COVID-19 Pandemic
2020
Timeline of significant global, Australian and SA data points in the initial response and first year of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

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UN High-level Advisors start mantras: “we’re in this together” and “no on is safe, until everyone is safe”
CDC fails to conduct a vaxxed vs unvaxxed study
In 2013 the Institute of Medicine (IOM) issued a report stating that the CDC could and should perform a comparative health outcome study of vaccinated children compared to unvaccinated children using patient information in their Datalink database.
- On June 26, 2020, ICAN issued a FOI request demanding: “All documents in the CDC’s possession which compare the health outcomes of children that have received vaccines with children that have never received any vaccines.”
- On July 29, 2020 the CDC responded: “A search of our records failed to reveal any documents pertaining to your request.”
Concluding that the CDC has not conducted a study of health outcomes in vaccinated vs unvaccinated populations.
FDA reveal EUA criteria – “No adequate, approved, and available alternative”
Dr. Doran Fink from the FDA explains at the July 29, 2020 ACIP meeting the criteria necessary for the FDA to be able to issue a COVID-19 vaccine with Emergency Use Authorisation (EUA).
The key point being that there has to be “No adequate, approved, and available alternative“. [@2:57]
AstraZeneca becomes exempt of liability in most countries
On July 30, 2020 it was reported that AstraZeneca became exempt of liability “in most countries” for it’s COVID-19 vaccine, stating that “[t]his is a unique situation where we as a company simply cannot take the risk if in … four years the vaccine is showing side effects…” [@1:56:20]
But it’s not actually “unique” as vaccine manufactures have been exempt of liability for all vaccines on the US childhood schedule since 1986.
The phase 3 mRNA COVID-19 vaccines safety trials ended after only 2-6 months – when participants were unblined, so the saline placebo group had the opportunity to receive the “treatment”. Oxford/AstraZeneca never used a placebo, their “control” group was a meningococcal vaccine (which itself never had a placebo trial, so simply assumed inert!) – so safety would not truly be detectable.
Poll: only 42% Americans would get the vaccine
A Yahoo/YouGov poll was conducted in America between July 28-30, 2020 which showed that only 42% of adult Americans planned to get vaccinated for COVID-19, a number that is decreasing. [1, 2]
The article suggest that Democrats don’t trust the safety of a “Warp Speed” vaccine and “Trump supporters” are skeptical of “medical authority and expertise”.
Harvard Global Health Institute director Ashish Jha said “It’s not a vaccine that will save us, It’s vaccination.”! The product allegedly won’t work unless 60 – 80% of your neighbours take it.
“For a COVID-19 vaccine to actually stop the pandemic, scientists estimate that at least 60 percent of the population — and probably more like 75 or 80 percent — would need to be vaccinated, a number that depends on many factors, including the efficacy of the vaccine itself and how widely the virus has already spread.”
FDA: COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness threshold 50%
FDA commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn, in a July 30, 2020 interview with the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) said the FDA would allow a COVID-19 vaccine to pass emergency authorisation with an minimum 50% efficacy. The reason given the such low threshold was because they ” felt that that was a reasonable floor given the pandemic” and they wanted to “give vaccine manufacturers guidance on how to design their clinical trials”, as Phase 3 trials for Pfizer and Moderna began this week. [1, 2]
Hahn said “It’s possible that the U.S. could end up with a vaccine that, on average, reduces a person’s risk of a Covid-19 infection by just 50%”
In a statement the “FDA would expect that a COVID-19 vaccine would prevent disease or decrease its severity in at least 50% of people who are vaccinated.”
On July 27, 2020 “Dr. Anthony Fauci has said he hopes the vaccine will have an efficacy rate of at least 60%, meaning on average the vaccine reduces a person’s risk of a Covid-19 infection by 60%”…”60% is the standard that you do for the cutoff.” [4]
Experts were quick to point out that even though 50% effectiveness is low, “it could make a difference” just like “the flu vaccine effectiveness can vary widely from year to year, anywhere from 20 percent to 60 percent over the last decade” [3, 5]
Experts said a “vaccine that’s less than 100% effective will still lead to herd immunity”, which can only be achieved with neutralising antibodies!
