‘Mysterious’ Pneumonia Outbreaks Reported in China
News reports of outbreaks of a bacterial respiratory illness known as mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia (MPP) in northern China began to emerge in October 2023. The outbreaks, primarily among children, have been attributed by public health professionals to “declining immunity levels” in people as a result of “preventive measures” taken in over the past three years […]
Understanding the 500 Percent Price Increase of Pfizer’s COVID Vaccine
During a 2021 earnings call with stockholders, Pfizer Chief Financial Officer Frank D’Amelio discussed how the company was using “pandemic pricing” to charge $19.50 per COVID-19 vaccine dose, a product it expected to make $15 billion on in 2021. “[There’s] significant opportunity for those margins to improve once we get beyond the pandemic environment that […]
How Did the Corruption of Public Health Happen?
International public health is a mess. Once seen generally as a public good, the focus of the World Health Organization (WHO) now more closely resembles a scheme for extracting private profit from the public purse. Wealthy corporations drive a ‘public-private partnership’ agenda, the foundations of the rich determine global priorities, and a propagandized public are […]
The Dramatic Degradation of the Human Immune System
In many countries worldwide over the past three and a half years the health and financial situation of the population has been falling downhill in a way that has never been seen in the past decades. Trend analysis shows increasing numbers of excess mortalities in all ages and a steep rise in a decay of […]
Nobel Prize Goes to Dubious mRNA Research Used to Develop COVID Shots
On Oct. 2, 2023, the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to scientists Katalin Karikó, PhD and Drew Weissman, MD, PhD “for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.” The mRNA (messenger RNA) “vaccines”—which […]
Pulling Out All the Stops to Sell More COVID Shots
This year, Pfizer, Inc. and Moderna, Inc. have experienced sharply declining sales of their messenger RNA (mRNA) COVID-19 shots, Comirnaty and Spikevax. Pfizer reported first-quarter (ending Mar. 31, 2023) sales of $3 billion for Comirnaty—down 75 percent from the same period in 2022. It posted second-quarter (ending June 30) sales of $1.49 billion—down 83 percent […]