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Apr 26

The NIH funded a bunch of LC groups to lie about prevalence.

They acted like they were everyone's buddies and wanted to help, so they slapped LC on their group's name and then got everyone to tell the lies the NIH and Biden admin wanted, so it would hide the disease.

It was their monumental fuck up that caused it all so instead of doing something they spent billions convincing people they didn't have it.

Which mostly worked, too, except all the dying and misery.

It was all those groups begging for RECOVER money and trying to keep that funding going.

They were always a scam to minimize understanding and progress.

But you know, their group had LC in their name so they must know things, right?

The problem is that the LC community has insanely high turnover from new people getting sick, others getting better, or worse, dying.

So, it means you constantly have a new group of people who still believe in the system, the one that just gave them LC, so they look for institutional help.

Even though it's that institution that put them there, but they don't get that yet and won't until they've alienated all the people actually trying to help them

@debstehn @acrossthemersey Then you have a mountain of pay-to-play accounts that were here to promote NIH messaging.

Many of these have gone completely dark since NIH cut funding, almost like it was never real.

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Don Ford - The People's Strategist -

@DonEford

Apr 10

**Novavax Update**

ACIP (CDC) public comment

I'm writing a call to action, but it's a bit more complicated than usual, so it's taking longer.

I was rushing to include a push for ACIP public comment. However, public comment closes tomorrow.

So, I'm decoupling the two. I already wrote an article about public comment. For the time being, refer to that.

I need you to do this right now, within the next 24 hours.

And yes, it's the FDA, not the CDC, holding up approval. However, they are both part of the HHS, which RFK is in charge of.

And it looks like he's holding control over all decision-making.

We have three main points for the CDC...

Novavax’s immediate BLA approval.

Expansion for access under twelve.

The expiration date needs to be moved from three to six or nine months.

The link to make a public comment is directly below this tweet.

I will also explain what needs to be done in greater detail on the show this evening, we have to make a huge leap to make this happen.

Link to public comment
regulations.gov/docket/CDC-202…

Earlier article

thepeoplesstrategist.com/p/its-time-to-…

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Don Ford - The People's Strategist -

@DonEford

Mar 29

**Novavax update**

Looks like we have official word on a few things.

1. There are vaccines that expire in April, but most batches expire at the end of this month.

2. There will be no new batches distributed by Novavax for this season.

3. In theory, the FDA could extend the expiration date to nine months, as other countries have done. However, there's been no sign of this happening.

4. Sanofi will be taking over distribution for future vaccine seasons. I am unsure if that will be the Novavax product they distribute or the same product they produced. I think in the US, it will stay Novavax but be distributed by Sanofi.

5. Pediatric expansion can happen now under EUA, but it is expected to happen (according to the previous administration) after the BLA is approved.

That brings us to the problem.

5. Novavax needs the FDA to formally accept their BLA in April, which is tied to their deal with Sanofi.

6. There is significantly concerning chatter that short sellers are plotting to prevent the BLA from going through.

This could mean no more Novavax products or approvals, and it will certainly put their Sanofi deal at risk.

We'll need to put together a focused effort in April to ensure that we can push this BLA through at the new FDA.

And it's three steps.

a) Extend Novavax's expiration date so that the April batch stays on the shelf until new doses are approved.

b) Push through the BLA at the new FDA.

c) Ensure that pediatric access happens for the next vaccine season at the latest.

That's it... Two of those things need to happen in April... Pediatric access will be a few months later.

There will be more updates.

Unfortunately, our next show isn't until April 1st, but that's when we will start the push to take action on this.

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https://x.com/DonEford/status/1905796861199564918

Also, we need folks to do whatever they can to help GOTV for this election.

https://x.com/DonEford/status/1905796861199564918

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Don Ford - The People's Strategist -

@DonEford

Mar 18

Dear everyone who wants a blood test to check for Long COVID...

Red blood cells do not have a nucleus, and though COVID can infect them and form syncytia...

It cannot replicate inside of them without said nucleus.

We remove white blood cells for transfusion, so at your best, you'd probably want to check the white blood cells instead of the red ones...

But you knew that already, right?

Right...?

This whole thing just gives Theranos vibes.

You cannot measure a small amount of blood to find a disease in the cells... We will find it in some cases; some people will have COVID in their blood... this is what creates the catastrophic heart risk...

But, generally speaking, it's just not how it works, except in rare cases.

There are a number of excellent documentaries that cover this idea.

However, they are all about Elizabeth Holmes.

We do, on the other hand, have scanners that can detect COVID in your body by seeing the damage that it is causing but not the virus itself, though we don't have many of them.

It's sorta like how we measure black holes, in that we can't measure the black hole itself, but we can measure its effect on its surroundings

And I wonder why no one ever talks about these scanners and processes.

Fun fact: About 14 years ago, I helped a team working on black hole theory with this concept, which led to several advances in how we measure black holes.

It wasn't anything fancy; it was just an ask for help on Reddit, but they used the theory I gave them to get past what they were stuck on.

We cannot measure a black hole with standard diagnostics, but we can measure the impact of the gravitational waves it creates on the things around it.

Finding persistence is the same thing.

We don't do great at measuring individual viruses in cells, but we can easily measure the damage that we would expect to see if the virus were persistent.

But in order to do that, you have to understand syncytial theory because it creates the damage we would detect.

That is why I explain these things together: they are all required to understand to solve the problem.

Most don't seem to understand a single part, let alone the whole thing.

This has been in my Long COVID article the entire time.

There is just no excuse for us not to understand this.

I HAVE LITERALLY HAD IT IN MY LONG COVID ARTICLE FOR THREE YEARS.

lfpress.com/news/local-new…

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Don Ford - The People's Strategist -

@DonEford

Dec 11, 2024

So, bit of an update on more mRNA vaccines coming to market.

This is all pretty much verbatim from the meeting notes that were released a day or so ago.

VRBPAC is meeting tomorrow because the mRNA RSV vaccine is making infections in infants worse...

It's actually a similar effect we see in some mRNA COVID vaccines, or at least concern has been discussed...

And there is significant concern that the RSV vaccine is boosting the infection instead of stopping it.

It might also counteract or be counteracted by other mABS treatments which are more effective.

Moderna even had a clinical hold put on their trials but they declined to tell the public about it.

The expansion for mRNA RSV to kids is dead in the water, and they decided not to move forward with the testing.

The meeting is to determine if it should be pulled for adults too.

Not a smooth rollout for the 2nd mRNA product.

@tkweeks01 @Friesein

Here's the document, read it for yourself.

fda.gov/media/184301/d…

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Don Ford - The People's Strategist -

@DonEford

Nov 30, 2024

We gotta stop repeating that only 5-10% of people get Long COVID.

It's not only not a scientific assertion it's not actually based on anything real.

Persistence happens in EVERY infection but only some have symptoms.

ndtv.com/feature/long-c…

The basis of these studies is QUITE LITERALLY self diagnosis.

And the number moves wildly depending on how the testing is done.

Claiming this is some objective fact is total minimizer bullshit.

We are only testing for symptomatic self diagnosis and that's all it means.

The body is a big place...

When we test just a single organ of asymptomatic people the data comes back with half having persistent virus.

That's just a single organ... half.

It's just a matter of finding it, but don't worry it'll show itself when its ready.

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