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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FDA grants EUA for Hydroxychloroquine
Bill Gates wants nationwide shutdown in US
Dr Fauci and Dr Rajeev Venkayya push for a vaccine-only solution
By March 30, 2020, Dr Anthony Fauci is focused on vaccines as the way out of the COVID-19 pandemic, and already alluding to this being an annual “cycle”.
Around this same time Dr. Rajeev Venkayya, who has a vast history with vaccines [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11], including with President Bush, was on the phone call with Jeffrey Tucker [12, 13, 14] when when pressed about where the virus would go if lockdowns were implemented, he said “there will be a vaccine.” Tucker noted at the time that “it would be a medical miracle never before seen to have a shot for a coronavirus that was sterilizing against wild type and all inevitable mutations, and to do it in a reasonable time so that society and economy had not completely fallen apart.” [1]
Note Fauci also emphasizes that Randomised Control Trials (RCT) can “prove” drugs work as opposed to “maybe they’re going to work”. What happens if the experts use a sub-lethal dose of a drug in a RCT (compared to the dose used by frontline doctors), this doesn’t prove the drug is in effective, it just proves the drug has no mortality benefit at that dose!
Dr James Lyons-Weiler breaks down Fauci’s comments in this interview with Doctor Mike. CDC’s flawed test is why US is disproportionately affected compared to other nations!
WHO recommend empty hospitals in preparation for surge of pandemic casualties.
On March 30, 2020 the WHO recommended emptying hospitals [@14:30] in preparation for an expected huge wave of pandemic casualties. So hospitals around the world effectively shut down and were empty at the height of the pandemic as reported in testimonies and videos of hospitals, such as this taken April 21, 2020 by Dr Mark Trozzi Canada. [1, 2, 3]
A March 20, 2020 scene of an Italian hospital is deceptively portrayed twice, by the media to the shut-in public , as an overwhelmed ICU in both New York and Melbourne!
ICU’s in some hospitals were full, but other parts of hospitals were shut down in an alleged pandemic. On April 21, 2020 New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said USNS Comfort Navy hospital ship docked in New York Harbor which arrived March 30, 2020, was no longer needed, “expressing confidence that stresses on the hospital system are easing”. [4, 5, 6] The ship was barely used!
The videos of empty hospitals continue throughout 2020 [1] so elective surgery and treatments such as kidney, cancers etc could not be diagnosed or treated. UK
FDA launches fraudulent COVID-19 producs webpage
On March 31, 202o the FDA launches a webpage titled “Fraudulent Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Products”.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is issuing warning letters to firms for selling fraudulent products with claims to prevent, treat, mitigate, diagnose or cure coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). We are actively monitoring for any firms marketing products with fraudulent COVID-19 prevention and treatment claims. The FDA is exercising its authority to protect consumers from firms selling unapproved products and making false or misleading claims, including, by pursuing warning letters, seizures, or injunctions against products and firms or individuals that violate the law.
Study: PCR tests >33-34 cycles do not have viable virus, person therefore not contagious.
On March 31, 2020, Dr Didier Rault and collegues from France, published on a pre-print server the results of their PCR study, which showed any test greater than 33-34 cycles did not contain viable virus, and as such the patient would not be contagious. [1, 2]
“Correlation between successful isolation of virus in cell culture and Ct value of quantitative RT-PCR targeting E gene suggests that patients with Ct above 33–34 using our RT-PCR system are not contagious and thus can be discharged from hospital care or strict confinement for non-hospitalized patients.”
The Highwire drove home that PCR tests, amplified greater than 33 cycles, are a false positive result 80% of the time, meaning the test is only 20% accurated for “diagnosing” a potentially infectious person. The presence of viral RNA does not make a person contagious, they could have cleared the virus, have “dead nucleotide” in the sample or their sample could have been contaminated. How many “asymptomatic carriers” were falsely claimed to be a “superspreader”?
New York Doctor pleads patients need oxygen not ventilators
On April 1, 2020, ER and critical care doctor from New York city, Dr Cameron Kyle-Sidell puts out a plea on YouTube to use oxygen not ventilators. [1]
“We’re stressed not only over concern for our own health, but because we’re watching people dying of a disease we do not understand. A disease we have never seen before…
…We are putting breathing tubes in people and putting them on ventilators and dialing up the pressure to open their lungs…its becoming increasingly clear that the pressure we’re providing maybe hurting their lungs…it is highly likely the pressure we are using is damaging the lungs of the patients we are putting the breathing tubes in.
…This is how we’ve treated ARDS for the last 20 years. 2 days ago the Italians came out with a letter stating the same thing, that we are running the ventilators in the wrong way…we can change those protocols. We need to change the protocols.
