The Suffering Of Covid-19 Vaccine Injury Syndrome Patients Within Our Current Medical System

My practice partner, Scott Marsland, and I opened The Leading Edge Clinic in February of 2022 when we decided to specialize in the evaluation and treatment of patients with Covid vaccine injury and Long Haul Covid syndromes. We did so partly out of interest in the complexity and novelty of the disease, but more due to the fact that, as part of the Medical Freedom movement, I was working closely with a number of organizations supporting the vaccine-injured (with many of their volunteers and employees being vaccine-injured themselves). These included Steve Kirsch’s Vaccine Safety Research Foundation and Dr. Joel Wallskog and Bri Dressen’s REACT-19 . I also was getting approached by people in my ever-expanding network with varying and sometimes severe issues post-vaccination.
 If after reading the below, you are left with the desire to help the millions suffering after Covid vaccination, I would start with donations to both of the above organizations (or go for a trifecta and donate to the FLCCC which researches and provides guidance on treatment approaches).
 The stories of their immense suffering combined with their reports of a systemic lack of therapies being offered brings me back to the days of system docs telling Covid patients to “stay home until your lips turn blue.” The repeat of these behaviors was motivating to say the least. That motivation was further fueled by the rage I felt when being told of the horrific gaslighting inflicted upon them by “system” physicians.
 Further, from a recent excellent article in The Intelligencer on Long Covid:
 Some of the doctors had become so flooded with people seeking help that they were having difficulty scheduling and treating their regular patients who came to them for everything else: lung cancer, asthma, heart disease, dementia. “My practice is so overwhelmed,” Spatz told Sanders.
 In addition, although I was fulfilled by my efforts as an activist in the Medical Freedom movement and helping run the FLCCC, I missed doctoring after having lost my 3 rd ICU job (ending my academic career) as a result of this activism. Although this post is about the plight of the vaccine injured, some of us providers sacrificed as well. Because of mandates, Scott was forced to leave a sweet six-figure New York State job with a pension and six weeks of paid time off annually.
 So, we decided to set up a tele-health practice where we now see patients in all 50 states. Later we recruited India Scott, a phenomenal nurse practitioner. She is someone highly skilled not only at general medicine (her general medicine practice with the Leading Edge Clinic is growing daily with patients fleeing the system), but also hormone evaluation and re-balancing, weight management, gut health analysis, neurotransmitter evaluation, and diabetes prevention. She has an incredible bedside (screenside?) manner, attention to detail, and deep empathy for her patients. We later added Dr. Anthony Fazio, a highly experienced and diversely skilled Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) specialist.
 Scott and I have now seen well over 900 patients who are chronically ill after receiving the Covid-19 mRNA injections or suffering with Long Haul Covid (a.k.a. PASC – post-acute sequelae of Covid). I would estimate the breakout of our patient population at this point is approximately 70% Post-vaccine syndrome (“Long Vax”) vs. 30% Long Covid syndrome (the ratio was flipped when we first went into practice).
 Given the two syndromes are so similar, this validates that the presence of circulating or tissue embedded spike protein is the main pathogenic cause (pathogenic = originating or producing disease), as evidenced in this masterful comprehensive review paper detailing the innumerable pathophysiologic abnormalities triggered by the spike protein which lead to myriad damages to a number of organ systems.
 For simplicity, the following description of these “spike-protein induced disease syndromes” will focus on those who became chronically ill after Covid-19 mRNA injections, although Long Covid is nearly identical. I say nearly because there are two main differences that I see as a clinician: in Long Covid, persistent post-Covid pulmonary lung disease occurs in a minority (i.e. the rare-ish condition called “organizing pneumonia”). N ote my paper below from 2020 was the first to identify this condition as the primary manifestation of acute Covid pulmonary disease:

 Second, in vaccine injury syndrome the patients are on average sicker than Long Covid given their much higher incidence and severity of neuropathic symptoms and dysautonomia.
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 One of the most dispiriting aspects of our patient population (and there are many) is that the vast majority describe themselves as having been highly functional before these spike protein exposures or injections. Their ‘pre-morbid health status” is repeatedly described as enjoying active and successful careers which were often creative or intellectual, enjoying and participating in regular exercise (often high performance), paying close attention to diet and quality of food, and enjoying a robust and joyful family life with frequent travel etc.
 Their decline in ability to function due to fatigue and post-exertional malaise is so large that most of them meet the definition of disabled given they can no longer work (or play) and in many cases their spouses, parents, and friends now need to care for them. Again, this is in stark contrast to the roles they used to enjoy as breadwinners, parents, care-takers, leaders at work or in their community etc.
 On a daily basis, we see first-hand the reality of the government data showing explosive rises in disability claims since the vaccine roll-out (see Ed Dowd’s phinancetechnologies.com Humanity project analyzing the Bureau of Labor statistics data). Note below the almost unfathomable rise of 6 standard deviations from the norm in disability rates coinciding with the jab rollout followed by their mandating on the American labor force:

