ICWA Weekly News 10-24-23
Background story of lawsuit against Inslee & Peacehealth Hospitals; The DoH's Latest Target Market; More baseless promotion by DOH of simultaneous shots; Announcing Nov. 11th Medical Freedom Forum.
By Gerald Braude & ICWA Staff
In this Issue:
Interview with plaintiff and consultant in case against Peacehealth and Inslee
The DOH’s latest target market for COVID-19 Shots - Pregnancy
DOH continues to promote simultaneous shots; and exposing the psychological methods used to overcome hesitancy
Upcoming Event: Nov. 11th Medical Freedom Forum in Deer Park (Spokane) Featuring Shawn Needham, author of Sickened: How Government Ruined Healthcare
Great radio show links from Friday’s Informed Life Radio with Scott Schara & Carolyn Blakeman
Lead Plaintiff Speaks Out on her Complaint against the PeaceHealth Healthcare System and Governor Inslee
Aila Curtis began working for PeaceHealth in 2007. She was the only one working full time in a household of nine when the mandate came down that to keep her job, she had to take the COVID-19 shot.
No one could believe I was fired,” she said. “I have always supported my family. I was crushed by a political agenda. All nurses and doctors are taught in school that all patients have the right to say no to medications and procedures. We had an attorney come into our class to explain that federal law protects all of us from coercion and retaliation.
With that in mind, in the late summer of 2022, she and other nurses from PeaceHealth looked for someone to represent them and found litigation consultant Brian Ward.
For thirty years, Brian worked in Corporate America, solving complex problems. “I acquire knowledge quickly and have strong critical thinking skills to understand how to apply that knowledge in solving problems,” Brian told ICWA Weekly News. In October 2021, members of the United States Armed Forces contacted him, a non-lawyer, and asked him to solve their COVID-19 vaccination problem.
His web site, Covidpenalty.com, offers the following:
I am working with lawyers nationwide to help victims of vaccine mandate fraud. Please fill out the form below and tell me your story. Then, when the time is right, I’ll contact you to help. However, I can make no promise to do so. Be encouraged; God is always working on behalf of those that love Him. Disclaimer: This is not an offer to provide legal services. This is an offer to help finance your litigation and provide expert consultation services for that effort. You ALWAYS had the right to refuse without losing a benefit!
To be able to support the U.S. Armed Forces, he had to really dig in and learn more than he expected.
I had to spend 1,500 hours researching the biomedical and behavioral research industry to understand the issue's complexities and how to solve it. Factually speaking, I had to start in 1905 America when Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle and work my way through legislative history to effectively understand our rights. Our rights came about in 1974 after Senator Edward Kennedy held live hearings regarding medical research abuses in America in 1973. Congress passed the National Research Act, resulting in the absolute right to refuse unlicensed medical products.
Brian soon learned that helping Aila and the others required far more problem-solving skills than he initially thought because, “The legal community in Washington State has more or less abandoned America. Therefore, in January of 2023, I sought a lawyer with significant federal court experience but one who had yet to be deeply involved in the COVID-19 battle.”
This is when he discovered David Schexnaydre and the Schexnaydre Law Firm.
He is a warm, personable, and patriotic cajun, sincerely devoted to helping others. He agreed to learn of my research and travel the nation with me, initiating lawsuits on behalf of healthcare heroes destroyed by rogue political actors. He’s the attorney, and I’m the litigation consultant.
With their help, Aila and the original 63 plaintiffs filed a complaint (See Weekly News from 9-5-23) in the United States District Court, Western District of Washington against their former employer and Washington Governor Jay Inslee for “damages arising out of their unconstitutional, unlawful, malicious, unequal and contractually violative COVID-19 investigational drug mandate.” In addition to the governor and the PeaceHealth organization, the other named defendants were PeaceHealth policymakers CEO Liz Dunne and Chief Physician Executive (CPE) Doug Koekkoek.
The complaint was amended since then and the number of plaintiffs from PeaceHealth grew to eighty-two.
Aila commented on the coercive environment at the time and hopes that others may hear about their case.
I know there were many who didn't want the medication but buckled under economic pressure at the last minute. I think there are many who don't know about this lawsuit. Once the news disperses the information, I am sure more will speak out.”
David Schexnaydre was one of two attorneys who submitted the complaint. The other attorney was Charice Holtsclaw out of Bellingham. “Charice is awesome and a true champion,” Brian said. “You will see her name on other complaints soon enough.”
