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Court-Ordered Confusion: CDC Now Recommends a COVID-19 Shot FDA Hasn’t Approved for Most Adults

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is telling the nation’s doctors that every adult 18 and older should receive a 2026-2027 COVID-19 vaccine, despite the fact that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved those same vaccines in August only for adults 65 and older and for younger people with at least one condition that puts them at high risk.

This is just one of the potentially deadly points of advice confusion that the Independent Medical Alliance (IMA), a national coalition of 20,000 independent physicians, researchers and healthcare professionals, is calling on to be removed from HHS websites.

“The CDC, FDA and the Department of Health and Human Services must immediately resolve this contradiction and instead err toward patient safety,” said Dr. Joseph Varon, President and Chief Medical Officer of the Independent Medical Alliance. “The CDC’s COVID-19 vaccine pages don’t match current FDA labeling and safety warnings. Instead, outdated advice that has since proven harmful, and even deadly, to patients is still being promoted. If pending court cases are an issue, then the CDC should immediately take down the content.”

Dozens of studies since the release of the mRNA platform have demonstrated elevated cardiovascular risks associated with the shot, particularly in younger men. Other side effects include unexplained resurgence of cancers in shot recipients, warranting extreme caution on recommending any mRNA product. The IMA’s Journal of Independent Medicine is quickly becoming the nation’s leading forum on examining the impacts of mRNA therapy.

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Nurse Deemed ‘Not Disabled Enough’ For Payout After COVID Jab Paralysis

An NHS nurse in the UK has been denied compensation despite being permanently damaged by a COVID vaccine during a trial.

Marie-Claire Hoyle, who volunteered for the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine trial in 2020 developed transverse myelitis two weeks after her second dose, temporarily shutting down the global trial.

The qualified advanced nurse practitioner and NHS England’s network manager for high-consequence infectious diseases, lost the use of her hands, became numb from collarbone to thigh, and still carries permanent spinal cord damage visible on MRI. The Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme acknowledged the vaccine caused her condition yet refused the £120,000 one-off payment because her disability improved below the rigid 60% lifelong threshold.

Hoyle that’s related how she was on shift when pain hit her neck and spine, spreading within an hour into her shoulders and hands. “I lost the ability to use my hands, I couldn’t hold a pen, I couldn’t hold a toothbrush. I was completely numb from my collarbone down to my thigh level because the signals from my spine and brain had been damaged.”

An MRI confirmed transverse myelitis. The trial paused worldwide while her case was assessed; she survived and recovered enough for it to resume. Permanent damage remains. “I’ve had an MRI since and there is still damage in my spinal cord, which will never heal. I have really poor grip in my fingertips, so I constantly drop things. I still have nerve pain down the left side of my arm and numbness across my central chest and that will never resolve,” she further stated.

She received a high five-figure out-of-court settlement from Oxford University. The VDPS, however, ruled she no longer qualified. “They acknowledged that the vaccine caused my transverse myelitis, based on the evidence I supplied with all my medical records, and at the time I was seriously harmed on a value of up to 60%. However, they said: ‘You aren’t now, so you don’t need the payment.'”

Hoyle, a mother of three who later had her youngest vaccinated and says she continues to support vaccines in principle, wants a scalable system matching actual ongoing harm rather than an all-or-nothing cutoff.

AstraZeneca later withdrew its Vaxzevria vaccine worldwide in 2024, officially citing commercial reasons and the shift to updated formulations. The company had already admitted in court documents that the shot can cause thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome. Kate Scott, whose husband was left with permanent brain injury, said the decision looked less commercial and more like recognition that the product no longer sat “within the acceptable safety parameters,” given 445 confirmed VITT cases and 81 deaths in the UK alone. The company maintained the vaccine had saved over 6.5 million lives in its first year.

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Former Conservative MP breaks silence on her own vaccine injury: ‘It’s just so cruel’

It has been five years since Canadians were told to trust the experts and that the science was settled. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, still live with the aftermath of that sloganeering — including a former Member of Parliament who is now using what’s left of her platform to say the quiet part out loud.

Former Conservative MP Nelly Shin represented Port Moody–Coquitlam in British Columbia through the peak of the pandemic. She took the shots so she could keep showing up for her constituents in Ottawa, then later stepped away from public life because of debilitating symptoms she describes as long COVID.

Shin attended the Allison Inquiry hearings on Parliament Hill from September 8–11, where Canadians reporting vaccine-related injuries testified about lost careers, crushed finances and doctors who would not put the words “vaccine injury” in a chart.

