Vaxart, an American biotech company, is creating a new COVID-19 inoculation for oral use.

Before the stop-work order, 10,000 individuals were scheduled to start clinical trials on Feb. 24, an HHS spokesperson confirmed with The Epoch Times.

Kennedy noted in comments to Fox News Digital that “it is crucial” that the HHS support pandemic preparedness, “four years of the Biden administration’s failed oversight have made it necessary to review agreements for vaccine production, including Vaxart’s.”

The trial is not terminated, according to the HHS.

Kennedy and other health officials will determine the next steps after reviewing their findings over the next 90 days.

As part of the Biden administration’s $4.7 billion Project NextGen program launched in 2023, the Vaxart vaccine was funded through an agreement with the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA).

That panel is part of the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response, which is managed by HHS.

BARDA allocated around $460 million for Vaxart to develop the new vaccine, including $240 million that has already been approved.

The announcement to pause Vaxart’s contract was followed by a report that an Food and Drug Administration (FDA) vaccine advisory committee meeting slated for March has been canceled, according to committee member Dr. Paul Offit, who is the director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and a vocal critic of Kennedy.

Offit told multiple media outlets on Feb. 26 that members of the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee received an email from the FDA letting them know the meeting would not take place. The meeting had been set to choose the strains for next season’s flu shot.

The FDA is one of 13 agencies under the HHS umbrella.

On Feb. 28, a World Health Organization (WHO) advisory committee is scheduled to gather and discuss which strains should be included in the next flu vaccines across the Northern Hemisphere. The FDA often adheres that that committee’s recommendations.

Trump issued an executive order in January to start the process of withdrawing the United States from the WHO.

A pharmacist prepares a dose behind a counter lined with vials of COVID-19 vaccines in Toronto on June 18, 2021. Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press

Two weeks ago, Kennedy gained Senate confirmation to become HHS secretary. He was sworn in that day, and moments later Trump signed an executive order establishing the president’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission.

Kennedy serves as chairman of the commission, which directs executive departments and federal agencies to primarily advise the president on how to “address the childhood chronic disease crisis.”

The MAHA Commission is tasked to explore possible causes of such diseases, including “the American diet, absorption of toxic material, medical treatments, lifestyle, environmental factors, government policies, food production techniques, electromagnetic radiation, and corporate influence or cronyism.”

For years, critics have called Kennedy an “anti-vaxxer,” a claim he has denied.

During his presidential campaign and the Senate confirmation process, he repeatedly said he is an advocate for vaccine safety, informed consent, and “gold standard science” behind vaccine efficacy studies.

“I’ve never been anti-vaccine,” Kennedy told The Epoch Times in September 2024.

“People should have a choice, and that choice should be informed by the best information possible.

“I’m going to ensure that there are science-based safety studies available, and people can make their own assessments about whether a vaccine is good for them.”

Under the Biden administration, COVID-19 vaccines were mandated throughout the federal government.

Multiple private sector businesses, and public and private universities, also required the inoculation.

Since Trump took office last month, he has signed several executive orders related to COVID-19 mandates implemented by the Biden administration.

On Feb. 14, Trump signed an executive order barring funding to universities and schools with COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

In his first week back in office, Trump reinstated service members dismissed for refusing the COVID vaccine, giving them full back pay and benefits.

https://www.zerohedge.com/covi...new-covid-19-vaccine

Marty Makary’s Pro-COVID Vax Stance Means He’s Fundamentally Wrong for FDA Commissioner
By Benjamin Rushe

Marty Makary is the wrong choice for FDA commissioner. He’s very good at communicating at a popular level, but the fact that he kept pushing the mRNA COVID vaccine long after problems with it were obvious should be an insurmountable barrier to confirmation.

https://www.americanthinker.co...da_commissioner.html

Holy shit

https://x.com/greg_price11/status/1898077685378617442

^^^ They forgot the word "FRAUD" in that "STAND UP FOR SCIENCE" shit show.

