LATE BREAKING NEWS FLASH! THE CDC AND DR. FAUCI NOW ALLOW INDIVIDUAL DECISIONS

August 13, 2022

This week the Center For Disease Control finally followed the data and acknowledged the scientific facts that it makes no sense to treat people who are naturally immune to Covid-19 differently from those who have been vaccinated against the virus.  From the CDC website is the August 11, 2022, release “Summary of Guidance for Minimizing the Impact of COVID-19 on Individual Persons, Communities, and Health Care Systems — United States, August 2022”.  Here is the key summary sentence from that release:

“… high levels of vaccine- and  infection- induced immunity … have substantially reduced the risk for medically significant COVID-19 illness (severe acute illness and post-COVID-19 conditions) and associated hospitalization and death.  These circumstances now allow public health efforts to minimize the individual and societal health impacts of COVID-19 by focusing on sustainable measures to further reduce medically significant illness as well as to minimize strain on the health care system, while reducing barriers to social, educational, and economic activity.”  

So in this paragraph, the CDC is admitting natural immunity is on a par with vaccine immunity.  Do you realize physicians and others have been censored from social media, fired from employment, and even lost medical licensure for stating this obvious and known immunological fact the CDC has maliciously denied during the past 2 years?  They are also acknowledging their lies created “barriers to social, educational, and economic activity”.  Well, isn’t that a nice, sanitized way of stating the devastating individual and societal damage their lies caused as they worked to promote the “vaccines”.  Social isolation and dying in a nursing home or hospital alone and without family in attendance, censoring from the public square now known as social media, boarded up gyms and police-enforced canceling of church services. Children and young adults who have lost 2 years of educational opportunity and social and mental development due to all the lockdowns, masks, and lack of adult supervision.  Economic devastation to those who lost their jobs for refusing to be inoculated with an experimental and poorly studied drug.  “Yeah, sorry, just a few little barriers.  Never mind.  We’re taking them down now.”

You see, what is so despicable about this, is all the people making the decisions at the CDC, public health bureaucracy, hospitals, and many physicians in academics and out in practice knew better but went along with this corrupt charade.  Prior to 2020, even Fauci is quoted as acknowledging natural immunity is not just perhaps equal to vaccine immunity but rather the gold standard immunity to which vaccines strive to attain.  Go to the CDC.gov website where prior infection is recognized as a proxy or surrogate for vaccines in regards to measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR).  But just watch the hypocrisy emerge as all those who went along with this nonsense will put their confirmation bias on full display and proclaim we are just now learning about natural immunity in this pandemic and along with the miracle of the “vaccines” we can now take down the “social, educational, and economic barriers”.

Later in this CDC release is the following:

“COVID-19 vaccines are highly protective against severe illness and death and provide a lesser degree of protection against asymptomatic and mild infection.  Receipt of a primary series alone, in the absence of being up to date with vaccination through receipt of all recommended booster doses, provides minimal protection against infection and transmission.  Being up to date with vaccination provides a transient period of increased protection against infection and transmission after the most recent dose, although protection can wane over time”.

Yes, protection wanes in like 2-8 weeks after the 3rd or 4th shot of this stuff and then the current data reveals infection susceptibility becomes negative, meaning the person is more susceptible to infection (immunity becoming negative is thought to be due to a phenomenon called immunologic imprinting and suppression of T cell function).  People with natural immunity from prior infection do not seem to have this problem of recurrent and increased susceptibility to infection.  Of course, those of us who maintained our objectivity and critical thinking skills and spent a few hours reviewing outcome data last year from highly vaccinated countries like Israel, knew about and wrote about the minimal protection these drugs were offering during the summer and fall of 2021.  A sophomore medical student should have been able to predict the virus was going to outrun and outsmart these “vaccines”.

