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Okay, so welcome to this real live, unedited live stream of rounding the news, your weekly

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That's better though.

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Ladies and gentlemen, let's jump right in.

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We're going to do a couple of rapid fire news stories.

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Did you know that Elon Musk had stepped down as CEO of Twitter?

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I vaguely remember some poll where he said, if people agree that I should step down, I

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But that was a while ago.

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In any case, from Zero Hedge, its official top NBC Universal ad exec and World Economic

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Forum task force chair is Twitter's new CEO.

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Its official moments ago, NBC confirmed that its head of advertising is leaving the company.

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Musk has finally tweeted to confirm her position, noting that Yetterino will focus primarily

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on business operations while he will focus on product design and new technology.

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And as Musk says in this tweet, looking forward to working with Linda to transform this platform

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into X, the everything app.

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Very interesting.

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And moving on to another current event that many people are talking about.

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Migrants rush across US border in final hours before Title 42 expires.

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I read this from the Globe and Mail.

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Migrants rushed across the Mexico border Thursday, racing to enter the United States before pandemic-related

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asylum restrictions are lifted in a shift that threatens to put a historic strain on

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the nation's beleaguered immigration system.

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The imminent end of the rules, known as Title 42, stirred fear among migrants that changes

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would make it more difficult for them to stay in the US.

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And the Biden administration was dealt a potentially serious legal setback when a federal judge

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temporarily blocked its attempt to more quickly release migrants when border patrol holding

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stations are full.

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This is related to the invocation of a pre-existing law, but during the Trump administration,

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under the guise of pandemic measures, to make it…

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It's related to immigration.

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Everyone's freaking out.

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I'm not totally sure if this has actually resulted in a huge strain on the system beyond

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what has already been there for a while, but I'll be interested in seeing what others

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are talking about on this topic today.

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Now, moving on to our main story.

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Because, speaking of pandemic measures, this is the face of Dr. Rochelle Walensky, who

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has announced her resignation as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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in the United States.

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Her official reason cited was the nation's progress in coping with COVID-19.

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The announcement also happened to coincide with the World Health Organization's declaration

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that the global health emergency related to COVID-19 has ended, which we mentioned last

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Now, Walensky was nominated to the directorship by President-elect Joe Biden on December 7,

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2020, while she was employed at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, and

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She had replaced the outgoing Robert Redfield, who served in the administration of President

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Donald Trump.

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Dr. Anthony Fauci got to stick around, but not Dr. Redfield.

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Now, as noted by NPR, Walensky's career in medicine started during the height of the

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HIV AIDS crisis.

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From 2014 to 2015, she served as chair of the Office of AIDS Research Advisory Council,

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a team within the NIH tasked with advising high-level officials on the planning, coordination,

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and evaluation of research and other HIV AIDS activities conducted or supported by the National

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Institutes of Health, including the Director of the Office of AIDS Research, the Secretary

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of Health and Human Services, the Assistant Secretary for Health, and the Director of

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the NIH.

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Now, Walensky's profile on the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health's Prevention

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Policy Modeling Lab website describes her as being internationally recognized for motivating

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U.S. policy toward the promotion of routine HIV screening and for her work on effective

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and efficient strategies of HIV care in South Africa.

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She's a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association

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of American Physicians, not to be confused with the American Association of Physicians

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and Surgeons, and has also served as a member of the U.S. Department of Health and Human

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Services' Panel on Anti-Retroviral Guidelines for Adults and Adolescents.

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Prior to taking office in the Biden administration in 2021, Walensky had already been actively

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engaged on the question of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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She was among the first signatories of the John Snow memorandum published in The Lancet

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and a few other places simultaneously in October 2020.

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The memo asserted that the infection fatality rate of COVID-19 is several-fold higher than

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that of seasonal influenza and infection can lead to persisting illness, including in young,

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previously healthy people.

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That's what they stated, based on the false premise that pre-existing immunity to the

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novel virus did not exist within the population.

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It called for clear communication about the risks posed by COVID-19 and effective strategies

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to combat them, such as physical distancing, face coverings, and continuing restrictions

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which must be supported by financial and social programs.

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The memo is worth reading, as it comes across very much like a one-for-one counter to the

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Great Barrington Declaration, which was published the very same month.

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In fact, that seems to have been exactly the point.

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As per the Great Barrington Declaration's Wikipedia page, they call it the counter-memorandum.

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There are thousands of signatories on this thing now.

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We have a page on the Campfire Wiki with so many thousands of names, there is no way we

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could possibly link up, you know, it's very poorly formatted at the moment.

