ICWA Weekly News 6-12-24

Doctor's Free Speech Case May Help Stockton v. Ferguson appeal; are Covid shots causing hearing loss? The DoH is Big Promotor for Big Pharma; LAUSD Case could stop shot mandates; NY Times Flip-flop.

Gerald Braude

Informed Choice Washington

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Jun 12, 2024

In this issue:

Landmark First Amendment Decision Could Have Bearing on Stockton versus Ferguson
Tinnitus in Washington following COVID-19 Shots
DOH Continues to Act as a Marketing Agent for Big Pharma
National News: Vaccine Mandate Case Against LA Unified Schools Revitalized with Possible Huge Ramifications
National News: Surprising New York Times Articles - Has the COVID Narrative Flipped?

June 7 Episode of Informed Life Radio - - notes and links

Health Hour: Why is Redox Homeostasis Important?

Guest: Laura Dentone explains the importance of normal cellular processes in our body and how we can support them.

Life with Redox – Redox Science
https://redox.works/
Phone number: 775-577-8600

Liberty Hour: New EU Laws Censor & Harm Americans

Guest: Dr. Xavier Figueroa
While the world has been distracted by threats from the WHO, new European Union laws and rules quietly went into effect and they impact citizens and businesses in the United States. Through the ever-tightening nooses of these new laws, the enforcement has begun that will censor free speech, force use of digital IDs, and bully businesses to comply with ESG. Companies that refuse to comply to the EU’s new laws and rules will be financially penalized and/or forced out of business.

Landmark First Amendment Decision Could Have a Bearing on Stockton versus Ferguson

It feels like lawsuits against COVID-era transgressions are finally getting traction. In this first case we cover, we hope it’s not too late to help the Stockton v Ferguson case recently dismissed in Washington state.

The American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) scored a landmark First Amendment/Free Speech victory on June 3.

The influential United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that there is a constitutional “right to hear” that enables a sponsor of conferences, such as AAPS, to challenge censorship that chills presentations at its events.

AAPS sued three medical specialty boards for their threatened actions against the board certifications of physicians because of speaking out on medical controversies. Physicians earned and need these board certifications in order to practice medicine in most hospitals and remain in most insurance networks, as AAPS General Counsel Andrew Schlafly pointed out.

Defendants are the American Board of Internal Medicine (“ABIM”), the American Board of Family Medicine (“ABFM”), and the American Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology (“ABOG”). In addition, Alejandro Mayorkas, Biden’s Homeland Security Secretary, is a defendant due to alleged government interference with freedom of speech.

Fifth Circuit Judge James Ho agreed with the panel majority on the key issues and wrote separately to decry attempts by some today to impose censorship on others. “In America, we don’t fear disagreement—we embrace it. We persuade—we don’t punish. We engage in conversation—not cancellation,” Judge Ho wrote.

We know how to disagree with one another without destroying one another. Or at least that’s how it’s supposed to work,” Judge Ho added as he sided fully with this lawsuit against censorship.
With this landmark ruling in favor of the First Amendment, our country can end improper censorship of viewpoints,” Andrew Schlafly stated. “This landmark ruling will be cited nationwide for decades to come.

The question here in Washington is whether this case can be cited in an expected appeal of Stockton versus Ferguson. Here, we repeat some of our latest coverage from May 28.

On May 22, In the United States District Court, Eastern District of Washington, Judge Thomas O. Rice dismissed the case pursued by Children’s Health Defense (CHD) lawyers, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., against Attorney General Bob Ferguson and the Washington Medical Commission (WMC) for silencing doctors’ public speech. Stockton v Ferguson plaintiffs included NBA legend John Stockton of Spokane, Dr. Richard Eggleston, Dr. Thomas Siler, Dr. Dan Moynihan, members of the Washington chapter of Children’s Health Defense, and many as-yet unnamed plaintiffs who have all experienced the effects of WMC policies that are being used for needless harassment.