COVID-19 positive patients need oxygen, they do not need pressure. They will need ventilators, but they must be programmed differently”…”The protocols in this country must change…please spread the message.“
Dr Kyle-Sidell stepped down from his position a few days later. “‘I could not morally, in a patient-doctor relationship, continue the current protocols…” [1]
Healthcare workers release dance routine videos!
Begining around April 2, 2020 Tic Tok videos began to emerge of dancing nurses and doctor who were allegedly “spread[ing] positivity through song and dance in their daily fight against the virus”.[1, 2, 3, 4] Then again when the vaccine rolled out.
How did all these “busy” healthcare workers from around the world have time to practice highly coordinated dance routines when there was an alleged pandemic and hospitals were overrun?
Second wave of COVID-19 across Asia, following restriction easing
On April 2, 2020 it was reported that a second wave of COVID-19 cases across Asia occurred following easing of initial early actions. Following the new wave they reimposed measures, which was reported as “a sign that fighting the disease will take much longer than anticipated.”
The media report the “lethal threat” will likely remain until a fully tested vaccine arrives, spurring on the “race for a vaccine” with 125 organisations already in the race.
Respiratory viruses have never in human history been contained with the lockdown of healthy people, rebounding was always inevitable.
Aust. Health Minister approves HCQ
“Australia’s Minister for Health, Greg Hunt announced hydroxychloroquine would be made available if doctors wish to use it to treat COVID-19 patients who are in Australian hospitals.”
Clive Palmer donated 32.9M doses of HCQ to Australians.
Australia: Ivermectin shown to kill SARS-CoV-2 virus in vitro
Dr Kylie Wagstaff of Monash University has demonstrated that a single dose of ivermectin, an anti-parasitic drug, can kill SARS-CoV-2 virus within 48 hours in cell culture.
Ivermectin is a cheap, off-patent drug, that is listed on the WHO essential medicines. It has a long history proving it’s safety and is purchased over the counter in some countries.
An Aussies testimony re ivermectin – HERE
#FireFauci begins
Dr Shiva Ayyadurai (@va_shiva) started the #FireFauci hashtag in April 2020.
Via his YT channel Dr Shiva addressed in videos how Dr Anthony Fauci, the director of NIAID, wasn’t using science to support his pandemic measures, he has conflicts of interest and he has neglected to address immune health.
On April 3, 2020 Dr Shiva started a petition to “Fire Fauci” and in 10 days it had received 60K signatures.
The petition in short: “Dr. Fauci’s policy, at best, is based on a 1950s outdated ‘one-size-fits-all,’ non-personalized approach to medicine and public health; and, at worst is derived from a ‘fake science’ understanding of the immune system…”
June 2021, after Dr Fauci’s emails have been exposed, it reveals the truth that in fact the science relating to the virus origins, masks, and more wasn’t being followed publicly by Fauci, and thus we see a resurgence into #FireFauci.
CDC recommends face masks for everyone – asymptomatic spread no possible
On April 4, 2020 (maybe 3rd US timezone) the CDC updated their website to recommend EVERYONE wear a “cloth face covering” in public, including children, and still stay 6 feet apart, as everyone is now a potential spreader of disease. Previously only those sick or attending the sick need to mask. The science on masks never changed.
The change came following their March 27, 2020 MMWR early website publication of a study of 23 elderly residents who tested PCR positive in a nursing home, 13 of which had no symptoms at the time of testing, 10 of those developed “symptoms” at assessment 7 days later. Symptoms were defined as “fever, cough and shortness of breath”, which can occur for many reasons.
On March 30, 2020 it was reported that the CDC sent their updated guidance to the Whitehouse task force and HHS recommending universal masking a complete flip to their previous position. [1]
Timeline on masks – HERE
Immunity “badges” proposed by “the bank”!
On April 5, 2020 Edward Dowd heard James Bullard, the Federal Reserve president, state on Face the Nation:
“due to technology we could have badges that could determine someone’s immunity“.
Edward found it suspicious that a Fed president would have such a solution so quickly and about our health? A digital ID being justified by a banker, in the name of “health”!
WHO: Solidarity Vaccine Trial initiative begins
On April 9, 2020 WHO released their Solidarity Vaccine Trial protocol an ” international randomised trial of candidate vaccines against COVID-19″, those candidates that meet the WHO’s criteria. To coordinate the evaluation of more than 70 vaccines which are currently in development, and 3 in clinical trial as of April 11, 2020.
