Microsoft founder <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/bill-gates" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bill Gates</a> recapped during an interview this week his recent dinner with President-elect Donald Trump ahead of the inauguration next week.
Gates is just the latest major tech figure to have dined with the president-elect, joining the ranks of others like Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and more.
Gates told The Wall Street Journal that he dined with Trump two weeks ago and had a &#8220;long and actually quite intriguing dinner with him.&#8221;
Gates said that Trump&#8217;s incoming chief of staff, Susie Wiles, was the only other person from Trump&#8217;s side to join him during the dinner.
He said that they talked about a &#8220;wide-ranging&#8221; number of topics, including Gates&#8217; work with vaccines.
“He, in the Covid days, accelerated the vaccine innovation,” Gates said. “So I was asking him if maybe the same kind of thing could be done here, and we both got, I think, pretty excited about that.”
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“I felt like he was energized and looking forward to helping to drive innovation,” Gates said. “I was frankly impressed with how well he showed a lot of interest in the issues I brought up.”
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Bill Gates talks about the recent three-hour-long dinner he had with President-elect Trump.
Gates says the only other person to join from the Trump side was Susie Wiles.
Gates says he was impressed by Trump’s interest in the issues he discussed, which included polio… <a href="https://t.co/wCzDBK4U8Q">pic.twitter.com/wCzDBK4U8Q</a>
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) <a href="https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1880327747689492872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 17, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Bill Gates Recaps ‘Intriguing Dinner’ With Donald Trump

Donald Trump

Health

U.S.

Vaccines

President-elect Donald Trump said during a press conference on Monday that his nominee for secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., will not take away vaccines like the polio vaccine.
Trump made the remarks after a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mcconnell-warns-rfk-jr-to-steer-clear-of-dangerous-polio-vaccine-skeptics">report</a> from The New York Times last week revealed that a lawyer who is helping Kennedy select federal health officials for the incoming administration had petitioned the federal government just two years ago to revoke its approval of the polio vaccine.
A reporter at the press conference asked Trump if he wanted Kennedy to revoke any vaccines.
&#8220;No, I want him to come back with a report as to what he thinks,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;We&#8217;re going to find out a lot. We&#8217;re doing two things. We&#8217;re going to have tremendous cost savings &#8230; that&#8217;s a minimum. And we&#8217;re also going to have, I think, very serious discussions about certain things, whether it&#8217;s pesticides or, you know, Europe doesn&#8217;t use pesticides, and yet they have a better mortality rate than we do. They don&#8217;t use pesticides. In fact, they use it as an excuse not to take our farm products.&#8221;
&#8220;We spend billions and billions of dollars on pesticides, and something bad is happening,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Again, you take a look at autism today versus 20 or 25 years ago. It&#8217;s like not even believable. So we&#8217;re going to have reports. No, nothing&#8217;s going to happen very quickly. I think you&#8217;re going to find that Bobby is &#8230; he&#8217;s a very rational guy. I found him to be very rational.&#8221;
&#8220;You&#8217;re not going to lose the polio vaccine,&#8221; Trump added. &#8220;That&#8217;s not going to happen. I saw what happened with polio. I have friends that were very much affected by that. I have friends from many years ago, and they have &#8230; obviously, they’re still in not such good shape because of it. Now, that was &#8230; and many people died, and the moment they took that vaccine, it ended. Dr. Jonas Salk did a great job.&#8221;
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He added that his administration was also going to figure out &#8220;why we are paying more than other countries&#8221; for the cost of medicines.
&#8220;We&#8217;re going to have a big conversation on price,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Why is it that Germany and the UK and other countries, [we] are paying so much more for the same box of medicine made in the same plant? Why is it that we&#8217;re paying many times more? And I know the answer — because our government didn&#8217;t do what they were supposed to do. And what I put in place was terminated unexpectedly by the Biden administration, and they shouldn&#8217;t have terminated it. It would have had a huge impact.&#8221;
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PRESIDENT TRUMP: &#8220;I think you&#8217;re going to find that <a href="https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RobertKennedyJr</a> is a very rational guy&#8230; You&#8217;re not going to lose the Polio vaccine. That&#8217;s not going to happen.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/kuUpwYvwNm">pic.twitter.com/kuUpwYvwNm</a>
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) <a href="https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1868704254388744307?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 16, 2024</a></blockquote>