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It was a big copy paste, there are so many names on the list, but there was an initial

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set of signatories, probably 30, maybe 20.

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Other signatories, in addition to Walensky from that initial crew, include the infamous

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David Fissman, who argued it was dangerous for the vaccinated to mix with the unvaccinated.

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Also Isabel Eckerle, don't know if I pronounced that right, a collaborator of the more infamous

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Christian Drozdin, who was responsible for pushing through a proprietary PCR assay that

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set the standard for PCR testing for SARS-CoV-2 around the world, but it turns out his paper

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was fraudulent and he had the conflict of interest and oh dear, oh dear.

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Also Angela Rasmussen, who piled on Doctors Spreading Misinformation, co-authored that

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article with the equally pleasant Timothy Caulfield, while also working at Vito Intervac,

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an institution at the University of Saskatchewan developing their own COVID-19 vaccine and

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possibly even manufacturing other companies COVID-19 vaccines.

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Well, now back to Walensky, on November 19th, 2020, the journal Health Affairs published

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a study led by Walensky with a rather odd premise.

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Now if you go to Look, you'll find this piece is now hidden behind a paywall, which is sort

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of odd for COVID-19 research.

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They tend to have this open science framework that they apply and by they I mean everybody,

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you tend to not have to pay for them.

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But anyway, an archived version remains available titled Clinical Outcomes of a COVID-19 Vaccine

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Implementation Over Efficacy.

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The study argues that factors related to implementation will contribute more to the success of vaccination

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programs than a vaccine's efficacy as determined in clinical trials.

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Now I thought that's funny, she must have seen the data coming out of the Pfizer-BioNTech

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clinical trial, because that would be a fairly reasonable conclusion to come to.

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You know, maybe we should not focus so much on what the clinical trials are saying.

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And I would direct everybody, if you haven't yet seen or haven't been following the wonderful

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work of OpenVate or Pierre and Josh Getsgo, I highly recommend you go check them out,

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because they're doing fantastic work laying out the, how do they put it, mathematical

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proofs of fraud for at least the Pfizer-BioNTech trial.

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But specifically though, within this study, Walensky and her team warn that things like

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manufacturing or deployment delays, significant vaccine hesitancy, or greater epidemic severity

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would all make the COVID-19 vaccines work less well, and that therefore health officials

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should invest greater financial resources and attention to vaccine production and distribution

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programs to redouble efforts to promote public confidence in COVID-19 vaccines, and to encourage

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continued adherence to other mitigation approaches even after a vaccine becomes available.

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In other words, Walensky set the stage for the inevitable COVID-19 vaccine failures to

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be blamed on any combination of the following unrelated things.

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One, a rollout that is deemed to be too slow.

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Two, any arbitrary number of people who decline to take the shot for any reason whatsoever.

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Three, any increase in illness or perceived increase in illness that can be blamed on

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COVID-19.

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Four, not enough money.

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And five, people not continuing to do non-vaccine things like locking down, wearing face coverings,

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working from home, etc.

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You know, all of the things that people were promised they'd be able to stop doing once

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they got vaccinated.

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Thus, it shouldn't be surprising that Walensky then led the charge in declaring the pandemic

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of the unvaccinated less than one year later.

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I was surprised to see this was in July 2021 that this was the attitude taken, or July

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2022.

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I can't remember.

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2021 was the dark year, if I recall correctly.

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Now a comment on the study from someone named Paul G. sums up quite well why Walensky's

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approach has always been completely backwards.

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I'll read it for you.

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This article is a nice theoretical discussion that relies on models, but it is woefully

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short on real-world applicability or substance.

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Instead of trying to persuade or trick people into believing the vaccines will work, try

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developing and publishing actual lab-based and real-world evidence that shows that they

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work and what that will mean.

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Massive PR campaigns to promote vaccine acceptance and government threats to force people to

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get vaccinated will likely promote a tremendous backlash if the vaccines don't work.

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In other words, don't lie to people and don't try to con them into accepting vaccines.

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Produce something that actually does work and that is shown to be effective and people

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will line up to get their shots.

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The irony, of course, is in the reply from Eric, who offers as rebuttal links to the

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Phase III clinical trial interim reports from the aforementioned Pfizer-BioNTech and AstraZeneca.

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The exact trials that Walensky argues are essentially irrelevant.

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In the acknowledgments, Walensky discloses funding from the National Institutes of Health,

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Massachusetts General Hospital, where of course she was employed at this time, and CNN of

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all things.

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All of that took place before she was hired to the Biden administration to lead the Center

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of Disease Control and Prevention, the CDC, which of course was one of the most important

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public health institutions making decisions about everything from vaccines, as we've seen,

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to face coverings and eviction moratoriums and basically anything that they could attempt

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to sway policy over.