This WHO vaccine acceleration initiative is headed by Andrew Witty, former CEO of GlaxoSmithKline. [2, 3]
It is unknown what will happen to global vaccine production and supply if the WHO prioritise the same vaccine candidates as the US Warp Speed initiative! [1]
NIH begin HCQ Clinical Trial
Only now on April 9, 2020, after pushed by President Trump and after cases peak in the US, does the NIH begin a hydroxychloroquine clinical trial, but they only target hospitalized COVID-19 patients.
To date success with HCQ has been shown by frontline doctors in very early treatment with zinc, plus in 2005 NIH trial on SARS virus showed early in vitro treatment was necessary for Chloroquine to be effective.
On April 5, 2020, “Vice President Pence announced that a 3,000-person study on the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 treatment would take place at Henry Ford Hospital.” Which turned out to have a mortality benefit.
This is on the backlash over the promotion of HCQ.
World Health Alliance: Letter to G20
World Health Professions Alliance (WHPA) wrote open letter to G20 Leaders to secure supply of PPE fro frontline healthcare workers.
Following on from a press release March 2020, stating “This crisis should be a wake up call for politicians and societies to make the necessary investment in emergency preparedness.”
Yet Event 201 simulation in October 2019 should have begun to highlighted any issue.
COVID-19 Emergency Response Act 2020 passed
SA government passed the COVID-19 Emergency Response Act 2020, an “Act to make various temporary modifications of the law of the State in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, to make related amendments to the Emergency Management Act 2004, the Payroll Tax Act 2009 and the South Australian Public Health Act 2011 and for other purposes”.
The Act was extended in September 2020, and again in February 2021.
115 COVID-19 vaccine candidates in pipeline
Research by CEPI’s vaccine R&D team, published in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, has identified 115 COVID-19 vaccines in development.
Antibody studies shows lower IFR than expected, in line with flu
On April 11, 2020 a preprint study by John Ioannidis and Jay Bhattacharya et al, looking at 3,300 people living in Santa Clara and revealed that 1 in 66 people already had SARS-CoV-2-specific antibodies, a rate which extraporated out to around 2 million people already being infected, when at that same time the official number is only 1000. This translates into an IFR of 0.12-0.5-2% which is in line with the flu. [1, 2]
The sero-survey gives you a snapshot in time of who is infected in your given population. The commercial tests can be used, which shows if a person had been infected for at least a week earlier, even if they have had no symptoms. It is an inexpensive way to get a lot of useful data.
“Bhattacharya says the results probably undercount the prevalence in the wider population, because they miss anyone who has been infected too recently to have mounted an immune response, and exclude people in prisons, nursing homes and other institutional settings.”
A German study on April 9, 2020 had tested some 500 people in a village of more than 12,000 found that 1 in 7 had already been infected, overall estimating that 15% of their town was already infected. Christian Drosten (who submitted the PCR protocol to the WHO) warned this large spread may not be “indicitive” of the rest of Germany.
A few days later on April 20, 2020 USC and L.A. County Department of Public Health officials released the preliminary results of antibody testing of 863 adults, which show a surprising number of residents (4.1%) already had been infected with SARS-CoV-2 and produced antibodies. Their data suggested the virus had already spread far wider that case numbers revealed (only symptomatic people were tested) and that the infection fatality rate (IFR) was much lower than claimed – in line with a common flu. [1]
The IFR at this time ranged from 0.1 to 0.9%:
- Santa Clara team estimated an IFR for the county of 0.12–0.2%, which would equate to about 100 deaths in 48,000-82,000 infections. As of 10 April, the county’s official death count was 50 people.
- The study’s IFR is lower than the IFR used in models by researchers at Imperial College London, which estimated an IFR for Great Britain on the basis of data from China to be 0.9%.
- In another study, the same group estimated an IFR for China of 0.66%,
- Study of deaths on the Diamond Princess cruise ship estimated an IFR of 0.5%
- March 2, 2020 WHO estimated an exceedingly high fatality rate at 3.4% globally
Officials were quick to caution the drawing conclusions from these antibody tests as most of them “haven’t been rigorously evaluated to ensure they are reliable.” [2]
The PCR test protocol by Christian Drosten et al, that was rolled out upon the world, was “peer reviewed” in less than 24 hours, and allowed to be amplified up to 45 times, how “rigorous” was that?
Bill Gates: a vaccine for 7 billion people is the only solution
Self proclaimed health expert, Bill Gates, who has no medical or scientific qualifications, but is a “global health” philanthropist, was interviewed [with seemingly scripted questions] on BBC Breakfast on April 12, 2020 and told us that:
“the thing that will get us back to the world that we had before coronavirus is the vaccine and getting that out to all 7 billion people”
There was no vaccine at this time, they were all experimental and in early trials. And why did all 7 billon need a shot when many people already had been natural infected and mounted an immune response? Could it be because he had investments in the vaccine companies, and would make a fortune if they were force upon the world?