Another legal complaint has in fact been filed: a 104-page legal complaint by Jane Roberts and eleven plaintiffs against Governor Inslee and six defendants from Shriners Hospital for Children in Spokane.
The Description of Cause of Action in the filing complaint reads as follows:
This is a 1983 case seeking redress from Defendants for the deprivation of Plaintiffs’ Constitutional and federally secured right to refuse an EUA investigational drug without incurring a penalty or loss of benefits to which Plaintiffs were otherwise entitled.
In addition to the two complaints filed here in Washington, Brian has led the way on a case against Peace Health and Governor Kate Brown in Oregon, against the University of Colorado Hospital, and the Houston Methodist Hospital in Texas.
The Curtis, et al, filing against PeaceHealth explains the damaging actions committed by Governor Inslee while hiding behind the PREP Act, originally signed into law in 2005, and by PeaceHealth executives Dunne and Koekkoek.
Brian hopes to put an end to this kind of surreptitious governance:
I have a passion for bringing suit in federal court to have the PREP Act ruled as unconstitutional. Should that act be voided, so would all mandates because all drugs would then be required to prove their safety and efficacy via the market.
Most do not know that if a person enters into a hospital for complications with any disease and is injured, the hospital could claim they were under ‘increased burdened’ due to extra COVID or influenza patients, and therefore, that injury, having nothing to do with COVID, would then preclude judicial relief. All COVID-19 drugs and Influenza vaccines are under the PREP Act. The PREP Act voids state sovereignty, is an abuse of the separation of powers, and when a person is mandated to participate, their due process is prospectively violated. The PREP Act has emboldened malfeasance in America, and without its removal, the darkness will continue.
Brian’s case is built on the following four significant points:
Congress only authorizes the House of Human Services (HHS) secretary to grant access to EUA or PREP Act products,
Congress requires the HHS Sec to outline conditions by which that access can occur,
Congress restricts the HHS Sec from having authority to require anyone to participate, and
by extension, all US States and Its Territories are also restricted from requiring involuntary participation. Therefore, all COVID-19 and influenza mandates were and still are illegal.
Brian hopes these cases will stop state executive leaders before they enact discriminatory or restrictive measures again. “We are suing hospital executives and state agencies that enabled these human rights abuses via laws and customs. Our goal is to help other lawyers start obtaining declaratory judgments to end the madness sooner than these cases will take.”
In the meantime, nothing has changed for Aila since the suit has been filed. Although she has taken a job with Uber, she has felt isolated in the last two years from her PeaceHealth coworkers whom she had worked with for a long time.
Some thought what I did was wrong. Some supported me. I believe we should all stand up for ourselves. We are stronger together. More healthcare workers need to know the truth. I am hopeful more eyes will open at the devastation and toll it has on our families.
Nevertheless, she says she is blessed to have the full support of her family. She is now taking care of her mother full time as well.
Aila’s provided us with some general comments about the pandemic responses:
Absolute power corrupts absolutely. There are those who felt justified for their actions. I pray those will see the error in their ways and make amends. I am doubtful. It is God’s will not mine. I will continue to pray for guidance and healing for my heart. I will pray for relief of all the pain that has been inflicted on those affected by this madness.
Anyone wishing to consult with Brian Ward can go fill out his form at CovidPenalty | Securing Justice For Covid Mandate Abuse.
Brian asks for your support in funding these efforts, which could be long and drawn out as we see our agencies and officials fighting to retain the government’s ability to take people’s rights away - with our tax dollars (Yes, that is what it amounts to). DONATE TO COVID PENALTY.
The DOH’s Latest Target Market for COVID-19 Shots - Pregnancy
When Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN) Attorney Aaron Siri addressed the Arizona State Senate last June (see video), he criticized the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) for acting as a marketing agent for the pharmaceutical industry.
It should be a cold, hard, regulating agency that critically looks at the data and decides whether its safe and effective and nothing more. But instead, it uses itself as part of an industry and goes out and promotes their products.
If Siri were to look at the Washington Department of Health (DOH) newsletters, he’d see the same is being done locally. First, the DOH refers to the CDC’s report that “Re-emphasizes the importance of efforts to improve vaccination (influenza, Tdap, and COVID-19) amongst pregnant people.”
The newsletter then provides a link to a “Pregnancy and COVID-19 Vaccine Toolkit” to help providers push the COVID-19 shots. They offer guidance and answers for all hesitations.