 There are so many powerful quotes in The Intelligencer article that I cannot help but share them, however I must call sad attention to the fact that the only illness they discuss in the article is Long Covid. This, even though, as I said above, in 70% of our patient population, the vaccine was the inciting trigger rather than Covid infection:
 Long-COVID patients, generally speaking, have been very miserable for a very long time, and because the illness attacks their brains, their hearts, their lungs, their guts, their joints — sometimes simultaneously, sometimes intermittently, and sometimes in a chain reaction — they bounce from specialist to specialist, none of whom has the bandwidth to hear their whole frustrating ordeal together with the expertise to address all of their complaints: the nonspecific pain, the perpetual exhaustion, the bewildering test results, the one-off treatments. “These are people who have not been able to tell their story to anybody but their spouse and their mom — for years sometimes,” Sanders tells me. “ And they are, in some ways, every doctor’s worst nightmare.” (ed.: whoa). From the perspective of a time-pressed physician under ever-more-stringent productivity expectations, who has at most 30 minutes to do a new-patient intake and 15 for a follow-up, “someone who comes in with a very long story — it just sinks your day,” Sanders says.
 Long COVID has been pushing the limits of hospital systems everywhere, not just at Yale.
 …primary-care physicians started to say, “‘I’m not interested in long COVID,’ or ‘I don’t treat long COVID. Let me refer you to a specialist,’” said David Putrino, who runs the new chronic-illness recovery clinic at Mount Sinai. For their part, Putrino added, the specialists were saying, “This is not what my practice is. This is not an emergency anymore.” Patients all over the country reported months-long waiting times for appointments at long-COVID clinics. All the while, scientists and pundits heaped skepticism on the very notion of long COVID, arguing that infection made people stronger, that new variants posed no threats, that the danger of long COVID was overblown — implying that what patients were suffering from was all in their heads .
 Forgotten in this debate are the 65 million people worldwide for whom the pandemic remains a torturous everyday reality.
 Spatz and her colleagues were proposing an alternative model: a clinic led by an internal-medicine doctor with a full hour to listen to each patient. [Scott and I knew this before starting our practice - we routinely plan for and spend well over an hour with each patient in our initial consultations.]
 How Vaccine Injury Syndrome Mirrors Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
 In my next post, I will go into a deeper, first-hand description of the myriad symptoms that make up these spike-protein-induced syndromes. For now, I want to reference certain statements describing the plight of sufferers of the disease called Myalgic Encephalitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) from this excellent summary and review of the disease published in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings in August of 2021.
 ME/CFS is the disease that the post-vaccine injury syndrome most closely resembles. Although the diversity and severity of the symptom burden following spike protein exposure sets it apart from traditional ME/CFS, the two are much more alike than different. For decades now, ME/CFS has been thought to be triggered by:
 ..various types of infectious illnesses such as infectious mononucleosis, Coxiella burnetii infection, giardiasis, or severe acute respiratory syndrome but often, no attempt is made to diagnose the infectious agent.
 Put differently from The Intelligencer article: Among people who survive many common viral infections (Ebola, dengue, polio, influenza, and Epstein-Barr, for instance), a small percentage suffer for years with symptoms that are very similar to those of long COVID: extreme fatigue, brain fog, joint pain, inflammation, dizziness, sleep disruption, mood disorders. The same goes for people who get giardia, a parasite.
 From the Mayo Clinic paper cited above, the most tragic part of the experience of an ME/CFS patient is that:
 Despite its high prevalence and disabling nature, medical education programs rarely cover ME/CFS and guidance for practicing clinicians is often outdated and inappropriate

 This is even more tragically accurate for those with Covid vaccine injury syndrome (“Long Vax”) as this condition does not even exist in the published literature that I am aware of, nor are any system physicians taught about the immense diversity in pathologic destruction wrought by circulating spike protein, a.k.a. “spikeopathy.”
 I have long maintained that the complexity and severity of spikeopathy requires its own specialty, training, and research focus. A recently published manuscript by Dr. Peter Parry et al is, to me, an absolute masterpiece of a review of all that we know currently about the pathophysiology of spikeopathy. Scientifically dense, highly referenced, and well-organized, I consider it on a par with my partner Professor Paul Marik’s landmark and comprehensive, evolving review of the disease published on the FLCCC website (with one exception - Paul and I and a close network of FLCCC supporting clinicians organized a comprehensive set of proposed therapies to address the complex pathophysiology described). Also, Paul’s is written for both physicians and the general public whereas Parry et al’s paper is scientifically complex and does not go into treatments.
 [Side note: I am proud to know Peter Parry as a long time correspondent of mine and who I had the pleasure of meeting in person on an Australian lecture tour earlier this year. His earlier career was made famous (not in a pleasant way) for calling attention to the brazen corruptions in Pharma’s manipulation of the science propping up the SSRI industry.]
 Anyway, Parry et al’s paper has 253 mostly basic science manuscript citations. Read their conclusion:

 But again, vaccine injury syndrome does not yet exist as all the suffering patients are instead labeled as “Long Covid.” This is politics and not science. As Dr. Peter McCullough has often pointed out, there is no dedicated funding or research or centers of excellence focused on those chronically ill after the Covid vaccine. As Parry et al describe, I think that it is almost certain there are important differences between the two syndromes (i.e. severity) such that effective treatments will likely need to vary to some degree because, as this paper recently reported , half of the vaccinated keep producing spike whereas in Long Covid, chronic viral replication, in my opinion (but not others), occurs in only a tiny minority if at all.
 Standard tests typically return normal results, and some clinicians are wholly unaware of or question the legitimacy of ME/CFS. Consequently, up to 91% of affected people are undiagnosed or misdiagnosed with other conditions, such as depression.