Bill also claimed that “we didn’t simulate this, we didn’t practice” yet in October 2019 his foundation was a co-sponsor of a coronavirus pandemic simulation called Event 201!
Bill is pushing for “global cooperation” and more funding. According to Bill the “rich” countries are now experiencing the “second wave” of “very challenging epidemics”, though he predicted the “developing countries who yet don’t have a large number of cases” are likely to be worst hit because “their ability to isolate” and their health systems are far less than the rich countries. “So the global cooperation is to help those counties“. [1]
Other quotes by Bill:
“And of course the vaccine is a protective, to prevent you from getting sick”
“…so we’re going to have to take something that usually takes 5 to 6 years [to develop] and get it done in 18 months. There is an approach called an RNA vaccine…that looks quite promising…unfortunately the schedule for the [conventional vaccine approach] will probably not be as quick as the RNA platform, that we’ve been funding directly and through CEPI over the last decade.”
“…this is such an unprecedented, very tough thing to deal with. The people like myself and Tony Fauci are saying 18 months [to develop a vaccine], if everything went perfectly we can do slightly better than that, but there will be a trade off, we’ll have less safety testing than we typically would have, and so governments would have to decide do they indemnify the companies… we just don’t have the time to do what we would normally do“
Safety testing: Gates compares rushed drug approval for HIV [someone who is sick or tests positive] to the safety trade-off of fast vaccine development given to healthy people! “…this is a public good, so those [safety] trade-offs…the regulator says go ahead even though you haven’t taken the normal time period”
“I do think now, because this has been so dramatic, ahhh, we weren’t ready for this pandemic but I do think we will be ready for the next pandemic, and using the new tools of science [mRNA platform?] that’s very very doable.“
The host prompts “…are you optimistic that now…there will be a different mindset around the fears around viruses and pandemics”
“…we should be able to have a vaccine in less than a year if we’re on standby with the right factories and the right science…”
“…a big missing piece is funding the research for these type of vaccines…[jumble!]”
“its shocking…how hard its going to be to get back to normal life that we had before”
[Do you think things will go back to normal?] “Once you have a safe and effective vaccine and get that out to all most all of the people on the planet, and build the preparatory systems for the next pandemic…we will go back to normal and economies will recover…innovation will help us not be at such a risk in the years after that.“
Its worth watching the 17 minute INTERVIEW which the “Trusted” BBC have “unlisted” on YouTube.
US scrap models, are now using real data to make “informed and intelligent decisions”
On April 13, 2020, US Surgeon General Jerome Adams in an interview with Alex Marlow, revealed [@13 min] that the Coronavirus Task Force is now working with real-time data about the country [1] They are no longer using predictive models, which are effectively projections based on assumptions when you don’t have data. The data means they are looking at what is actually happening on the ground, so that informed and intelligent decisions can be made about when and where to reopen. [2, 3, 4]
In addition Adams admitted that it was a struggle to communicate with some in the establishment media who are frequently anti-Trump.
CDC case & death counts updated
As of April 14, 2020, CDC case counts and death counts updated to include both confirmed and probable cases and deaths. This change was made to reflect an interim COVID-19 position statement issued by the Council for State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) on April 5, 2020. The position statement included a case definition and made COVID-19 a nationally notifiable disease. [1, 2]
Allegedly no safeguards were put in place by the CDC “to ensure that the same individual would not be counted multiple times.”
Changes to definitions can cause data spikes which can create unwarranted fear and alarm. “Probable” cases and deaths statistics can inflate the actual issue. Probably means “assumed” [UK, US, Aust] and COVID-19 is still placed on the death certificates as the cause of death.
WHO: more than half the planet in lockdown, and a vaccine is needed to stop transmission
The WHO Director General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, shares that more than half of the planet’s population is currently staying home as part of efforts to halt the virus. [1]
“We know that COVID-19 spreads fast, and we know that it is deadly, ten times deadlier than the 2009 flu pandemic.”
Coronavirus has so far killed 6.4 percent of people who have tested positive for it, including 12 percent of those in Britain.
Regardless of the mitigation efforts put in place, the WHO acknowledged that
“ultimately, the development and delivery of a safe and effective vaccine will be needed to fully interrupt transmission”.
By May 2020 it is revealed that “early work on some of the vaccine candidates suggests they may not stop infection in the upper respiratory tract — and they may not stop an infected person from spreading virus by coughing or speaking.”