President-Elect Trump Speaks To The Press At Mar-A-Lago

Trump: RFK Jr. Is Not Going To Take Away Polio Vaccines

Polio

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

In a new interview, President-elect <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> shared how he is taking an open-minded approach to health care after meeting with drug company executives last week.
Trump told NBC&#8217;s Kristen Welker about what he did with his pick to lead the Health and Human Services (HHS) Department, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/robert-f-kennedy-jr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Robert F. Kennedy Jr.</a>, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/dr-oz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Mehmet Oz</a>, his nominee to become Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) administrator, ahead of his second term.
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President Trump: We have to get our chronic disease epidemic under control and make our country HEALTHY again <a href="https://t.co/5o8XCCA8Vc">pic.twitter.com/5o8XCCA8Vc</a>
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) <a href="https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1865775287666934172?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 8, 2024</a></blockquote>
&#8220;I did something the other night that was a little unusual at Mar-a-Lago,&#8221; Trump said during the &#8220;Meet The Press&#8221; interview that aired on Sunday. &#8220;I called the drug companies. The top drug companies. And I called RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz and some of his people and I said, &#8216;Let&#8217;s all get together and figure out where we&#8217;re going, because we&#8217;re going to do a lot of things.'&#8221;
He said the recent meeting, which <a href="https://www.axios.com/2024/12/05/trump-rfk-jr-pfizer-lilly" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> included executives from Pfizer and Eli Lilly, entailed discussions about a wide range of issues.
&#8220;We met for a long time and we talked about pricing and we talked about vaccines, you know, in terms of what happens. We talked about pesticides. We talked about everything,&#8221; Trump said. He added, in an apparent reference to Kennedy: &#8220;And I think a lot of good things are going to come from him. And he&#8217;s not going to upset any system. &#8230; He&#8217;s not looking to, you know, reinvent the wheel, totally. But, when you look at the numbers, we really don&#8217;t have a very healthy country.&#8221;
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Tackling expenses in the pharmaceutical industry is a top priority, Trump indicated.
&#8220;We&#8217;re going to reduce prices because the middleman makes more money than the drug companies, in all fairness to the drug companies,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;There&#8217;s a middleman that nobody even knows who they are. And you look at our prices, they&#8217;re much higher than the prices for the same medicine, for the same stuff.&#8221;
Trump also dismissed the notion that he opposes all vaccines. He expressed support for Kennedy&#8217;s stated position for placing them under increased scrutiny, particularly when it comes to protecting children, and pointed out how autism diagnoses have spiked in recent decades.
&#8220;I&#8217;m not against vaccines,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;The Polio vaccine is the greatest thing. If somebody told me to get rid of the Polio vaccine, they&#8217;re going to have to work real hard to convince me. I think &#8230; certain vaccines are incredible, but maybe some aren&#8217;t. And if they aren&#8217;t, we have to find out.&#8221;

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‘A Little Unusual’: Trump Opens Up About Meeting With RFK Jr., Dr. Oz, And Drug Company Execs

Big Pharma

Dr. Oz

Prescription Drugs

Kathleen Sebelius, who served as secretary of the Health and Human Services (HHS) Department under former President Barack Obama, warned that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/robert-f-kennedy-jr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Robert F. Kennedy Jr.</a> taking on her old position could  &#8220;end up killing people.&#8221;
The alarming remark came during an MSNBC interview after President-elect Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-expected-to-nominate-robert-f-kennedy-jr-for-hhs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> last week Kennedy as his pick to lead HHS during his second term. Sebelius cited Kennedy&#8217;s skeptical stance on vaccines, one which Kennedy has defended as not being outright anti-vaxx.
&#8220;I think we are talking about magnitudes of danger beyond erroneously making legal decisions. This is life or death. The HHS affects people from birth to their grave and is intimately connected with every state in the country. So, this could be very dangerous. I think it is totally disqualifying for anyone who seeks to lead the major health agency in this country, and one of the leaders in the world, to unequivocally say there is no safe and effective vaccine,&#8221; Sebelius said.
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Former HHS Sec. Kathleen Sebelius: Robert Kennedy Nomination &#8220;Could End Up Killing People&#8221;
More &#8211; <a href="https://t.co/ibh55FtC10">https://t.co/ibh55FtC10</a>
&#8220;We are talking about magnitudes of danger beyond erroneously making legal decisions. This is life or death. The HHS affects people from birth to their… <a href="https://t.co/EHmMz3G0N5">pic.twitter.com/EHmMz3G0N5</a>
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&#8220;That, in and of itself, from the bully pulpit of HHS, could end up killing people,&#8221; she added. &#8220;My grandson is too young to get many vaccinations yet, and having him exposed to unvaccinated people with polio and measles is a terrifying thought, especially after we have eradicated those diseases as a major health initiative. I think this is absolutely terrifying, and people should understand how serious it is.&#8221;
Kennedy, who is pushing a &#8220;Make America Health Again&#8221; twist on Trump&#8217;s &#8220;Make America Great Again&#8221; platform, has insisted that he supports vaccines in general, as long as they pass sufficient testing.
During a NewsNation town hall in June of 2023 — when Kennedy was still running his own campaign for the presidency — Kennedy <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rfk-jr-defends-vaccine-stance-says-democratic-party-has-lost-its-way" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pushed back</a> on family medicine physician Tariq Butt&#8217;s assertion that he espoused a view on vaccines that was &#8220;dangerous&#8221; to millions of people.
&#8220;I’ve never been anti-vaccine, and I’ve said that hundreds and hundreds of times but it doesn’t matter &#8230; Using a pejorative to describe me is a way of silencing me or marginalizing me,” Kennedy said. &#8220;My position on vaccines, I think is — I think virtually every American would agree with my stance on vaccines, which is that vaccines should be tested like other medicines. They should be safety tested. And unfortunately, vaccines are not safety tested, they’re not.&#8221;

Obama HHS Sec Loses It Over RFK Jr., Claims He Could ‘End Up Killing People’