 I cannot over-emphasize how damaging the frequent lack of positive findings on standard tests is to the plight of the vaccine injured. I ask my readers to contemplate for a moment what the situation described above is like for a Covid vaccine-injured patient. Imagine seeking care from a physician, relating all of your suffering from a myriad of symptoms (a suffering which is often immense - and that is coming from yours truly, a critical care specialist) yet they can “find nothing actionably wrong with you” in terms of bloodwork, EKG, chest-x-ray, CT, MRI etc. As a result of the willful or benign ignorance of the syndrome, they then refer you to psychiatry or label you with the insane diagnosis of “functional neurologic disorder,” the definition of which, to me, is essentially that “it is all in your head.”
 If interested in punching a wall, please read my initial consultation note here from one of my most severely ill patients saddled with an FND diagnosis by three of the most “reputable” (note the quotes) institutions in the country (Mayo Clinic, Columbia University and Univ. of Pennsylvania). His story was also prominently featured in the NTD/Epoch Times documentary “ The Unseen Crisis: Vaccine Stories You Were Never Told ” and he has given me permission to publish my consultation note on my Substack.
 Now add to the above situation one of a patient who claims to a system physician that their suffering was caused by.. wait for it.. the Covid vaccine . Then imagine doing this smack dab in the middle of a global psy-ops military counter-measure driven propaganda campaign supporting the vaccine as “safe and effective.”
 That campaign was highly successfully directed at system physicians via peer-reviewed literature published in high-impact medical journals concluding over and over that the vaccines were “safe and effective” (even for pregnant women who were never studied). This is a perfect storm for what a doctor would describe later as a “particularly difficult encounter with a patient.”
 But the patient experience is far worse and much more damaging given the propagandized doctor subjects them to the most severe forms of “medical gaslighting” I have ever heard. To learn more about the history and extent of the medical gaslighting of patients with pharmaceutical injuries, read this article called A Primer on Medical Gaslighting by my friend and colleague, A Midwestern Doctor.
 When I have time, I will compile a more comprehensive list of doctor’s statements related to me by my patients. They are some of the most deplorable, dismissive, and insulting I have ever heard uttered from a physician to a patient. One relatively mild example is when one of my patients told me that at the end of such a “difficult encounter,” she was signing out of the clinic when the doc came out to the waiting room and whispered to her, “You don’t need to schedule a follow-up.” Honest (and accurate) at the very least. The most terrifyingly sad are the countless anecdotes of system doctors, who, at the end of the visit, encouraged my patients… to get a booster. No wonder Americans are fleeing the system in droves.
 To obtain a diagnosis, patients frequently have had to see multiple clinicians over a number of years. Even after diagnosis, patients struggle to obtain appropriate care and have often been prescribed treatments, such as cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and graded exercise therapy (GET), that could worsen their condition.
 Each and every one of our patients, prior to coming to our Leading Edge Clinic , has endured a long journey through the medical system, seeing multiple specialists and even super-specialists, none of whom have a clue what to do. Due to the severity and complexity of their condition, at best most system docs will proudly refer the patient to some of the most respected institutions in the country, a respect least deserved in all phases of Covid illness, but even less deserved (if possible) in the evaluation and treatment of vaccine injury. Again, my patient whose consultation note I referenced above visited Mayo (FND), Columbia (FND) , and Upenn (FND). Interestingly, he was then referred to the NIH for evaluation of a study into treatments for FND where, after a 6 hour evaluation, they concluded he did not in fact have FND. Did they offer him an alternative diagnosis? No.

 One recent and somewhat encouragingly honest quote by a doctor was told to me by a patient who visited a neurologist at Scripps in California. After she told the doctor that her incessant and refractory facial spasms were caused by the vaccine, the doc replied “Our whole practice is full of vaccine injuries but we are not allowed to talk about it.”

 WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A COVID VACCINE INJURY (I.E. COMPLICATION) AND A COVID VACCINE INJURY SYNDROME?
 I define a complication of the Covid vaccine as an injury that generally results in “ single organ dysfunction ” developing in temporal association to the vaccine. Examples of single organ injuries include cases of myocarditis, pericarditis, heart attack, stroke, aortic dissection, vision/hearing loss/tinnitus etc.
 Wait, why stop there? The list also includes dementia and other progressive, deteriorating neurologic diseases, rare and typical cancers, turbo cancers, auto-immune conditions, immunodeficiencies etc.
 Currently there are over 3,500 peer-reviewed and published reports of a wicked variety of diseases befalling young and old. The vast majority get published due to either the unprecedented young age of the patient who develops a disease that rarely strikes the young or based on the rarity of the disease or the tight temporal association of the disease with the vaccine or, most often, its atypical features of severity, rapidity, or sudden onset.
 Here is Paul’s ever-expanding list of published post-Covid complications from Page 7 of the FLCCC’s “ An Approach to Managing Post-Vaccine Syndrome ”

 News media are also teeming with daily reports of young and old, famous, semi-famous, and not-so-famous young people suffering cardiac arrests or sudden cancer diagnoses leading to death in shockingly short time periods (recall that dying from cancer typically takes a long time, well, at least it used to).

 Hell, we have almost a dozen U.S congress members and politicians with clearly devastating vaccine injuries. I list and describe them in a dedicated separate post here . It goes without saying at this point that in every such newspaper report the vaccine is NEVER mentioned as a possible cause. The families stay silent, or, even if they tried to call out the jab as the proximate cause, this is never included in the published article.
 My point is that that patients with single organ complications or clear diagnoses rarely seek out our Leading Edge clinic for care because those conditions have long-established diagnostic criteria and treatment approaches that the system docs are able to apply. At least that is my guess/hope although I wouldn’t know because I no longer work in “the system.”
 What our practice specializes in are patients with Covid vaccine injury syndrome , which I define as “a constellation of symptoms that develop in temporal association to the vaccine.” The constellation of symptoms is strikingly similar to ME/CFS however there are a number of novel and unique aspects that I address in the second post of this series.