Francis needs to entertain at a toga party.

This is better.

^^^ <sorry>

Nah, you know it's just conspiracy theory pushed by the far right...

Trump admin given bombshell intelligence from ally that Covid was lab-made... and proof of new China program

By ALEXA LARDIERI U.S. DEPUTY HEALTH EDITOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 15:49 EDT, 12 March 2025 | UPDATED: 16:28 EDT, 12 March 2025

New evidence supports the Covid lab-leak theory with '80 to 95 percent certainty,' intelligence out of Germany claims.

The German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) carried out a secret investigation into the origins of Covid nicknamed Project Saaremaa during the pandemic, the findings of which were only shared with the US in December 2024.

German agents targeted Chinese government agencies and scientific institutions across the country, including the Wuhan Institute of Virology - the lab at the center of the lab-leak theory.

In Wuhan, the BND agents 'struck gold,' coming 'as close to the origins of the pandemic... as possible in China,' German media Die Zeit reported.

They found unpublished dissertations from 2019 and 2020 that allegedly discussed the effects of coronaviruses on the human body.

Additionally, uncovered materials revealed Chinese scientists had 'an unusually large amount of knowledge about the supposedly novel virus available at an unusually early stage.'

Based on the materials BND agents found and analyzed, they used a 'Probability Index' to measure the reliability of information, which determined the lab-leak theory was 'probable' with an '80 to 95 percent' certainty.

Perhaps more alarming, the agents also found Chinese scientists are still carrying out dangerous manipulation experiments with the deadly coronavirus MERS.

Findings from Project Saaremaa were revealed by German media outlet Die Zeit, which along with Süddeutsche Zeitung, conducted an 18-month investigation into the project.

Investigators also found biosecurity measures at WIV were lacking.

Virus-infected animal samples were transported between labs carelessly, raising the risk that pathogens could escape the lab.

While the investigators were almost positive Covid came from a lab, Die Zeit reported BND does not have definitive proof.

The Chinese government has always denied the lab-leak theory and maintained Covid was the product of an animal spillover.

America's US intelligence agencies, the FBI and CIA, say a lab leak is most likely.

People involved in Saaremaa told the German media outlets they took their findings to German officials in 2020, including the Federal Chancellery and the state secretary responsible for intelligence services.

A federal chancellery secretary was also briefed, the agents claimed, and then Chancellor Angela Merkel was also reportedly made aware, according to Die Zeit.

When asked to confirm if she was informed, Merkel declined to answer, Die Zeit reported.

People involved in Project Saaremaa told the media outlets the German government took no action and the World Health Organization was never informed: 'The BND was sworn to secrecy.'

Dr Richard Ebright, a professor of chemical biology at Rutgers University, told DailyMail.com: 'The main points are clear: All informed persons - without exception - knew by early 2020 that SARS-CoV-2 likely entered humans through a research-related incident in Wuhan.

'But most chose to lie or to stay silent.

'It is now clear that this not only included the scientific establishment... but also the intelligence agencies of the US and Germany, which withheld information from the public and policy makers.'

It wasn't until December 2024, five years after the first cases appeared in China, that the BND was able to share its findings with US intelligence agencies, people involved in the project said.

German and US officials have reportedly spoken about the matter on three occasions: December 2024 and January and February 2025.

The BND also allegedly discussed its findings with the CIA in late 2024 and believe they 'will soon be known to the Trump administration as well,' Die Zeit reported.

In addition to information discovered five years ago, BND uncovered new evidence the Chinese are currently 'overstepping boundaries.'

According to the investigation, Chinese researchers are allegedly testing the transmission of MERS coronaviruses and related viruses in human cells.

MERS, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, is a contagious respiratory illness spread from animals to humans and from human to human. It causes fever, cough, shortness of breath, diarrhea and vomiting, and can be fatal in severe cases.

A new virus closely related to MERS, which kills up to a third of people it infects, was recently discovered in China.