Obama Administration

The Biden Administration, concerned about the impact of a bird flu virus (H5N1) that started in late 2020 but infected a Texas dairy worker in April and a Michigan dairy worker in May, is reportedly &#8220;looking closely&#8221; at vaccinating farm workers and others.
On May 10, the Food and Drug Administration <a href="https://www.fda.gov/food/alerts-advisories-safety-information/updates-highly-pathogenic-avian-influenza-hpai" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, “Last week we announced preliminary results of a study of 297 retail dairy samples, which were all found to be negative for viable virus. The FDA is today announcing that all final egg inoculation tests associated with this retail sampling study have been completed and were also found to be negative for viable HPAI H5N1 virus.”
Yet <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-european-nations-consider-vaccinating-workers-exposed-bird-flu-2024-05-27/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reuters</a> reported that U.S. officials acknowledged they were transporting bulk vaccine from CSL Seqirus matching H5N1 that could create 4.8 million doses of vaccine. European health officials also said they were discussing acquiring CSL&#8217;s prepandemic vaccine.
“Human exposures to the virus in poultry and dairy operations could increase the risk that the virus will mutate and gain the ability to spread easily in people,” Reuters stated, adding, “The U.S. is in talks with mRNA vaccine makers Pfizer and about potential pandemic vaccines.”
The Biden administration is “looking closely” at vaccinating farm workers and others exposed to the virus, according to Dawn O&#8217;Connell of the U.S. Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response
“All of our efforts need to be focused on preventing those events from happening,” said Matthew Miller, co-director of the Canadian Pandemic Preparedness Hub at McMaster University. “Once we have widespread infections of humans, we&#8217;re in big trouble.”
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After the second dairy worker was infected in Michigan, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Principal Deputy Director Nirav Shah <a href="https://time.com/6981144/can-i-get-bird-flu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> last week, “We have not seen evidence of other cases in this area or elsewhere in any of our monitoring systems, let alone any evidence of human-to-human transmission. This is reassuring.”
“Risk is incredibly low right now,” Andrew Pekosz of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health added. “There is no real evidence of spread from human to human.”

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Biden Administration ‘Looking Closely’ At Vaccinating Farm Workers, Others For Bird Flu