In his decision, Judge Thomas wrote that the WMC’s big brother edicts took precedent over the First Amendment right of free speech:

… the Commission may fully regulate professional conduct of physicians licensed to practice in this state. States may regulate professional conduct, even though that conduct incidentally involves speech. Tingley v. Ferguson, 47 F.4th 1055, 1074 (9th Cir. 2022). “[C]onduct may indicate unfitness to practice medicine if it raises reasonable concerns that the individual may abuse the status of being a physician in such a way as to harm members of the public, or if it lowers the standing of the medical profession in the public's eyes.” Haley v. Med. Disciplinary Bd., 117 Wash. 2d 720, 733 (1991). The Commission’s regulation of medical professionals does not violate the First Amendment … The State has not prevented them from hearing what they want to hear. As such, Plaintiffs’ First Amendment claims must be dismissed.

Rick Jaffe, who is arguing the case for CHD, will be taking this case to the Ninth Circuit of Appeals and has filed the intent to do so. He told ICWA the following:

The plan was always to present the case to the appellate court (and possibly even the Supreme Court). The only way to do that is to pass through the district court. We hope and expect the ninth circuit court of appeals to address the merits of the case, because of the importance of the First Amendment issue and the undeniable fact that the WMC is actively prosecuting physicians for their soap box speech.

The question now is how will the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decision play out in the Ninth Circuit.

Tinnitus in Washington following COVID-19 Shots

The Mayo Clinic describes tinnitus as, “When you experience ringing or other noises in one or both of your ears. The noise you hear when you have tinnitus isn't caused by an external sound, and other people usually can't hear it.”

The Mayo Clinic defines tinnitus as:

Tinnitus is a common problem. It affects about 15% to 20% of people, and is especially common in older adults. Tinnitus is usually caused by an underlying condition, such as age-related hearing loss, an ear injury or a problem with the circulatory system.

Well, last Friday, Dr. Jessica Rose authored an article in the Expose’ on a study that explains the uptick in tinnitus as being caused by COVID-19 shots.

The researchers noted that symptoms of tinnitus started soon after receiving a covid injection, the frequency of cases was higher after the first dose and more women suffered from vaccine-induced tinnitus than men. The difference in the number of cases between women and men increased with age.

Dr. Rose said of the study:

The paper was published in Frontiers in Pharmacology on 22 May 2024 and is entitled ‘Covid-19 vaccination-related tinnitus is associated with pre-vaccination metabolic disorders’.¹ The paper demonstrates a causal link between tinnitus and covid-19 injections using a survey on 398 cases of covid-19 injection-related tinnitus, and 699,839 covid-19 injection-related reports in the VAERS from 2021.

Dr. Rose listed seven main points from the study:

Tinnitus report frequencies for Pfizer, Moderna and Janssen vaccines in VAERS are 47, 51 and 70 cases per million full vaccination;
The symptom onset was often rapid;
More women than men reported tinnitus and the sex difference increased with age;
For 2-dose vaccines, the frequency of tinnitus was higher following the first dose than the second dose;
For 2-dose vaccines, the chance of worsening tinnitus symptoms after the second dose was approximately 50%;
Tinnitus was correlated with other neurological and psychiatric symptoms; and,
Pre-existing metabolic syndromes were correlated with the severity of the reported tinnitus.

We summarize Dr. Rose’s analysis and thoughts on the first three points and take a look at comparable Washington state data.

On the first point regarding peer-review and study reproducibility:

I can confirm and corroborate almost every single one of these points using only VAERS data, and in science, reproduction is ESSENTIAL. It is staggering how many (percentage-wise) peer-reviewed studies cannot be replicated.

She then provided analysis on the first point regarding tinnitus report frequencies:

Dr. Rose summarized: The number of reports for Pfizer, Moderna and Janssen I pulled are 24, 27 and 70 per million doses administered. As for “full injection”, or 2 doses, the rates are 47, 57, 73.

ICWA’s research of the VAERS data shows 26,208 cases of tinnitus in the United States and its territories.

