Coronavirus vaccine from UQ and CSL abandoned after HIV response which scientists say was 'unexpected'

[Lori Price]

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18 December 2020

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Coronavirus vaccine from UQ and CSL abandoned after HIV response which scientists say was 'unexpected' --Clinical trials of a COVID-19 vaccine being developed by the University of Queensland (UQ) and CSL have been abandoned | 11 Dec 2020 | Scientists behind the UQ coronavirus vaccine are "devastated" over the decision to abandon the trial, but say it was a "risk-based decision" to maintain public confidence in the COVID-19 vaccine process. Speaking on a conference call after the decision was made public early on Friday, the leaders of the team said the UQ vaccine developed a "robust" immune response and was safe. But UQ researchers working on the trials involving 216 people found the vaccine generated additional antibodies that tripped up some HIV tests, leading to false-positive results in those tests. The UQ vaccine's molecular clamp technology uses two fragments of a protein found in HIV that were used to hold together the key part of the SARS-Cov-2 virus, so the immune system could learn to recognise it.

Australian COVID vaccine terminated due to HIV 'false positives' | 11 Dec 2020 | A billion-dollar deal for the Morrison government to buy more than 50 million doses of the University of Queensland's potential coronavirus vaccine has been abruptly terminated after several trial participants returned false positive HIV test results. UQ, working in partnership with Australian global biotech company CSL, will abandon its current clinical trials following the discovery. It informed the federal government of the initial data on Monday, which was then referred to health authorities for urgent medical advice...The UQ vaccine candidate used a protein and adjuvant platform, containing the COVID-19 spike protein and a "molecular clamp". A small component is derived from the human immunodeficiency virus, known as HIV, that is not able to infect people or replicate... The source said although all participants had been told there was a remote possibility HIV markers could be found in tests during the trial, medical researchers had not expected it to occur. Health department secretary Brendan Murphy said the risk of a false-positive was seen to be "extremely low at the outset". "Everyone was very surprised at the unexpected prevalence of the false positive," Professor Murphy said.

Accomplished university professor thrown in psych hospital after questioning official COVID narrative --Jean-Bernard Fourtillan was taken from his home by a team of French law enforcement officers and forcibly placed in solitary confinement at the psychiatric hospital of Uzès. | 11 Dec 2020 | Early on December 10, Jean-Bernard Fourtillan, a French retired university professor known for his strong opposition to COVID-19 vaccines such as those presently being distributed in the U.K., was taken from his temporary home in the south of France by a team of "gendarmes" -- French law enforcement officers under military command -- and forcibly placed in solitary confinement at the psychiatric hospital of Uzès. His mobile phones were taken from him, and at the time of writing, he had not been allowed to communicate with the outside world. The order for his internment appears to have been issued by the local "prefet," the official representative of the French executive. 

Connecticut's COVID-19 Vaccine Advisory Group held closed-door meeting on coronavirus vaccine distribution, against state law | 18 Dec 2020 | After lawmakers and public information advocates decried the opacity of Gov. Ned Lamont's Reopen Connecticut Advisory Group, the governor's administration pledged to flip the script with its COVID-19 Vaccine Advisory Group. But despite the governor's promise of open meetings, the vaccine advisory group's transparency took a detour in early December, when the group's Allocations Subcommittee held a closed-door meeting. Av Harris, spokesperson for the state Department of Public Health, said that the private nature of the Dec. 2 meeting was "unintentional." [?] ...At the meeting, the subcommittee discussed and voted on a recommendation for how the governor should distribute the first doses of the coronavirus vaccine. But the meeting could not be accessed by either reporters or members of the general public. State law requires that the meeting be properly noticed and held in public, similar to a local board of education or city council meeting.

Health care worker suffers dangerous reaction minutes after receiving COVID-19 vaccine --Woman had an allergic reaction within 10 minutes of receiving the shot and was admitted to Bartlett Hospital's emergency room | 16 Dec 2020 | A health care worker in Alaska is doing "well" after suffering an adverse reaction minutes after receiving Pfizer's [deadly, rushed] COVID-19 vaccine, officials said. The health care worker, who was identified as a middle-aged woman, had an allergic reaction that included flushing and shortness of breath within 10 minutes of receiving the first of Pfizer's two-dose jab on Tuesday. She was still being observed in Bartlett Hospital's foyer at the time of the incident. The woman, whose name is being withheld, suffered an anaphylactic reaction that required hospitalization and monitoring, and will not be receiving the second dose of the vaccine, officials said during a press briefing on Wednesday. She had no prior history of allergies and took a Benadryl to relieve the symptoms but it did not work.  Once she was admitted to Bartlett Hospital's emergency room, her symptoms resolved within moments of receiving epinephrine. 

