G20 Digital COVID-19 Vaccine Certificates, prelude to vaccine passports

In March 28-30, 2022 the 1st Health Working Group G20 held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia , the meeting was attended by 70 foreign delegates, 50 local and many virtual including international organisations, including the world bank [CBDC?].  Initiated by Indonesia, the delegates discussed harmonising global health protocol standards to "enable safe international travel and help economic and social prosperity recover forever" where digital technology will be the basis for achieving this goal. They came up with the Digital COVID-19 Vaccine Certificates [1, 4] "In 2021, G20 country leaders ...adopted health protocol guidelines such as vaccination certificates and digital health information systems. However, the ever-changing pandemic situation has resulted in a lack of uniformity in health protocol regulations." [4] "Universal verifier is a special portal created by the Ministry of Health which is able to read vaccine certificate data from other countries. This universal verifier is made according to World Health Organizations (WHO) standards so that each country does not need to change the system and QR Code currently used." Allowing for a universal digital COVID-19 vaccine certificate.  ''This system does not exchange data, so data privacy and security is guaranteed. This system uses Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)." The QR code system..> READ MORE

Australia holds 4-day Pandemic Influenza Simulation Exercise

From October 16 to 19, 2006 Australia held a pandemic influenza live simulation called Exercise Cumpston’ 06, the largest ever health exercise and said to be one of the first major exercises on pandemic influenza conducted in any country, costing $4.1 million. [1, 2, 3] The simulation was conducted by the Department of Health and Ageing with the aim to exercise the capacity and capability of the Australian health system to prevent, detect and respond to an influenza pandemic, it utilised 1,500 participants and control staff and was held over 4 days.  The exercise was closely observed and monitored by international health experts. [4] The exercise was named after Dr John Howard Lidgett Cumpston, an epidemiologist, and the first Director-General of the Commonwealth Department of Health, from 1921 to 1945. Previously, as the Commonwealth Director of Quarantine, he was largely responsible for containing the spread of Spanish Influenza in Australia in 1919. It's not the first simulation as Exercise Eleusis '05 was conducted in November 2005, simulating an avian influenza outbreak in poultry with limited transmission to humans. Both exercises showed Australia was in good shape, with some refinements recommended including updating the 2003 version of the Australian Health Management..> READ MORE

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.

CDC: COVID-19 vaccines early information and myth busting

As early as November 4, 2020, before the many different types of COVID-19 vaccine were emergency approved by the FDA regulator or began to roll out to the public the CDC made sweeping myth busting claims about these never used before products.  Note the careful words they use: COVID-19 vaccines will not "give you" COVID-19 COVID-19 vaccines will not "cause you" to test positive on COVID-19 viral tests People who have gotten sick with COVID-19 "may" still benefit from getting vaccinated - natural immunity, varies from person to person and duration of natural immunity is unknown [did they even investigate?] Getting vaccinated can "help" prevent getting "sick with COVID-19" - even though many have experienced only a mild illness [no clarification on preventing infection or transmission] Vaccination is a tool to "stop the pandemic" - HERE How the CDC assures the vaccines are "safe" - HERE 8 Things to Know about Vaccine Planning - HERE What the health professional should know - HERE More CDC Nov 2020 - What's New - HERE

CDC: Advanced Molecular Detection (AMD) initiative needed to remain an international leader

Following a June 15, 2011 Future Strategies for Bioinformatics in CDC's Infectious Diseases Laboratories intenal report which identified a "critical need" for increased Advanced Molecular Detection (AMD) capacity at the CDC.  Concluding "[t]he authoritative analysis and interpretation of scientific data is a critical area where CDC must excel for the Agency to continue to provide international leadership in public health and policy. The mission of CDC will be seriously compromised if the organization does not have the appropriate bioinformatics expertise and computational infrastructure."  Among other things "Should this occur, CDC will be at risk of going from outdated, to obsolete, and then to irrelevant" President Obama's 2014 budget gave life to CDC's AMD initiative, which may have been motivated with the threat of an" emerging variety of highly antibiotic-resistant bacteria" called superbugs! Using next-generation sequencing technology to identify complete genetic sequences of microorganisms, the CDC aimed to user a "new era for controlling infectious threats" and "revolutionizing" its "ability to diagnose infectious diseases, investigate and control outbreaks, understand transmission patterns, develop and target vaccines, and determine antimicrobial resistance—all with increased timeliness and accuracy and decreased costs". [1] CDC claim "each year the flu costs businesses approximately $10.4 billion in direct..> READ MORE

