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US lawmakers directed the Pentagon to rescind its Covid-19 vaccine mandate as part of the $858 billion 2023 defense spending bill passed by the Senate on Thursday. online news
The mandate — under which the Pentagon says more than 8,000 military personnel have been discharged for refusal to comply — was scrapped over the objections of US President Joe Biden and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, in a victory for Republicans who sought to end it.
While various other US measures aimed at curbing the spread of Covid-19 have previously been relaxed or removed, the Pentagon’s vaccine requirement remained on the basis that it protected the health and readiness of military personnel.
But the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2023, which was previously passed by the House of Representatives, now requires the defense secretary to end the mandate.
The White House supported Austin’s opposition to repealing the mandate, but that was not enough to carry the day in Congress.
Republicans, who have insisted that various Covid-19 prevention measures infringe on personal freedom, pushed for the mandate’s removal and had threatened to hold up the bill if it did not lift the shot requirement.
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Since December 2020, when the mRNA vaccine was brought to the public, there have been over 7 million adverse events following injections, according to VAERS and EudraVigilance of the European Medicines Agency.
Early in 2021, a number of Scandinavian countries prohibited the use of AstraZeneca’s version of the mRNA vaccine, citing concerns about blood clots.
At least one country prohibited Johnson & Johnson’s version of the vaccine, citing similar concerns.
In April 2021, the website Fierce Pharma reported that the European Commission wouldn’t be renewing its contract for supplies of AstraZeneca’s and J&J’s versions.
Although AstraZeneca and J&J’s versions were associated with a number of adverse events following injections, according to the VAERS table of injuries, Pfizer’s version is represented at the list of adverse events compared to the other versions.
For 2021 alone and from the mRNA vaccine alone, Pfizer made over $33 billion in sales, according to Agence France Presse.
In countries that have had high rates of vaccine participation, the number of virus cases has continued to increase.
For example, whereas as of August 9, 2021, Iceland had recorded 8,793, when that country’s vaccine participation rate was over 80%, as of December 9, 2022, Iceland had recorded 207,504 virus cases.
Since June, Iceland’s vaccine participation rate has been 84%.
Adverse events following injections have included inflammation of the heart, blood clots, partial paralysis and the like.
According to the late virologist and Nobel laureate, Dr. Luc Montagnier, the mRNA vaccine likely caused variants of the virus and was causing auto-immune reactions.
Dr. Byram Bridle of the University of Guelph, spike proteins created by the vaccine were traveling to various organs.
Dr. Bridle, also a virologist, based his conclusions on bio-distribution studies he had obtained from Pfizer of Japan.
As to the virus itself, in the US, the average mortality rate has been .07%.
For most age groups, the recovery rate has been 99%.
Dr. John Ioannidis, a research scientist and a specialist in evidence-based medicine, outlined infection fatality rates as a function of age groups:
The real-world risk of dying from COVID-19 based on published data from the Irish census bureau and the central statistics office for 2020 and 2021 is as follows: For people under 70, the death rate was 0.014%; under 50 years of age, it was 0.002%, which equates to a 1 in 50,000 risk, or about the same as dying from fire or smoke inhalation. Under 25 years of age, the mortality rate was 0.00018%, or 1 in 500,000 risk of dying from COVID-19.
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