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Summary: Having spent over 18 months treating patients with Covid vaccine injury syndrome, I feel it important to describe what I am seeing, how I am treating, and how well (or not) it is working.


Initial Consultation Note Of A Patient With Severe Covid Vaccine Injury Syndrome

11/01/2022 4:48 pm - I saw “Alan” in the evaluation of post vaccine injury syndrome today. He is a 23-year-old African American man who prior to becoming injured was in college studying English as his major, and in addition he was an active musician, artist, and writer. His only significant medical history was asthma since childhood along with allergies and he was managed on Flovent, Singulair, as well as occasional Benadryl and Zyrtec when his allergies acted up along with a rescue inhaler of albuterol. He has only been admitted once to the hospital for asthma at the age of 12. He lives in an apartment with his mother and brother.
 He reports that in June of 2021 he received his Covid vaccine at Rite Aid in the morning. 2 hours later he noticed that his left arm where he received the injection was starting to tremor. He went home, took some Motrin and took a nap. However this recurred the next day except now it involved both arms and it got worse over the next 5 days. He visited the emergency room, they ruled him out for rhabdomyolysis and told him to hydrate himself - he reports that that episode of tremors lasted 12 hours.
 Soon after that the tremors started to involve his lower extremities. He had multiple episodes a day, he saw his primary care provider who did a CT of the head which was negative then referred him to neurology and at that point he reported all 4 extremities with tremors. Although the neurologist discussed with him the likelihood that this was related to the vaccine his official documented diagnosis was functional neurological disorder. Alan’s mother called Moderna in order to try to get some help or insight into what was happening however they were of no help. At his second emergency room visit they did another CT scan and labs and then they they said “they could not make the diagnosis in the emergency room.”
 Later that July of 2021 he saw a movement disorder specialist who again diagnosed Alan with functional neurologic disorder. They referred him to physical therapy however each session triggered and worsened his symptoms. He then started to develop dystonic reactions which were triggered by heat, cold, or massage. This facial dystonia caused him to be unable open his eyes or his jaw would became clenched such that he couldn’t eat, drink, or talk or his head would turn in a fixed position akin to torticollis. He also started developing chest paralysis/inhibitions as well as arching of the back.
 He saw a second neurologist in July of 2021, a movement disorder specialist who did another MRI, which was reported as an ill-defined abnormal signal over the left parietal area of unknown significance. He then started developing ballismus as well as flaccid episodes, and at one point he was put in the hospital for 3 days where he was given pulse dose intravenous Solu-Medrol ( a corticosteroid ), a gram a day for 3 days after which he reported significant improvement given he suddenly had no symptoms for the next 2-4 days but then the symptoms slowly recurred however his brother says that they were not as severe as they were prior. They went back to the emergency room, neurology saw him again but refused to offer him any more treatment. He also went to the NIH where he was being evaluated for a study of functional neurologic disorder and then was referred to a neuro-immunologist who did not see him due to some stated conflict of interest? He then was referred to Columbia where he again received the diagnosis of functional neurologic disorder.
 At one point he was given Klonopin on which he remains where he takes a half a milligram in the morning and then 0.25 mg in the middle of the day and at the end of the day. However he and his family say they are using these low doses so that they do not run out given it is the only thing that mitigates the severity of his symptoms throughout the day. Given the frequency of these alternating episodes of flaccidity, dystonia, and ballismus he cannot be left alone at home and is under total care and supervision by his devoted mother and brother.
 Overall in terms of his worst symptoms he reports that the flaccid episodes are the worst where his extremity and trunk loses all strength and movement and this can last for minutes to hours and happens multiple times a day. Sometimes his limbs turn cold and pale during these episodes. The second most pressing symptom is ballismus episodes akin to Huntington’s disease where his arms and legs kick and punch and he has actually damaged walls around the apartment. His brother tackles him to the ground and lies on top of him during these episodes to prevent Alan from hurting himself or the furniture or walls, in which there are numerous holes. Third is dystonic episodes where his jaws are clenched or locked and he has difficulty speaking and eating or drinking, this also happens daily and then lastly he gets fasciculations as well as tremors however this does not happen every day. The least common is where he has vocalization episodes where he whistles and/or shouts uncontrollably and in addition he reports episodes of eye rolling.
 IMPRESSION : Severe post vaccination injury syndrome consisting largely of systemic neurologic motor dysfunction as stated above. I suspect sub-radiographic diffuse brain and/or brainstem inflammation.
 I reviewed the numerous possible pathologic mechanisms likely contributing to his symptoms: inflammation/macrophage/monocyte activation, autoimmunity to tissues, "micro-clotting" (platelet activation and aggregation, amyloid fibrils, fibrin, RBC aggregation), mast cell activation syndrome, nitric oxide pathway dysfunction, mitochondrial failure).
 PLAN : I propose the following initial sequence of trials of therapy:
 Given that he has responded to steroids and Klonopin I believe we should re-start corticosteroids and increase dosing of the Klonopin first, and then begin him on a regimen of medicines with mechanisms that counteract the currently known pathologic processes induced by the vaccine. I propose we do the following:
 1) Start prednisone, 80 mg daily for 2 weeks, establish a new clinical baseline after which we will begin ivermectin 0.3mg/kg (36mg) daily as well as low dose naltrexone as follows: 10mg/cc in a 20cc bottle (1 drop = 0.5mg). Start with 2 drops under the tongue at night and increase by one drop every 5 nights until you notice more refreshed sleep. Can go up to 8 drops daily. Half the dose if nausea or insomnia develop or worsen. In regards to high dose corticostoid use at home, please purchase a glucometer so we can monitor blood glucose levels. *(I later doubled the dose and he required insulin for a short time).
 2) Once Alan starts on the ivermectin and low dose naltrexone, decrease prednisone to 60mg daily for a week, 40mg daily for a week, 20 mg daily for a week, then 10mg daily for a week. Once on 10mg daily, we will taper off as follows:
 - take 10mg alternating with 5 mg every other day for 6 days, then 5mg for 6 days then 5mg alternating with nothing for 6 days
 2) Increase klonopin to 0.5mg three times daily as needed for control of symptoms. There is a concern for dependance here however, the hope is that with better control of symptoms with the above, we can begin to taper off klonopin dosing as tolerated and further, not using this medication will lead to an immense increase in the suffering described by Alan.
 Please check in with me via the portal in two weeks to assess the efficacy and re-confirm the soundness of the above approach. My nurses will follow up with you this week. I also think within a month we should start considering initiation of HBOT
 *Note this consultation was from a year ago and my practice has evolved considerably. I now employ numerous other therapeutic trials which I use in different sequences, with these sequences varying from patient to patient.