Nurse in faints at press conference minutes after getting COVID vaccine | 17 Dec 2020 | A nurse fainted at a Thursday press conference after receiving the coronavirus vaccine at a Tennessee hospital. Nurse Manager Tiffany Dover had been speaking to the media about the city’s first vaccinations of front-line health workers when she collapsed, according to video posted by WTVC-9, the Chattanooga ABC affiliate. About 17 minutes after receiving the Pfizer-made vaccine against COVD-19, she started feeling dizzy, apologized and fell over before she was caught by doctors standing behind her.

Sham shot? Hospital accused of FAKING a nurse's coronavirus vaccine injection on TV after viewers claim syringe didn't move | 16 Dec 2020 | A hospital has been accused of supplying a healthcare worker with a fake coronavirus vaccine by TV viewers who said the syringe didn't move during the jab. Footage showed employees getting vaccinated at the University Medical Center of El Paso in Texas on Tuesday. In the video, a person administers the vaccine on an unnamed healthcare worker who had his sleeve rolled up. But it looks like the person giving the worker the vaccine does not push the syringe plunger -- which already appears to be down. "Some eagle-eyed KTSM 9 News viewers wondered if the worker received the vaccine at all," KTSM wrote, adding that it reached out to the medical center to ask what happened.

Ex-Facebook exec suggests everyone who gets vaccinated to wear certain color mask, reminiscent of Nazi Germany's use of the Star of David | 11 Dec 2020 | Former Facebook executive Chamath Palihapitiya suggested in a tweet on Friday that everyone who gets vaccinated should "all wear a mask of a special design or color" in order to let other people around them know that they have been vaccinated. The idea did not sit well with many on social media, who quickly blasted the idea, comparing it to Nazi Germany's use of the Star of David. "How about we just put a gold star on ones that aren't?", one user tweeted sarcastically. Other users didn't see the point of having to continue to wear a mask when the vaccine is supposed to provide protection on its own. 

Scientists Propose 'Tattoos' to Solve Vaccination Issues | 24 Jan 2020 | According to Wikipedia, the widespread use of vaccinations has "greatly reduced the incidence of many diseases in numerous geographic regions," a fact most people already know. But tracking who’s received vaccinations and which ones remains a daunting task for medical professionals, especially when it comes to keeping tabs on children. Now, a group of MIT researchers funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation says that invisible tattoos may be the best way to deal with this tracking issue, although there are some ethical concerns with their proposed solution.

New Study Found 80% of COVID-19 Patients Were Vitamin D Deficient --A new study that looked at 216 people with COVID-19 found that 80 percent didn't have adequate levels of vitamin D in their blood | 27 Oct 2020 | Recent research discovered a correlation between vitamin D deficiency and a higher risk of COVID-19. Now, another new study has found the same -- noting that more than 80 percent of people with COVID-19 didn’t have adequate levels of the "sunshine vitamin" in their blood. As part of the new study in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, researchers looked at 216 COVID-19 patients in a hospital in Spain. The scientists matched the patients to controls from another dataset. Of all the patients, 82.2 percent were deficient in vitamin D. In the research, men had lower vitamin D levels compared to women. 

Coca Cola Tests COVID-19 Positive in Austrian Parliament | 12 Dec 2020 | An Austrian parliamentary member exposed the defectiveness of the government's COVID-19 tests by demonstrating in the parliament how a glass of Coca Cola tested positive for COVID-19. In footage from the meeting in Vienna Friday, FPO General Secretary Michael Schnedlitz brings a glass of Coca Cola to the podium, from which he proceeds to collect drops to use on an antigen rapid test being used on a mass scale. After going to the lectern and starting his speech, the politician sprinkled few drops of cola on corona rapid test. Three minutes later the test showed a result: Coca Cola was COVID-19 positive. After demonstrating a positive result, Schnedlitz goes on to slam the tests as a waste of taxpayer resources.

Coronavirus Scandal Breaking in Merkel's Germany. False Positives and the Drosten PCR Test | 11 Dec 2020 | The entire case for WHO-mandated emergency lockdown of businesses, schools, churches and other social arenas worldwide is based on a test introduced, amazingly early on, in the Wuhan, China, coronavirus saga. On January 23, 2020, in the scientific journal Eurosurveillance, of the EU Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Dr. Christian Drosten, along with several colleagues from the Berlin Virology Institute at Charite Hospital, along with the head of a small Berlin biotech company, TIB Molbiol Syntheselabor GmbH, published a study claiming to have developed the first effective test for detecting whether someone is infected with the novel coronavirus identified first only days before in Wuhan… Since then the Drosten-backed test for the virus, called a real-time or RT-PCR test, has spread via WHO worldwide, as the most used test protocol to determine if a person might have COVID-19, the illness. On November 27, a highly respected group of 23 international virologists, microbiologists and related scientists published a call for Eurosurveillance to retract the January 23, 2020, Drosten article.