After listening, she went home and wrote a Substack piece titled A Call for Canada to Support the Vaccine Injured and Move Together Toward Closure from a Pandemic We All Want to Forget. In it, she argues the same government that enforced lockdowns and mandates “in the name of saving lives” has turned a blind eye to the people still suffering as a result of their unprecedented measures.

“No injury, no sickness or illness is a controversial issue, but circumstances right now have made it a controversial issue and people don’t want to touch it,” Shin told me. “What we’re dealing with is people who are sick, who need treatment, but there’s so little out there that the government and the health officials in Canada are willing to discuss.”

Shin was candid about her own case — four trips to the ER after a severe bout of pneumonia, breathing problems, brain fog and exhaustion triggered by any level of exertion. “Nothing shows up [on the labs],” she said. “So that’s the frustrating part.”

She was an MP when the shots rolled out under emergency authorization, and she had doubts about taking the novel injection. “I wasn’t sure how much time and robust research had gone in in terms of the after effects, the long-term effects,” she said. Her decision came in what she calls a “panic of survival,” with death counts broadcast daily which kept the public fearful and submissive. “To keep saying that this is a perfect, infallible vaccine and keep promoting it to the degree that the government did, I think it was a huge risk.”

That risk is one Ottawa still refuses to revisit. The federal Vaccine Injury Support Program — now rebranded — has become a case study in lost files, high rejection rates and administrative costs that dwarf the help actually delivered. Shin doesn’t see a one-off glitch, but a pattern: “There’s just a lack of will or interest. Nobody wants to talk about COVID now.”

Her first demand is simple acknowledgement, so the professional chill on doctors can lift and physicians can openly discuss treatments — including the alternative protocols that get mocked. “You can’t just tell someone to go to the corner and figure it out on their own and just wilt,” she said. “What are they left with? It’s just so cruel.”

Asked what single commitment she’d put to sitting MPs and Health Canada, Shin didn’t hesitate: “Be careful not to over control or over manage a situation… You can’t so confidently, with such grandiosity, force people to take something that hasn’t been properly tested.”

Canadians who are still sick don’t need another communications exercise. They need the chill lifted, the files found, and doctors free to treat the patient in front of them instead of protecting the narrative.

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How a Flawed Covid Study Tried—and Failed—to Discredit the Amish

Astudy falsely implied the Amish suffered more deaths because they eschewed public health guidance. But correcting the record proved nearly impossible.

In 2021, I reported on my national television program, Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson that the largest Amish community in the US, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, had rejected masking, vaccines, isolation, testing, and all the other CDC recommendations for Covid…and apparently fared none the worse for having done so.

The story was of such high interest that even after it aired on TV, it racked up millions more views online.

This attention to the Amish approach and its apparent success obviously didn’t please public health officials and industry advocates who were heavily pushing different narratives. They wanted the public to believe that anyone who wasn’t socially distancing, staying home, getting vaccinated, shutting down the works, and taking government-favored prescription drugs were putting themselves and others in grave danger.

As the revelations about the Amish made international headlines, there appeared to be a propaganda-driven effort to make it seem as if the Amish actually suffered far worse than everyone else for having failed to follow CDC’s advice.

A study was published entitled: “Closed but Not Protected: Excess Deaths Among the Amish and Mennonites During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” It appeared in the Journal of Religion and Health on June 11, 2021.

But I noticed serious flaws with the study and decided to challenge it. Among the problems I saw:

1. For their study population, the researchers grouped together a sample of Mennonite and Amish—even though Mennonites typically followed CDC guidelines while the Amish did not.

2. They excluded the largest Amish population in the US in Lancaster, the one that was actually the subject of the news reports.

3. Their study headline was at odds with what their own data showed: even with their skewed sample, the Amish fared no worse than the rest of the US for not having shut down.

After examining the study, I tried to get further information to determine if corrections were warranted. Among other things, I wanted to know:

  • Who were the peer-reviewers who had signed off on a deeply flawed study?
  • What did the actual study notes and data show about why the most obvious study sample population was excluded?
  • What were some of the internal communications before and after publication?

With scientific studies, all the data is supposed to be available for public review and replication for obvious reasons. Studies aren’t considered scientifically valid without this kind of transparency. And, in many cases, we actually own the data because our tax money paid for the study—or some of it— or pays the salaries of some of the people involved.

Keep in mind that a study is generally treated as scientifically valid only when it meets: reproducibility (others can obtain the same result from the same data and analysis) and replicability (a separate study with new data yields a consistent result) standards.  Obviously, if study funders and authors keep their full data and analyses secret, the standards can’t be applied. (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Reproducibility and Replicability in Science, 2019)

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Idaho’s Landmark Medical Freedom Act Survives First Legal Challenge

A federal judge last week upheld the Idaho Medical Freedom Act, ruling that daycares cannot require children to receive vaccines or other medical interventions. Attorney General Raúl Labrador said the ruling confirms that “parents make medical decisions for their children. A daycare does not.”