Let me explain.  The synthetic mRNA encapsulated in the millions (billions ?) of lipid nanoparticles injected into your body, travel throughout your body and attach to various cells and the synthetic mRNA is released into those cells.  That synthetic mRNA then causes your cells to produce a spike protein that mimics the spike protein of the virus.  Billions (trillions ?) of those “fake” spike proteins are produced in your cells and released into your body for perhaps weeks to months (we were told the production would only occur for a few days). Your immune system then produces humoral antibodies to that fake spike protein and those antibodies will then attack the real spike protein on the invading virus.  Pretty clever, huh?  Sounds like that would work great!  Those geniuses and wizards at the NIH led by the Chief Wizard, Dr. Fauci, had that all figured out.  Or did they?

Here is the predictable problem that would have caused that sophomore medical student to raise his hand in class.  Coronaviruses have been known for a long time to mutate rapidly to escape destruction by our immune system.  The Pfizer and Moderna drugs cause your body to produce antibodies against the specific segment of the spike protein of the original Wuhan strain of COVID-19.  So along comes the Delta variant and those “vaccine” injections don’t work so well.  Israel was heavily vaccinated by the time Delta arrived last fall and had a large surge in infections, hospitalizations, and deaths in their vaccinated population.  During the past few months in the U.S., the Omicron infections, hospitalizations, and deaths have mostly been in the vaccinated group.  The CDC will not admit this at this time and continues to spew misinformation that Omicron is mostly a problem in the “unvaxxed”.  Not true!  Well, actually may be partly true.  If the “unvaxxed” person is infection-naive (no natural immunity because no prior Covid infection) then perhaps a significant percentage of those people become ill with Omicron.  But the CDC, conveniently, does not make that distinction in this “guidance” update.   And don’t forget, the current “vaccines” and “boosters” (3rd and 4th shots of the same drug) are aimed at the original COVID-19 strain and not the subsequent strains.  Would you take a flu shot from your doctor who said, as you watched him or her pull the drug up into the syringe from the vaccine ampule, “this vaccine I have here is for the flu we had 3 years ago but maybe it will work against this different virus this year”?

And since we’re talking about genetic mutations in viruses that escape an immune response, here is another problem Fauci and his band of collaborators at the 3 letter agencies chose to ignore.  It has been a dictum known by virologists and epidemiologists to not mass vaccinate in the midst of a pandemic.  Why not, you ask?  Well, the mass vaccination actively promotes the rapid development of variants and the vaccines are rendered mostly impotent against the genetically evolved virus.  This is particularly true of a “leaky” vaccine such as these mRNA drugs which the CDC now acknowledges do not prevent infection, replication, and transmission (i.e. the definition of “leaky” in this context).  New vaccines can not be created fast enough to keep up with the genetic evolution that is occurring in the viral response to these leaky, inadequate “vaccines”.   If Pfizer or Moderna brews up a new one for the Omicron variant and wants everyone “boosted”, the virus will quickly outrun that effort and we will be on to the next variant.  And there is no guarantee the next one would not be much more virulent and deadly.  The analogous and simplistic bacterial comparison is MRSA (methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus).  There was a time when methicillin was very effective in killing staph aureus, and was perhaps overused.  The staph mutated and became resistant to methicillin and MRSA is now a problem, particularly in the hospital environment.

If you doubt any of this because you drank the propaganda Kool-Aid of the past 2 years and your confirmation bias will not allow you to admit you were gullible (too trusting of “authority” ?), then please read what Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche has written about vaccination in a pandemic.  He is a researcher and notable virologist in Europe and has had the courage to speak the truth to the lies and propaganda of the past 2 years.  Of course, he has been criticized, slandered, canceled, and threatened for the crime of saying what he believes to be the scientific truth regarding this pandemic and its vaccination policies.  Other academics worthy of review if you desire to objectify and increase your knowledge of virology, vaccinology, epidemiology, and immunology are as follows:  Robert Malone, MD,  Harvey Risch, MD, PhD (Yale), Jay Bhattacharya, MD (Stanford), Martin Kulldorff, PhD (Harvard), Sunetra Gupta, PhD (Oxford).  Search these names and read their writings and watch or listen to their interviews in various podcasts.  If you already have unfavorable opinions of these academicians from your research on CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, or press releases from the CDC or Fauci, then I can’t help you and you will need to await further and delayed admissions of truth from the CDC as I quoted above in their updated guidance.

