Dr. Diane Counce presents experience with long COVID
On Tuesday, Dr. Diane Counce spoke at the Mountain Brook Public Library to the Over the Mountain Chapter of Alabama Eagle Forum about her experiences treating patients suffering from long COVID. Counce is a neurologist who practices in the Birmingham area. Dr. Counce said that she treats people who had a bout of COVID-19 and continued to show symptoms weeks and even months after the infection. She also treats people who believe their symptoms are due to the COVID-19 vaccine. “Unfortunately, we see a lot of neurological problems with both the virus and the vaccine,” Dr. Counce said. Counce explained that the spike protein in COVID-19 interacts with the ACE-2 receptors found in over 72 tissues in the body. It is a mRNA vaccine. With long COVID, “one in five or one in seven are still having symptoms 28 days later,” Counce said. “203 symptoms have been documented. The average long COVID patient has 56 symptoms over nine organ symptoms. 86% would relapse when physically or psychologically stressed.” “The Science Journal confirmed that vaccines are linked to autoimmune disorders,” Counce stated. Counce said that symptoms of long COVID can also include blood clotting and heart myopathy. “The German Ministry of Health has said that long vaccine injury is a real issue,” Counce said. “People are spending lots of money treating this,” Counce said. “Insurance won’t pay for it because they don’t believe in it.” “Pfizer, as of February 2021, knew,” Counce said, citing Pfizer’s own data that has since been made public. “Cardiac issues occur about 40 days after the vaccine,” Counce said. “Neurological symptoms can turn up 100 days later. One hundred ninety-five days is about the average for neurological symptoms to occur.” Counce explained that the spike protein can easily cross the blood-brain barrier through the bone marrow. Symptoms include malaise, lethargy, microclotting, and GI issues. Treatments include ivermectin, intermittent fasting, N-acetyl cysteine, Vitamin C, Vitamin D, MagTen, and a low histamine diet. Counce said that for patients with clotting issues, she has tried Eliquis + Plavix + aspirin, natokinase, serrapeptase, lumbrokinase, neprionol, and vascyzyme. Dr. Counce recommended a clean diet: no seed oil, no canola, and no processed foods. “On the length of time of treatment, we don’t know,” Counce said. There have been cases where the patients relapsed after treatments stopped. Counce said that common neurological symptoms of long-term COVID or vaccine injury include brain fog, Bell’s palsy, and cognitive impairment. “These people are showing up at my clinic that are as though they have had Parkinson’s for five years, and it has just shown up,” Counce said, Counce said that long-term COVID can bring on the onset of muscular sclerosis. Counce said that scans of some of her patient’s brains show a depletion of the grey matter and/or diffuse grey matter atrophy. Long Covid can also worsen the condition of dementia patients. Dr. Counce recommended Dr. Jordan Vaughn at Med-Health 280 and Dr. Stewart Tankersley if you have long COVID or may be suffering from a vaccine injury. Dr. Counce’s views are a minority opinion within the medical establishment. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Alabama Department of Public Health still recommend that every person six months of age and older receive the COVID-19 vaccine and receive booster shots twice yearly. “The Advisory Committee of Immunization Practices has approved updated 2023-24 COVID-19 vaccines for all Americans 6 months and older who have not received a vaccine in the past two months,” ADPH wrote in a recent press release. “Vaccination remains the best protection against COVID-19-related hospitalization and death. Vaccination also reduces the chance of suffering the effects of Long COVID, which can develop during or following acute infection and last for an extended time. The updated mRNA vaccines are produced by Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech. An updated Novavax vaccine has been authorized and should be available soon.” There are presently 14,863 known active COVID-19 cases in the state of Alabama. Since 2020, 21,138 Alabamians have died from COVID-19. 1,659,936 people in Alabama have contracted COVID-19. The actual number is likely higher as many people either had mild symptoms or suffered through it at home without seeking medical treatment. To connect with the author of this story or to comment, email brandonmreporter@gmail.com.