Biden Administration

Bird Flu

On April 24th, a team of FDA-supported scientists published a new study in <a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2818033" target="_blank" rel="noopener">JAMA Pediatrics</a> investigating serious adverse events associated with mRNA vaccines in children.
This comprehensive and well-constructed cohort study focused on post-market surveillance of the COVID vaccines in over 4 million children, confirming the well-documented risk of myocarditis — inflammation of the heart muscle — in adolescents 12-17 who take the mRNA COVID vaccines.
However, the most shocking finding was the discovery of a new safety signal which hadn&#8217;t been reported before:
<blockquote>&#8220;In the primary analysis, seizure met the statistical threshold for a signal in children aged 2 to 4 years after BNT162b2 vaccination in all 3 databases and in children aged 2 to 5 years after mRNA-1273 vaccination in 2 of the 3 databases.&#8221;</blockquote>
In other words, the study authors found a statistically significant signal of seizures in children aged 2 to 4 years after the Pfizer vaccine and children 2 to 5 years after the Moderna vaccine.
&#8220;The statistical signal for seizure in children aged 2 to 4 or 5 years has not been previously reported for this age group in active surveillance studies of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines,&#8221; the study states.
More specifically, the study finds a significantly elevated risk of seizures after doses one and two of the Pfizer vaccine in kids ages 2 to 4 and dose two of the Moderna vaccine for kids ages 2 to 5. It&#8217;s worth noting, if this finding was merely incidental and unrelated, it wouldn&#8217;t have been found for both mRNA vaccines. Moreover, the scientists note they couldn&#8217;t identify any &#8220;data quality concerns&#8221; that would compromise or bias the results.
The true scale of seizures caused by mRNA vaccines in kids across the United States (and other countries) is unclear, but it is likely quite concerning.
<h3>1 In 5,000 Risk Of Seizures In Kids Following Vaccination</h3>
To be clear, the absolute number of seizures caused is not alarmingly high. According to the limited data, the rate of vaccine-related seizures in young kids is approximately 1 in 5,000. Put differently, .02% of mRNA-injected kids developed seizures in the first couple of weeks following vaccination.
While it is true this is an extremely small absolute figure, critics are wrong to view such risks as &#8220;rare&#8221; and trivial because the vaccine does not confer any significant benefit in young kids to outweigh such risks. In other words, compared to the extremely low risk of COVID in young children, even a very small number of seizures would sway the risk-benefit analysis towards not getting vaccinated.
The study identifies 72 seizures in kids following vaccination. What benefit did those kids seek to attain? They had a survival rate of more than <a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.10.11.22280963v1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">99.9997%</a> (this statistic is for ages 0 to 19, not 2 to 5 which the seizure signal has appeared in. The survival rate in younger groups would be far higher.)
As my colleague Jay Bhattacharya elaborated, &#8220;the benefits are likely to be small in these groups since nearly 100% of individuals in these groups have already had covid and recovered.&#8221; &#8220;Such recovered immunity provides stronger protection against severe disease on reinfection than the vaccine,&#8221; he added.
&#8220;Even for the first infection, the risk of death from covid infection for adolescents and toddlers is incredibly low,&#8221; he explained.
Yet, the study bizarrely states that &#8220;The US Food and Drug Administration concludes that the known and potential benefits of COVID-19 vaccination outweigh the known and potential risks of COVID-19 infection.&#8221;
How does that make sense when the study itself does not conduct any assessment of the health benefits and harms of the COVID vaccine for toddlers or adolescents?
<h3>My Correspondence With The FDA</h3>
Stunned by the incongruous conclusion of the study, I decided to contact the FDA to ask them how they continue to support COVID vaccination in children absent any supportive risk-reward analyses. I ended up getting in touch with an FDA spokesperson.
To their credit, they decided to engage with me on this contentious topic. I did not expect that. Here was their response to my question on unproven COVID vaccine safety in children: 
<blockquote>&#8220;The focus of this manuscript was the safety of the Ancestral Monovalent BNT162b2, mRNA-1273, and NVX-CoV2373 COVID-19 vaccines in U.S. children aged 6 Months to 17 years, so we focused on the fact that the vaccine was safe.&#8221;</blockquote>
Wait, what?
I had to read this over a couple of times because I was so perplexed by this sentence.
The explicitly stated objective of the study was &#8220;To conduct near-real-time monitoring of health outcomes after COVID-19 vaccination in the US pediatric population.&#8221;
As a result, they decided to focus on the opinion, not &#8220;fact,&#8221; that &#8220;the vaccine was safe&#8221;?
This is essentially like saying, &#8220;The focus of our work was to clean the house so we focused on the fact that the house was clean.&#8221; Unless I&#8217;m tripping, my BS meter was already ringing. Only to make matters worse, they went on to say:
<blockquote>&#8220;The benefits of the vaccine have been reported elsewhere, which include, but are not limited to the reduced incidence of medically diagnosed and hospital and emergency department diagnosed COVID-19, as reported here: <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11047006/">Effectiveness of BNT162b2 COVID-19 primary series vaccination in children aged 5–17 years in the United States: a cohort study &#8211; PMC (nih.gov)</a>.&#8221;</blockquote>
This cited study has numerous issues. For one, the study population is 5 to 17-year-olds, not 2 to 5-year-olds which is the cohort for whom the risk of seizures was found. So how can the FDA use this as their primary evidentiary source to support vaccination in young kids?
Moreover, the cited study on vaccine effectiveness in children aged 5 &#8211; 17 may be severely compromised by incidental COVID cases. A number of estimates <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11027788/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">have shown</a> that 40 &#8211; 60% of COVID hospitalizations are incidental (the cause of the hospitalization was unrelated to the positive COVID test result).
Dr. Tracy Beth Hoeg, epidemiologist and vaccine myocarditis researcher, stated, &#8220;Even for that tiny numerical difference in rates most of those are probably incidental hospitalizations and so the chance to benefit is so small and could easily all be explained by transient healthy vaccine effect mostly attributable to hospitalization with and not for covid.&#8221;
&#8220;We would have needed a very large randomized study among children to know what the real effect, if any, of the vaccine was. I would not rely on the results of this study,&#8221; she added.
I emailed back the FDA, highlighting these concerns, and they took a few days because the spokesperson was working on the response (I followed up a couple of times). I thought they were going to address my concerns point by point with honest transparency.
Well, they fooled me.
I got an email back from the FDA with the most frustratingly cookie-cutter, generic response possible:
<blockquote>“The FDA is confident in the safety and effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccines approved or authorized for use in the U.S. The vaccines’ benefit-risk profiles are well understood and demonstrate that the known and potential benefits for individuals 6 months of age and older outweigh their risks.
With over a billion doses administered, we have data from real-world use of these vaccines demonstrating that the benefits of getting vaccinated, which include a clear reduction in hospitalization and death, outweigh potential risks.
Further information related to the FDA’s conclusions regarding benefit-risk assessment can be found within the respective decision and review memoranda available on FDA’s website here.”</blockquote>
And that&#8217;s that.
This is an illustrative, real-time example of what I told Russell Brand once &#8220;when the narrative trumps the facts.&#8221; They initially engaged with me, seemingly in earnest, but we came to a point where I was questioning the unquestionable. I collided with the sacred orthodoxy of &#8220;vaccines are safe and effective for kids&#8221; driven by a toxic cocktail of political, financial, pharmaceutical, and quasi-scientific institutional interests.
The plain reality is COVID vaccines were never necessary or proven to be safe and effective to administer in children on a mass scale.
Even the most zealous mRNA advocates admitted, when faced with pediatric vaccine hesitancy, that the primary purpose of vaccinating young kids was to protect adults and the elderly.
This was a fundamental error from the start because dosing kids with the mRNAs was nothing as safe as dosing them with apple sauce or vitamin D. There were serious safety concerns from the start, some substantiated by the data and others unclear, but the FDA and the CDC should have never mass-recommended the COVID vaccines as an urgent, essential intervention for children who had a near-zero infection fatality rate.
The true scale of harm from seizures and other serious adverse events is unknown. As Johns Hopkins researcher Dr. Marty Makary once said, &#8220;A baby can&#8217;t tell you they have myocarditis&#8221; (let alone subclinical myocarditis which does not produce any symptoms).
<h3>“Child Sacrifice”</h3>
Coincidentally,  Joe Rogan recently <a href="https://youtu.be/0r23Hzu6VPw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">brought up</a> the travesty of mass mRNA child vaccination in a conversation with comedian Deric Poston, and referred to it as a “child sacrifice.”
Provocative but far from hyperbolic, that is exactly how public health treated children. In the name of &#8220;protecting the elderly&#8221; or &#8220;herd immunity,&#8221; they neglected and sacrificed the health of young children, who had the least to gain and most to suffer, with the experimental mRNA shots.
As we are finding out now, the potentiality of harm that was feared by the unhinged &#8220;conspiracy theorists&#8221; (which is what I thought), is coming to bear as more and more serious side effects emerge and indict the corrupt regulatory agencies and public health authorities who pushed the shots with unwavering religious zeal.
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Rav Arora is a 22-year-old journalist based in Vancouver covering free speech, Big Pharma, Covid mandates, and totalitarianism. His work has appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience, The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast, and The Ben Shapiro Show, among other major platforms. Follow his Substack newsletter with Dr. Jay Bhattacharya: <a href="https://www.illusionconsensus.com/">The Illusion Of Consensus.</a>
This article originally appeared on Substack on &#8220;<a href="https://www.illusionconsensus.com/p/new-fda-study-reports-elevated-post">Illusion of Consensus</a>.&#8221;
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