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But then she did become that.

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And then we get to the question of conflicts of interest, which is my bread and butter.

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By the way, this wasn't supposed to be my main story this week.

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I just, once I started, I hate to use the term rabbit hole, but once I got started down

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the rabbit hole, I couldn't stop.

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Beyond the well-covered inconsistencies in Walensky's statements regarding COVID-19

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and associated vaccine products, Walensky has faced criticism for perceived or possible

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conflicts of interest.

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Her husband is Loren Walensky, a renowned pediatric oncology researcher at the Dana

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Farber Cancer Institute at Harvard University.

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And I want to give credit to Matthew Crawford here, because I stumbled on this particular

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factoid and this line of information on the Campfire Wiki when I was looking for any information

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that we already had on Rochelle Walensky, but I saw that Matthew had added something

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in, which was this Red State article.

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So thank you, Matthew.

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This is why the Campfire Wiki is so vital.

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So as detailed in an article published by Red State in August 2021, Loren Walensky co-founded

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a biotechnology company called Litica Therapeutics in October 2019, which swiftly received a

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$16.9 million grant from the United States Department of Health and Human Services, the

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government agency that now employs Rochelle.

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And in fact, she was already working on a number of their task forces.

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You could say she was already employed with them.

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The grant was issued February 18th, 2020, right before a pretty crazy time.

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Now the specific funding program in question, CARB-X, which stands for Combating Antibiotic

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Resistant Bacteria Biopharmaceutical Accelerator, CARB-X is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates

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Foundation, Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, or BARDA, the German

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Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious

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Diseases, NIAID, which was until recently led by Dr. Anthony Fauci, the United Kingdom

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Department of Health and Social Care through the Global Antimicrobial Resistance Innovation

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Fund or GAMRIF, and the Wellcome Trust, a who's who, of global health entities.

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Now CARB-X is a global nonprofit partnership accelerating antibacterial products to address

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drug resistant bacteria.

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And the grant that it awarded to Litica, I'll bring it back up now, is intended to, I quote,

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develop antibacterial peptides with broad activity against multidrug resistant bacteria.

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With this in mind, consider the role that bacterial pneumonia seems to have played in

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a significant portion of COVID-19 related fatalities, as recently highlighted just a

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week ago by Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine.

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The headline I have on the screen, Secondary Bacterial Pneumonia Drove Many COVID-19 Deaths.

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Machine Learning Finds No Evidence of Cytokine Storm in Critically Ill Patients with COVID-19.

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Now, of course, this is not new information.

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The fact that it's being covered in this way perhaps is new.

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And it's very important that people understand, I think, the facts here.

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Now it's not new to most people who are paying attention.

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In their October 2021 paper titled Nature of the COVID-era Public Health Disaster in

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the USA from All Cause Mortality and Socio-Geoeconomic and Climatic Data, researchers Denis Rancourt,

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Marine Baudin, and Jérémie Mercier identified efforts across the world, really, to limit

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the use of antibiotics in patients diagnosed or suspected of having COVID-19.

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They find antibiotic prescriptions dropped significantly in April 2020 and remained low,

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allowing for secondary bacterial pneumonia to overtake patients who otherwise would have

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likely recovered.

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I have on the screen right here just a selection of graphs showing the prescription patterns.

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It looks as though this represents the same sort of waves you could overlay it with the

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flu season, the cold and flu season every year, and that's probably when these tend

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to be prescribed the most.

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And you can see a tremendous drop in there are six different antibiotics on the screen,

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antibiotic products, and all of them dropped.

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Very interesting.

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Now Rancourt and colleagues also note that the suppression of the use of specifically

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ivermectin likely also contributed given its broad antiviral and antibacterial properties,

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and they cite past research on its use against tuberculosis as an example, something that

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one Mark Kulak of Hucitonic Live might find relevant given his stream yesterday.

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Now if Walensky's Lyteca therapeutics is tasked with developing new antibiotic products

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to treat lung infections like pneumonia, it stands to reason that the use of the many

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existing antibiotics and ivermectin and likely other yet to be identified or as of yet not

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widely discussed repurposed drugs, the use of those would stand in the way of Lyteca

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therapeutics fulfilling their CARB-X grant obligations.

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Hence conflict of interest.

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Then there's the fun fact that in May of 2022, Lyteca was accepted into the Blue Night

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Program funded by Johnson & Johnson and BARDA.

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Now we mentioned BARDA before, but know that BARDA sits within, rather alongside Walensky's

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CDC within the United States Department of Health and Human Services.

