ICWA Weekly News 6-4-25
DOH Slow Rolls COVID-19 Shot Revisions; Legal site tabulates Medical Errors in Washington; Declassified White House Documents Conjure Memories of HB 1333.
In this issue:
Washington Department of Health Slow Rolls New HHS COVID-19 Shot Recommendations
Legal site tabulates Medical Errors in Washington
Declassified White House Documents Conjure Memories of HB 1333 (Domestic Violent Extremism Commission, 2023)
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Washington Department of Health Slow Rolls New HHS COVID-19 Shot Recommendations
At the March 13, 2024 Board of Health meeting in Anacortes, Washington Department of Health (DOH) Chief Medical Officer Tao Kwan-Gett said, “In the past, we’ve believed in staying in line with the CDC.”
So would that remain to be the case when on May 27, 2025 U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) would no longer recommend COVID-19 vaccines for healthy children and healthy pregnant women?
In a video posted on X, Kennedy was flanked by Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health, and Dr. Marty Makary, U.S. Food and Drug Administration commissioner, as he made the announcement.
Well, this past Friday, the DOH made the following announcement (or excuse?) for not being ready just yet to follow the HHS recommendation:
Earlier this week in a social media posting, Health & Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced changes to the recommendations for COVID-19 vaccines for healthy pregnant women and healthy children on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) immunization schedules.
The Washington State Department of Health (DOH) is yet to receive or locate any formal communication or publication about this change from CDC, and at the time of this statement, their immunization schedule remains unchanged. Providers should continue to offer and administer COVID-19 vaccines to all patients 6 months and older.
In other words, the DOH has refused to take Kennedy’s word for it when he said the following about the removal of the CDC recommendation:
“I couldn’t be more pleased to announce that as of today, the COVID vaccine for healthy children and healthy pregnant women has been removed from the CDC recommended immunization schedule,” Kennedy said.
Furthermore, as reported in The Hill, all the DOH had to do was to look for the “Shared clinical decision-making” section on the CDC website:
The CDC says children with no underlying health condition “may receive” COVID-19 vaccines, instead of broadly recommending that all children should get the inoculation. It now advises “shared clinical decision-making” between parents and physicians.
“Where the parent presents with a desire for their child to be vaccinated, children 6 months and older may receive COVID-19 vaccination, informed by the clinical judgment of a healthcare provider and personal preference and circumstances,” the guidelines now say.
The CDC website has been reporting for some time about what ‘shared clinical decision-making’ meant, as shown in this screenshot.
Generally stated, the CDC explains this type of recommendation: “Shared clinical decision-making vaccinations are individually based and informed by a decision process between the health care provider and the patient or parent/guardian.”
The WA DOH were likely very reluctant to change their COVID-19 Vaccine Information page. [archived here]. As of 8 am on May 29th, they stuck with their interim “we’re monitoring the situation” language.
We also note how the update is quickly followed by “The CDC recommends that everyone 6 months and older should get an updated 2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccine.” Keep this in mind as you read on.
The Hill article raised a valid point about the CDC providing conflicting or incomplete information on pregnancy recommendations:
The CDC’s website also continues to host pages of guidance recommending that pregnant women continue to receive the COVID-19 vaccine because of the higher risk they have of developing serious illness from the disease.
“Studies including hundreds of thousands of people around the world show that COVID-19 vaccination before and during pregnancy is safe, effective, and beneficial to both the pregnant woman and the baby,” the website states.
The Department of Health and Human Services has yet to respond to questions about the new guidelines from The Hill.
Later, on May 29th, the DOH did update their site to align with the new CDC information that addresses changed recommendations for healthy youth and for pregnant women – while at the same time contradicting the updates.
Note that this update still includes the statement “The CDC recommends that everyone 6 months and older should get an updated 2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccine,” in a blatant contradiction with the updated messaging by the Secretary of HHS. The DOH also links to an older CDC page on Staying Updated that is headed by a disclaimer that says the page is not yet updated. We wonder if the DOH is using this excuse to hold on to the 6-month and older recommendation. It looks more like they’re dragging their feet.
So, as of close of business Tuesday June 3, the DOH’s COVID Information page still includes many other blanket recommendations for kids as young as 6 months old, and much more work to-do to update flyers, which we’ll list because we’re just trying to help:
Getting Vaccinated to Protect Against COVID-19 Illness (wa.gov)
COVID-19 Vaccine Reference Guide for children 6 months to 4 years old (wa.gov)
As bothersome as it is to see this sitting-on-its-hands approach, the current DOH website gets even worse when one gets to the Frequently Asks Questions for the COVID-19 jabs.
For starters are the bullet points of conflicting lies for why Washington residents should get the COVID-19 shots.