A Covid-19 Vaccination Site As Children Under 5-Years Old Become Eligible For Shot

New FDA Study Reports Elevated Post-Vaccination Seizure Risk In Toddlers

Children

COVID

Investigation

Readers Pass

The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/03/health/covid-vaccines-side-effects.html?searchResultPosition=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published an article</a> this week recounting the horrors some people have experienced after getting the COVID vaccine, and their inability to get help from doctors or vaccine injury compensation programs. But are these complications and side effects a result of the vaccines?
The Times article begins by acknowledging, “&#8230;even the best vaccines produce rare but serious side effects,” and that over 270 million Americans have taken the jab.
Through the course of multiple interviews, the Times investigation revealed that the harm caused by the vaccines can vary greatly. In one example, a woman with a Ph.D. in neuroscience who took the vaccine was eventually diagnosed with brain damage. She can no longer work or drive, and, at age 40, is back living with her parents. Another woman interviewed by the Times experienced Bell’s Palsy, or partial facial paralysis, and shingles on half her face.
In another instance, a nurse practitioner named Sean Barcavage said since taking the first shot, his heart now begins to race every time he stands up. He also now has tinnitus. “I went from being a 100% healthy, fully functioning nurse into a complete downward spiral of health. I had a myriad of symptoms,” said Barcavage.
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While each person experienced symptoms they believe were caused by the vaccine, the side effects were not uniform. What is uniform, however, is the way in which their concerns were dismissed by doctors and the federal government.
As the Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cdc-adds-covid-vax-to-routine-immunization-schedules-for-both-children-and-adults" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously reported</a>, there had been nearly 13,000 claims filed with the vaccine compensation program alleging harm caused by the pandemic response, with more than 10,000 of those claims citing the vaccine as causing injury or death.
The government, which has just 35 people looking into the claims, had only determined that 40 claims were eligible for compensation, and just 11 were actually compensated, with an average compensation of around $3,600. That was in February, and the numbers haven’t moved much since. Now, 47 have been deemed eligible and 12 have been paid out, still with that low compensation average. A very small number of people. 
As the Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/03/health/covid-vaccines-side-effects.html?searchResultPosition=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">points out</a>, “Some scientists fear that patients with real injuries are being denied help and believe that more needs to be done to clarify the possible risks.” 
But it’s not just the New York Times talking about this issue. 
Others are starting to acknowledge <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/largest-covid-vax-study-to-date-finds-higher-than-expected-increase-in-heart-and-brain-issues-following-jab" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the harm</a> caused by the vaccines — even some who were at the forefront of the COVID response are now acknowledging that many were in fact harmed by the vaccines. Dr. Ashish Jha, the Biden administration’s COVID coordinator in 2022 and 2023, <a href="https://www.newsnationnow.com/cuomo-show/vaccine-side-effects-censorship-drove-vaccine-hesitancy-nurse/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told NewsNation</a> that people who were harmed by the vaccines must be taken seriously.
“I worry a little bit that what has happened is we&#8217;ve gotten caught in the sort of politics of this,&#8221; said Dr. Jha. &#8220;&#8230;because as you know, there are a lot of people who&#8217;ve become very anti-vaccine. And so that means that a lot of doctors see these patients and worry that if they acknowledge that person suffering, that somehow they&#8217;re becoming anti-vaccine themselves. I&#8217;m very pro-vaccines. I got them. Everyone in my family got them. Still, I think we have to acknowledge this that is not just happening among doctors is happening inside the government. We just have to do better.”
And Chris Cuomo, who famously emerged from his basement after quarantining for COVID, also said in an interview with Barcavage that he had long-term issues from the vaccine, and <a href="https://www.newsnationnow.com/cuomo-show/vaccine-side-effects-censorship-drove-vaccine-hesitancy-nurse/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admitted that people weren’t getting help</a> because of politics. “&#8230;I think there&#8217;s really no incentive to get out in front of this because it&#8217;s just bad PR, right?&#8221; said Cuomo. &#8220;I mean, nobody&#8217;s going to get patted on the back for saying, &#8216;Yeah, Shaun&#8217;s right.&#8217; There&#8217;s, there are side effects on some of the vaccines or all of the vaccines that we should be talking about and figuring out how to treat. And there is long COVID and there&#8217;s lots – nobody wants to say that because it&#8217;s all political now.”
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The federal government spent nearly two billion dollars of taxpayer money on promoting <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/covid-19-vaccine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">COVID vaccination</a> around the world, according to a new report from the U.S. Agency for International Development. 
According to a <a href="https://www.usaid.gov/sites/default/files/2023-09/USAID_COVID_GVAX_Capstone_Executive_Summary_082423_FINAL_508.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> released on Thursday by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/usaid" target="_blank" rel="noopener">USAID</a>, the U.S. government spent $1.8 billion on promoting global COVID vaccination, and partnered with 120 different countries to donate 688 million COVID vaccination doses after launching “Global Vax” in December 2021.
“Global VAX demonstrated that a concerted push of technical support, diplomatic engagement, and funding can support countries to rapidly increase access to and confidence in vaccines in the midst of an evolving health emergency,” an executive summary of the report said. 
The effort encompassed USAID, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the State Department, the Department of Defense, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Treasury Department. 
The report added that government agencies were going to maintain international partnerships
“As the emergency phase of the COVID-19 pandemic recedes, U.S. government agencies sustain partnerships around the world to save lives, strengthen health security and pandemic preparedness, promote social and economic progress, and support countries to achieve their goals for health and development,” the report said. 
Prior to launching the Global Vax program in December 2021, the U.S. had already sent <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/us-ship-4-mln-covid-19-vaccine-doses-nigeria-566-mln-south-africa-2021-07-28/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">millions of doses</a> of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID vaccines to South Africa and Niger. 
The release of the report followed comments by USAID Administrator Sammantha Power on Wednesday suggesting that countries use religious leaders to push people into getting the COVID vaccine. 
“If you are trying to get people to take a COVID vaccine, you may not, in that particular community, have resources to fund a pop-up clinic, but you can engage a faith leader for free,” Power said. 
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Power’s comments echoed the government&#8217;s domestic strategy where then National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-the-federal-government-used-evangelical-leaders-to-spread-covid-propaganda-to-churches" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pushed for evangelical ministers</a> to use their “credibility” to promote the COVID vaccine. 
The vaccine, which was initially marketed as highly effective, faced backlash after the Biden administration attempted to implement an aggressive mandate and some medical experts <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/covid-vaccine-brings-higher-heart-risk-little-benefit-to-young-men-medical-expert-warns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">questioned</a> the efficacy of both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccine. 
High-profile figures like X owner <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-claims-he-had-major-side-effects-from-second-covid-booster-shot-felt-like-he-was-dying" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elon Musk</a> and radio host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/megyn-kelly-says-she-regrets-getting-covid-vax-opens-up-about-autoimmune-issue-after-booster" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Megyn Kelly</a> have said that they regret taking the vaccine and had medical complications after taking the shot.