In scenes eerily reminiscent of the beginnings of Covid, researchers at the WIV detected the new strain, HKU5-CoV-2, living within bats.

HKU5-CoV-2 is strikingly similar to the pandemic virus, sparking fears that history could repeat itself just two years after the worst was declared over.

Preliminary tests showed HKU5-CoV-2 infiltrated human cells in the same way as SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind Covid.

Sharing their discovery in the journal Cell, the Beijing-funded researchers admitted it posed a 'high risk of spillover to humans, either through direct transmission or facilitated by intermediate hosts.'

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A new virus closely related to MERS, which kills up to a third of people it infects, was recently discovered in China.

In scenes eerily reminiscent of the beginnings of Covid, researchers at the WIV detected the new strain, HKU5-CoV-2, living within bats.

HKU5-CoV-2 is strikingly similar to the pandemic virus, sparking fears that history could repeat itself just two years after the worst was declared over.

Great…

Just cool it

Billionaire Cancer Researcher Says Covid & Vaccine Likely Causing Surge In Aggressive Cancers

Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong - a transplant surgeon-turned-biotech billionaire renowned for inventing the cancer drug Abraxane - has issued a startling warning in a new in-depth interview with Tucker Carlson.

Soon-Shiong, founder of ImmunityBio ($IBRX) and owner of the Los Angeles Times, claims that the COVID-19 pandemic, and the very vaccines developed to fight it, may be contributing to a global surge in “terrifyingly aggressive” cancers. In the nearly two-hour conversation, the Los Angeles Times owner leveraged his decades of clinical and scientific experience to outline why he suspects an unprecedented cancer epidemic is unfolding. This report examines Dr. Soon-Shiong’s background and assertions, the scientific responses for and against his claims, new data on post-COVID health trends, and the far-reaching implications if his alarming hypothesis proves true.
Dr. Soon-Shiong’s Claims

Soon-Shiong is a veteran surgeon and immunologist who has spent a career studying the human immune system’s fight against cancer. He pioneered novel immunotherapies and even worked on a T-cell based COVID vaccine booster during the pandemic. In the interview, he draws on this background to voice deep concern over rising cancer cases, especially among younger people – something he describes as a “non-infectious pandemic” of cancer. He tells Carlson that in 50 years of medical practice, it was extraordinarily rare to see cancers like pancreatic tumors in children or young adults, yet recently such cases are appearing. For instance, Soon-Shiong was alarmed by seeing a 13-year-old with metastatic pancreatic cancer, a scenario virtually unheard of in his prior experience.

"I never saw pancreatic cancer in children... the greatest surprise to me was a 13-year-old with metastatic pancreatic cancer," Soon-Shiong told Carlson, adding that he's seen examples of very young patients (even children under 11 with colon cancer) and unusual surges in aggressive diseases like ovarian cancer in women in their 30s. These personal observations of more frequent, aggressive cancers in youth led him to probe what might have changed in recent years.

“We're clearly seeing an increase in certain types of cancer, like pancreatic cancer, ovarian cancer... colon cancer... in younger people."
— Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong

According Soon-Shiong, the COVID era is the obvious change - and suggests that both the SARS-CoV-2 virus infection and the widespread vaccination campaigns could be key drivers behind this cancer spike. He emphasizes the massive scale of human exposure to the virus and its spike protein (via infection or vaccination).

"I don't know how to say that without saying it. It scares the pants off me because I think what we may be, I don't think it's virus versus man now, this is existential. I think when I talk about the largest non-infectious pandemic that we're afraid of, this is it."

In sum, Dr. Soon-Shiong’s claim is that the pandemic has set the stage for an explosion of aggressive cancers: the COVID virus itself (especially if it persists in survivors) might suppress immune surveillance, and the mRNA vaccines “that didn’t stop it” might inadvertently contribute to an immunosuppressive environment. These effects, in his theory, could be unleashing cancers that the immune system would ordinarily have kept in check.