In Washington, 583 cases of tinnitus have been reported to VAERS following the COVID-19 shots.

Dr. Rose then moved on to her second observation - The symptom onset was often rapid.

Indeed, it was. 28% of all reports were filed immediately and 58% of all tinnitus reports were filed within 48 hours.

In Washington, the onset of tinnitus just after twenty-four hours is at a staggering 120 cases of the 583.

Tinnitus, or loss of hearing due to ringing in the ears, by itself doesn’t ‘sound’ so severe. But depending on the severity, it can be debilitating and has been accompanied by other potentially severe reactions. So, as we do, here are highlights of the more descriptive VAERS write-ups on early-onset tinnitus:

65-year-old female: Fever of 101, chills, nausea, fatigue, headache, ringing of the ears, left arm soreness, muscle pain. Medication - 1 gram of Tylenol every 8 hours. By 2/6/2021, remaining symptoms are fatigue, ringing in the ears, and headache. All other symptoms are improved.
49-year-old male: Left sided tinnitus. Worsened after second vaccination.
44-year-old female: Approximately 24 hours after receiving the vaccine I felt like I had a mild flu with achy body and chills, I was tired and slept. This lasted for about a day. 48 hours after the vaccine my eye sight became blurry, my ears began ringing and my face became tingly around mouth and cheeks. The tingling is intermittent but the ear ringing and blurry vision has been fairly constant.
12-year-old female: Loud noise in right ear on going , fever, injection site red and swollen.
26-year-old male: Worse than normal tinnitus in right ear. Normally have mild tinnitus in both ears, but the right ear became worse after the vaccine.
27-year-old female: Besides regular side effects, I developed tinnitus in both ears; it’s been a week after the vaccine, and it’s not getting better. My husband had a mild tinnitus in his right ear and now tinnitus became unbearable. We both had Moderna.
29-year-old male: The morning after my second Moderna Covid shot. I heard deep whistling in my ears. Ever since I’ve had a buzzing in my ears that is the worst when I first wake up. It is tinnitus, and I’ve had it for about a week. I’m going crazy, and I would have not taken the shot if I knew this was going to happen.

In the Expose’ article, Dr. Rose presented data on her third observation on sex differences where women are more likely to experience it.

Indeed, 59% of the reports for tinnitus were filed for women and there the ratio of women to men reporting tinnitus to VAERS increased for women in the age groups over 50.

Dr. Rose’s observations held true for women in Washington as well, where 324 of the 583 reports were women. Of those 324 women, 207 of them were over fifty years old.

DOH Continues to Act as a Marketing Agent for Big Pharma

A year ago, Aaron Siri of the Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN) gave nearly two hours of testimony to the Arizona state senate about the federal government’s policies that have led to public distrust in vaccinations, most recently and notably the COVID-19 shots.

The July 3, 2023 issue of ICWA Weekly News quoted this part of Siri’s testimony:

Why did the HHS abandon its vaccination safety duties? The problem is HHS is hopelessly conflicted. Congress made HHS, which of course includes the FDA and CDC, not only responsible for vaccine safety, but also responsible for promoting vaccines, and when an agency is responsible for doing both promoting and safety, they come into conflicts of interest, and one of them wins out. And here the promotion function won out.

The same conflicts of interest exist for the Washington Department of Health (DOH).

A year after we covered Siri’s Arizona legislative testimony, the DOH continues their promotional function for the pharmaceutical industry, without question or any scientific contribution of their own. For starters, last week the DOH began its newsletter with its usual question of the week to promote vaccines:

Q: DO PEOPLE UNDER 50 NEED COVID-19 VACCINES?