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) –..> READ MORE

CDC downgrades COVID-19 to the common flu, or less

On March 1, 2024 the US CDC released new guidance for "pandemic virus" that causes COVID-19 with recommendations now aligned with other respiratory viral illness  effectively downgrading the disease to the common flu, the same low IFR as antibody test suggested in April 2020.  Infected persons no longer requiring isolation for 5 days, as it is now less severe than previously claimed. [2, 3] "COVID-19 remains an important public health threat, but it is no longer the emergency that it once was, and its health impacts increasingly resemble those of other respiratory viral illnesses... far fewer people are getting seriously ill from COVID-19, [and] clinically COVID-19 has become similar to, or even less severe in hospitalized people, than influenza and RSV." [1] The CDC still claim: "Due to the effectiveness of protective tools and high degree of population immunity, there are now fewer hospitalizations and deaths due to COVID-19." They state "98% of the U.S. population now has some degree of protective immunity against COVID-19 from vaccination, prior infection or both", protection is from symptoms not the pathogen, they do not stop infection or transmission. At this time only 13.1% for children and 22.2% over 18 years have taken the..> READ MORE

Australia Dept Health release first National “COVID-19 Plan”

On February 7, 2020 the Australian Department of Health released its first Australian Health Sector Emergency Response Plan for Novel Coronavirus (COVID-2019) [v1, v2] providing an overview of the National operational action plan, a living document guided the Australian governments "health response" to the pandemic. [1] The document noted: "currently, there is no specific treatment (no vaccine and no antiviral) against the new virus."  [This "health" body does not mention of boosting the immune system as a first line of defense!] that no previous "emerging" viruses had "sustained human to human transmission". Up until then the Australian Health Management Plan for Pandemic Influenza (the AHMPPI) was the key nationally agreed document to guide Australia’s pandemic response, this plan adapts AHMPPI for novel coronavirus. the pandemic response activities "should be implemented"  would "be selected by the Australian Health Protection Principal Committee (AHPPC), in consultation with relevant parties and on advice from expert bodies." The AHPPC is part of the Department of Health's and is "key health sector coordination mechanism that provides advice to whole-of-government crisis committees", they are part of the emergency response National Incident Centre (NIC) the focal body that inturn coordinates with the WHO. AHPPC gave their first advice..> READ MORE

Australia begins to mandate COVID-19 vaccination as a conditon of employment

On June 28, 2021 PM Scott Morrison announced the National Cabinet agreed to mandate vaccination for aged care workers as a condition of employment. They claimed "COVID-19 vaccinations are working to reduce transmission" based on "a recent exposure event in NSW, of the 30 people that were at the event, 24 unvaccinated people have now tested positive for COVID, but six vaccinated people who attended the event have not been infected at this stage with the COVID-19 virus" [1] This follows statements that vaccination would not be compulsory and only 24 days after health experts for the second time, did not recommend compulsory COVID-19 vaccination for aged care workers.

Aust. PM lobbies States to make COVID-19 vaccination compulsory, against health advice

On June 4, 2021, The Australian Health Protection Principal Committee (AHPPC) comprised of state and territory chief health officers and Commonwealth officials and led by Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly, stated for the second time, that “does not recommend compulsory COVID-19 vaccines for aged care workers”. The state, "Mandating COVID-19 vaccination must balance the rights of an individual in the workplace against the public health benefits of vaccination", otherwise knowns as being able to stop infection and transmission. [1] That same day, Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced on the ABC that he was going to lobby State and Territory leaders through his National Cabinet to overrule expert health advice and "force aged care workers to get the coronavirus vaccine", contrary to his not compulsory statement a year earlier. [1] This referral came with the backing of the Health Minister, Greg Hunt (who is ex WEF advisor and sponsor of TGA's Provisional Registration), because of outbreaks in Aged Care facilities in Victoria after workes and residents tested positive. The lobby worked, by June 28, 2021 Morrison announced the National Cabinet agreed to mandate vaccination for aged care workers as a condition of employment.  That set in motion the snowball effect..> READ MORE