US hospitals have financial incentive to inflate COVID-19 deaths
At a government hearing on July 31, 2020 CDC director Dr. Robert Redfield confirmed that United States hospitals have a financial incentive to increase their count of COVID-19 attributed death numbers. [2]
...ultimately, it’s how the physician defines it in the death certificate and … we review all of those death certificates.
said Dr Redfield
- An additional 20% is added to the hospital bill for COVID-19 diagnosis
- Admissions to hospital for non-COVID-19 reasons, including kids, then test positive for COVID-19 are then treated as a Covid patient and if they die are labelled a COVID-19 death.
- In first 6 mth of 2020 hospitals who reached 161 COVID-19 admissions would “receive $77,000 per admission on top of what they are already paid” from the Cares Act, but hospitals in states with a late surge they missed out on the funds.
- COVID-19 pneumonia – $13,000
- Ventilated – $39,000
Over coming month it is revealed that automobile accidents and gunshot to the head are classified as death due COVID-19. [2]
In December 2020 Minnisota lawmakers called for “a full audit of Minnesota’s COVID-19 death certificates” as they could be inflated by 40%, which Senator Scott Jensen MD has been aware of the issue for months. [1]
AstraZeneca promised “not to profit from COVID-19 vaccine”
Geoff Hsu a Biotech Growth fund manager says he isn’t banking on pharma companies making big profits from “emergency COVID-19 vaccines” and expects them to be priced “reasonably” because he believes “companies genuinely want to do the right thing”.
AstraZeneca promised “not to profit from a COVID-19 vaccine during the pandemic,” and others alleged to forgo profits, though Pfizer CEO intends to profit along with Moderna who’ve never before marketed any product.
AstraZeneca, by November 2021, within 9 month start to reap profits, from COVID-19 vaccines. By May 2021, “COVID vaccine profits minted 9 pharma billionaires.”
At this time the WHO estimate 150 COVID-19 vaccines and 200 treatments currently in development.
Massive freedom rallies broke out in England and Germany
On August 1, 2020 massive rallies broke out in both England and Germany (in fact globally) protesting lockdowns, mask mandates, and the obvious corruption within their government and “trusted” news organisations – overreaching use of “emergency powers”. [@10:40]
“We are the 99%” they shout, knowing then that the data showed that COVID-19 was a disease affecting a small subsect of the community – the frail and elderly and those with underlying health conditions, the rest get a bad flu at worst and recover.
Those who watch the mainstream news likely didn’t hear about the protests or the numbers we massively under-estimated, and were continued to be fed “fear”.
COVID-19 vaccine mandates brewing
By August 2020 conversations had already began brewing on making the COVID-19 vaccines mandatory, to “win the war” against COVID-19 which many hospital deaths were being attributed, this followed public polls of only 5049% would be willing to submit to a free vaccine. The vaccine products were still in clinical trials at this stage. Authority figures began priming the pubic into accepting a mandated shot, promising the vaccines would “prevent” the virus from “spreading in the community” and creating “herd immunity”. Selling vaccine-induced “immunity” (not protection) and own playing natural immunity. What they didn’t tell the public was that the clinical trials were not even designed to test if the vaccines would stop infection or prevent transmission. They also neglected to inform them that early treatment interventions used by frontline doctors were being successfully employed. [1, 2]
Flu vaccines were being mandated in the US (and other countries) in education setting (besides healthcare), also conditioning the public to “get a shot” to save lives. Influenza vaccines are known to be between 10-60% effective each year, whic doesn’t stop the spread of the flu.
COVID-19 vaccine global access (COVAX) facility – to accelerated vaccine development and manufacture
On August 6, 2020 WHO released their COVID-19 vaccine global access (COVAX) facility document to justify their “accelerated vaccine development and manufacture.” [1]
WHO, Gavi and CEPI launched the COVAX facility to ensure global equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines and end the acute phase of the pandemic by the end of 2021. [9]
“Developing a vaccine against COVID-19 is the most pressing challenge of our time” claiming the IMF estimated in April 14, 2020, that a vaccine [that didn’t exist] would “prevent the loss $375 Billion to the global economy every month”.
COVAX is the “vaccine” arm of the April 2020 United Nations collaborative ACT Accelerator
- Gavi launched the finance arm, COVAX AMC on June 4, 2020
- Australia’s Jane Halton, who is the Chair of CEPI is also the co-chair of COVAX. Australia has signed agreements. “In early 2020, CEPI raised US$2b to expand the number of vaccine candidates to increase the chances of success, and fund the clinical trials”.
- The COVAX Shareholders Council meetings began November 3, 2020 in Geneva. [10]
- COVAX coorinated vaccine roll out to to 92 low- and middle-income economies.