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Tennis great <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/it-stays-with-you-novak-djokovic-back-in-australia-after-dramatic-detention-deportation-over-vaccine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Novak Djokovic</a> made history on Sunday when he defeated Daniil Medvedev in three sets to win the U.S. Open, scoring him his 24th major championship, tying the record for the most Grand Slam singles titles.
Djokovic, who has refused to take the COVID vaccine, was notably banned from entering the U.S. last year due to a Biden administration vaccine rule, keeping the athlete from competing in the U.S. Open last year.
&#8220;To make history [in] this sport is just something truly remarkable and special, obviously, in every possible way, in every possible meaning of the word,&#8221; Djokovic said after winning the Open, <a href="https://www.espn.com/tennis/story/_/id/38373910/novak-djokovic-beats-daniil-medvedev-win-2023-us-open-24th-major-title" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to ESPN. &#8220;It&#8217;s hard to describe the words.&#8221;
&#8220;I never imagined that I would be here standing with you talking about 24 Slams,&#8221; the 36-year-old continued. &#8220;I never thought that would be the reality. But the last couple of years, I felt I have a chance, I have a shot for history, and why not grab it if it&#8217;s presented?&#8221;
Djokovic, who said he had already contracted and recovered from the virus, has chosen not to get <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/covid-19-vaccine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">vaccinated</a> against <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/covid-19" target="_blank" rel="noopener">COVID</a>. This led to the dramatic <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/novak-djokovic-loses-visa-appeal-deported-from-australia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">detainment and deportation</a> of the tennis star from Australia, rendering him unable to defend his Australian Open title in 2021. Later, he was banned from New York for the 2022 U.S. Open, similarly over his vaccination status.
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“Sadly, I will not be able to travel to NY this time for [the] US Open,” he said at the time on social media. “Thank you #NoleFam for your messages of love and support. Good luck to my fellow players! I’ll keep in good shape and positive spirit and wait for an opportunity to compete again. See you soon tennis world!”
Djokovic spoke about what happened to him about a year after the Australia incident. “Obviously what happened 12 months ago was not easy for me, for my family, team, anybody who is close to me,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It’s obviously disappointing to leave the country like that.”
“You can’t forget those events,” Djokovic continued. “It’s one of these things that stays with you for I guess the rest of your life. It’s something that I’ve never experienced before and hopefully never again. But it is a valuable life experience for me and something that as I said will stay there, but I have to move on.”
The athlete has been open about what he&#8217;s willing to give up for his personal medical choices, specifically tennis championships.
“That is the price that I’m willing to pay,” Djokovic <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-60354068" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the BBC. “Because the principles of decision making on my body are more important than any title or anything else. I’m trying to be in tune with my body as much as I possibly can.”
“I was never against vaccination,” he added, “but I’ve always supported the freedom to choose what you put in your body.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/it-stays-with-you-novak-djokovic-back-in-australia-after-dramatic-detention-deportation-over-vaccine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">It ‘Stays With You’: Novak Djokovic Back In Australia After Dramatic Detention, Deportation Over Vaccine</a>