Watch:

https://x.com/TuckerCarlson/st...likely-causing-surge



A number of clinicians and researchers have reported similar worrying observations, though these remain largely anecdotal at this stage. One prominent voice echoing Soon-Shiong’s concern is Dr. Angus Dalgleish, a veteran oncologist and professor at St. George’s, University of London. In late 2022, Dalgleish wrote to the BMJ’s editor after noticing that some cancer patients who had been stable for years experienced “rapid progression of their disease after a COVID-19 booster.” He cited cases of individuals who were doing well until shortly after vaccination – new leukemias, sudden appearance of Stage IV lymphomas, and explosive metastases in patients who had post-vaccine bouts of feeling unwell.

https://www.zerohedge.com/medi...likely-causing-surge

Researchers Discover mRNA Vaccines Leave Lasting Mark on the Immune System
By University of CologneMarch 31, 2025

Researchers at the University of Cologne have found that mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines have a lasting impact on the innate immune system. These mechanisms could enhance the body’s ability to defend itself against future infections.

Researchers from the University of Cologne and University Hospital Cologne have demonstrated that novel mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines not only trigger adaptive immune responses, such as the production of antibodies, but also induce long-lasting epigenetic changes in innate immune cells.

The study was led by Professor Dr. Jan Rybniker, Head of the Division of Infectious Diseases at University Hospital Cologne and principal investigator at the Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne (CMMC), along with Dr. Robert Hänsel-Hertsch, also a principal investigator at the CMMC. The findings were published in Molecular Systems Biology.

The immune system consists of two main components: the innate immune system, which provides immediate, broad protection against pathogens, and the adaptive (or acquired) immune system, which develops specific responses to new threats. These two arms of the immune system work in concert.

According to the researchers, the observed changes in innate immune cells are driven by epigenetic modifications, specifically, chemical changes to histone proteins. Histones act like spools around which DNA is wound. Acetylation of histones is a reversible process that alters how genes are expressed, without changing the DNA sequence itself.

These findings suggest that mRNA vaccination may enhance the long-term responsiveness of innate immune cells, potentially improving the body’s defense not only against the targeted virus, but also against unrelated pathogens.
Epigenetic Training of Immune Cells

“Our findings show that mRNA vaccines induce an epigenetic ‘training’ of innate immune cells, enabling a sustained immune response,” says Dr. Alexander Simonis, first author of the study. The epigenetic changes may provide the basis for long-lasting innate immunity that broadens the protection mechanisms of the acquired immune system. This can now be tested in larger clinical trials based on these study results.

The researchers analyzed monocytes – a type of white blood cells that can differentiate into macrophages in humans – in blood samples of vaccinated participants at six different time points. Macrophages are classical cells of the innate immune system that are crucial for the rapid detection and digestion of pathogens. They found that mRNA-based COVID-19-vaccinations cause a significant and persistent change through acetylation, i.e. the binding of a chemical group to specific, immunologically relevant genes of these monocytes.

Moreover, the findings showed that these epigenetic changes were preserved for six months after the vaccination, suggesting that the vaccine trains the ‘long-term memory’ of the immune system. Since human monocytes only circulate for about three days in the body, the researchers assume that the precursor cells of monocytes in the bone marrow also carry the epigenetic markers.

However, a single mRNA-vaccination is not sufficient to potently induce the markers. “Two consecutive vaccinations or a single booster vaccination are required for these persistent epigenetic changes, highlighting the need for multiple vaccinations to maintain a long-term immune response,” says Jan Rybniker.
Broad Immune Activation and Future Potential

The observed epigenetic changes led to increased ‘reading’ of pro-inflammatory genes, which in turn led to the production of messenger substances, so-called cytokines, that can activate numerous immune cells and thus increase their ability to fight pathogens.

“Since this is an activation of the innate immune system, which targets various pathogens in a relatively broad and unspecific manner, the mRNA vaccinations could also offer protection against other viruses and bacteria, at least for a certain period of time,” explains Dr. Sebastian Theobald, who is also first author of the study.