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Summary: One of my sicker and most difficult to treat patients, his condition one year under my care is only marginally improved despite over a dozen trials of therapies.


The Catalog Of Vaccine Injuries Amongst U.S Congress Members and Politicians

I want to thank my colleague and friend “A Midwestern Doctor” whose superlative Substack is called “ The Forgotten Side of Medicine. ” They helped me compile this list of confirmed and suspected injuries to accompany my first post(s) describing Covid vaccine injuries and syndromes here and here.

 Here is the list of confirmed and near-certain vaccine injuries suffered by U.S Congress members and politicians and/or their families. Although I have to admit some are speculative despite their atypical and bizarre characteristics, (a defining feature of vaccine injury in my experience), if the government and it’s media are going to aggressively censor any discussion or debate as to the possibility, then let me speculate:
 Dianne Feinstein was hospitalized for shingles in late February . Although shingles is not uncommon in someone her age, given that shingles  typically does not require hospitalization , many assumed Feinstein had suffered a rare but severe complication of shingles like Ramsay Hunt Syndrome due to vaccine immune suppression. Unfortunately, like Fetterman, a significant neurological injury occurred that became impossible to coverup once she returned, forcing Feinstein and her staff  to come clean about what happened :

 Adam Russell, a spokesman for Feinstein, said that the encephalitis , or inflammation of the brain, “resolved itself shortly after she was released from the hospital in March.” Feinstein continues to have complications from the Ramsay Hunt syndrome, Russell said
 ** Note the fact checkers tried to dismiss her “shingles” as a not uncommon condition, ignoring the fact that encephalitis is an extremely rare complication.

 Update October 1, 2023 : Unfortunately, Senator Feinstein just died a few days ago:

 Some unfortunately telling quotes from the very long article of her formidable career accomplishments:

 Notice how, in the above, they say “ in her final years” instead of “since the global jab campaign.” It is sad but it is also clear to me that, although she, like everyone else was going to die, her acceleration to death was triggered by vaccine related complications. Read on but look at the date of “first reports” of sudden cognitive and medical issues:

 OK, on to the growing list of other politicians:
 Jon Fetterman, a freshman Pennsylvania Democratic Senator (then aged 52) on May 17, 2022,  less than a month after strongly endorsing the vaccine , suffered a stroke two days before the state primary for his senate seat. Despite significant signs of cognitive impairment since his stroke, Fetterman somehow won the primary and then the general election. Since becoming elected, Fetterman has had prolonged periods of absence from the U.S. Senate due to needing specialized medical care:

 Ben Ray Luján  is a freshman New Mexico Democratic Senator  who repeatedly promoted the COVID-19 vaccines :
 On January 27, 2022, Luján (then 49) was hospitalized in Santa Fe after feeling fatigued and dizzy. He was found to have had a stroke affecting his cerebellum and was transferred to the University of New Mexico Hospital for treatment, which included a decompressive craniectomy . A statement from his office said that "he is expected to make a full recovery". Luján returned to work at the Senate on March 3 and stated by April 21 that he was 90% recovered.
 **It is also important to consider that in addition to strokes being one of the most common complications of the COVID-19 vaccines, both Luján and Fetterman were at an age where unexpected strokes are quite rare.

 Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland suffered a stroke  (on May 15, 2022), which occurred while he gave a speech in the Senate (thus making it harder to conceal). Although Van Hollen was 64 (making his odds of a spontaneous stroke a bit higher than his colleagues), the type of stroke he had was quite unusual ; it was a brain bleed rather than a blood clot, and it happened in a vein rather than an artery (which is where brain bleeds typically arise). I have seen numerous cases of hemorrhagic strokes following COVID-19 vaccination, and autopsy results showing the spike protein directly attacks the blood vessels, making them more likely to rupture.