Study calls into question COVID-19 vaccination protocols for pregnant and nursing women
The AAPS Journal, an official journal of The American Association of Physicians and Surgeons, has published a study by a number of physicians, including Dr. Stewart Tankersley from Alabama, who have grown in prominence for their COVID-19 vaccine skepticism. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have recommended COVID-19 vaccination is recommended for all people aged six months and older. This includes people who are pregnant, breastfeeding, trying to get pregnant now, or those who might become pregnant in the future. This also includes infants ages six months and older born to people who were vaccinated or had a COVID-19 infection before or during pregnancy. This new study raises concerns about the CDC’s recommendation that the COVID-19 vaccine should be given to pregnant women. The authors used data collected by the U.S. government’s Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) about adverse events (AEs) after COVID-19 vaccines experienced by women of reproductive age, focusing on pregnancy and menstruation. The authors looked at the proportional reporting ratio comparing AEs reported after COVID-19 vaccines with those reported after influenza vaccines. They found that adverse events were significantly increased (≥ 2.0) for the COVID-19 vaccine for menstrual abnormality, miscarriage, fetal chromosomal abnormalities, fetal malformation, fetal cystic hygroma, fetal cardiac disorders, fetal cardiac arrest, fetal arrhythmias, fetal vascular malperfusion, fetal growth abnormalities, abnormal fetal surveillance, placental thrombosis, fetal death/stillbirth, low amniotic fluid, preeclampsia, premature delivery, preterm premature rupture of membrane, and premature baby death. The authors claim that their analysis shows that when normalized by time available, doses given, or the number of persons vaccinated, all COVID-19 vaccine AEs far exceed the safety signal on all recognized thresholds. The authors claim that these results necessitate a worldwide moratorium on the use of COVID-19 vaccines in pregnancy. Historically, a vaccine is subjected to an average of 10-12 years in clinical trials before it is authorized to be administered to the general population. Because COVID-19 appeared to be a global pandemic with the ability to shut down the global economy, the development and testing of the COVID-19 vaccine was compressed substantially. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) response to the COVID-19 global weeks after only a few months of trials. The vaccine was developed using experimental m-RNA techniques and approved in November 2020 – less than a year after COVID-19 was first identified in China. Since approval VAERS meanwhile has been gathering data about adverse events post vaccinations. Doctors were frustrated in 2020 because there were no accepted treatments for the illness. Public health authorities were eager to authorize a vaccine as a strategy for ending the pandemic. 12.07 billion doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been given globally in the last two and a half years. Over 5 billion people have gotten at least one shot of the COVID-19 vaccine, including 260 million Americans. This study chose to use the influenza vaccine as the control group because the CDC first approved influenza vaccines for pregnant women in 1997. The authors compared AE data, comparing 282 months of data for the Influenza vaccine with 18 months of data for the COVID-19 vaccines. Based on a high-volume obstetrical practice over 43 years, a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist and maternal-fetal medicine physician (JAT) chose AEs of interest from the VAERS database that are most relevant to fertility and reproductive physiology. The authors state that their findings align with a British government study that found that sufficient reassurance of the safe use of the vaccine in pregnant women cannot be provided at present and that healthcare professionals should be advised to rule out known or suspected pregnancy and that women who are breastfeeding should also not be vaccinated. The World Council of Health has also called for a ban on the COVID-19 vaccines in pregnancy and lactation. The authors claim that multiple researchers worldwide document reductions in birthrates following the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines. There are studies showing a 20% drop in Hungary, a 7% drop in Sweden, a 13% drop in Germany, and a 23% drop in Taiwan. Observational studies from around the world are consistent with declining fertility, and increased pregnancy. According to the authors, the U.S. baseline fetal death rate is 5.84 per 1000 births and has minimal variance. The rate dropped from the 2017–2019 aggregate of 5.83 to 5.74 in 2020 despite the COVID-19 caseload. Interestingly the rate of stillbirth in the U.S. surged to 29.3/1000 in July 2021 and August 2022. This rise in stillbirth from 5.8/1000 to 29.3/1000 represents 40 standard deviations above the baseline. There is similar data in Canada. The authors claim that a recent large-scale study indicates that pregnant patients are at lower risk for mortality and severe outcomes than non-pregnant patients for COVID-19 infections and that there are now early treatments for COVID-19 with vitamins, supplements, and repurposed drugs that are safe and effective, especially when started early in the COVID-19 disease process. The authors believe that the U.S. government policy of continuing to promote COVID-19 vaccinations and boosters in all groups, including pregnant women, is erroneous. The authors that this study supports the recommendations of the UK’s Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency and the World Council of Health against COVID-19 vaccination and boosters for pregnant and lactating women. They also call for the administration of COVID-19 vaccines in women of reproductive age be halted immediately until these safety signals can be fully investigated. The authors include James A. Thorp, M.D.; Claire Rogers, M.S.P.A.S., P.A.