Wearing a used mask could be worse than no mask amid COVID-19 - study | 16 Dec 2020 | Wearing a used mask could be more dangerous than not wearing one at all when it comes to warding off COVID-19, a new study has found. A new three-layer surgical mask is 65 percent efficient in filtering particles in the air -- but when used, that number drops to 25 percent, according to the study published Tuesday in the Physics of Fluids. Researchers from the University of Massachusetts Lowell and California Baptist University say that masks slow down airflow, making people more susceptible to breathing in particles -- and a dirty face mask can't effectively filter out the tiniest of droplets. "It is natural to think that wearing a mask, no matter new or old, should always be better than nothing," said author Jinxiang Xi. "Our results show that this belief is only true for particles larger than 5 micrometers, but not for fine particles smaller than 2.5 micrometers."

State Police Issue 1 Warning to Pittsburgh Establishments During COVID-19 Compliance Checks --Police say these checks could happen anywhere in the state | 14 Dec 2020 | During coronavirus compliance checks, state police issued one warning to Pittsburgh-area licensed liquor establishments. Liquor control enforcement officers visited 526 licensed establishments across the state Friday through Sunday to make sure coronavirus orders are being followed. They issued 14 notices of violation and 24 warnings. The Pittsburgh State Police Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement office issued one warning from Dec. 11-13 after visiting 62 businesses. On Saturday, a statewide order went into effect suspending in-person dining until Jan. 4. Bars and restaurants issued a notice of violation won’t be named since they're under investigation. Each Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement office releases details on citations at the end of the month.

Mitch McConnell received donations from Dominion Voting Systems and shut down two election integrity bills in 2020 | 18 Dec 2020 | The Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell (R-KY) [who Trump should have jettisoned day one along w. Paul Ryan], is urging Senate Republicans to accept the Biden electors without objection when they are presented to Congress on January 6... A closer examination of Mitch McConnell finds he took donations from lobbyists who work for Dominion Voting Systems. Dominion lobbyists, David Cohen and Brian Wild both donated to the McConnell campaign funds in March of 2020. McConnell also received thousands of dollars from Emily Kirlin and Jen Olson, lobbyists for ES&S, another voting system company. Both Dominion and ES&S represent about 80 percent of all voting machines in the country. Both systems rely on a software developed by Microsoft called "Election Guard." McConnell also helped suppress election integrity efforts earlier in 2020. In July, McConnell blocked two bills that would "bolster election security." One of the bills would have required a physical paper trail of every single ballot cast in the country. The forensic audit of Dominion Voting Systems found that the security and log files were missing for the 2020 election -- the trail of fraud concealed, erased. Every ballot that was adjudicated and potentially switched by Democrats could not be adequately traced. McConnell blocked the bill that would have required a physical trail, revealing his true intentions with the 2020 election. He also opposed an election integrity bill that would mandate political candidates, their staff members, and their families to notify the FBI if any foreign government offered to assist them.

Forensic audit finds that security log files were deleted from all Dominion machines to hide vote-switching | 15 Dec 2020 | After election officials identified "glitches" that switched 6,000 Trump votes to Biden, the courts in Antrim County Michigan ordered an audit of Dominion voting machines. The forensic audit was carried out by the Allied Security Operations Group (ASOG). This group conducted a forensic duplication on the county's election management server. They investigated compact flash cards used by local precincts in their Dominion ImageCast system, and they audited the memory sticks used by Dominion Voter Assist Terminals and the memory sticks used for the poll book. This forensic audit found blatant evidence of a coordinated attack on the 2020 Presidential election. The Federal Election Commission allows an error rate of .0008 percent for all voting machines used in US elections. The Dominion machines in Antrim county had an error rate of 68.05 percent! Even more shocking: The ballot-adjudication logs and the security logs for the November 3 general election were removed. All log files for previous elections were still contained on the machines, but someone on the inside was able to erase the all-important log files for the 2020 election.

Georgia Poll Workers Who Raised Election Concerns Get Terminated | 18 Dec 2020 | Poll workers in Georgia who raised concerns about election irregularities were informed this week that their contracts are not being renewed, according to letters obtained by Epoch Media Group. Bridget Thorne and Susan Voyles say they witnessed abnormal actions taken during the election in Fulton County. They've spoken to news outlets and state legislators about what they saw. In the new letters, Dwight Brower, elections consultant for the Fulton County Department of Registration and Elections, informs the women that Georgia law enables officials to appoint poll managers, and managers must be reappointed for each election event. "I see it as a direct consequence of my being honest," Voyles told NTD, which is part of Epoch Media Group.