A: Yes. Though the majority of COVID-19 deaths have occurred in the over 50 population, there can be other serious outcomes caused by COVID-19. Many under age 50 feel that the potential side effects of the COVID-19 vaccines are not worth the protection the vaccine offers, and while side effects can occur, the risks of COVID-19 vaccines are far fewer than the risks of COVID-19 infection. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that Long COVID was more likely to occur in those ages 35-49, compared to those 65 years and older.
A study looking at the benefits of COVID-19 vaccination campaigns found that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ We Can Do This COVID-19 public education campaign resulted in 2,576,133 fewer mild COVID-19 cases, 243,979 fewer nonfatal COVID-19 hospitalizations, and 51,675 lives saved from COVID-19.
The CDC recommends the 2023–2024 updated COVID-19 vaccines for everyone 6 months and older to protect against serious illness from COVID-19.

The DOH newsletter also mentioned how they’re incentivizing giving shots, by way of an award, for injecting Big Pharma’s vaccines:

ENROLLMENT ENDS TODAY: LONG-TERM CARE (LTC) IMMUNIZATION AWARD FOR 2023-2024
Today is the last day to enroll for recognition with the new LTC Respiratory Immunization Award! This award recognizes health care worker respiratory immunization rates for COVID-19 and flu vaccines.
As a reminder, the data reporting period is from May 1, 2023, to April 30, 2024. Provider data must be reported by June 3, 2024.

Great plan, huh? Coerce the coercers to make sure the state government doesn’t run afoul of informed consent law. Not that informed consent law has been adhered to by the state during the pandemic (See: public access discrimination, coercive mandates, and worker firings).

The DOH newsletter then used the fear factor to get parents to vaccinate their children for pertussis:

PERTUSSIS ALERT
The Washington State Department of Health (DOH) Health Alert Network (HAN) recently sent an advisory about the rise of pertussis (whooping cough) cases in multiple jurisdictions. As of May 4, 2024, there have been a total of 170 confirmed or probable cases of pertussis across 15 counties in Washington. This marks a sixfold increase in reported pertussis cases as compared to this time last year.
For more information, please refer to the Weekly Pertussis Update. The report is updated each Friday.
Office of Immunization vaccine recommendations:
All children should receive a series of DTaP at ages 2, 4, and 6 months. Boosters should be given at ages 15-18 months and at 4-6 years.
Adolescents should receive a single dose of Tdap (instead of Td) at the 11-12-year-old visit.
Adolescents and adults who have not received a dose of Tdap, or whose vaccine status is unknown, should receive a single dose of Tdap.
Children 7-10 years old who did not complete a series of pertussis-containing vaccine before their seventh birthday should receive a single dose of Tdap. If needed, they should complete their series with Td or Tdap. If a Tdap dose is administered at age 10 or older, the Tdap dose may count as the adolescent Tdap dose.
All healthcare personnel, regardless of age, should receive a single dose of Tdap if they have not previously received Tdap and regardless of the time since the last dose of Td.
Pregnant teens and adults should receive Tdap during each pregnancy, preferably between 27 and 36 weeks of gestation.
Mothers who have never received Tdap and who do not receive it during pregnancy should receive it immediately postpartum (following birth).

The DOH doesn’t provide the vaccination status of the 170 confirmed or suspected cases, except for infants. They report “Of the 29 infants who had pertussis so far in 2024: 25 were old enough to have received a dose of pertussis-containing vaccine, and 4 (14%) had received at least one dose.” Since the vaccines do not prevent infection or transmission, and outbreaks occur in fully vaccinated populations, DOH should not assume a 100% vaccination rate would have prevented the 25 from infection. But they should understand—if they are keeping up on the science—that the 25 infants who were not vaccinated and who experienced pertussis now have naturally acquired immunity, while the 4 who are vaccinated and got sick anyway, are still susceptible to infection because of the immune-skewing effects of the shots. See the Cherry study. While natural pertussis immunity is not lifetime, it does provide far longer-lasting and broader protection than the shots.

For a more detailed and accurate analysis of the pertussis vaccine, one could study Suzanne Humphries’s findings in her book Dissolving Illusions.