- COVAX began to take shape early 2020, and was sold based on the claim that “no one is safe, unless everyone is safe”, where “vaccines” are that saviour. [2]
- COVAX was led by GAVI [4, 5], CEPI and the WHO, alongside key delivery partner UNICEF
- Feb 22, 2023 – On behalf of COVAX partners WHO developed a No-Fault Compensation Program – the first and only global vaccine injury compensation mechanism
- Jan 31, 2021 the WHO “had to” generate a “tool” to encourage “acceptance and demand” for COVID-19 vaccines! as part of the Country Readiness and Delivery (CRD) workstream [3, 7, 8]
- January 2022 the COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery Partnership (CoVDP) was launched
- COVAX closed December 31, 2023 [6]
England: COVID-19 designated “cause of death” if a person dies with in 28-days of positive PCR test
On August 12, 2020 Public Health England (PHE) changed their definition of a COVID-19 death to include anyone who dies within 28 days of a positive PCR test. [1] PCR testing appears to be confined to select labs.
With Potentially up to 93% may be false PCR positive rate, this change will create a synthetic “case-demic” spike. [2]
CDC report reveals PCR >33 cycles is likely a false positive
On August 16, 2020 a CDC report revealed their PCR tests amplified to 33 cycles, designated cycle threshold (Ct), detects virus that is NOT replication competent, meaning it can not infect or multiply. Over 33 cycles produces false positive “case” statistic.
The New York Times reported the US testing regime advised by the CDC returned a false positive rate over 85%. “Officials at some state labs said the C.D.C. had not asked them to note threshold values or to share them with contact-tracing organizations”, labs simply supply a determination of “positive or negative”! [1]
Scientists had been attempting to raise the alarm on this “case-demic” for many months prior.
Plandemic Documentaries launched
The professional documentaries Plandemic & Plandemic Indoctornation by Mikki Willis connects the dots between media, the pharma-medical industry, politics and the financial industry to unmask the major conflicts of interests with the decision makers who are currently managing the COVID-19 “crisis”.
Beginning with the meticulous work of Dr. David E. Martin as he exposes the CDC’s ownership of a patent on human coronaviruses, and the fact this is ironic (and illegal) since you can’t patent nature.
CDC Quietly updates death statistics
According to the CDC, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned on the death certificate for only 6% of deaths.
Of the 153,504 deaths, 94% had up to 4 comorbidities listed as cause of death, the majority were very advanced in age; 90% in nursing homes.
PM Scott Morrison: Vaccination will NOT be compulsory
On August 19, 2020 Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison told listeners on Sydney radio station 2GB that the Government would not make vaccination mandatory for anybody.
“It’s not going to be compulsory to have the vaccine,”
This follows his comments earlier the same day on Melbourne radio station 3AW, after a deal with AstraZeneca
“I would expect it to be as mandatory as you could possibly make it,“
Warning to CDC’s ACIP on Warp Speed
A 3 minute public comment at CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) in September 2020, warned about bringing a coronavirus vaccine to the market in a“Warp Speed” timeframe. Based on historical scientific data a coronavirus vaccine could potentially decimate the human species, or at least those who consent to taking it.
NIAID establishes CREID global network to investigate pandemic pathogens
On August 27, 2020 the US NIH announced that the NIAID has established the Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases (CREID), justified by the “impact” of COVID-19 pandemic, they promise to set up worldwide surveillance architecture to identify the next pandemic pathogen before it moves from animal to human. [1, 2, 7]. Coronaviruses begin the pathogen list.
The Global Network is to focus on “spillover Potential”, starting with “11 grants with a total first-year value of approximately $17 million” with a projected $82 million over 5 years. “The global network will involve multidisciplinary investigations into how and where viruses and other pathogens emerge from wildlife and spillover to cause disease in people.”