A federal judge has upheld Idaho’s new medical freedom law, ruling that daycares cannot require children to receive vaccines or other medical interventions as a condition of attendance.

Chief U.S. District Judge Amanda K. Brailsford last week dismissed a lawsuit brought by a Boise-area daycare and three parents who challenged the Idaho Medical Freedom Act. The act, signed into law in April, prohibits most medical mandates, including vaccines.

Brailsford rejected the plaintiffs’ claims that the law is unconstitutionally vague, violates parents’ rights or infringes on the daycare’s First Amendment rights.

Leslie Manookian, president of the Health Freedom Defense Fund and author of the law, said the ruling confirmed what she intended the law to do.

“Medical freedom, the right to make one’s own medical choices, is such a sacred and basic human right it astounds me that anyone could see otherwise,” Manookian told The Defender.

She said the law “protects an individual from public and private actors bullying, coercing and intruding into their personal and private medical choices or punishing them for their choices.”

Manookian also said she was “delighted that the federal court interpreted the law … as a safeguard against overreach” by government and private actors, including daycares.

‘A daycare does not’ make medical decisions

Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador, whose office defended the law, said the ruling confirms that parents — not businesses — are in charge of their children’s health.

“Parents make medical decisions for their children. A daycare does not,” Labrador said in a Sept. 22 statement. “The Legislature protected that choice in the Medical Freedom Act, and the court upheld it.”

Labrador added that daycares can continue telling parents what they believe about vaccines and health, but “they cannot turn a child away because of a parent’s medical decision.”

The attorneys representing Le Soleil Child Care LLC and the parents said they may appeal.

“Our clients are obviously disappointed by the district court’s ruling and the narrow manner in which it interpreted the right at issue,” attorney Andrea Carone said in a statement to the Idaho Statesman.

Carone argued that the law leaves daycares unable to take what the plaintiffs consider “reasonable steps” to protect children from diseases that vaccines can prevent. She called it “a clear public health issue” that the Idaho Legislature must address.

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Who decides what’s misinformation? U.N. pandemic declaration takes aim at vaccine hesitancy

The United Nations General Assembly appointed itself the global referee on what you can believe about vaccines and pandemics, adopting a sweeping political declaration on October 12 by a 153-3 vote that calls on nations to counter “misinformation” and vaccine hesitancy. However, the United States joined Israel and Argentina in voting no, signaling deep divides over who should call the shots on public health: voters at home or bureaucrats abroad.

The 64-clause, nonbinding document emerged after objections from the Trump administration and a few other governments blocked consensus and forced a vote. The U.S. delegation objected to reproductive health language it said failed to exclude “harmful gender ideology,” which it said undermines parental authority.

The U.S. also balked at the text’s repeated references to equity and its nods to the Pandemic Agreement and International Health Regulations, which the U.S. said would commit countries to agreements they never joined. Italy also challenged wording on disinformation during earlier talks but ultimately voted yes, while New Zealand and Paraguay abstained. Critics warn the declaration sets the stage for expanded surveillance, censorship, and fast-tracked vaccines — all under the guise of global health security.

Critics call the declaration toothless but troubling

The declaration, which David Bell, a public health physician and senior scholar at the Brownstone Institute, dismissed as an empty bureaucratic gesture, still backs the WHO’s controversial Pandemic Agreement and flags a $15 billion annual gap in pandemic preparedness funding. Bell warned that the broader push diverts resources toward “saleable commodities for rare but very profitable international outbreaks.”

Valerie Ferrell, policy director of Stand for Health Freedom, likened the document to an unholy political vow renewal that reaffirms the U.N.’s fondness for “begging for funds, and hunting and killing ‘misinformation’ so people are kept in the dark.”

The U.S. withdrawal from the WHO, ordered by President Trump in January 2025 and effective this year, further underscores the administration’s refusal to hand over public health decisions to international bodies.

Paragraph 57 targets vaccine hesitancy as ‘misinformation’

The most contentious line, paragraph 57, asks member states to counter “health-related misinformation, disinformation, including countering vaccine hesitancy” and to build trust in public health systems. Epidemiologist Nicolas Hulscher of the McCullough Foundation said the provision should alarm anyone who values “scientific freedom, informed consent, and the right to question public-health authorities.”

Opponents also bristle at the text’s embrace of “infodemic management” and a whole-of-government, whole-of-society approach to pandemics, warning it could bring back the lockdowns, mandates, and censorship seen during COVID.