-C, a physician assistant; Michael P. Deskevich, Ph.D.; Stewart Tankersley, M.D., who practices family medicine in Montgomery and is a retired colonel in the Army National Guard; Albert Benavides, B.S., an RCM expert and data analyst & auditor.; Megan D. Redshaw, J.D., is an attorney and investigative journalist; Peter A. McCullough, M.D., M.P.H. This is just one study. An adverse event post-vaccination is simply an event post-vaccination and may not necessarily be related to the vaccination. Readers are cautioned not to make healthcare decisions based solely on this article or any other article in the popular press. Instead, please make any
Mike Rogers believes public deserves to know true origins of COVID-19
Congressman Mike Rogers believes the public has a right to know where the COVID-19 virus originated. This comment was in response to revelations that the U.S. Department of Energy now accepts as likely the theory that the COVID-19 global pandemic probably originated in a lab in China rather than as something that naturally occurred. That theory was almost as old as the virus itself but was denounced by the media and many government agencies as a “fringe” conspiracy theory. Increasingly though, a growing number of official voices acknowledge that they now accept the theory as likely factual. Following the revelation that the Energy Department accepts that the global pandemic was likely the result of some sort of an escape from a laboratory, many Republicans are demanding answers. “Republicans were written off as conspiracy theorists for claiming that COVID-19 originated from the Wuhan lab,” Rep. Rogers told Alabama Today via email. “Now that the Department of Energy has concluded that a lab leak is indeed the likely origin of COVID-19, the Biden White House remains curiously silent. The public deserves to know the origins of this disease, and any effort by the Biden administration to mislead the public on that front is shameful.” U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton had suggested that the disease resulted from a lab leak as early as Feb. 2020. He was slammed for it by the New York Times and the mainstream media. Now Cotton wants answers. “China’s lab leak, being proven right doesn’t matter,” said Sen. Cotton on Twitter. “What matters is holding the Chinese Communist Party accountable so this doesn’t happen again.” “The elites and academics owe everyone who had legitimate questions and concerns about the origins of COVID an apology,” Rep Ken Buck said on Twitter. “The American people deserve to see all the information concerning the Chinese lab leak and the origins of COVID. This won’t be forgotten.” The FBI also reportedly has come to the same conclusion – that the COVID-19 global pandemic had nothing to do with a natural disease outbreak from an infected animal at a meat market in Wuhan – the story the Chinese initially reported – but rather that the virus escaped from a Chinese lab there. The Wall Street Journal reported last week that the Energy Department had joined the FBI’s stance on the pandemic. The Wall Street Journal report cites individuals who have seen a classified intelligence report recently provided to the White House and key members of Congress. The National Intelligence Council and four other agencies assess at “low confidence” that the COVID-19 pandemic originated due to natural transmission from an infected animal. In contrast, the CIA and another unnamed agency are undecided. The updated report maintains there is a consensus between all the intelligence agencies that the pandemic was not the result of a Chinese bioweapons program. The U.S. intelligence agency consensus is that the COVID-19 pandemic likely resulted from an accidental lab leak in Wuhan. “It was obvious from the beginning that this was the case.,” Dr. Stewart Tankersley told Alabama Today. “But Fauci and all his sycophants continue to maim and kill without apologizing. But it’s actually one of the many lies that they have supported and propagated the past 3 years.” Tankersley has been a skeptic of how the COVID-19 virus has been handled by the World Health Organization and federal and state healthcare authorities. “Repentance is the first step to getting through this,” Tankersley added. The Energy Department oversees a network of U.S. national laboratories, some of which conduct advanced biological research, so has the research brainpower to reach that conclusion. Reportedly both the FBI and the Energy Department arrived at the same conclusion independently of each other. Wuhan is the center of China’s extensive coronavirus research. COVID-19 is a condition first identified in late 2019 in China. The illness, which can frequently be deadly, is caused by a coronavirus infection. Coronaviruses are extremely common throughout nature, but the virus that caused the outbreak, SARS-CoV-2, was new to science. The coronavirus has spread globally and is now endemic. To this point, 6,798,868 people have died in the global pandemic, including 1,145,293 Americans. 20,852 Alabamians have died. Rogers is the Chairman of the powerful House Armed Service Committee. He is in his eleventh term representing Alabama’s Third Congressional District. To connect with the author of this story or to comment, email brandonmreporter@gmail.com.