In the first two bullet points, the DOH admits that the COVID-19 shots do not protect us from the virus by saying that they only keep us from getting more sick. Yet, the fourth bullet point contradicts this by implying that the shots somehow stop or slow transmission.
For some inexplicable reason, the DOH has remained oblivious to the clear evidence in the FDA briefing documents from a December 2020 ACIP meeting that revealed, “There is no evidence that the vaccines prevent transmission of COVID-19 from person-to-person.” [ICWA Weekly News 4-17-24]
In other words, the DOH is continuing to push the most damaging lie so far this century that the COVID-19 shots prevent transmission of the virus. which aided Governor Jay Inslee’s firing of 1,900 Washington state workers, the city of Kirkland’s firing of twelve of its firefighters, and PeaceHealth Hospital in Bellingham firing many hundreds of its workers, where over eighty sued.
The following from Vax Facts by Dr. Paul Thomas shows that the above FAQ needs a major overhaul:
The following are facts about COVID illness and shots that oppose what you usually hear from mainstream news, social media, or public health authorities. Physicians for Informed Consent (PIC) has compiled facts that challenge the assumptions used to justify COVID vaccine mandates in a document called, “COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates: 21 Scientific Facts That Challenge the Assumptions,”356 which provides all the references for the facts presented below:
Masks and vaccination do not prevent transmission or infection.
Vaccines had little-to-no impact on mortality, and in one study all deaths were in vaccinated individuals.
Serious adverse event data showed that, for every two COVID-19 hospitalizations prevented by COVID-19 shots, 10 serious adverse events would be triggered. [Footnote #364]
The DOH website still refuses to acknowledge the following serious adverse events following the COVID-19 shot, including 38,615 deaths reported to VAERS.
The DOH glosses over the varieties of observed adverse events in this response to another FAQ:
For an agency that previously claimed to defer to using CDC recommendations, one would think that the DOH would look at the following on the CDC website and mention the risks of anaphylaxis as well as myocarditis or pericarditis within three weeks after taking the jab. Plain and simply put, this is DOH negligence.
Beyond the CDC, the DOH should also be taking the time to look at independent reports and studies on adverse event report data. On the same day that the DOH announced that it was going to scurry around the new HHS COVID-19 shot recommendations, a Children’s Health Defense scientist Karl Jablonowski published a study in the European Society of Medicine Journal on the FDA and CDC’s failure to monitor and report the shot’s safety signals. It noted the following:
VAERS — a passive surveillance system that vaccine injury victims or their physicians can submit reports to — contains 1.6 million reports for the COVID-19 vaccines, the paper states.
According to Albert Benavides, a VAERS expert and founder of VAERSAware.com, “As of today, COVID-19 vaccines account for 78% of all deaths in VAERS.”
By 2022, VAERS data showed that the COVID-19 vaccines were associated with more injuries and deaths than all conventional vaccines combined in the previous three decades.
The DOH’s FAQ on COVID-19 shot injuries also leaves one to wonder whether the agency paid any attention to the May 21, 2025 Ron Johnson Senate Hearings.
In his newsletter to his constituents, Senator Johnson revealed this:
On May 21, I held my first hearing as chairman of the powerful U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI). The focus was on how federal health agencies downplayed the risk of myocarditis and other adverse events following COVID-19 vaccination.
For four years, the Biden administration tried to undermine access to information. My interim report, Failure to Warn: How Federal Health Agencies Downplayed the Risk of Myocarditis and Other Adverse Events Following COVID-19 Vaccination, does not contain FOIA redactions and finally provides the public with a more complete understanding of the Biden administration’s awareness of the risks of myocarditis following COVID-19 injection.
Here’s a brief timeline:
February 28, 2021: Israeli Ministry of Health notified officials at the CDC of "large reports of myocarditis, particularly in young people, following the Pfizer vaccine."
April 12, 2021: DOD consultant presented to federal health officials that the vaccine safety surveillance system lacked the ability to detect reports of myocarditis. Consultant questioned colleagues: "If you do not ask, you will not see it, but does that mean it does not exist?"
End of April, 2021: Senator Johnson asks then NIH Director Francis Collins about VAERS reporting 2,926 deaths worldwide within 30 days of injection. Collins responds, "Senator, people die.”
Granted, the CDC is probably still updating web sites and flyers to align with the updated HHS recommendations for pregnancy. Perhaps to their credit, they did remove this FAQ about Can I get the COVID-19 vaccine if I’m pregnant…so we thank them.
We note that the One Vax, Two Lives website still exists. Perhaps the DOH can remind those webmasters to just shut it down!
Again, was anyone at the DOH paying attention to the May 21 Ron Johnson hearings when OB-GYN Dr. James Thorp provided testimony on the dangers of the COVID-19 shots during pregnancy? The Vigilant Fox wrote the following about this testimony:
OB-GYN Dr. James Thorp delivered one of the most haunting moments of the hearing.