“These findings suggest that histone modifications in macrophages not only activate genes involved in the immune response, but that these genes additionally form guanine quadruplex DNA structures, which may be crucial to persistent immunity,” says Dr. Robert Hänsel-Hertsch, who is an expert in the field of epigenetics.

These findings have far-reaching implications for the development of future vaccination strategies, both against COVID-19 and other infectious diseases.

https://scitechdaily.com/resea...n-the-immune-system/

^^^
I don’t believe a word of this nonsense. We already know that mRNA vaccines not only doesn’t fight covid, it makes recipients more susceptible to reacquiring it. I’d love to see a list of this profs, or the institutions donor list.

Another top pandemic villain bit the dust. Accountability, in one form or another, is slowly seeping down into the lower culpability layers. In absolutely terrific news, late last week the Associated Press ran a story headlined, “Top vaccine official resigns from FDA, criticizes RFK Jr. for promoting 'misinformation and lies.’”

You may or may not recall this particular bureaucratic insect, but until Friday Dr. Peter Marks was the Director for FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER). CBER’s job is to regulate vaccines and gene therapies. As you can imagine, Marks has long been despised for his key role in approving and helping roll out the covid shots in particular (as well as other mRNA products).

Marks was one of the main architects of the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) process that enabled early approval of the jabs by lowering safety standards and axing long-term safety studies.

And Marks was the genius who expanded mRNA EUAs to children and infants. He rubber stamped the ‘bivalent’ vaccines, based only on a six-mouse study. He often criticized his own agency’s VAERS injury reporting system, calling it unreliable— even though it was his job to fix it. He was the creature who slow-walked the FDA’s public records response with jab data, and insisted responding would take 75 years.

But that’s nothing. The AP also reported that Dr. Mengele, sorry, I mean Marks, was the criminal who first came up with the name and concept for “Operation Warp Speed.”

In other words, Marks is another human cockroach. He is the FDA’s version of Anthony Fauci, except with even less charisma and more red tape.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com...rue&utm_medium=email

Vaccine Stocks Tank, Moderna Craters After FDA Biologics Head Abruptly Steps Down

Vaccine stocks tumbled in the early U.S. cash session after Peter Marks—a top FDA regulator and pro-vaxxer—abruptly resigned on Friday.

Wall Street analysts view Marks' departure as a bearish signal for vaccine stocks, such as Moderna, Novavax, BioNTech, and others, which already face mounting headwinds, including a wave of layoffs expected at the Department of Health and Human Services.

Moderna puked at the open, down 12% in early trading, while the SPDR S&P Biotech ETF sank 2%. Other makers of vaccine stocks plunged, including Novavax -10% and BioNTech -5.8%.

Moderna shares are also down 95% from peak Covid highs.

https://www.zerohedge.com/mark...teps-down-era-rfk-jr

quote:

Originally posted by 41:
Researchers Discover mRNA Vaccines Leave Lasting Mark on the Immune System
By University of CologneMarch 31, 2025

Researchers at the University of Cologne have found that mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines have a lasting impact on the innate immune system.

"potentially" "assumed" "broad and unspecific"
What are words you don't hear in proved science, Alex.
Those are wild-ass-guesses grasping at a happy ending.

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These findings have far-reaching implications for the development of future vaccination money making strategies, both against COVID-19 and other infectious diseases.

Change 1 word & there is some truth to be found.

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Follow the Science: Why Peter Marks Was Asked to Leave the FDA

By George F. Tidmarsh

On Friday, Dr. Peter Marks announced his resignation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as Director of CEBR (Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research) citing differences with Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kennedy regarding vaccines. The New York Times, Washington Post, and other media outlets such as STAT News breathlessly reported that “FDA’s top vaccine scientist had been pushed out.” We have been told that science is at risk. The irony of these reports is that Marks didn’t resign and is not a vaccine scientist. Dr. Marks was asked to leave and then subsequently wrote that he did not want to become “subservient to [Secretary Kennedy’s] misinformation and lies.”