DOD rescinds COVID shot mandate for military
On Saturday, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin issued a memo that rescinded the COVID-19 shot mandate for all military service members. The action follows the passage of the Fiscal Year 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) by Congress – which includes a provision ordering the DoD to rescind the mandate. Section 525 of the NDAA required the Secretary of Defense to rescind the mandate that members of the U.S. Armed Forces receive COVID-19 shots. Sec. Austin issued a memorandum on August 24, 2021, directing all service members to receive the COVID shot. Sec. Austin angrily objected to Congress overriding his order stating in the Public Affairs Guidance memorandum issued from the Department of Defense states that the Secretary “stands by his decision to mandate COVID-19 vaccination in August 2021.” The DOD memo states that “Secretary Austin continues to encourage all of our Service members, civilian employees, and contractor personnel to get vaccinated and boosted to ensure the readiness of our Total Force.” Alabama Today spoke with Dr. Stewart Tankersley, who was asked to testify before Congress to urge the Senate to overturn the COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Tankersley is a former Colonel with the Alabama National Guard and a doctor who practices in Montgomery, Alabama. Tankersley has been an outspoken skeptic of the effectiveness and safety of the COVID-19 vaccine and is a member of the Concerned Doctors of Alabama. “It was long overdue and shameful,” Tankersley said of the mandate. “He didn’t read any leadership manual that I did.” “They fought tooth and nail,” Tankersley said of the Defense Department’s resistance to overturning the mandate. Dr. Tankersley believes that the vaccine is both ineffective and not safe. “It is abundantly clear that they do not care,” Tankersley said. “According to their own data there were 83 COVID deaths, however 127 servicemembers died within 48 hours after getting the shot. Suicides are up because of the stress they have put servicemembers under over this. This was a self-inflicted wound.” “The vaccine is far more dangerous to people at that age,” Tankersley said when asked if the benefits of the vaccine outweighed the side effects. “There have been many, many injuries, and some of those will be with them (service members) for a lifetime.” Tankersley was appointed by Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey to the state’s COVID-19 emergency response task force. He was very critical of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Institute of Health (NIH), and Alabama Department of Public Health’s (ADPH) response to the COVID-19 global pandemic. “What did the government do right?” Tankersley said. “It is unequivocal that it has done more harm than good.” Multiple courts have ruled that the DOD and the various military branches violated the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) by denying requests for religious accommodation. Despite the widespread criticism, Austin said in the memo that the DOD “will continue to encourage all personnel and family members to stay up to date on their COVID-19 vaccinations, including boosters.” Liberty Counsel, which has represented servicemembers who have requested religious exemptions to the mandate, wrote that, “Every option used aborted fetal cells in their testing and/or development (Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson, and Novavax). In addition to aborted fetal cells, many religious requesters objected to the experimental mRNA shots of Pfizer and Moderna. The DOD continues to misrepresent the facts and has continually violated the law.” COVID-19 vaccines, including the updated bivalent booster, will continue to be widely available at DoD military medical treatment facilities. There remains a great deal of disagreement within the medical community about the safety and effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccine. The Alabama Department of Public Health wrote recently, “COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective at protecting you from serious illness, hospitalization, and death. Since every COVID-19 infection gives the virus a chance to mutate, being vaccinated helps prevent the spread of COVID-19 and its variants in our state and world.” Even though the COVID vaccine mandate has been rescinded, all other vaccination requirements in the military are still in effect. To connect with the author of this story, or to comment, email brandonmreporter@gmail.com.