He said the COVID shots “MIRRORED” the effects of chemical abortion drugs—and the government knew what it was doing.
Dr. Thorp pointed to the now-infamous Shimabukuro study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, which claimed a 12.6% miscarriage rate following COVID vaccination.
But when you isolate the data for women vaccinated in the first trimester, the miscarriage rate rises to 82%, Dr. Thorp said. This 82% claim remains a topic of debate within the scientific community.
If true, “This figure mirrors the effects of chemical abort drugs,” Dr. Thorp lamented.
He added, “Recently, animal studies revealed the mRNA COVID vaccine causes the destruction of 60 PERCENT of the ovarian reserve in rats.”
If that effect translates to humans, it could be a catastrophic blow to fertility and the future of entire generations.
Dr. Thorp said pregnant women were deliberately targeted, and their unborn children paid the price.
“This must stop now,” he said.
And how can the DOH be so ignorant that they never took the time to look over the Pfizer COVID-19 shot documents submitted to the FDA? In her book Facing the Beast, Naomi Wolf reported the following:
The Volunteers found that while pregnant women were excluded from the internal studies, and thus from the EUA on which basis all pregnant women were assured the vaccine was “safe and effective,” nonetheless about 270 women were reported as pregnant in Pfizer’s post-marketing report. More than 230 of them were lost somehow to history. But of the 32 pregnant women whose outcomes were followed—28 lost their babies.
That is more than 80 percent.
The Volunteers found that a baby died after nursing from a vaccinated lactating mother and was found to have had an inflamed liver. Many babies nursing from vaccinated mothers showed agitation, gastrointestinal distress, failure to thrive (to grow), and were inconsolable.
I have heard anecdotal reports of these symptoms in babies nursing from vaccinated mothers, now, from across the country. The Pfizer documents also show that some vaccinated mothers had suppressed lactation or could produce no milk at all.
Doctors, of course, were stumped by all this. Stumped.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) database has a preprint study making the case that there is PEG in the breast milk of vaccinated women.[footnote #10]
But what does it mean that a petroleum product is appearing in mother’s milk, when you are a tiny newborn, just arriving in the world? The NIH preprint itself reported higher levels of GI distress and sleeplessness in the infants studied, and one mother had elevated PEG levels in breast milk.
And why has the DOH never acknowledged the 173 stillbirths following the COVID-19 jab?
Three stillborn cases reported to VAERS occurred in Washington, as we reported on November 15, 2022.
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
Last but not least, the following FAQ on the COVID-19 Information page illustrates the DOH’s unwillingness to act on Kennedy’s recommendation for children:
In a separate flyer, published in January of 2025, the DOH does provide linked information about MIS-C. Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children Associated with COVID-19 in Washington State. This scary-sounding condition occurred most often in King, Pierce and Snohomish counties.
How can the DOH be so bold as to not provide documentation to its claim that “half of reported pediatric COVID-19 deaths in the United States were in children with no underlying health conditions?”
It would be interesting to see the DOH try to challenge the following documented claim by Paul Thomas in Vax Facts:
As of Nov. 3, 2021, the chance of a child 17 years or younger contracting SARS-CoV-2 and dying from COVID-19 was 1 in 126,000 or 0.0008%.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 2023. “CDC Web Archive: Weekly Updates by Select Demographic and Geographic Characteristics: Provisional Death Counts for Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19).” cdc.gov. September 27.
The most enigmatic part of the last paragraph about MIS-C is that the DOH does not also refer to the entry in the CDC website, which shows a that MIS-C is listed as a “precaution” for the COVID-19 jabs
Vax Facts by Dr. Paul Thomas also reveals the following vaccinated versus unvaccinated fact concerning children:
COVID vaccine trials found no serious COVID illnesses in the unvaccinated children, but for every mild illness in the unvaccinated there were seven severe reactions in the vaccinated children.
Dr. Thomas uses the following seven references to support this claim that the DOH should take the time to study:
A Review of the Data Supporting Use of COVID-19 Vaccinations in the Pediatric Population - PMC
2021. “Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine: Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) Amendment for an Unapproved Product Review Memorandum—EUA 27034 (Amendment 132).” fda.gov. April 9. https://www.fda.gov/media/148542/download.
2021. “FDA Briefing Document: EUA Amendment Request for Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine for Use in Children 5 through 11 Years of Age.” fda.gov. October 26. https://www.fda.gov/media/153447/download.
Wallace, Megan. 2021. “ACIP COVID-19 Vaccines Work Group: Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE): Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine.” cdc.gov. May 12.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 2021. “Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE): Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine for Persons Aged 12-15 Years.” cdc.gov. May 14. https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/recs/grade/covid-19-pfizer-biontech-vaccine-12-15-years.html#table03d.