Peter Marks is not a hero of the resistance but instead has been subverting the scientific process at FDA for years.

The media proclamation that Dr. Marks’ is “FDA’s top vaccine scientist” is ironic because he decided to give himself that position. Marks is a physician but has no clinical or scientific training in vaccines or immunology. Dr. Marks trained as an oncologist, a field far from the important and complex area of vaccine biology. At FDA in 2021, Dr. Marks removed top career vaccine scientists so he could force through the approval of the COVID vaccine to meet an arbitrary Biden administration deadline. He also declined to convene the FDA Vaccine Advisory Committee to review his decision. These events are clearly outlined in the June 2023 House Judiciary Hearings. Marks ousted Dr. Gruber and Dr. Krause, the top scientists at the Office of Vaccine Research, due to “intransigence” of these real vaccine experts to not ram through the approval of the vaccine. Drs. Gruber and Krause had voiced concerns that they needed more time to understand the safety of the vaccine especially as it relates to inflammation of the heart, now a well known and accepted toxicity of the COVID vaccine. Marks approved the use of the vaccine in children despite the known fact that children have an extremely low risk of serious health effects of COVID-19 infection and yet a known significant increased risk of serious vaccine related toxicity.

On at least three additional, documented occasions during the Biden administration as Director of CBER, Marks disregarded the opinions and expert advice of long-time career scientists to advance his own dangerous agenda. In addition to ignoring and overruling FDA’s top vaccine scientists during the pandemic, Marks also overruled FDA career scientists and supported the approval of the Alzheimer’s drug ADUHELM; a decision later overturned. In 2023, he overruled his own staff scientists amid their concerns and those raised by an FDA Advisory Board to grant approval of ELEVIDYS, a gene treatment for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). Furthermore, in 2024 Marks expanded the approval of ELEVIDYS despite FDA staff objections and without FDA Advisory Committee input.

As tragic evidence of Marks’ failed judgement, just 2 weeks ago, the company that markets the therapy ELEVIDYS announced that a treated patient died of fulminant liver failure. Marks overruled his own career staff and experts to drive through a risky and unproven therapy that has now killed a patient. This tragedy should not have happened. After the initial FDA approval, the company conducted a subsequent trial which failed to meet the primary efficacy endpoint. On top of that, ELEVIDYS has proven toxicity including liver failure (22% of patients) and increase in serious adverse events. Despite the lack of proven efficacy and the concerning toxicity profile, Dr. Marks rammed through the initial ELEVIDYS approval and the full approval in June of 2024 against the counsel of his staff and the expert panel. While advocates point to the need for new therapies in severe debilitating diseases such as DMD, giving patients and families hope on a toxic therapy that does not provide a clinical benefit rises beyond simple incompetence. A patient died needlessly, and others have been harmed due to this incompetence.

Dr. Marks also failed to protect public health when he overruled career FDA scientists and supported the approval of the Alzheimer’s treatment AUDHELM, a controversial approval that was subsequently overturned. ADUHELM was approved in June 2021 despite strident objections from FDA staff and against the recommendations of an Advisory Board. In fact, two prominent members of that advisory board resigned in protest of the decision. These members cited a lack of clear efficacy and the risk of serious toxicity including brain swelling and bleeding that can be life threatening. These events led to a congressional investigation which found that FDA had “unusually close” interactions with Biogen, the AUDHELM sponsor and applicant. In January 2024, Biogen decided to remove ADUHELM from the market after confirmatory trials failed to show patient benefit. So, Dr. Marks again supported a dangerous and ineffective therapy that cruelly gave patients hope and provided nothing but risk and cost to Americans.