Pathogen-sharing talks could produce a binding deal

Beyond the nonbinding declaration, an annex on pathogen access and benefit-sharing (PABS) remains the true prize. Under the proposed system, participating nations would hand over pathogen samples and genetic sequences and receive a cut of whatever vaccines, treatments, and diagnostics result. Talks have stalled over intellectual property fights between wealthy and developing nations.

Researcher James Roguski told The Defender that PABS is the “main event.” The Pandemic Agreement can’t open for signature until the annex is complete, and Roguski said talks resume next month. If negotiators strike a deal and the World Health Assembly approves the agreement in May 2027, he said, the next U.S. administration could sign on or rejoin the WHO.

Trust in public health isn’t manufactured by drowning out doubters. It’s earned by telling people the whole truth, side effects and all. And with drugmakers lining up to turn shared pathogen samples into profitable vaccines, everyone at the table seems to have something to sell except the skeptics.

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They Got the COVID Vaccine. When They Were Injured, Doctors, Military and Health Agencies Blew Them Off

Dr. Aseem Malhotra, a recognized expert in cardiac health, is known for his public advocacy around medical and pharmaceutical ethics. He began questioning the safety of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines after his father died of a vaccine-induced heart attack in 2022, and later went public with his concerns.

But what most people don’t know is that before his father died, Malhotra himself was injured after receiving two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in 2020 and 2021.

“Within a few weeks of being vaccinated, I suffered inexplicable, significant clinical depression that was diagnosed by a psychiatrist and that lasted several months,” Malhotra told The Defender. “I needed psychotherapy to help me get better — and was 80% there when my father suffered a sudden cardiac arrest.”

Malhotra isn’t alone. Studies and V-safe data link COVID-19 vaccines to a host of mental health issues.

In some cases, victims and their family members attributed mental health issues directly to COVID-19 vaccines.

In others, people report that physical vaccine injuries led to mental health issues — in chronic pain with no access to treatment, they report struggling with daily life, professional obligations and strained relationships with loved ones.

Some people — including the family of a person who committed suicide — told The Defender their mental health suffered when federal health agencies refused to acknowledge the injuries they reported to V-safe and the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).

An analysis by The Defender of data reported to V-safe during the COVID-19 pandemic identified over 300 reports of severe psychiatric disorders, including reports of suicide and attempted suicide, triggered by the COVID-19 vaccine.

Those interviewed said the V-safe data reflect their own experiences or those of their injured family members. Some described being gaslit by their doctors.

Psychotherapist Joseph Sansone, Ph.D., author of “Psychopathic Authoritarianism: A Disease of the Soul,” said it’s not uncommon for physicians to dismiss the vaccine-injured and their struggles.

“Medical doctors, in many cases, told them to get the injections,” Sansone said. “Now, when the victims are suffering from chronic disease and illness, these same doctors gaslight the victims and not admitting the injuries and diseases are from the shots.” This often leads to feelings of “betrayal and violation” among the injured.

Following last week’s announcement that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is launching a new clinic to study and treat vaccine injuries, people interviewed by The Defender called for more — and better — treatment of vaccine injuries and a stronger focus on the mental health struggles that often accompany these injuries.

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Vaccine Cartel Begins Injecting Endangered Baby Elephants With Experimental mRNA Shots

The experimental mRNA injection rollout has now reached endangered baby elephants. On October 8, 2026, the Saint Louis Zoo announced that a 1½-year-old Asian elephant named Jet had received his third dose of an experimental mRNA injection targeting elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus (EEHV).

Developed by Baylor College of Medicine in collaboration with zoo researchers, the gene therapy uses lipid nanoparticles to deliver four synthetic mRNA sequences encoding EEHV viral proteins.

Experimental mRNA Gene Therapy Is Expanding Across American Zoos

The research program involves institutions including Houston Zoo, Cincinnati Zoo, Fort Worth Zoo, Rosamond Gifford Zoo, and White Oak Conservation. Saint Louis Zoo has now publicly confirmed vaccinating its young elephant.

A peer-reviewed study published in the Journal of Virology in July 2026 evaluated the gene therapy in nine Asian elephants. Elephants received up to FOUR injections containing 400 micrograms of mRNA each. Three of six initially antibody-negative elephants failed to develop detectable antibody responses after their first two injections and required additional booster shots.

Vaccinated Elephants Still Contracted EEHV

Perhaps most notably, a second peer-reviewed study published in the Journal of Virology documented that two juvenile elephants at Cincinnati Zoo developed confirmed EEHV infections after receiving two doses of the experimental mRNA injection.