Maricopa County Board Votes Against Complying With Subpoenas to Audit Voting Machines | 18 Dec 2020 | The Board of Supervisors in Arizona's Maricopa County on Friday voted 4-1 to file a complaint in the Arizona Superior Court and won’t comply with state Senate-issued subpoenas to hand over voting machines used in the Nov. 3 election for an audit, as well as an audit of scanned ballots. A lawsuit will be filed against lawmakers in the Arizona State Legislature to block the enforcement of the subpoenas, county officials said. The subpoenas were issued earlier this week by the Senate Judiciary Committee. Chairman Eddie Farnsworth, a Republican, had issued the subpoena to audit Dominion Voting Systems machines and ballots in the county, with a deadline for Friday at 5 p.m. Maricopa County Chairman of the Board Clint Hickman, a Republican, said during Friday’s session the subpoenas were unconstitutional and a "slap in the face."

Pennsylvania Republicans Ask Supreme Court to Again Review Election Lawsuit | 15 Dec 2020 | A group of Republicans in Pennsylvania on Tuesday has again urged the U.S. Supreme Court to take up their lawsuit that challenges the 2020 election results in the state. The nation's top court had previously rejected the group's request for immediate injunctive relief to block Pennsylvania from taking further steps to certify the 2020 election results. At the time, the group’s lawyer, Greg Teufel, said the case was not over because his clients were planning to file a formal petition to ask the court to review the lawsuit, which they hadn't filed the first time. The lawyer filed a petition for a writ of certiorari on Dec. 11, docketed by the court on Dec. 15, which argues that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court was wrong when it dismissed their case because the justices thought the plaintiffs filed their case with unreasonable delay.

Republican Electors Cast Votes for Trump in Three Contested States | 14 Dec 2020 | Alternate electors cast votes for President Donald Trump Monday from a number of battleground states contested by the president as the Electoral College met to finalize the results of the 2020 election. President Donald Trump's senior adviser Stephen Miller said the move was to keep open the possibility of challenging the election up until Jan. 20. "The only date in the Constitution is January 20, so we have more than enough time to right the wrong of this fraudulent election result and certify Donald Trump as the winner of the election," Miller told Fox News.

Over 1,400 Votes Changed During School Board Election in Michigan - Forensics Company Report | 14 Dec 2020 | Allied Security Operations Group, which carried out a forensic audit of voting machines in Michigan's Antrim County, claimed in a Monday report that more than 1,400 votes changed when they evaluated a Dominion ImageCast Precinct machine for possible hardware problems in a small town. "This is the most preliminary report of serious election fraud indicators. In comparing the numbers on both rolls, we estimate 1,474 votes changed across the two rolls, between the first and the second time the exact same ballots were run through the County Clerk's vote counting machine--which is almost the same number of voters that voted in total," the group said when they evaluated two tape rolls in Central Lake Township.

Pres. Trump files election lawsuit in New Mexico | 14 Dec 2020 | President Trump and his legal team filed an election lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in New Mexico Monday. The lawsuit claims the state broke the law when it allowed drop boxes to be a part of the voting process for the 2020 election. The 42-page lawsuit states that Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver violated federal and state law when she allowed absentee ballot drop-off boxes without proper supervision. The lawsuit wants the elector's process stopped. It also calls for drop-box votes to be properly validated and counted.

Flynn Speaks at Rally: 'We Cannot Accept What We Are Going Through as Right' | 12 Dec 2020 | Lt. General Michael Flynn spoke in front of a large crowd that rallied on Washington on Dec. 12 to protest election fraud, and began with the story of Jericho. "We are in a crucible moment in the history of the United States of America," he said at the "Let the Church Roar" rally at the National Mall. "And remember, the courts do not decide who the next president of the United States will be...We the people decide." Thousands gathered to join marches and rallies in Washington on Dec. 12, petitioning the government for fair elections and transparent counting. Similar grassroots protests took place every Saturday since the general election in capitals across the 50 states.

Money From Facebook's Zuckerberg Used to Undermine Election, Violate Law - Report | 16 Dec 2020 | Hundreds of millions of dollars from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was used to violate election laws, according to a new report. The Amistad Project of the Thomas More Society, a national constitutional litigation organization, released the 39-page report, alleging that Zuckerberg's 500 million given to election officials was used to treat voters unequally and improperly influence the election for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. The bulk of the funds went to the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL), a nonprofit started by former managers and staff at the New Organizing Institute, a progressive nonprofit. According to the report, the nonprofit earlier this year "began sending agents into states to recruit certain Democrat strongholds to prepare grants requesting monies from" it.