Both the ADUHELM initial approval and the ELEVIDYS approvals demonstrate that ignoring basic tenants of the use and interpretation of clinical trial data can be very damaging to public health. By ignoring these well-tested tenants of FDA review and approval, Marks endangered patients, gave false hope to those in desperate need and cost vast amounts of money that our health case system can ill afford. It cannot be overstated how destructive this practice is to drug development. This uneven application of basic clinical trial data interpretation calls into question the impartiality and credibility of the FDA. This is particularly relevant now as a patient who otherwise could have lived many more years died from an expected toxicity. And we have yet to fully determine the harm caused by Dr. Marks decision to remove the most experienced and trusted vaccine scientists that simply wanted more time to understand the, now proven, risks of the COVID vaccine.

While Dr. Peter Marks may try to claim differences with Secretary Kennedy on vaccines and the legacy media try to paint Marks as the FDA hero, the real reason he was terminated is that he made bad decisions that were contrary to FDA long-standing policies and which ran counter to the evaluations of professional career staff at FDA. Thanks to Dr. Marks’ terrible decisions, we are left with a drug that has no proven benefit and that just killed a young patient, a vaccine that is not completely safe is being administered to children that have no significant risk of harm from the underlying infection, and an overburdened healthcare system that had to pay billions for another unproven, harmful therapy. Advocates for Dr. Marks claim that he has acted to help patients with life-threatening conditions which have no alternative treatments. But in reality, he catered to industry and hurt patients. Of course, we should strive to advance safe and effective therapies for such conditions, but we should not approve ineffective and dangerous therapies simply to put something out on the market. Unfortunately, Dr. Marks has repeatedly disregarded long-held FDA policy that is in place to protect patients. That is malpractice not heroism.

George F. Tidmarsh, MD, PhD, Stanford University School of Medicine, Adjunct Professor, Pediatrics and Neonatology.

https://realclearwire.com/arti...the_fda_1101329.html

Biden Admin Allegedly Suppressed Report Linking Service Members to Early COVID Outbreak In Wuhan

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...id-in-wuhan-n2655196

In another troubling revelation, the Biden administration is facing scrutiny after reports emerged that it allegedly suppressed a crucial document suggesting that U.S. service members may have contracted COVID-19 as early as October 2019, possibly in Wuhan. The report, which could have far-reaching implications for the timeline of the pandemic’s origins, was reportedly hidden from the public eye, sparking concerns over transparency and accountability within the administration.

According to a 2022 report from the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, the report examined the number of “United States athletes and staff who attended the 2019 World Military Games and became ill with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)-like symptoms during or shortly after their return to the United States.”

The Department of Defense (DoD) confirmed that seven U.S. service members who attended the 2019 World Military Games exhibited COVID-19-like symptoms between October 18, 2019, and January 21, 2020. However, the symptoms could have been due to other respiratory infections, and all seven service members recovered within six days.

The Biden administration was required by law to release the report to the public more than two years ago. However, they failed to do so. Instead, the report was not made public until the Trump administration uploaded it to the DoD’s website.

The report challenges the Biden administration’s 2021 statement, which asserted that no service members contracted the virus at the games. U.S. athletes traveled to and from the event on chartered flights from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Washington state—one of the first states to experience a significant COVID-19 outbreak.

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) criticized the Biden administration for failing to release the report.

“Taxpayers deserve to know the truth about COVID-19 origins, but the Biden administration concealed this information from the American people for years,” Ernst told the Free Beacon. “This report should have been made public immediately and not restricted to Washington insiders. If Americans visiting Wuhan were potentially infected with the COVID-19 virus in October 2019, those claiming the pandemic began in a wet market just two months later would be completely off base.”

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The Department of Defense (DoD) confirmed that seven U.S. service members who attended the 2019 World Military Games exhibited COVID-19-like symptoms between October 18, 2019, and January 21, 2020. However, the symptoms could have been due to other respiratory infections, and all seven service members recovered within six days.

I believe that's how the Chinese started spreading it. My daughter's roommate from the Naval Academy participated in the 2019 World Military Games. She came back sick but never reported it. Yes, she was recovered within six days... but these athletes were very healthy. However, that doesn't mean they couldn't spread it.

