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SA Pathology assisted opening Australia’s first drive-through COVID-19 test collection centre at The Repat site at Daw Park, which became a model for other states.[1, 2, 3] The collection service was designed for patients who have been assessed and received a pathology request form from their GPs.  In time, drive-through testing was for anyone who suspected infection from SARS-CoV-2, whether they had symptoms or not.

On March 3, 2020, the WHO Director General Tedros, claimed in a press conference that the fatality rate for COVID-19 (3.4%) is higher than that of the common flu, “because no one has immunity”, on the back of the China Report. [1, 2]  This figure could be calculated from February 25, 2020 WHO COVID-19 situation report with 80,239 confirmed cases globally and a total of 2,700 deaths, this amounts to 3.36% case fatality rate. WHO fatality rate was based on faulty assumptions, and have simply assumed a “new” virus has no cross-immunity from previous coronavirus infections. Natural infection confers broad spectrum immunity. China concealed the true extent of the virus outbreak, thus the IFR was off by a "factor of 10" [3, 4] Importantly, “WHO does not distinguish between people who died with the Covid-19 virus, rather than because of it.” On March 26, 2020 US Dr Anthony Fauci et al published paper claiming the "[o]n the basis of a case definition requiring a diagnosis of pneumonia, the currently reported case fatality rate is approximately 2%".  They also state that if "one assumes that the number of asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic cases is several times as high as the number of reported..> READ MORE

800 scientists and medical professionals with expertise in medicine, public health, law, and human rights, and in previous pandemic responses, write an open letter to the White House warning against lockdowns, closures, and travel restrictions. It was sponsored by Yale University. [1] "The letter warned that the crackdowns, shutdowns, travel restrictions, sweeping closures, and work restrictions could be counterproductive and not produce the results people hope for"...serious health scholars were not on board with many of the draconian command-and-control measures" that followed.

In early March, The Palmer Foundation acquired 32,900,000 doses of the off-patent and cheap drug hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), which was then donated to the Australian Government to be placed on the National Medical Stockpile so it may be made available free to all Australians. The Palmer Foundation is tracking HCQ data points with their own timeline. In April 2020, Canada’s pharma company Apotex donated 2 million doses to the Canadian Public Health Agency. Clive Palmer interview WATCH

On February 19, 2020 a letter was published in The Lancet by 27 expert scientists to debunk “rumours and misinformation” about potential lab leak origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.  This consensus was used as “evidence” for suppressing debate on whether the virus could have escaped the Wuhan lab; demonstrating the power of “scientific consensus” coupled with the media influence to rule a narrative. [1] They stated: “we stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin” They claimed no competing interests! Though 2021, it was revealed that 26 of the 27 scientists have links to Wuhan scientists including Professor John Mackenzie from Australia, who also served on WHO Emergency Committee. [2, 3] Emails gained under FOI request shows planning by Peter Daszak of EcoHealth Alliance in who should sign the letter! [4] In June 2021 we learn: Peter Daszak who heads EcoHealth Alliance who funds Wuhan Institute of Virology and is a WHO investigator clearly has competing interests. Daszak thanked Fauci in an email for dismissing the lab-leak theory Peter Palese does a 180 turn in opinion. Jeremy Farrar, of the Wellcome Trust and on the CEPI executive and SAC is very conflicted,..> READ MORE

Following the declaration of a Public Health Emergency (PHE) on January 31, 2020 by the US Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Alex Azar, he then determined that circumstances existed to justify the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) emergency use authorization (EUA) of medical devices, including alternative products used as medical devices, (including biological products), pursuant to pursuant to section 564 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic (FD&C) Act. The declaration was effective Febraury 4, 2020 [3, 5] The HHS Secretary the invoked the 2005 PREP Act, the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act, back dating it effective February 4, 2020. Under this US Act pharma giants are provided total immunity from liability until 2024. [1, 2, 4, 6] The FDA may issue an EUA ONLY after concluding that 4 statutory criteria are met: The agent referred to in the declaration [SARS-CoV-2 which causes disease COVID-19] can cause serious or life-threatening disease or condition. Evidence of effectiveness based on the totality of scientific evidence available. [5] The known potential benefits outweigh the known potential risks. There is no adequate, approved, and available alternative.

On February 1, 2020, two Chinese scientists, Botao Xiao and Lei Xiao, one from Wuhan, published the pre-print paper "The possible origins of 2019-nCoV coronavirus", the paper was quickly scrubbed and only available in the web archives. [1, 2] In the paper they point out that "According to municipal reports and the testimonies of 31 residents and 28 visitors, the bat was never a food source in the city, and no bat was traded in the market."  They also point out there is no recombination or intermediate host that has been reported. But they screened the area around the Wuhan seafood market and identified two laboratories conducting research on bat coronavirus: the Wuhan Center for Disease Control & Prevention (WHCDC) located ~280 meters, which also happens to be adjacent the Union Hospital where the first group of doctors were infected. Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences ~12 kilometers Of the latter, the "principle investigator participated in a project which generated a chimeric virus using the SARS-CoV reverse genetics system, and reported the potential for human emergence." From this circumstantial evidence they concluded "the killer coronavirus probably originated from a laboratory in Wuhan. " Vanity Fair reported that US..> READ MORE

Chinese government reported on January 22, 2020 the "Strictest measures enacted to contain viral pneumonia" where the city of Wuhan closed its transport networks and advised it's citizens not to leave the city". 11 million people in Wuhan, China, considered the epicentre of the novel coronavirus outbreak, are ordered to abide by the restrictions. [1]  Wuhan lockdown measures were kept in place until April 8, 2020.  It is thought 5 million people departed before the lockdown was put in place. Locking down healthy people is a public health measure never done before for a virus outbreak. On 30 January 2020, the WHO’s director general tweeted China’s lockdown measures are “setting a new standard for outbreak response.” An action not actually based on science, and contrary to an October 2019 WHO report, yet sovereign nations of the world actively followed this unprecedented CCP led “control measure”! Further key data points from the China report: "On Jan 19, President Xi Jinping ordered that resolute efforts should be made to curb the spread of the virus, stressing putting people's safety and health as the top priority." "The Wuhan Health Commission reported on the morning of Jan 21 that 15 medical workers in the..> READ MORE

On January 21, 2020, the CDC reported the detection of the first person in the United States diagnosed with 2019-nCoV infection.  The case history of this 35-year-old male, who became known as patient zero, was published, and said to have returned to Washington state from Wuhan, China on 15th January. [4, 5, 6] The CDC press release added, “While originally thought to be spreading from animal-to-person, there are growing indications that limited person-to-person spread is happening. It’s unclear how easily this virus is spreading between people.” [3] Genome testing, confirmed by Kristian Andersen, connected "patient zero" with the Life Care Center nursing home in Kirkland, Washington, where nearly half of initial COVID-19 deaths occurred. The patented drug remdesivir by Gilead and which was "not yet licensed or approved anywhere globally", was administered intravenously on day 7 of illness this first patient, by 30 January the patients symptoms had resolved, except for a mild cough.  The patient was treated with antibiotics on day 6 when pneumonia began to develop! [5]  Recovery was "attributed" to remdesivir, but the virus began to clear on day 3 (PCR Ct confirmed), and antibiotics cleared the lung infection! A few days later China began testing remdesivir..> READ MORE