YouTube Announces Restrictive Ban on Videos Questioning the 2020 Election | 09 Dec 2020 | YouTube announced Wednesday it will ban content questioning the outcome of this year’s presidential election. The video platform said in a blog post that it will now start removing content "alleging that widespread fraud or errors changed the outcome of the 2020 U.S. Presidential election." YouTube linked its decision to the fact that Tuesday was "safe harbor" day in the election calendar. Current law requires that Congress recognize electors chosen by this day in states where all election disputes are resolved, according to USA Today.

After Election Marked By Big Tech Censorship, Biden Team Quietly Brings on Facebook, Google Employees | 13 Dec 2020 | As censorship by Big Tech emerges as a critical issue for many Americans, Google and Facebook staffers are burrowing their way into the transition team of presumptive President-elect Joe Biden. On Friday, Politico reported that new names have been added to a list that already included several prominent Facebook alumni. Big Tech has tried to use its influence on the election. For example, YouTube last week declared it would ban videos that suggested the results of the Nov. 3 election were in doubt.

Big-name House Republicans sign letter demanding Pelosi remove Swalwell from intelligence committee | 15 Dec 2020 | A group of House Republicans, led by some of the most high-profile members of the caucus, called on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to remove Rep. Eric Swalwell from the House Intelligence Committee following revelations that he was targeted by a suspected Chinese spy. "We write to you today out of concern with Congressman Eric Swalwell's reported, close contacts with a Chinese Communist Party spy recently reported by Axios. Because of Rep. Swalwell's position on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, his close interactions with Chinese intelligence services, however unintentional they may be, are an unacceptable national security risk," the Republicans told Pelosi in a letter obtained by the Washington Examiner. "HPSCI handles some of the most sensitive information our government possesses -- information critical to our national defense. As such, we urge you to immediately remove Rep. Swalwell from his position on the House Intelligence Committee.”

New Peter Strzok Texts Undermine Official Narrative on Start of 'Russia Collusion' Investigation | 17 Dec 2020 | Newly-released texts from former FBI agent Peter Strzok suggest that the Obama administration's investigation of then-candidate Donald Trump for supposed "Russia collusion" began earlier than the official government narrative has acknowledged. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), who chairs the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, released new texts on Thursday from Strzok. One text, dated July 28, 2016, refers to "[o]ur open C[counter-]I[ntelligence] investigations relating to Trump's Russian connections." ...A Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General report in December 2019 claimed that the FBI opened its investigation into the Trump campaign, known as Operation Crossfire Hurricane, on July 31, 2016, three days after receiving the Downey tip. But the Strzok text, written to FBI lawyer Lisa Page -- with whom he had an affair -- suggests that the FBI already had open "investigations," plural, on supposed connections between Trump and Russia, none of which ever turned up any evidence.

Attorney General William Barr announces resignation | 14 Dec 2020 | Attorney General Bill Barr resigned from his post Monday, saying he will depart the Justice Department next week, while touting President Trump's record and accomplishments, and saying his presidency was met by a "partisan onslaught" and "in the face of relentless, implacable resistance." The president tweeted Monday evening: "Just had a very nice meeting with Attorney General Bill Barr at the White House." "Our relationship has been a very good one, he has done an outstanding job!" Trump tweeted. "As per letter, Bill will be leaving just before Christmas to spend the holidays with his family.”

Tucker Carlson doubles down on mocking illiterate Jill Biden | 18 Dec 2020 | Fox News host Tucker Carlson doubled down on mocking Jill Biden on his Wednesday show, labeling her as "illiterate" and blasting her [so-called] doctoral dissertation. On his Wednesday show, Carlson continued his criticism against Biden and her doctoral degree in education, piling on earlier attacks after The Wall Street Journal published an op-ed last week encouraging her not to use the "Dr." title as a non-medical doctor. On air, Carlson took to criticizing Biden's doctoral dissertation [sic], which she earned [sic] from the University of Delaware in 2007, calling it "our national shame." "Dr. Jill needs reading glasses," he said. "Either that or she's borderline illiterate. There are typos everywhere including in the first graph of the introduction. Dr. Jill can't write. She can't really think clearly either." "The whole thing is just incredibly embarrassing and not simply to poor illiterate Jill Biden but to the college that considered this crap scholarship, embarrassing in fact to our entire system of higher education, to the nation itself," Carlson added.

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