President Trump freezes US funding to WHO
On April 15, 2020, President Trump stated the US will freeze World Health Organisation (WHO) funding for 60-90 days, pending a formal investigation into the global health agency’s response to the global COVID-19 pandemic. Trump repeatedly signaled the move after accusing the WHO of having a bias in favor of China.
On July 7, 2020 President Trump took the first formal step toward withdrawing the U.S. from the WHO by submitting a “notice of withdrawal” to the United Nations secretary-general, making the parting effective July 6, 2021. Withdrawing from the organization requires a one-year notice before becoming final.
On September 2, 2020, Trump cancels $62M of US funding for World Health Organization, “which was slated to receive $120 million in the 2020 fiscal year from the United States.” In 2019 the US contributed $450 million, accounting for 15% of it’s total budget.
In January 2021, Biden stopped this move and rejoined the US to the WHO.
One World Together at home virutal concert
WHO raised $55 million with the ‘One World: Together At Home’ Global virtual concert. These funds have been designated to “buy lab diagnostics, personal protective equipment and to fund research and development including for vaccines”, through the Solidarity Response Fund. [1, 2]
Peter Daszak thanks Fauci for his “public comments re COVID-19’s origins”
Peter Daszak, Director of EcoHealth Alliance, who funded coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, on April 19, 2020 sent an email to Anthony Fauci, thanking him for helping “dispel the myths” around the virus origins from Wuhan labs!
This information was discovered in June 2021 upon release of Fauci’s emails under Freedom of Information.
UK updates Death Certificate guidelines for COVID-19
On April 21, 2020 the British Medical Association (BMA) changed their guidance to doctors in England and Wales, “on verification and certification of death and cremation for a temporary period during which emergency measures are in place to tackle the COVID-19 outbreak.” As a result of the Coronavirus Act 2020, this also indemnified doctors.
Doctors no longer had to be that sure a patient died from COVID-19, “to write COVID-19 on a death certificate”, which was “highly irregular“. Like Australian and US, now the UK doctors can “legally” write COVID-19 on the Medical Certificates of Cause of Death (MCCD) where it is assumed to be from COVID-19. Similarly for Scotland. [3]
The guidance stated: “In those cases where the doctor is confident on medical grounds that a particular cause of death is likely then that should be entered on the MCCD (Medical Certificates of Cause of Death). Covid-19 is an acceptable direct or underlying cause of death for the purposes of completing the MCCD, even without the results of a positive test, and it is important that likely Covid-19 deaths are reported as such via the registrar.” [1]
This was revoked 2 years later on April 13, 2022, because the “Coronavirus Act 2020 …was repealed on 24 March 2022”. Except “the form Cremation 5, which was suspended during the pandemic, will not be re-introduced after the Coronavirus Act expires and has now permanently been abolished”
The removal of the Cremation 5 form, means, “basically if your loved one dies of or with Covid19 they can have their death certified and cremation certified by the same medical practitioner and sent for cremation within hours …the government have removed your right to see or query that decision before the cremation takes place which in turn removes your right to request a coroners report or second opinion.” [2]
NIH COVID-19 treatment guidelines – “do nothing”
First archived April 21, 2020, the US National Institute of Health (NIH) publish their first set of Treatment Guidelines intended “to inform clinicians how to care for patients with COVID-19.” The recommendations according to them are based on scientific evidence and expert opinion, based on the strength and quality of the evidence. [1]
The COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines Panel included members were appointed by the co-chairs, of which many disclosed affiliations with Gilead, the maker of failed Ebola anti-viral drug remdesivir, a clear conflict of interest.
- “The Panel does not recommend the use of any agents for post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) against SARS-CoV-2 infection outside of the setting of a clinical trial”.
- “The Panel recommends …no specific treatment for persons with suspected or confirmed asymptomatic or presymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection”
- For management of all illness: “At present, no drug has been proven to be safe and effective for treating COVID-19. There are insufficient data to recommend either for or against the use of any antiviral or immunomodulatory therapy in patients with COVID-19 who have mild, moderate, severe, or critical illness.” [2]
- As “evidence” came to hand therapeutics were added to the guidelines.
Frontline doctors believed that no early treatment was inhumane, so they searched the literature and began treating the patient symptoms using repurposed drugs, which have known safety profiles for dosages used. The early treatment apporach was keeping patients out of hospital, and have held true through the pandemic.
This public health policy of “no treatment, go home for 14 days, and come back when you couldn’t breath“, caused a lot of mortality and morbidity, mostly because the public weren’t aware of the early treatment.
Just in one location by May 2022 Dr Tyson‘s group had treated over 10,000 COVID-19 out-patients with a 99.998% survival rate.
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