Can schools force-jab children with COVID-19 shots?
By John Klar

An ongoing national legal dispute regarding vaccinations of children with COVID-19 shots concerns whether school officials are immune from traditional legal claims -- particularly, battery -- when administering Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) shots without parental consent. North Carolina’s Supreme Court recently ruled in favor of parents for violating their informed consent rights in violation of a state statute. Still, even that court denied common law state claims for battery -- the physical touching of another against their will. The mainstream media has gaslit parents, claiming that public schools cannot legally force-vaccinate their children. But unless the child suffers serious bodily injury or death, they most certainly can under current rulings.

I represented the Politella family before the U.S. Supreme Court, which on February 24 declined to hear our Petition for Writ of Certiorari challenging a Vermont Supreme Court ruling that my clients, whose six-year-old son was vaccinated with a COVID-19 shot despite their clear wishes that he not be, had no right to sue for common law battery. Vermont’s Supreme Court decided that my clients’ rights are eclipsed by the federal Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act, which provides legal immunity to pharmaceutical companies and those administering shots related to these experimental vaccines. The Act allows a federal administrative remedy only in the event the shot is 1) administered “willfully,” and 2) causes “death or serious bodily injury.”

In the absence of the PREP Act, parents could sue for traditional damages if their child is given medical treatments without their consent. The Vermont Court did not consider constitutional liberties to parental control or bodily integrity. This led to claims that the court’s ruling would permit forced jabs absent death or serious bodily injury, prompting a slew of national media outlets to “rate” that claim as “false.”

But it isn’t false -- it is the law. Maine’s highest court recently joined the Vermont Supreme Court’s determination in Hogan v. Lincoln Medical Partners, ruling that the parents of a five-year-old who was administered a COVID-19 vaccine without their consent had no legal recourse for that battery without death or bodily injury resulting. The Maine court went further than Vermont, ruling that neither constitutional rights to bodily integrity nor parental consent were unconstitutionally infringed by their interpretation of the PREP Act. There is no distinction in this construction of federal law between a forced jab done deliberately versus a negligent mistake.

As I explained in an analysis for the Brownstone Institute, several national media outlets, including the Associated Press, USA Today, and Snopes, claimed it was not true that schools could force-jab children under these rulings. But this was media misinformation, as demonstrated in the language of the March 21, 2025 North Carolina decision Happel v. Guilford County Board of Education:

“….the bodily integrity right is not absolute. Courts across the United States have overwhelmingly held that the fundamental right to refuse medical treatment does not imply a fundamental right to disregard a vaccine mandate.”

The Happel court affirmed the lower court’s dismissal of the plaintiff’s state battery claims. The concurring opinion expressed concern that forced jabs (“intentional torts”) are thus sanctioned:

“The government’s reading of the Act appears to override state consent laws such that intentional torts may be cloaked with immunity when the harm inflicted falls short of death or serious physical injury… But shouldn’t immunity under the PREP Act be predicated on a lawful administration of a covered countermeasure?

“Consider the following: you’re waiting for your morning coffee at the local café. While standing with other customers, a healthcare official authorized to administer a covered countermeasure walks in and injects everyone in the coffee shop without asking or otherwise obtaining consent. All have been the victim of a battery. But under the government’s reading of the PREP Act, unless death or serious physical injury results, the healthcare worker has blanket immunity for these intentional acts.

“….the PREP Act could be understood as immunizing forcible administration of medication similar to the scenario described above, if not worse.”

The Vermont court ruled the same thing: “We conclude that when the federal PREP Act immunizes a defendant, the PREP Act bars all state-law claims against that defendant as a matter of law.” It afforded no exception for deliberate child-jabbing such as may well have been committed against my clients’ six-year-old son: the family was never allowed to go to trial to find out why their child was vaccinated after specific assurances that he would not be. Might it have had something to do with Vermont governor Phil Scott’s announced monetary awards to public schools that achieved high rates of vaccination? We will never know.

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