“The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic serves as a potent reminder of the devastation that can be wrought when a new virus infects humans for the first time…”
said NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci
The CREID Coordinating Center is a partnership between the Duke Human Vaccine Institute (DHVI) parnered with non-profit RTI International. [3, 4, 6]
- DHVI just happen to be researching a pan-coronavirus “super vaccine” for protection against future variants! [5]
Included in CREID’s initial 10 principal investigators and grant recipients were Kristian Andersen [2] of Scripps Research Institute and Peter Daszak of EcoHealth Alliance. CREID is working with China. [1]
CDC expected 40% of VAERS report to be serious
On August 27, 2020, approximately 4 months before the COVID-19 vaccines were rolled out in the USA, the CDC awarded General Dynamics Information Technology Inc. (GDIT) a contract for $35.4 million to support the CDC & FDA with collecting and analysing the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) data received post COVID-19 vaccine rollout. [1]
ICAN lawyers in 2023 received copies of the contract. It states that of the 45,500 average annual US reports received between 2014-2018, 5.0% were classified as serious…but in the contract the CDCexpected to receive “1,000 reports per day, with up to 40% of the reports serious in nature”, around a 700% increase in the daily reports for the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine! What did the CDC know about the imminent jab?
On Oct 22, 2020 Tom Shimabukuro presented CDC’s “plans for Vaccine Safetymonitoring & evaluation during future EUA use and post-licensure, suggesting that processing reports which included reviewing, coding and incorporating into VAERS’ database, was expected to take 1-5 business days – the fastest for death or serious reports. [2]
As part of their contract GDIT sends monthly reports to the CDC, which were received under FOIA in 2023. By January 2021 the report exceeded the maximum 1000/day, which was exceeded in the first 5 days of rollout! [3]
“Byte burning” modern day book burning
Censorship, Shadow Banning, De-Listing YouTube Channels, Deleting videos, De-monetising are all being used to censor free speech, and it has escalated in 2020.
By the use of algorithms, back-end secret admin panels and AI recognition programs (audio, text, image), they all work to shadow and silence content and give a false illusion of content trends to the unsuspecting.
This modern day byte-burning is equivalent to book-burning of the past!
Big Tech platforms like Google, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook & Amazon have all actively censoring content that goes against the “authoritative narrative”. Whistleblowers confirm how this is being executed.
- Byte = unit of data
- Burning = removed
Not everything is permanently deleted. Many people as well as bots are collecting a time capsule of web content using the WayBack Machine on sites like archive.org.
Harvard Chan: Aviation Public Health Initiative (APHI) is launched
On September 2, 2020 the Harvard Chan School of Public Health launched their Aviation Public Health Initiative (APHI) under the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative (NPLI), a joint program of the Harvard Chan School and Harvard Kennedy School of Government and co-founded by Leonard Marcus a “leading authority on leadership in times of crisis”.
The Aviation Public Health Initiative (APHI) was set up to study the “current aircraft, airline, and airport practices and their impact on public health during the COVID-19 pandemic.” The initiative is directed by Marcus and sponsored by the aviation industry
“The project grew from interest by the aviation industry to both reduce risks of SARS-CoV-2 disease transmission and safely reinvigorate operations in the midst of the global pandemic” APHI is to “provide evidence-based recommendations on strategies and practices to reduce the public health risks of flying during the COVID-19 pandemic.” [2, 3] Key influential Reports released by APHI:
- Phase 1 Report Gate-to-Gate Travel Onboard Aircraft (NPI) (Oct 27, 2020) –PDF, HIGHLIGHTS, PRESS, SOURCE
- Air Cabin Cleaning and Disinfection Bulletin (Oct 2020) – PDF
- Face Mask Use in Air Travel Bulletin – (Dec 2020) – PDF
- Phase 2 Report Curb-to-Curb Travel Through Airports (NPI) (Feb 10, 2021) – PDF, PRESS, PDF, SOURCE
Following APHI’s report 1 Marcus claimed “masks are proven to be effective in reducing the spread of the coronavirus” which seems to be the catalyst for Biden’s transportation mask mandate, Executive Order, one of many he on or following his first day in office.
“masks to be worn in compliance with CDC guidelines in or on: airports, commercial aircraft…” – [4]
Report 2 acknowledges that vaccination does not stop infection or transmission of SARS-CoV-2 – “Health experts state that vaccination offers protection against developing COVID-19 associated symptoms but does not necessarily prevent a person from becoming infected or transmitting it to others (CDC, 2021).”
Nine COVID-19 vaccine makers sign pledge to make safety their priority
September 8, 2020, in the race to make a COVID-19 vaccine, the CEO’s of 7 vaccine giants plus 2 emerging companies sign a “historic“pledge to “always make the safety and well-being of vaccinated individuals [their] top priority”, believing their “action would “ensure public confidence” in the development of any inoculation.” [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
The pledge was signed by Pfizer, Merck, Johnson & Johnson, BioNTech, GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca, Sanofi, Moderna and Novavax.