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A group of teachers in New York City who were fired after they refused to take the COVID vaccine must be given their jobs back along with back pay, a New York judge ruled Wednesday.
State Supreme Court Judge Ralph Porzio <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nyc-teachers-win-jobs-back-backpay-refusing-covid-19-vaccine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ruled</a> that the decision to fire 10 employees of the New York City Education Department and deny them religious exemptions was unlawful, arbitrary, and capricious.
The group of school principals, teachers, and other educators sued the city after they were fired.
&#8220;This Court sees no rational basis for not allowing unvaccinated classroom teachers in amongst an admitted population of primarily unvaccinated students,&#8221; Porzio wrote in his 22-page opinion.
&#8220;As such, the decision to summarily deny the classroom teachers amongst the Panel Petitioners based on an undue hardship, without any further evidence of individualized analysis, is arbitrary, capricious, and unreasonable. As such, each classroom teacher amongst the Panel Petitioners is entitled to a religious exemption from the Vaccine Mandate,&#8221; the judge wrote.
The 10 public school employees are entitled to their positions plus back pay in salaries, benefits, pensions, and seniority, the court ruled.
New York City&#8217;s COVID vaccine mandate for public school workers only ended on February 10. The mandate began on October 1, 2021.
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The petitioners had wanted to make their lawsuit a class action suit, but the judge denied that request. Seven other petitioners were also requesting an exemption along with their jobs back with back pay, but the judge denied their requests. One of those denied was a group called Teachers for Choice, which opposes forced vaccination.
“Although the petitioners’ overall position is that the citywide panel did not provide relief to the vast majority of initial DOE applicants, and specifically that these petitioners did seek that review, the record before this court is insufficient to make any determination as to those claims,” Porzio wrote in his ruling.
The city had argued that “granting reasonable accommodation to classroom teachers could not be done without preventing a risk to the vulnerable and still primarily unvaccinated student population,” <a href="https://www.silive.com/crime-safety/2023/09/10-covid-vaccine-related-teacher-terminations-overturned-by-state-supreme-court-judge-som-plaintiffs-motions-denied.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to court documents.
The judge also cited New York City Mayor Eric Adams&#8217; decision to scrap the vaccine mandate for athletes and entertainers as evidence that the vaccine mandate for public school teachers was arbitrary and unreasonable.
The same judge ruled last year in favor of a Staten Island firefighter who was fired for refusing to take the COVID vaccine.
“Hindsight is a powerful tool,” Porzio <a href="https://www.silive.com/news/2022/10/go-fight-some-fires-covid-related-termination-of-staten-island-firefighter-overturned-in-state-supreme-court.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> in that decision. “The pandemic today is not what it was a year, or even two years ago. Being vaccinated does not prevent an individual from contracting or transmitting COVID-19.&#8221;
Scores of public and private employers across the country implemented a vaccine mandate for employees when the COVID vaccine became available. Many U.S. workers across industries who requested exceptions for religious or health reasons were denied their requests.
The Biden administration also attempted to require employers with at least 100 employees to require the vaccine, but the Supreme Court blocked that mandate early last year after The Daily Wire and others <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/read-it-supreme-courts-massive-blow-against-bidens-vaxx-mandate">sued</a> the administration.

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Journalist and podcaster <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/megyn-kelly-others-blasts-newsweek-for-slamming-critics-of-article-referencing-women-as-non-men" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Megyn Kelly</a> said she regrets getting the COVID vaccine and additional booster shots after she recently “tested positive for an autoimmune issue.” 
Kelly, 52, has long been outspoken about her opposition to vaccine requirements for children, but she decided it would be best to get the shot herself. The conservative commentator said Wednesday that she realized it was a mistake to get the COVID shots after talking to her doctor when she tested positive for an autoimmune issue at her annual physical. 
&#8220;I regret getting the vaccine even though I am a 52-year-old woman because I don&#8217;t think I needed it,&#8221; Kelly said. &#8220;I think I would have been fine. I&#8217;ve gotten COVID many times and it was well past when the vaccine was doing what it was supposed to be doing.&#8221;
“I went to the best Rheumatologist in New York, and I asked her, do you think this could have to do with the fact that I got the damn booster and then got COVID within three weeks? And she said ‘yes.’ Yes,” Kelly continued. “I wasn&#8217;t the only one she&#8217;d seen that with.”
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In October 2022, Kelly was <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/megyn-kellys-anti-vax-lies-are-a-threat-to-public-health" target="_blank" rel="noopener">criticized</a> for spreading “anti-vax lies” after she <a href="https://twitter.com/megynkelly/status/1582854900836290560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1582854900836290560%7Ctwgr%5E8da69c2dba3b48394c9da7e45bfba1fa5dc96baf%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedailybeast.com%2Fmegyn-kellys-anti-vax-lies-are-a-threat-to-public-health" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a> that children were “dying” from myocarditis and &#8220;other injuries&#8221; after getting vaccinated against COVID. In the tweet, Kelly went on to slam the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for adding the COVID vaccine to the children’s vaccination schedule. 
“HOW DARE THE CDC ADD THIS TO ITS LIST OF SCHOOL VACCINATIONS? Don’t listen,” Kelly warned last year. “Be very careful w/ your teenage boys in [particular] but girls too. These are not honest brokers. This is dangerous!”
The former Fox News host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/scary-of-kids-dying-megyn-kelly-slams-cdc-after-they-add-covid-vaccine-to-kids-program" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> last year that she initially believed the vaccine “was a miracle,” but she was “upset” by government overreach and wanted more information about any health risks associated with getting the COVID vaccine.
“The vaccines and the information about the damage that the vaccines are doing versus their efficacy is dark,” Kelly said. “Why is it being buried? Why can’t we talk about it?”
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“You can’t trust the American health services; they have only one mission, which is to push their vaccines on us,” she added.
The federal government continues encouraging Americans to get the vaccine and additional boosters. President Joe Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-to-request-more-funding-for-new-covid-vaccine-recommended-that-everybody-get-it" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> last month that he would ask Congress for additional funding for developing a new COVID vaccine.
“It will likely be recommended that everybody get it no matter whether they’ve gotten it before or not,” the president said.