Both animals received their injections in October and November 2024 before testing positive in February and March 2025. The findings show that the mRNA gene therapy does not reliably prevent EEHV infection in elephants.

The expansion of dangerous mRNA technology into endangered wildlife already facing the threat of extinction marks a disturbing new frontier in veterinary medicine.

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COVID Vaccines Triggered Psychiatric Disorders, Including Suicides

Thousands of people reported mental health challenges — including at least two suicides and three attempted suicides — to V-safe after receiving COVID-19 vaccines during the pandemic.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launched the V-safe app in December 2020 to allow the public to report adverse reactions to COVID-19 vaccines.

Data analyzed by The Defender include V-safe reports from people with a history of mental health issues before the vaccine, who reported those issues became significantly worse after the vaccine.

Other reports came from people who experienced thoughts of suicide or self-harm for the first time after being vaccinated.

The data also include reports from people who said physical injuries related to COVID-19 vaccines took a toll on their mental health.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) last week launched a clinic to study and treat vaccine injuries — less than a month after React19, an advocacy group for the vaccine-injured, released an analysis of V-safe’s entries that included widespread pleas for help.

React19’s analysis found a similar number of people expressing suicidal statements or a death wish (344 participants) — and 8,193 “cries for help” from 1,468 people.

Psychotherapist Joseph Sansone, Ph.D., told The Defender there is evidence that COVID and mRNA injections are “associated with anxiety, depression, insomnia, brain fog, dizziness, psychosis, mania and other mental health issues.”

Sansone, author of “Psychopathic Authoritarianism: A Disease of the Soul,” said the mental health challenges can also result from the ongoing physical pain caused by vaccine injuries. Those injuries can lead to “subsequent grief and loss,” he said.

“Many victims struggling with physical health issues struggle with grief and loss related to their physical illnesses. This is only outweighed by the sense of betrayal and violation,” Sansone said.

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Measles Fear Is Being Used To Sell A Schedule — Follow The Numbers

According to the below October 6 Fox News Report, measles cases in the US are at nearly 3,900 – the worst year for the virus since 1991, declares the CDC. Pennsylvania has over 1,000 cases and five measles-related deaths. New York has declared a disaster emergency.

The video opened with the number of measles cases reported by the CDC this year. But it was the death toll that reached for the biggest number of all – five. That number is reported by the state of Pennsylvania, which counts anyone who died within 30 days of a lab-confirmed case of measles. The segment never mentioned that the CDC lists only two measles deaths for the entire year, counting only deaths where measles is the underlying cause on the death certificate, according to KFF. The CDC is still working with state epidemiologists to come up with a national definition of a measles death.

The same goes for the figure officials repeat most. The CDC reports that 95% of cases are in people who are unvaccinated or whose vaccination status is unknown. These are two separate groups folded into one number. A missing record is not the same as a refused shot. Only about 10% of cases have resulted in hospitalization, according to CIDRAP. And the 1991 comparison leaves out the rest of the picture: that year there were 9,643 cases, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics, and this year’s 4,080 is still less than half of that.

Pennsylvania administered more than 56,000 doses of MMR vaccine in September alone, more than double a typical month. New York declared its statewide emergency on October 5 with about 100 cases of the highly contagious disease in a state of roughly 20 million people. As part of the emergency, additional groups of health care providers will be able to administer vaccine, including paramedics, pharmacists and midwives. Merck and GSK sell the MMR vaccines in the US. More immunizations equal more sales of these vaccines.

Also this week, New York Attorney General Letitia James and 15 other states are suing HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over the childhood vaccine schedule the CDC issued in January. The schedule stopped recommending seven vaccines for every child, and most were moved to what the CDC calls “shared clinical decision-making” between parents and doctors. James’ suit seeks to put the old schedule back, and it also challenges Kennedy’s firing of all 17 members of the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee. Her office calls Kennedy one of the nation’s most prominent anti-vaccine activists.

Follow the money! New York AG Letitia James has received over $71,000 from the Soros family (yes, that Soros family) since 2019, according to state filings, and over $100,000 from health care unions, nursing homes and industry PACs in her 2018 attorney general primary, according to City & State. (Note: no reports have surfaced regarding money from vaccine makers, but the biomedical industry that benefits when fear is turned into doses of vaccine is the same industry whose schedule she is defending.)

Together, the case count leads a report about measles that makes a great case for alarming families, states declare emergencies and allow more people to give vaccines, and then the alarm becomes the argument for putting back a childhood vaccine schedule. None of the seven vaccines in her lawsuit is the MMR shot for measles.

Georgia families deserve the raw numbers, the definitions behind them, and the names of those who benefit when fear leads to prescriptions.

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