“There are caveats in the pledge. At the bottom of [the Moderna] news release about the pledge, the companies mention “risks and uncertainties” that could cause some different results in the future.” [1]
That press release pledge was looked to be deleted from Moderna’s website but a Dec 10, 2021 page redirection is what no longer works as of Aug 2022. The pledge page is still LIVE, contrary to what was reported by The Highwire Feb 13, 2025 (no doubt they’ll correct this).
AstraZeneca Phase III trial halted over suspected serious vaccine reaction
On September 8, 2020, Oxford/AstraZeneca (A/Z) “voluntarily” halted their COVID-19 vaccine Phase III clinical trial after a previously health, UK trial participant, came down with an unexplained suspected vaccine reaction. [1]
The following day A/Z CEO announced the female trial participant had experienced neurological symptoms consistent with a rare but serious spinal inflammatory disorder called transverse myelitis, that can cause muscle weakness, paralysis, pain and bladder problems.
It was only a week earlier, on August 31, 2020 that the US began the AstraZeneca Phase III trials. [2]
On October 26, 2020 AstraZeneca resumed their US Phase III trials after an “independent safety board reviewed the incident and determined the participant’s illness was unrelated to AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine candidate”, though in the UK they resumed earlier on September 15th.
CDC updates COVID-19 Infection Fatality Rate
On September 10, 2020 the US CDC updated estimated infection fatality rates (IFR) for COVID-19 by age group – over 70’s most at risk.
Age group – percent survival rate which is then expressed as a percent IFR
- 0-19 – 99.997% = 0.003% IFR
- 20-49 – 99.98% = 0.02% IFR
- 50-69 – 99.5% = 0.05% IFR
- 70+ – 94.6% = 5.4% IFR
On September 25, 2020 Florida’s governor Ron DeSantis shared [1] this new CDC revelation of COVID-19 survival rates by age group with the public and moved to reopen the US state, lifting all restrictions. [2]
A state in India used ivermectin to control COVID-19
The state of Uttar Pradesh in India, with a population of 241 million people, 33 districts, and under 6% vaccinated, has been declared COVID-free by it’s government. This sharp decline in COVID-19 cases followed the government’s early use and distribution of large-scale “prophylactic and therapeutic” use of ivermectin. [1, 2]
UK’s MHRA expects “high volume” of CV-19 vaccine side effects
On September 14, 2020 UK Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) via their MHRA Buyer Organisation awarded a 1.5 million GBP contract to Genpact (UK) Ltd to “urgently” develop a “an Artificial Intelligence (AI) software tool to process the expected high volume of Covid-19 vaccine Adverse Drug Reaction (ADRs) and ensure that no details from the ADRs’ reaction text are missed.” [1, 2, 3, 4]
The “Contract award notice” which was published October 19, 2020 on Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) stated:
For reasons of extreme urgency under Regulation 32(2)(c) related to the release of a Covid-19 vaccine MHRA have accelerated the sourcing and implementation of a vaccine specific AI tool. …[As] it is not possible to retrofit the MHRA’s legacy systems to handle the volume of ADRs that will be generated by a Covid-19 vaccine.
The contract was awarded “without prior publication“, suggesting MHRA had Genpact in mind to begin with? [5]
GPMB start preparing for the next “global health emergency”
On September 14, 2020 the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB) release their 2020 report titled A World in Disorder. The report was co-chaired by Gro Harlem Brundtland the very authur of Our Common Future in 1992, the catalyst for Agenda 21.
Other members of GPMB include Anthony Fauci, Jeremy Farrar, Chris Elias, Vicotor Dzau, CCPs’ George Gao and more
Stating “The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed a collective failure to take pandemic prevention, preparedness and response seriously and prioritize it accordingly.” There are over a million death certificates with COVID-19 on them (including all assumed and those designated PCR positive), justifying this panic. “This will not be the last global health emergency”
Ex Pfizer CSO exposes PCR pandemic
Dr Michael Yeadon, with 32 years experience as former CSO of Pfizer and independent bio-pharma entrepreneur, exposes the limitations and deception of the PCR tests which are used globally to “justify” the pandemic. His article is titled “Lies, Damned Lies and Health Statistics – The Deadly Dangers of False Positives”.
His view is supported by tens of thousands of scientists, though many don’t speak out.
Yeadon continues to warn humanity in the coming months. [2]
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