The last paragraph in the opening section of the toolkit reads more like something one would expect to see in a marketing brochure from Pfizer or Moderna than from a public health agency:
Vaccination against COVID-19 during pregnancy is safe, effective, and recommended. Vaccination during pregnancy may help protect the baby from COVID-19 illness prior to their vaccine eligibility at 6 months. A recent study conducted by DOH found that most pregnant people, even if hesitant about the vaccine, will get vaccinated against COVID-19 if their medical provider recommends it. It is important to recommend the COVID-19 vaccine to people who are pregnant, planning to become pregnant, or recently postpartum. This toolkit will provide resources and premade materials that will make conversations about the COVID-19 vaccine before, during, and after pregnancy easier and more effective.
Unlike the previous DOH newsletter that showed no specific studies to back the DOH’s claim that mixing COVID-19 shots with flu and RSV shots is effective (it never mentioned safety), this new newsletter supported its claim with two studies.
The first was published on the JAMA Network.
The Discussion section in the article came to the following conclusions:
This study found that the majority of infants born to COVID-vaccinated mothers had persistent anti-S antibodies at 6 months compared with infants born to mothers with SARS-CoV-2 infection. Understanding the persistence of maternal antibody levels in infants is important because COVID-19 infections in this age group account for a disproportionate burden of pediatric SARS-CoV-2–associated morbidity6 and because COVID-19 vaccines are not currently planned for administration to infants younger than 6 months. Study limitations include the small number of infants, the longer mean time to follow-up in the infected group (due to pragmatic constraints related to timing of COVID-19 surges in Boston and the availability of participants for timely follow-up), and the reporting of antibody titers rather than clinical outcomes. Although the antibody titer known to be protective against COVID-19 in infants is unknown, these findings provide further incentive for pregnant individuals to pursue COVID-19 vaccination.
We emphasize the last sentence to illustrate the author’s ability to leap to conclusions. We often see this formula – ‘although we don’t know, you should still pursue vaccination.’
The DOH toolkit provided the following bullet point conclusions from the study:
At the time of delivery, mothers who were vaccinated with mRNA vaccines while pregnant had levels of protective antibodies three times higher than mothers who got sick with COVID-19 while pregnant.
Serum samples were collected from 28 babies born to vaccinated mothers. Sixteen of those babies (57%) still had antibodies against COVID-19 in their systems when they were 6 months old.
Serum samples were also collected from 12 babies born to mothers infected with SARS-CoV-2 during pregnancy. Only one of those babies (8%) still had antibodies at age 6 months.
As you can see, the sample size is extremely small relative to the target population, namely all who are pregnant.
The DOH toolkit then delves into the second study in the Journal from The Japanese Society of Vaccinology that looked at various shot combinations and how much antibody activity occurred in newborns:
Another study published in August of 2023 measured antibody responses to COVID-19 mRNA vaccines in pregnant participants previous years and antibody levels in cord blood. This study reported the effects of primary series vs booster vaccination in pregnant people and their newborns. People who received a previous years booster dose during pregnancy were found to have a substantial increase in antibodies in both parent and newborn at time of delivery. This higher level of antibodies is shown to reduce risk of hospitalizations in newborns in the first few months of life before they are eligible for vaccination.
But neither study addresses whether these increases in antibody responses to COVID-19 help. Dr. Toby Rogers covered the issue with measuring antibody responses in his June 14, 2022 article published in The Defender and quoted one of the FDA’s experts:
As I pointed out yesterday, the VRBPAC concluded at the April 6 meeting that there are no known “correlates of protection” that one can use to predict who will be immune to SARS-CoV-2.
As Eric Rubin, Harvard Professor and editor of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) states, “We know what kind of antibody response can be generated; we just don’t know if it works.
Furthermore, Dr. Joseph Mercola, published in The Defender on January 22, 2021 an article about the chances of COVID-19 transmission during pregnancy:
A study of sixty-four pregnant women who were infected with coronavirus shows that no vertical — mom-to-baby — transmission of COVID-19 occurred with anyone in the study.
While the position of the placenta may provide fetal protection in utero, the researchers found unexpectedly low transference of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies from mother to child and no infant in the study tested positive for COVID-19, researchers said.
Inside the shaded blue box in the toolkit on page three, the DOH makes the following safety claim: “There is no evidence that the vaccine causes any problems related to pregnancy, development of the baby, birth, or fertility.”