 From Mark Crispin Miller’s Substack : Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s health struggles are back in focus after he suffered a second “freeze” on camera this summer. He appeared unable to speak and did not seem to register that someone was speaking to him in a concerning moment that occurred on Wednesday at a press conference in Kentucky. Video of the incident emerged after the senator, 81 , appeared to trail off in the middle of answering a question about whether he would run for re-election. In the video, an aide approaches him and asks him if he has heard the question while he stares off at the cameras, appearing distant or overwhelmed . He was then briefly led away, before returning. The incident mirrored a moment that occurred just a few weeks ago in the halls of the US Senate when the GOP leader was led away by his Republican colleagues in the middle of a press conference after appearing unable to speak . In that situation he also returned a few minutes later, assuring reporters gruffly that he was fine.
 **I have had other vaccine injured patients report identical symptoms.

 Nancy Mace is a Republican representing South Carolina's First Congressional District -- she mentioned her own injuries (asthma, tremors, heart pain) during a hearing back in February 2023.

 TRANSCRIPT - “ I along with many Americans have long-term effects from covid. 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 I had 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.”

 Democratic State Senator of Rhode Island Jeanine Calken, aged 54, suffered an infection complicated by blood clots on Sunday April 18th, 2021. Her official statement:

 “There is no reason to believe that the clotting was related to the Covid-19 vaccine.”

 As someone deeply studied on the toxicity and lethality and incidences of various complications of the Covid vaccines, I respectfully disagree. What is even more disturbing (and super sad) is that her right leg had to be amputated due to the blood clot. That is not normal.

 House Majority Leader Rep. Steve Scalise, aged 57 was diagnosed recently with Multiple Myeloma, which is a treatable blood cancer. I will agree this is more speculative because although the Covid vaccines do cause multiple myeloma since the spike targets the bone marrow and interferes with the body’s ability to manufacture blood cells , it also just happens to people. However, in the context of the massive explosion in cancer rates developing since the vaccine roll-out, I strongly suspect the vaccine either caused or contributed to his illness.

 Gavin Newsom, the Governor of California and an aggressive vaccine proponent, developed what was likely either Bells’ Palsy or Guillain-Barre Syndrome in the wake of his vaccine. I believe every attempt was made to cover it up as documented by Steve Kirsch on his Substack. The machinations and bizarre statements followed by his unprecedented disappearance from public view strongly suggest he was covering up a vaccine injury. Further,  Steve Kirsch (who is deeply data driven and who I trust) claims he had a whistleblower confirm it.

 Illinois Democrat and US Representative Sean Casten’s 17-year-old vaccinated daughter Gwen died suddenly and unexpectedly on June 12, 2022. For context, prior to the vaccines, a sudden death in an adolescent was extraordinarily rare (one reader calculated a US Representative would be expected to have a child under 18 die once every 200 years).

When  independent journalists investigated the events , they found both that Casten’s family aggressively promoted the vaccine and that there was a high likelihood it killed his daughter. However, rather than supply any information to dispel these rumors, Casten  in a statement , simply said:
 “The only thing we know about her death is that it was peaceful. And the only lesson we can take from that is to savor the moments you have with your loved ones.”
 Note: quite a few parents took strong exception to how Casten handled this, and sadly there are other similar examples I can also cite of the “Casten Response.”

 10. U.S. Congresswoman Robin Kelly’s (D-Illinois) husband, Dr. Nathaniel Horn, 68, died suddenly, mysteriously and unexpectedly last month on Friday, August 18th.

 No cause of death has been released.

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Summary: A disturbing amount of illness has befallen our often relatively young U.S Congress members. A minority have publicly implicated the Covid vaccine as a proximate cause, the rest, you decide.


I Published An Op-Ed Inspired By The Song "Rich Men North of Richmond"

“Medical dissidents” like myself have been subjected to and thus have witnessed firsthand the extreme censorship practiced by our corporate captured Federal government over the past 3 years. The most wicked thing about censorship is that it is silent - the average citizen has no idea how much accurate information is being withheld so it is only those who are being censored that can really “see” what they are doing. Now I know how RFK Jr. has felt over the last 2 decades.
 Taken from the Op-Ed , here is a concise example of just some of what me and the FLCCC have been subjected to in terms of censorship:
 Mainstream newswire services have refused to distribute my organization’s press releases — even when we are trying to share peer-reviewed medical journal articles and firsthand clinical data that can help patients and inform medical policy. Our social media posts have been removed, and our accounts repeatedly suspended. PayPal has refused to process donations. Shopify wouldn’t let us sell branded clothing. Medium, LinkedIn, and Vimeo all shut down our channels. To survive, we – as a group of doctors – have been forced to build alternate platforms and parallel communication channels, chewing up precious resources that could be used treating patients.
 The United States government, a purported democracy, is literally censoring and propagandizing on an unprecedented (but not new) scale as documented in both the Twitter Files and the Missouri v. Biden case.
 Know that the enemy of propaganda is truth and the worst form of censorship (which is not always understood as censorship), is when they go after the “truth tellers” with character assassinations - me and my dissident colleagues have been subjected to endless “hit jobs” in the media which paradoxically get widespread coverage. They do this to destroy our credibility so that even when we do have a platform to speak, the information we try to impart is dismissed by the larger public as uncredible or misinformed.
 I have been fighting all forms of censorship on a daily basis for over three years now and something about the Oliver Anthony song inspired me to write the below Op-Ed.