And see ICWAs attempt to get the DtaP and Tdap shots removed from daycare and school requirements based on the mountain of science showing they do not prevent infection or transmission, they create asymptomatic carriers, and receipt of the shots makes one permanently susceptible to pertussis. Governor Inslee’s attorney struck down our appeal after the Board of Health said no. But hey, why let facts influence public health policy? Facts just get in the way of vaccine programs.

Humphries footnoted the needlessness of the pertussis vaccine:

Immunization against pertussis, which was introduced at a time when mortality from the disease had been falling steeply for 70 years, made a much less convincing impact… the death rate had fallen very substantially before 1957, and there was relatively very little room for improvement.

Humphries then quoted Dr. Justus Strom in 1960:

It may be questioned whether universal vaccination against pertussis is always justified, especially in view of the increasingly mild nature of the disease and of the very small mortality.

Humphries then cited the adverse events from the pertussis vaccine:

Very early on, there were indications of problems. A 1946 article discussed twin boys aged 10 months (D. M. and G. M.) who both died on June 19, 1945, after receiving their second injection of diphtheria and pertussis vaccine.
After the second immunizing injections, both infants cried considerably on reaching home; they vomited and consumed excessive amounts of water, each taking about two full bottles. They then “feel asleep” and when next noticed by their parents appeared “lifeless.”… At 11:30 p. m. when his diaper was changed, he was found to be ice cold and wringing wet with perspiration. The parents explained that they regarded these symptoms as expected effects of the injections and therefore did not summon medical aid until 5:30 a.m., when D. M. appeared to be dead and G. M. gravely ill.{498}
A 1948 article in Pediatrics discussed cases of brain damage following use of the vaccine. The article is hauntingly similar to the large number of cases of autism that would escalate decades later. The children, mostly boys, had been developing normally and showed no problems prior to receiving the vaccine. They manifested “acute cerebral” symptoms within hours of injection. A regression or “failure of further development” occurred afterwards.
Inspection of the records of the Children’s Hospital for the past ten years has disclosed 15 instances in which children developed acute cerebral symptoms within a period of hours after the administration of pertussis vaccine. The children varied between 5 and 18 months in age and, in so far as it is possible to judge children of this age range, were developing normally according to histories supplied by their parents. None had convulsions previously… Twelve of the children were boys and three were girls, a sex difference also encountered in relation to other substances, such as lead, causing gross injury to the developing nervous system. At inoculation time, the children varied in age between 5 and 18 months. Developmental data were obtained in detail on all but two of the children, whose mothers simply stated that they had developed normally. Reference to the case histories showed that such objective activities such as sitting, walking, and talking had appeared in many of the children prior to the inoculations; and the regressions or failure of further development occurred after the encephalopathies [any disease or symptoms of disease referable to disorders of the brain] in several instances. In so far as it was possible to judge none of the children were defective prior to their acute illness.{499}
The authors discussed these children’s cases at length. At the end of their paper, they conclude that the risk of the vaccine seems too great if the only thing to be avoided was “the average attack of pertussis.” At the time of their paper, death from whooping cough had become relatively rare.

Humphries also wrote that Dr. Strom detailed the neurologic problems after vaccination and noted that complications were higher from vaccination than from naturally acquired disease.

In Sweden, as in several other countries, neurological complications after pertussis (triple) vaccination have been observed. A nation-wide investigation showed that 36 cases of such complications had occurred in about 215,000 vaccinated children (1 in 6,000) during 1955-8. Most of these consisted of convulsions, coma, or collapse, and the children were restored to health; but there were four deaths, of which two were sudden, and nine cases indicative of encephalopathies with severe lesions (1 in 17,000). An investigation of the incidence of neurological complications after pertussis [natural disease] showed that this was not so high as after vaccination.

Humphries also wrote that Dr. Ström was not the only professional calling for discontinuation of pertussis vaccination. In 1981 Dr. Gordon Stewart stated that vaccination was not justified because most cases of whooping cough were mild and recovery provided lasting immunity.