Perhaps, the DOH may want to take a look at the following “evidence” that refutes this claim.
The Expose published a July 19, 2022 article about Pfizer and medicine regulators suppressing clinical data that showed alarming abnormalities in the developing fetus after the pregnant mother took the COVID-19 shot.
The article stated that this fraud and deception, “Caused at least 4,113 fetal deaths due to COVID-19 vaccination in the USA alone.”
A November 15, WA News Weekly Update showed 148 stillbirths after taking the COVID-19 shots during pregnancy were reported VAERS.
Since that time, the number has increased to 162 stillbirths.
Three stillborn cases reported to VAERS occurred in Washington. They are below.
VAERS ID: 1479059
A 31-year old’s onset began two days after taking the first dose of the Pfizer shot on May 28, 2021. Below is the submitted write-up to VAERS:
I was pregnant with a baby boy, and the due date was 09/14/2021. I took my first vaccine of Pfizer-Biontech (Lot: EW0175) on 05/28/2021. On 05/30, I started feeling short of breath and soreness on both upper arms on the afternoon. The shortness of breath lasted several hours and ended before I went to bed on 05/30. The soreness on arms lasted more than twelve hours till the afternoon of 05/31. I did no take any medicine. No other obvious reaction after the night of 05/31/2021. However, I started to feel fewer activities of the baby fewer than five days after the vaccination. On 06/08, I went to hospital and took an ultrasound to check the status of baby for the concern of no feeling of baby movement. The examine results were read by my OB doctor as everything normal of the baby with normal-high amount of amniotic fluid that makes mom feel less movement. We did see the baby move. But he was less active than what we saw on ultrasound before (20-week gestation). Another thing noticeable is that the baby did not practice breathing during the 45-minute ultrasound. The OB read it as normal to not see it so frequently on 26-week gestation. On the evening of 06/11, I went to have an emergency care as I still could not feel the baby’s movement. The doctors confirmed that my baby boy’s heart stopped beating, and the death time was within two to three days. During 06/15-06/17, I was hospitalized to do labor induction of the baby. I took oral misoprostol for inducing the labor (three times, two pills the first time, three pills the second and third time). I took both Tylenol and Ibuprofen for the fever caused by misoprostol. I took epidural around 1pm of 06/16 for anesthesia. The baby came out around 5pm of 06/16 and identified as stillbirth. On 07/16, I took my second doze of Pfizer-Biontech vaccine (Lot: EW0191) . I am in observation of my reactions.
VAERS ID: 1814238
A 34-year-old’s onset began 197 days after taking a second Pfizer dose on April 1, 2021. Below is the write-up submitted to VAERS:
Baby born stillborn to vaccinated mother. Was pregnant at start of second trimester when vaccine was received. Pregnancy seemed to progress uncomplicated. Due date was 10/8/21. Baby was moving around as had a heartbeat on 10/8/21. A scheduled C-section was set for 10/15/21. Upon arrival to hospital for scheduled C-section, the baby was found to have no heartbeat and was born stillborn. Nothing visibly wrong with baby girl (e.g. no cord wrapped around neck, no obvious trauma or deformities not viable to life, etc.).
VAERS ID: 1914564
A 28-year-old’s onset began twenty-three days after taking a second Pfizer dose on May 5, 2021. Below is the write-up submitted to VAERS:
Pregnancy 1- Chemical Pregnancy (5-week) - Miscarriage Pregnancy 2- Congenital disorder (Edwards Syndrome) - Stillbirth at 20-weeks
The same ICWA article also mentioned that the second half of the November 10, 2022 The Highwire featured James Thorp, MD, a 43-year obstetrician and high-risk pregnancy expert, who discussed the rise in fetal deaths after the introduction of the COVID-19 shots. Michelle Gershman, a nurse in the maternity ward of a Central California hospital, then presented the following internal e-mail concerning stillborn babies:
September 8, 2022
Good morning everyone:
Well, it seems as though the increase of the demise patients that we are seeing is going to continue. There were 22 demises in August, which ties the record number of demises in July 2021, and so far in September there have been 7, and it’s only the eighth day of the month. Now these statistics include [redacted] so you haven’t seen all of them, and some have also gone through the ED’s and OR’s, but there have still been so many in our department. It’s a lot of work for you as the bedside RN’s, and it’s also a lot of work for me. Demises have taken a lot of time away from the other groups of patients I serve, so I hope this trend doesn’t continue indefinitely. I know of a few more that are scheduled to deliver in the week ahead, so unfortunately the process is going to be very familiar with all of you. Once again, I do appreciate the time and attention that you give to the patients. When I follow up with them, they remember your names and the way you helped them get through a difficult time.