 Oliver Anthony has taken the world by storm, with his breakout song “Rich Men North of Richmond” surging to the global number one on Apple Music and leading the GOP primary debate, and a newly released song becoming an instant hit this week. His poignant critiques of Washington politicians taking our country in the wrong direction speaks to anyone who feels ignored by the powers-that-be.
 Mainstream and social media have wasted no time  attacking  the song, painting Anthony’s perspective as  divisive  and even “ offensive ” – a reliable dog whistle for censorship. Given his reliance on social media as an independent artist, there is a real concern that tech companies will start to put their finger on the scale to restrict his reach and stifle the message driving his growing popularity.
 The Missouri v. Biden lawsuit, which is headed to the Supreme Court, is revealing the extent to which the Biden administration “strongarms” social media companies to  limit the reach  of opposing voices. As the head of physician-led non-profit organization promoting independent medical practice, this is a battle we have been fighting for nearly three years.
 In both May and December of 2020, when the world was desperate to understand COVID-19 treatment options, I testified before a Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs about my experience treating patients with corticosteroids and ivermectin respectively. The ivermectin testimony video quickly garnered over 8 million views on YouTube — then the company deleted it .
 There is no accountability for this behavior, and no sign that it will change. YouTube’s  newly released medical misinformation  policy promises to prevent the spread of harmful health advice. In practice it will be another tool to censor its political enemies.
 We should all be concerned about politically motivated restrictions on the marketplace of free ideas. It is impossible to advocate for the best medical policy and practice without using these platforms. Tech giants have honed and protected their algorithms and advertising methods to serve targeted content in unexplainable ways. They’ve created slick back-end user interfaces to make it easy for anyone to advertise content on their platforms. In doing so, these organizations have effectively created a monopoly on communication and fundraising for small, non-profits. Like many grassroots organizations, most of our income is from individual donations.
 If you run afoul of these groups, you must find other ways to advertise, communicate and deliver messages. This entails recreating the administrative functions that Google and Facebook have perfected—  well beyond the ability or means of most non-profits. If your message is very popular, the censorship spreads.
 Mainstream newswire services have refused to distribute my organization’s press releases — even when we are trying to share peer-reviewed medical journal articles and firsthand clinical data that can help patients and inform medical policy. Our social media posts have been removed, and our accounts repeatedly suspended. PayPal has refused to process donations. Shopify wouldn’t let us sell branded clothing. Medium, LinkedIn, and Vimeo all shut down our channels. To survive, we – as a group of doctors – have been forced to build alternate platforms and parallel communication channels, chewing up precious resources that could be used treating patients.
 Many organizations do not have the ability to navigate institutional censorship. Who knows what untold and life-changing ideas or knowledge has been bottled up and never given the chance. For those selling widgets, it’s a financial loss. For those promoting medical advice that could ease suffering and prevent future health emergencies, it’s a tragedy.
 These pernicious practices subvert the independent exchange of ideas that has defined medical practice for a thousand years. Physicians apply the scientific method, test different approaches to heal patients, build on what works and ignore what doesn’t. Even when scientific insights are widely upheld, challenging of established beliefs has led to innumerable scientific advances throughout history. By preventing the free exchange of ideas among physician-led advocacy groups sharing firsthand treatment experience, censorship is destroying the potential for medical innovation.
 The House Judiciary Committee deserves credit for  challenging  social media companies’ tactics, especially reports of collusion between the Biden White House around COVID vaccine “misinformation.” There is  legislation  pending and  legal cases  that could help stop these arbitrary censorship policies. But it’s hard to see how any of this will stop without new leadership in Washington.
 Pierre Kory, M.D., is president and chief medical officer of the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance.

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Summary: I landed the Op-Ed in RealClear Policy, detailing the pernicious practice of widespread censorship by our government which is subverting the independent exchange of information and ideas.