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New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers attended the US Open on Sunday night and appeared to praise tennis star Novak Djokovic’s refusal to get the COVID vaccine. 
Rodgers, who has received criticism in the past for his own actions regarding the COVID jab, was in attendance watching Djokovic in Queens, New York. Djokovic is competing in his first US Open in two years because he refused to get the shot. 
In an Instagram story Sunday night, Rodgers <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/09/04/aaron-rodgers-praises-novak-djokovics-anti-vaxx-stance-in-post-from-us-open/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> a photo of Djokovic preparing to serve the ball with the caption, “Bucket list … being able to witness the greatness of [Djokovic] in person at [Arthur Ashe Stadium]. He also included a hashtag that said “#novaxdjokovic” and had placed a red line through the Moderna logo – a biotech company that produces COVID vaccines – in an advertisement that can be seen behind the tennis star. 
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Djokovic, who is from Serbia, is considered one of the <a href="https://www.espn.com/tennis/rankings" target="_blank" rel="noopener">best</a> tennis players of all time but was denied entry into the United States in 2022 for the US Open. At the time, international air travelers were required to show <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/world-no-1-djokovic-finally-can-play-in-u-s-again-after-biden-ends-vaccine-requirement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">proof</a> of vaccination against COVID before being allowed to enter the country. 
Earlier this year, just weeks before the COVID rule was rescinded, Djokovic was <a href="https://www.espn.com/tennis/story/_/id/35795350/novak-djokovic-pulls-indian-wells-eve-draw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">forced to withdraw</a> from the Indian Wells tournament in California because the Department of Homeland Security denied his COVID vaccine waiver request, ESPN reported. 
“The reason why I was not here for two years, I have zero regret on that. I’m just glad to be back,” Djokovic <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/15/sport/novak-djokovic-cincinnati-open-tennis-spt-intl/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told CNN</a> last month upon arriving for the US Open. “I’ve had plenty of success on American soil with Indian Wells, Miami, obviously Canada and here, [I’ve] won many times at these Masters 1,000 events, all of them. Of course, the U.S. Open as well being the pinnacle of the hard-court season. I’m just excited.”
For his part, Rodgers has also made headlines for his refusal of the COVID vaccine. In 2021, Rodgers was asked whether he was vaccinated against COVID, to which he replied that he was “immunized.” The former Green Bay Packer said he is allergic to one of the ingredients in the Pfizer and Moderna shots. 
&#8220;They were doing this, I called it a witch hunt, where they were asking every single player ‘are you vaccinated?’” Rodgers <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aaron-rodgers-blasts-medias-vaccine-witch-hunt-in-chat-with-joe-rogan-reveals-immunized-strategy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> podcast host Joe Rogan last year. “I had come to the conclusion that I was going to say, ‘I’ve been immunized,’ and if there was a follow-up, then talk about my process,” he said. “But I thought there was a possibility that, I say I’m immunized, maybe they understand what that means, maybe they don’t, maybe they follow up. They didn’t follow up.”
Instead of getting injected with a vaccine, Rodgers said he &#8220;looked into other options which included an immunization process through holistic doctor. I researched and talked to probably a dozen different MDs. I found a protocol that I felt like was the best available.”
Research on the relatively new COVID vaccines is still being conducted. According to one leading medical expert, young men <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/more-than-100-colleges-are-still-enforcing-vaccine-mandates-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">face an elevated risk</a> of heart inflammation after vaccination, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/more-than-100-colleges-are-still-enforcing-vaccine-mandates-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. 
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Dr. Marty Makary, a professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and an oncology surgeon at the school’s affiliated hospital, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/covid-vaccine-brings-higher-heart-risk-little-benefit-to-young-men-medical-expert-warns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">highlighted</a> a study from Cedars Sinai that found a 30% increase in heart attack deaths among adults between the ages of 25 and 44 during the first two years of the COVID pandemic. While the uptick could result from the virus itself, Makary, speaking to The Daily Wire&#8217;s “Morning Wire” podcast in February, said there’s evidence that the vaccine could be to blame.
“We did not see the uptake before the vaccine was rolled out, but young people were primarily affected around that same time, as well,” Makary told “Morning Wire.&#8221; &#8220;The state of Florida did their own study, looking at heart attacks after the vaccine in particular, and found that there was an 81% increase in sudden death from heart attacks in the months following the vaccine compared to baseline rates. So many people do believe that the vaccine is one of the causes of heart problems in young people.”
Amanda Prestigiacomo contributed to this report.

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