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Johnson & Johnson of course developed an adenoviral vector COVID-19 vaccine under its Janssen

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subsidiary which received hundreds of millions of dollars in United States government funding

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through Operation Warp Speed to develop their product.

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Interestingly the page on Lyteca's website that formally detailed Walensky's role as

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scientific co-founder is no longer available except by Wayback Machine of course, but he

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does still appear on the front page under the leadership heading.

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Not far above the scientific advisory board section that includes a former Janssen vice

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president named Marco Gattardis.

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But Lyteca is not Lauren Walensky's first rodeo.

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He also serves as a member of the scientific advisory board and consultant for A.Luron

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Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company developing treatments against side effects

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caused by cancer chemotherapy.

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A.Luron's investors are a who's who of pharmaceutical industry giants including Eli Lilly, Novartis,

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Roche and SR1 which is GlaxoSmithKline's venture capital firm which recently I think

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spun off into its own thing.

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Now the first paper published on the news section of Lyteca's website titled Design

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of Stapled Antimicrobial Peptides that are Stable, Non-Toxic and Kill Antibiotic Resistant

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Bacteria in Mice.

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This study discloses a partnership between A.Luron and Walensky's employer the Dana

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Farber Cancer Institute.

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So just to confirm the paper on the new company that started in 2019 or the on the website

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of the new company, the study discussing the core product or the core technology underlying

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that new company, within that first paper there's an acknowledgement that basically

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it's come out of a partnership at least somewhat between the older company A.Luron and Dana

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Farber Cancer Institute.

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Okay, now incidentally the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and I tried to put all the logos

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on here but there were too many so I'm just gonna read out the logos that would be fun

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to see altogether.

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But Dana Farber Cancer Institute has itself been funded by a large number of relevant

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organizations such as Abbott, Amgen, AstraZeneca, Bayer, BD, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,

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Biogen, BlackRock, Bristol Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson,

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York, Novartis, Pfizer and Takeda, all of whom profited greatly from diagnostics, experimental

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treatments and novel vaccine candidates for COVID-19.

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But additional donors of note are Donald and Melania Trump, the Trump Foundation, the Doris

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Duke Charitable Foundation, whose by the way board of directors includes Anthony Fauci and

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the former FDA Commissioner slash current GAVI director Margaret Hamburg, as well as

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the International Monetary Fund, literally the IMF, one of the most powerful financial

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institutions in the world.

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But not to be forgotten, the Steve and Michelle Kirsch Foundation and Open Society Foundations

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and the World Health Organization.

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Now Lauren Walensky's lab at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute acknowledges further research

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funding from the National Cancer Institute and the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

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Again, incidentally, the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society received at least two grants from

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Pfizer in 2021.

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I'm sure there's even more.

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I just happen to have that information handy.

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So according to NPR, employees at the CDC were actually unaware of the news of Walensky's

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departure until they themselves heard the announcement on the news.

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She is set to remain in office until June 30th of this year.

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And as of today, no replacement has been named.

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So I found it interesting that her departure was announced so suddenly that people didn't

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appear to know about it and I remarked to Sam, my partner yesterday, that because she

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thought it seems odd that her employees wouldn't know about it.

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And I said, well, I kind of think she probably didn't know about it.

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You start to wonder if part of the reason why someone like Dr. Walensky always looks

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like a deer in the headlights, like she's not totally sure what's going on, maybe because

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she herself is often being told, perhaps at the last minute, perhaps being guided by her

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daily agenda, you know, there's a sense that people don't always sound prepared.

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They don't always know what they're talking about in positions like this when they're

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speaking on television.

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And it may be because your life when you take a position like this ceases being your own,

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your days, your time, your schedule.

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They're not put together by you.

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You have an entire agency.

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You have multiple agencies in the United States government, one of the largest bureaucracies

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in the world, putting together what you're going to do each day, what you're going to

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say, what your positions on various issues of scientific matters are going to be.

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And it's entirely possible that in the grand scheme of things on the chessboard of whatever

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we're doing here, the plandemonium, as Matthew would would would coin it, perhaps Walensky

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is being moved.

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Perhaps this won't be a, you know, sit down and shut up and we'll never hear from you

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again.

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It's either a promotion to something like NIAID or something in whatever the next administration

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will be or most likely back into industry.

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My point, I suppose, is it looks like this family connection never left industry.

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And it seems as though this Walensky family, at least Rochelle, having grown up in the

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era of the Fauci HIV empire, was always an influential player, never quite independent

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enough maybe to wield such a position of public authority.

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But in any case, I hope this has been educational.

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