The FDA Can Say (and Do) Anything It Wants

On September 1st, the court ruled in the three physicians’ favor , saying that they have legitimate legal objections about how the FDA treated Ivermectin (and medical professionals who prescribed it for COVID-19), so the court that denied their original complaint, did so in error. Their case will now be reheard. Kudos to them! [The following is my prior commentary on this important case, and it is unchanged…]
 This is an extraordinarily important commentary!
 The gist of a current court case that you’ve likely never heard of, is that three heroic doctors are suing the FDA about the loss of their jobs, about their careers being derailed, about the loss of their reputation — all because their professional, scientific opinion as to what was in the best interest of their patients, was different than the political agenda of the FDA. (Here is a bit of background.)
 What is at stake here could not be more significant, and it applies across the board to EVERY federal agency. The question is: do federal agencies have the unsupervised right to replace Science with political science? Put another way: can they act dishonestly, incompetently, etc. with essentially no meaningful consequences?
 Here is the doctors’ Complaint . Although it was filed a year ago, it is now being appealed this week — and some fascinating audio clips have emerged. There are three judges on a panel, asking the attorney representing the FDA some probing questions.
 Five of these short audio clips (3-5 minutes each) are posted here . (The recording of the full proceeding is here .)
 IMO some of the key takeaway revelations (so far) are:
 1 - The FDA seems to claim that their published warnings are little more than offhand observations. For example, their slamming of Ivermectin was evidently just casual commentary (what the FDA calls “informational”).
 Note the title here, on this FDA page which is STILL up! It says “ Why You Should Not Use Ivermectin to Treat or Prevent COVID-19”.
 Note 1: This is a deceptive headline because that article is mostly saying: a) citizens should not self-medicate, and b) using any veterinary medications can be dangerous. Both of these are legitimate concerns. So, if the FDA was honestly trying to benefit the public their heading should be: “ Why You Should Not Self-Medicate Using Veterinary-Grade Ivermectin to Treat or Prevent COVID-19”. BIG DIFFERENCE!
 Note 2: This FDA page has changed quite a bit over time. Here is the 2021 version .
 Note 3: The current page makes outright false statements like: “Ivermectin has not been shown to be safe or effective for these indications.” I’m one of the few people who has taken the time to put together a spreadsheet of ALL the studies on ALL the major COVID early treatment therapies: see it here .
 There have now been 99 Ivermectin scientific studies , and the overall early treatment effectiveness is 62% . IVM’s extensive safety record is extraordinary , with adverse effects (e.g., see here ) in the ballpark of only one in a million usages!
 Now, also on my spreadsheet, compare what the FDA has approved for early treatment of COVID-19 therapy: Paxlovid = 32% effective with these adverse safety issues , and Molnupiravir = 16% effective with these problematic safety issues !
 Despite these LARGE benefits of Ivermectin in effectiveness and safety , the FDA continues to say that “Ivermectin has not been shown to be safe or effective ” for early treatment of COVID-19. This is stunningly inaccurate.
 Note 4: Even though the FDA now has access to 99 Ivermectin studies , their statement against Ivermectin is stronger now than when the page originally appeared in 2021! IMO this is what happens when a federal agency feels that there is no meaningful oversight, so effectively they can say anything they want.
 2 - The FDA says that Courts have no business in reviewing anything they say or do!
 Considering the above facts in #1, it’s obvious why this would be their self-serving position. Listen carefully to the second short audio clip , where the FDA’s attorney appears to say that the FDA’s communication to the public can be knowingly false, dishonest, etc. with no oversight or consequences — even when deaths result!
 Regretfully, to date, the courts have played along with this game of charades. For example, the Chevron case is frequently cited by non-aggressive attorneys to say that courts will stay out of determining whether FDA processes, documents, and claims are legal, accurate, honest, warranted, etc.
 However, that is an oversimplified opinion. Even the Chevron case states that the FDA’s actions must be “reasonable” — but that is rarely argued. BTW, the case we are discussing here would never have been filed if the doctors’ attorneys bought into the bogus idea that federal agencies have unlimited deference. Kudos to them that they did not accept that absurd argument!
 Maybe I’m overly optimistic, but based on the judges’ questions and comments in these clips, it seems to me that this case might eventually upend Chevron . That would be EXTRAORDINARILY beneficial for US citizens, as it would apply to all national policies: from immigration to education, energy to climate change, etc.
 3 - The FDA asserts that the only recourse that US citizens have about even egregious errors and deceptions by the FDA is through the “political process.” Astounding!
 4 - The FDA indicated that the “political process” means that citizens need to elect a competent and attentive President, whose responsibility it is to see that the FDA acts responsibly — or else. The flip side is that when we do not have such a President, all federal agencies have a four-year time period to wreak whatever political havoc that suits them — again, across the board, and without real consequences to the guilty parties .
 5 - The FDA’s attorney implied that there would be no compensation given for inaccurate or knowingly false FDA statements — including those that lead to Americans unnecessarily dying — other than an FDA person may lose their job.
 6 - Based on these select audio clips, the fact that hundreds of thousands of Americans likely died needlessly due to the FDA’s COVID actions and inactions (see here ), was not fully addressed. Hopefully, this will be brought up in this trial.
 7 - In clip #3 , the FDA attorney makes the startling claim that the FDA has the authority to give citizens medical advice ! How is that possible when they know nothing of the medical history of any American citizen? Further, once they assert that right, how is a conflict resolved between what the FDA says and what a citizen’s medical provider says? That is one of the major issues in this important case .
 8 - In clip #4 , the FDA attorney acknowledges that doctors have lost their jobs, etc. due to their scientific conclusions on such matters as Ivermectin, and their science-based actions that they believed were in the best interest of their patients. However, the FDA attorney then stated that no losses, etc. were due to anything the FDA did. (!)
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 Note that a lot of the bad behavior with the FDA (and CDC) would be reduced if the Medical Establishment refused to play politics and instead supported real Science for the public. Regretfully, that has not happened and the COVID-19 fiasco exposed this ugly underbelly. See my Report on the COVID failings of the Medical Establishment.
 In another Report , I compared the FDA’s approval process for Remdesivir to Ivermectin. This appears to show stunning incompetence at the FDA.
 I have made this point before, but it’s worth repeating. The war we are engaged in is that powerful Left-wing forces (exterior and from within) are trying to take America down. One of their primary strategies to do this is to replace Science with political science. That is what this case is about, as the FDA is specifically arguing that they have the right to scrap Science and substitute political science — with impunity!
 Draw your own conclusions, but to me, this case is like a Molotov cocktail thrown into the Federal Government bureaucracy. Astoundingly, all three branches of our government are complicit with this nonsense.
 Some obvious questions that need to be answered and fixed are: 1) How did Congress give pharmaceutical companies such broad protections against self-serving unscientific actions? 2) How did the Executive branch allow agencies like the FDA to be run by parties that they are supposed to regulate? 3) How did our Judicial system allow bad actor agencies to arrange to have no real legal oversight?
 Considering that these failings are applicable to multiple federal agencies, is there any question why such things as COVID policies (and energy, and climate, and education, and immigration, and elections, etc., etc.) are a disaster?
 Hopefully, this lawsuit will crack open the door to fixing this horrific mess…
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 PS — What needs to be done now :
 1) Competent attorneys should file friend of the court briefs to support this nationally important case. Overturning the Chevron precedent would have extraordinarily positive benefits for almost ALL US citizens.
 2) Competent federal legislators should introduce a “Save America” bill (aka Agency Oversight Act ). This legislation will reign in ALL federal agencies, by providing timely and meaningful oversight (plus real penalties) to them all.

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