After receiving the e-mail, Gershman said that she could not work for the first half of her shift. The show’s host, Del Bigtree, called the e-mail “shocking.”
In this same ICWA article, ICWA president Bernadette Pajer noted that the nurse’s email mentioned fifty-one stillbirths in her one California hospital in just three of the months between July of 2021 and September of 2022. “If any of those women had received a COVID shot, the stillbirth should have been reported to VAERS. That’s the law. Whether or not the medical provider thinks the shot caused an adverse reaction, the law requires the event to be reported. And yet in all of California so far, VAERS shows just seven stillbirths following receipt of a Covid-19 shot. This is yet another example of the extreme under-reporting of that flawed system.”
DOH Continues to Promote Simultaneous Shots and Exposing the Psychological Methods Used to Overcome Hesitancy
Informed Choice Washington continues to be concerned as we point out that the Washington Department of Health (DOH) does not cite any “clinical data” to substantiate their claim of effectiveness. They also remain silent on safety.
In their newsletter last week, the DOH promoted combining shots even further with the following headline:
PROMOTING UPTAKE OF COVID-19, INFLUENZA, AND RSV VACCINES FOR FALL 2023 – WA DOH Newsletter
They imply this mixture as a time for celebration:
Fall 2023 marks the first time that vaccines for three respiratory illnesses - COVID-19, seasonal influenza, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) - will be available simultaneously. If taken, these vaccines can mitigate increases in cases, hospitalizations, and deaths that could strain the healthcare system, negatively impact the economy, and add to stress for individuals and families over the coming months.
This point in the newsletter would have been the right time for the DOH to provide the efficacy and safety data for this mixture. Instead, through the National Academies’ Societal Experts Action Network (SEAN), the DOH promotes co-administration even more:
We are happy to share the most recent rapid expert consultation from the National Academies' Societal Experts Action Network (SEAN). The rapid expert consultation, Promoting Uptake of COVID-19, Influenza, and RSV Vaccines for Fall 2023, addresses communication strategies and practical strategies for overcoming accessibility challenges to promote uptake of the COVID-19, flu, and RSV vaccines this fall.
This reference was another opportunity where they could have provided safety and efficacy data when co-administering these shots.
Instead, the SEAN page only further promoted the combination, notably in the following sections:
ABOUT THIS RAPID EXPERT CONSULTATION State, tribal, local, and territorial authorities can be instrumental in promoting these vaccines. This rapid expert consultation describes vaccination strategies for fall 2023 that are based on current research in science communication, decision making, sociology, anthropology, and social psychology.
They have sections that address:
Key communication strategies
Using data to highlight susceptibility to infection
Using trusted messengers
No Data.
The DOH could have again provided co-administration data during the very recent October 24th COVID-19 and RSV Vaccine Updates Webinar. Slide 10 promoted co-administration and came with references to other sites.
This slide is concerning: by itself, it mentions no limits for how many shots can be co-administered, and will possibly be interpreted by providers that it’s ok for COVID-19/RSV/Flu shots during the same visit for other childhood shots - another untested scenario. That’s a lot of shots.
For a moment, there was hope that the link to the CDC’s General Best Practice Guidelines for Immunization would finally have some data or study references. Looking at the Guideline section for simultaneous shots, and searching for text like COVID-19 and RSV yielded no information on co-administration of the specific shots being touted by our DOH.
Then we looked at the Health Alert Network (HAN) for any guidance or data. The guidance is:
Healthcare providers can co-administer the vaccines for which a patient is eligible in the same visit, including RSV, COVID-19, and influenza vaccines…
Sad face emoji – no citations. Clicking on other references and links on the HAN site turned up no co-administration data.
So, during the Oct. 24th lunchtime presentation, ICWA vice-president Bob Runnells took the opportunity to ask the presenters for co-administration data in the Zoom Q&A window. They responded with the same link to the CDC site on General Guidelines. He then pointed out that the site had no data or studies on combined shots. There was no further answer, even during the live Q&A session at the end of the webinar when numerous questions in the Q&A chat were answered.
In our opinion, the DOH is just one of the cash-laden cars locked to a runaway HHS/CDC/FDA train. It seems like only a matter of time before it crashes in spectacular fashion.
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