The DOH also used the data dashboard technique to convince parents to stay in line with the masses for the greater good because there are ‘vaccination gaps’ in parts of the state:

SCHOOL IMMUNIZATION DATA DASHBOARD UPDATE
The Department of Health (DOH) will publish an updated data dashboard on school immunization reporting this month. The updated landing page and data dashboard will go live on Wednesday, June 12, 2024, followed by a public announcement to health care providers and partners immediately after.
School-level immunization data will be available for download by school building and district. Following the small-numbers guidance, DOH will suppress school-level vaccination data for school cohorts with 10 or fewer kids when sharing data.
Overall, school immunization rates for the 2023-24 school year have remained flat compared to the 2022-23 school year. There are still significant vaccination gaps in different parts of the state. It remains important for families to keep their children up to date on vaccines as they prepare for the next school year.

Besides targeting parents, health care providers should not feel left out of the promotion campaign:

SCHOOL AND CHILD CARE IMMUNIZATION REQUIREMENTS
Yesterday the Washington State Department of Health hosted a webinar covering school and childcare immunization requirements for the upcoming school year. This webinar is targeted towards health care providers. Presentation slides and more information can be found by visiting the webinar page, and a recording of the webinar will be available.
After watching the webinar or recording, participants should:
Understand the changes to the immunization requirements for the 2024-2025 school year.
Describe immunization forms and how to use them.
Know where to locate resources regarding the school and childcare requirements.
If You Are School or Child Care Staff:
An immunization requirements webinar targeted towards school and child care staff was presented on March 28 and can be watched here.

The DOH also used their newsletter mailing list to jump on the CDC bandwagon and promote vaccines for pregnant women, the demographic group to whom the oath “First, Do No Harm” should apply the most:

NEW CAMPAIGN FROM CDC: "FROM ME, TO YOU"
[editors note: corrected for clarity]
The CDC has launched a new communication effort to encourage vaccination during pregnancy entitled "From Me, To You." Getting recommended vaccinations during pregnancy provides important protection for pregnant ~~people~~ women and their babies in the first few months of life, yet overall vaccination coverage remains low.
On their campaign page, CDC notes that, "Vaccination coverage is often lowest among Black pregnant ~~people~~ [women], many of whom report experiencing mistreatment, structural, and interpersonal racism during pregnancy and delivery. Given these lived experiences, it is important to recognize that there are many factors that may impact vaccination coverage among Black pregnant ~~people~~ [women]. During ongoing nationwide Black maternal health and infant mortality crises, vaccination during pregnancy offers an important opportunity to increase protection for Black pregnant ~~people~~ [women] and their babies."

If anyone has a problem with the above editorial corrections, we kindly refer them to a prescient related scene from the 1979 movie Life of Brian.

National News: Vaccine Mandate case against LA Unified Schools Revitalized with Possible Huge Ramifications

As covered by multiple news outlets, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit says COVID-19 shots don’t protect against infection as vaccines are presumed to do, so the Jacobsen v. Massachusetts (1905) decision that a state could mandate preventive vaccines doesn’t apply to their defense argument.

We think that many should be readying their complaints to start challenging other mandates, where a product is assumed to be effective at stopping re-infection and transmission. Notably, the pertussis (whooping cough) component in the variations of TDaP have been shown to be ineffective, with many outbreaks among fully or highly vaccinated populations. And what about polio? It’s been eliminated from developed nations, so are four mandated shots actually protecting your neighbor? More likely, just keeping the production line warm. But we digress… please read more about this important case from Susan Burdick in the Defender.

National News: Surprising New York Times Articles - Has the COVID Narrative Flipped?

…Or did they flip-flop with permission from their propaganda masters?

In other huge news, the New York Times has run complementary articles that talk openly about the lab origins of the COVID-19 virus, as well as the mistakes that have ruined trust in public health.

The articles may be behind a pay wall, so you can read the summary by Jeff Childers’ in his Monday June 10 publication of Coffee & Covid.

Both of these national news events are remarkable and are signaling the great pushback that Informed Choice Washington has been working for.

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