White House says that repealing the COVID-19 vaccine mandate was a “mistake”
Earlier this week, conservative Senators, including Tommy Tuberville, amended the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to overturn President Joe Biden’s controversial COVID-19 vaccine mandate for members of America’s armed forces. On Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters that Tuberville and the other Senators had made a “mistake.” “I will note — just to be very, very clear here — what we saw, what we think happened here is Republicans in Congress have decided that they’d rather fight against the health and wellbeing of our troops than protecting them,” Sec. Jean-Pierre said. “And we believe that it is a mistake what we saw — what we saw happen on the NDAA, as it relates to the vaccine mandate. Making sure our troops are prepared and ready for service is a priority for President Biden. The vaccination requirement for COVID does just that.” “I’ll add one more thing,” Sec. Jean-Pierre said. “Before the COVID vaccine existed, nearly 700 Department of Defense personnel and service members died of COVID. Almost 100 of them were active duty. And so, since this past spring, there has been one death due to COVID. So vaccinations work and save the lives of our service members. So we believe that it was a mistake.” The COVID-19 vaccine remains highly controversial even within the medical community. Last week the Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) released a statement urging Alabamians to get the newest bivalent version of the COVID-19 vaccine. “COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective at protecting you from serious illness, hospitalization, and death,” ADPH informed the public. “Since every COVID-19 infection gives the virus a chance to mutate, being vaccinated helps prevent the spread of COVID-19 and its variants in our state and world.” Dr. Stewart Tankersley has served three tours overseas in the armed services in the Global War on Terror. Alabama Governor Kay Ivey appointed him to the state’s task force on COVID-19. Tankersley is one of a group of Alabama doctors who fundamentally disagree with the prevalent view on COVID-19 as articulated by ADPH and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Alabama Concerned Doctors was formed to share information on alternative treatments for COVID-19. When the vaccine began being given in mass, they claim they have documented a growing number of adverse vaccine side effects, including some life-threatening. “That is a lie,” Tankersley told Alabama Today in a phone interview in response to the ADPH claim that the vaccine is safe and effective. “They are not going by the data. The evidence is overwhelming that this vaccine is dangerous. That is an absurd statement.” “The panic is what led to this,” Tankersley claimed. “There is no safety data on this. When you get the vaccine out of the package, it does not come with a safety insert.” “All of them should be outlawed, much less be given to our troops,” Tankersley said. “They (vaccines) cause our bodies to have a massive immune response. The mRNA is surrounded by a very nasty lipid particle.” Tankersley said that ADPH and the medical establishment are reluctant to debate the physicians who are skeptical of the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine. “They will not debate us on this,” Tankersley said. “The British Medical Journal said that it was unethical to give this to medical students. It does more harm than good.” “The sooner you are vaccinated, the sooner you have protection,” the ADPH said in their release. “To find COVID-19 vaccination locations near you, search vaccines.gov, text your zip code to 438829, or call 1-800-232-0233. Helpful information about recommended COVID-19 vaccines and boosters for individuals is available at the following website: cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/stay-up-to-date.html.” “The public has decided,” Tankersley said. “They are not taking this. Only ten percent of the public has gotten the new bivalent vaccine, and it has been out for three months.” Tuberville has suggested that the vaccine mandates are keeping the armed services from reaching their recruitment goals. “In the United States, the number of new servicemembers joining the military is reaching a near record low,” Tuberville and other conservative Senators wrote in a joint statement. “The United States needs a strong military to protect our country against the growing threats facing our nation. We are pleased that the final conferenced bill includes language mirroring our amendments’ efforts to protect troops from being fired due to Biden’s COVID vaccine mandate without fair appeal and to the harm of service readiness.” “The reasons why our military is not able to attain its recruitment goals is multifaceted, but not the least of these is forcing these young people to take this vaccine they do not need that causes injury,” Tankersley said. To connect with the author of this story, or to comment, email brandonmreporter@gmail.com.