Pfizer. 2023. “Downloadable Archived Fact Sheets for Healthcare Providers, Recipients and Caregivers for Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine (through Summer 2023).” fda.gov. https://www.fda.gov/media/167193/download?attachment.
2022. “Physicians for Informed Consent Education: COVID-19 Vaccines.” Physicians for Informed Consent. https://physiciansforinformedconsent.org/covid-19-vaccines/.
Medical Errors in Washington
At the April 9 Board of Health (BOH) meeting Department of Health Chief Medical Officer Kwan-Gett said the following:
Measles activity continues to increase nationally and globally. Of course, we are closely following the Gaines County, Texas, outbreak, which has spread to eighteen additional counties in Texas as well as two surrounding states. Texas has reported nearly 500 cases, mostly centered around the Mennonite community. There are fifty-six hospitalizations and two deaths, both in children.
But as revealed by The Defender, both of those deaths, occurring at the same Covenant Children’s Hospital in Lubbock, Texas, were actually due to medical error, the third leading cause of death in the United States, an alarming topic that the Board of Health has never discussed.
The BOH should especially be concerned about this because of the top twenty-five states listed by Personal Injury San Diego legal site for the highest number of medical errors, Washington ranks number twenty-one.
States with the Most Medical Errors. The following table lists the top 25 states with the highest rates of medical errors per 1,000 hospital admissions based on recent data:
These states face challenges such as understaffing, overworked medical professionals, and high patient turnover, all of which can contribute to higher rates of medical errors.
Washington has 6.2 medical errors per 1,000 hospital admissions.
As for the state with the fewest medical errors, Vermont ranks first with 3.1 medical errors per 1,000 hospital admissions.
Personal Injury San Diego defines medical injuries in the following manner:
Medical errors encompass a wide range of issues, including surgical errors, medication errors, diagnostic errors, and healthcare-associated infections. They can occur in hospitals, outpatient clinics, nursing homes, and other healthcare settings. Common causes of medical errors include miscommunication among healthcare providers, inadequate information flow, human errors, and system failures.
Declassified White House Documents Conjure Memories of HB 1333
Last May 27, The Defender reported that the Biden administration designated critics of COVID-19 vaccine and mask mandates “Domestic Violent Extremists,” or DVEs, according to documents declassified by U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard following a Freedom of Information Act request by Public News and Catherine Herridge Reports.
The documents included a Dec. 13, 2021, report by the National Counterterrorism Center, the FBI and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) labeling views opposing mandates and restrictions as “prominent narratives” that may be connected to violent extremism, including militias and groups “motivated by QAnon.”
Does this sound too familiar for those of us here in Washington? Thanks to HB 1333, it sure does – namely, our coverage in ICWA Weekly News 11-27-24 🦃.
In early 2023, Rep. Bill Ramos of the 5th Legislative District, who served in the Senate and who recently passed away suddenly, was prime sponsor of House Bill 1333 which would establish a domestic violent extremism commission within the office of the attorney general. Attorney General Bob Ferguson, now our Governor, was in favor of this bill – of course. (Early coverage in ICWA Weekly News 2-22-23).
A presentation of the resulting study by the first Domestic Extremism commission included the following graph from the Anti-defamation League (ADL) naming who they perceived as domestic violent extremist groups, including anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers – those pesky people who keep saying “but what about this other data” and “this scientific report.”
The arrow in the graph makes a cause-and-effect accusation against parents and people who aren’t all ‘on-board’ with a liberal social agenda that is extreme in its own right, and imply a direct relationship to increased violence because school boards have been interrupted by passionate parents during the COVID debacle.
The Anti-Defamation League, in a desperate attempt to justify their existence, attempts to link passionate parents in heated school board meetings to increased violence of criminal nature.
See the entire slide presentation of the first commission report.
ICWA let out a collective sigh of relief when HB 1333 died, stalling in the Senate before a March 8 deadline of the 2023 session. ICWA basically stopped tracking it.
Well, last November, the Conservative Ladies of America (and Washington) found out that the intent of HB 1333 had actually been achieved and that a Domestic Extremism and Mass Violence Task Force was kicking off under the radar just before the Thanksgiving Holiday week.
The Task Force bill was hidden in an omnibus spending bill line item – a common tactic for divisive issues being forced by the majority party.
The Attorney General’s office was awarded $247,000 in the 2024 budget to create a task force to devise a statewide approach to combating political extremism and mass violence. This task force achieves a similar objective to HB 1333, but was able to be funded quietly during an election year and clearly, slipped through the cracks. The budget is 899 pages, but still…this is a big deal.
The next task force meeting is scheduled for September 12, 2025.
Who needs a meme after all that information?
Look at who funds UW and that should give you all the answers why our Medical in this State has gone so wrong!
Kennedy is shit.