One last thing to mention from the updated “guidance” from the CDC.  In the section of the guidance release dealing with antiviral agents, Paxlovid is mentioned in the context of “expansion of prescribing authority of Paxlovid to pharmacists intends to further facilitate access”.  Is there a precedence for pharmacists prescribing an investigational drug?  Paxlovid is a combination drug consisting of nirmatrelvir which is a protease inhibitor that inhibits viral replication and also contains ritonavir which boosts the nirmatrelvir drug levels in the body.  Paxlovid is an investigational drug from Pfizer that has an emergency use authorization (EUA) only and is for use in a person testing positive for Covid and needs to be given in the first 5 days of infection.

Look at the drug list that is incompatible with Paxlovid.  I have never seen anything that incompatible with a drug being recommended by the FDA (and the CDC) in 40 years of writing prescriptions.  The lengthy drug list of incompatibilities represents 35 categories of drugs (not 35 drugs, but 35 categories of drugs).  I scanned all those drugs not recommended to take with Paxlovid and just about anything I would prescribe as a cardiologist for a cardiovascular problem is on that list.  I suspect other medical specialties would find similar drug conflicts with medications they prescribe.  It is even incompatible with acetaminophen (Tylenol).  This begs the question, who is prescribing this drug?  Emergency room physicians?  Infectious disease specialists?  Who?

And who is doing the informed consent since it is investigational and only has an EUA?  Oh wait, the mRNA drugs from Pfizer and Moderna are investigational and only have an EUA and we haven’t bothered to provide informed consent for those drugs given en masse during a pandemic and now are to be given to infants and older children.  I doubt the parents of children are being given adequate informed consent as their children are being entered into an investigational trial.  Incidentally, if you are objecting to my use of the term “investigational” then go onto your Epocrates app and read how they term Paxlovid’s authorization from the FDA.  Same as the mRNA drugs - EUA and investigational.

And now pharmacists are being encouraged to “prescribe” Paxlovid.  Are they going to take a full medical history and do a physical exam to determine the possible contraindications to receiving the drug?  Will they determine if there are liver problems or if the GFR is less than 30, and if so, there are no data to support use or safety of the drug?  Will they determine the full medication list the patient is taking and caution them about common over-the-counter drugs they should not take with Paxlovid?  Will they do follow-up to observe for problems with a problematic, investigational drug?  There is a high rebound infection rate after the 5 day course authorized by the FDA for this drug.  Will the pharmacist attend to that and prescribe a second 5 day course “off label” for the patient as was done for Biden?  I can’t imagine a coherent pharmacist would want to take on the responsibility of providing Paxlovid to a patient walking in off the street.

As a senior and well-seasoned physician, I would not consider prescribing Paxlovid for a Covid patient.  Too many problems and better alternatives.  Paxlovid costs $530 for the 5 day course (paid for by the U.S. government to Pfizer with $5.3 billion taxpayer dollars for 10 million courses of the drug) so they can dispense the drug for “free”.  Pfizer scores again!   

There is a better alternative protease inhibitor drug (and also has other anti-viral activities) that costs a fraction of the Paxlovid cost and the only drug interaction it has is with warfarin.  It has been given billions of times around the world with safe results and won a Nobel prize in medicine a few years ago.   Numerous studies (randomized and observational) have testified to its efficacy in COVID-19 if administered early in the clinical course, just as recommended for Paxlovid (viral replication occurs in the first few days of infection).  Figure it out yet?  Go read about repurposed drugs for the treatment of COVID-19 on brownstone.org and learn about a bunch of other stuff while you are there.  It is a great source for rational viewpoints on COVID but also delves into many other aspects of our society.

I apologize for this piece becoming somewhat lengthy, and therefore have enclosed this concise summary of the latest CDC “guidance” as provided by our friends at National Public Radio.

So, here we all are in the land of the free and the home of the brave and only through the benevolence of the CDC will we be allowed  to make individual decisions again.  Hallelujah!  Now, perhaps the free and the brave will come together and vote in future elections to never lose our ability to make individual decisions again.

Jack C. Askins, M.D.