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Sep 10

🧵ACIP to probe DNA contamination in Covid-19 vaccines
DNA contamination in Covid vaccines is back in the spotlight, with a peer-reviewed study now before CDC advisers just days ahead of their pivotal vote.
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@SecKennedy @RetsefL @RWMaloneMD @HHS_Jim
@TheChiefNerd @Jikkyleaks @Kevin_McKernan @jimmy_dore @RobSchneider

The Advisory Committee on Immunisation Practices (ACIP) has formed a new Covid vaccine work group, chaired by MIT professor @RetsefL. Its Terms of Reference, published last month, explicitly list “DNA contamination” as an issue to be addressed.
blog.maryannedemasi.com/p/breaking-aci…

The development follows the publication of a peer-reviewed study in Autoimmunity by @DJSpeicher, @Kevin_McKernan & @JesslovesMJK, which analysed 32 vials of the more recent XBB.1.5 Moderna and Pfizer vaccines.
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

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Maryanne Demasi, PhD

@MaryanneDemasi

Sep 4

While America panics, Europe quietly recalibrates Covid-19 vaccine policy
ATT: @SecKennedy @HHS_Jim @RandPaul @SenBillCassidy
From Sweden to the UK to Australia, countries are narrowing Covid-19 vaccine policies without controversy. So why the panic in the US?

@laralogan
@newstart_2024
@Jikkyleaks

The medical establishment has ramped up the rhetoric against @SecKennedy over narrowing Covid-19 vaccine policy. In @nytimes, 9 former @CDCgov directors warned that his decisions mean “children risk losing access to lifesaving vaccines.”

But US policy is only bringing American practice closer to what Europe has already done.

As of Sept 1, Sweden 🇸🇪no longer recommends Covid-19 vaccination for children unless an individual medical assessment finds they are at increased risk of severe disease.
Even then, it is only available with a doctor’s prescription.

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Maryanne Demasi, PhD

@MaryanneDemasi

Aug 31

💥EXCLUSIVE: Retsef Levi hits back after attacks on his leadership from departing CDC officials

Several top CDC officials quit in protest, denouncing @RetsefL’s leadership of the Covid vaccine work group. Now, in an exclusive interview, Levi reveals what really happened behind closed doors.

@HHS_Jim @SecKennedy @RWMaloneMD
@TheChiefNerd

Dr Demetre Daskalakis, a top official who abruptly resigned from the CDC, posted his resignation letter on @X, now viewed more than 19 million times, declaring his position at the agency “untenable.”

He pointed to the new Terms of Reference for ACIP’s Covid vaccine work group, chaired by Levi, whom he attacked as a figure of “dubious intent and more dubious scientific rigor” who had “ignored all feedback from career staff at CDC.” blog.maryannedemasi.com/p/breaking-aci… @dr_demetre

What most people don’t know is that in the weeks leading up to his resignation, @dr_demetre had been working with Levi and other members of ACIP, locked in a tense tug-of-war over how broad the work group’s remit should be.

As Chair, @RetsefL pushed for a wide lens that would follow the evidence wherever it led. Daskalakis, on the other hand, pressed to narrow the scope of the review, and sought to populate the group with CDC loyalists intent on preserving the status quo.

Senior CDC officials, opposed to Levi’s broader approach, were reluctant to sign off on the Terms of Reference.

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Maryanne Demasi, PhD

@MaryanneDemasi

Aug 29

💥New investigation reveals @CDCgov inflated Covid threat level in kids as resignations rock the agency

After withholding key safety data on RSV antibodies, the nation’s top health agency is once again under fire — this time for presenting Covid data in ways that inflate the risk for children.
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@regardthefrost @SecKennedy
@RWMaloneMD @RetsefL
@TheChiefNerd @Jikkyleaks

Among the recent CDC resignations, @dr_demetre, former head of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, accused the new HHS leadership of “unskilled manipulation of data to achieve a political end rather than the good of the American people.”

But the hypocrisy is striking.

Daskalakis was one of the very officials responsible for liaising with ACIP while his own agency was withholding critical safety data on seizures in babies given Sanofi’s RSV monoclonal antibody, clesrovimab.

Following that investigation, rumblings began within the CDC itself, as sources close to the situation said that many ACIP members were “troubled” by my revelations.

ACIP member @RWMaloneMD broke ranks, warning that advisers had been given too little time to interrogate the evidence and had simply trusted the CDC’s word.

“That trust in the data presented now appears to have been ill-advised,” Malone stated. “Going forward … I will no longer be able to trust that what is presented in CDC summaries to the ACIP is transparent, accurate, and unbiased.”

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Maryanne Demasi, PhD

@MaryanneDemasi

Aug 21

💥BREAKING: ACIP launches sweeping Covid-19 vaccine review under Retsef Levi
Billions of Covid vaccine doses were rolled out on assurances they were safe and effective. Now, ACIP’s new Covid immunisation working group is asking the questions regulators never did. 👇👇

@RetsefL @FLSurgeonGen @TheChiefNerd @newstart_2024 @Jikkyleaks

MIT professor @RetsefL has been an outspoken voice on the @CDCgov's vaccine advisory committee (ACIP) since @SecKennedy's dramatic overhaul in June.

Levi has pressed CDC officials on uncomfortable questions, challenging the narrow surveillance windows used to track harms and insisting that delayed effects could not simply be ruled out.

He also raised concerns about the safety of RSV monoclonal antibodies after clinical trials showed a clear imbalance in infant deaths.

Now, @RetsefL has been appointed chair of the @CDCgov's new Covid-19 vaccine working group, and with today’s release of its Terms of Reference, the scale of his task has come into sharp focus.

Under the guidance of Levi and his colleagues, the ACIP working group now has a mandate unlike anything the committee has ever undertaken.

For the first time, federal advisers will investigate the unresolved issues that have dogged the vaccines since their rushed rollout in late 2020.

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Maryanne Demasi, PhD

@MaryanneDemasi

Aug 12

❌RETRACTED: How a peer-reviewed study was killed by a “fact check”
When a medical journal starts outsourcing its editorial judgement to media fact-checkers, the entire premise of peer review collapses.

LINK below 👇👇
@newstart_2024 @Jikkyleaks @Kevin_McKernan

In April 2024, a peer-reviewed study by Japanese researchers was published in @CureusMedical.

The study, led by Dr Miki Gibo, a primary care physician at the Matsubara Clinic in Kochi, Japan, found that in 2022 there was a statistically significant rise in deaths from certain cancers coinciding with the rollout of Covid-19 mRNA injections.

They made no claim of causation — only correlations — and outlined several possible explanations, including Covid-19 vaccination, lockdowns, and reduced cancer care.

By June, the study had been retracted--not because of a scientific rebuttal but by a @Reuters “fact check.”

In an internal email dated June 12, 2024, Cureus Director of Publishing Graham Parker-Finger wrote to the study authors:

“Reuters published a fact check of this article that details several concerns regarding the contents. As a result, Cureus plans to conduct a detailed post-publication editorial review to examine these concerns…”

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