In Manhattan, Liberal Authorities Convicted Blacks at a Rate 21X Greater than Whites Over the Past 2 Decades. Statewide, Blacks Account for 40% of Convictions Despite Being Only 14% of the Population

From [HERE] It has long been established that people of color — and especially Black people — are disproportionately criminalized, prosecuted, and incarcerated by the criminal legal system. When it comes to arrests, charges, convictions, and sentences, at every step, Black people are treated much more harshly than white people. But even though this reality is not new, just how unequal the system is across New York is still surprising:

In Manhattan — one of the wealthiest and least equal places in the country — courts convicted Black people of felonies and misdemeanors at a rate 21 times greater than that of white people over the past two decades. This disparity is the largest of any county in the state. 

WOW. IS IT REPUBLICANS FILLING THE PRISONS WITH BLACKS OR IS IT WHITE LIBERAL JUDGES AND PROSECUTORS AND THIER COMPLEMENTARY BLACK ROLEBOTS? IS RACISM WHITE SUPREMACY RELATED TO POLITICAL PARTY AFFILIATION?

This troubling statistic features prominently in a lawsuit filed recently by the New York Civil Liberties Union challenging the constitutionality of a ban on people with felony convictions serving on juries in Manhattan. The ban applies statewide, but the case focuses on Manhattan where the racial disparity is the most severe. As many as one quarter of all otherwise jury-eligible Black residents in Manhattan are barred from serving on juries because of a prior felony conviction. For Black men, the disenfranchisement is even more severe: the law likely disqualifies more than 40 percent of them from jury service.

For decades, political and law enforcement leaders have flooded Black neighborhoods with police, while also arresting Black people more frequently regardless of what neighborhood they’re in. Prosecutors then over-charge Black people compared to white people accused of the same crimes. 

This has resulted in racial disparities in felony conviction rates. These convictions, in turn, have devastating impacts on people’s ability to participate in society, secure a job, find a place to live, and get an education. But they also fuel a cycle of more racially-biased convictions.     

That’s because jury disenfranchisement not only shuts thousands of Black residents out of civic engagement, but it strips people of their right to be judged by a jury of their peers. A jury system that underrepresents Black New Yorkers inevitably leads to more convictions of Black people. 

Racial Disparities in Counties Across the State

This isn’t just a New York City problem. While in Brooklyn, the largest county in the state, Black people were convicted of felonies and misdemeanors at a rate of about seven times that of white people, a new NYCLU analysis of data from 2002-2019 shows that, in every single county in New York, Black people were arrested and convicted of offenses at disproportionate rates.

Schenectady County has a population of about 120,000 people, 97,000 of whom are white and about 9,000 of which are Black. In the past two decades, the county has convicted 3,000 Black people of felonies and 2,500 white people, despite the ten-fold difference in population. Black people in Schenectady are so over-criminalized that, in the last two decades alone, there is a felony conviction for every three Black residents in the county. In Albany County and Onondaga County, Black people are convicted of felonies at a rate 10 times that of white people.

Statewide, Black New Yorkers account for roughly 40 percent of misdemeanor and felony convictions over the last two decades while only representing 14 percent of the state’s population. Latinx New Yorkers were convicted of 21 percent of misdemeanors and 22 percent of felonies despite making up about 16 percent of the statewide population. White people, on the other hand, are about 60 percent of the state population but account for only 36 percent and 35 percent of misdemeanor and felony convictions, respectively.

These numbers mean Black people were convicted of felonies and misdemeanors at a rate roughly five times greater than white people. And Latinx people were convicted of felonies and misdemeanors at more than twice the rate of white people.

Drug conviction and arrest numbers paint an especially vivid picture of a racist criminal legal system in which behavior has little to do with who gets a criminal record and who doesn’t. White people are more likely to use drugs than people of color. Yet in Manhattan, Black people are more than 20 times more likely to be arrested and convicted of felony drug offenses.

In the ten most populous counties in the state, where about 70 percent of New Yorkers reside, Black people were more than 13 times more likely to be convicted for felony drug offenses and Latinx people were eight times more likely to be convicted for felony drug offenses. [MORE]

Judge says Liberal Authorities in San Francisco and Their Black Rolebot Mayor Can’t Clear Mostly NonWhite Homeless Camps. 38% of the Unhoused in SF are Black - Yet They are Only 6% of the Population

BLACK WARD london breed GOES HARD AGAINST PEOPLE WHO LOOK JUST LIKE HER TO MAKE HER WHITE MASTERS HAPPY. NO TIME TO BE PERCEIVED AS SERVING HER OWN PEOPLE BY DELIVERING TANGIBLE, MATERIAL BENEFITS TO THEM WHEN THE WHITE LIBERALS ARE WATCHING. FUNKTIONARY STATES:

black ward – a subvassal (straw boss), who held ward of the king’s vassal (a species of slave who owes servitude and is in a state of dependency on a superior lord). The vassal himself might be overseer of some other vassals. Black ward is the English equivalent to the Boulé in Greek. (See: Sigma Pi Phi, Informant & Straw Boss)

From [HERE] A federal judge has temporarily banned San Francisco from clearing homeless encampments, saying the city violated its own policies by failing to offer other shelter.

Magistrate Judge Donna M. Ryu in U.S. District Court in Oakland granted an emergency order Friday night that bars the city from taking away tents and confiscating the belongings of encampment dwellers.

The move came in a lawsuit filed on behalf of homeless plaintiffs that sought to stop San Francisco from dismantling homeless encampments until it has thousands of additional shelter beds.

Ryu cited evidence presented by the plaintiffs that the city regularly and illegally failed to offer shelter to inhabitants before clearing the encampments and improperly seized or threw out their belongings, including cellphones, medication, identification and even prosthetic limbs.

The city’s arguments in its defense were “wholly unconvincing,” the judge said.

In a statement, Mayor London Breed decried the emergency order.

“Mayors cannot run cities this way,” she said. “We already have too few tools to deal with the mental illness we see on our streets. Now we are being told not to use another tool that helps bring people indoors and keeps our neighborhoods safe and clean for our residents.”

The Coalition on Homelessness sued San Francisco in September, alleging that the city clears out encampments not to connect homeless people to services and housing as it claims, but in response to neighborhood complaints and to drive out homeless residents.

The lawsuit is among several pending in Western states where visible homelessness has grown amid a shortage of shelter beds and affordable housing.

The coalition in San Francisco also requested a preliminary injunction to stop city workers from seizing tents, clothing and other belongings of homeless people unless it follows its own policies of bagging and tagging items for safekeeping for up to 90 days. [MORE]

2022 Point-in-Time Count

Every two years, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) requires that all communities receiving federal funding for homelessness services conduct a Point-in-Time (PIT) Count of people experiencing homelessness. The PIT Count is the primary source of nationwide data on homelessness and identifies people living in unsheltered and sheltered settings. HSH conducted the 2022 PIT Count on February 23, 2022. [MORE]

ACLU of New Mexico Files Lawsuit Against Liberal Authorities in Albuquerque Over Inhumane Treatment of Homeless

From [HERE] The American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico is suing the city of Albuquerque over its treatment of the city’s homeless population.

Attorneys from the law firm of Ives and Flores, the ACLU-NM and the New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty (NMCLP) filed suit Monday, accusing the state’s largest city of illegally destroying property and encampments for the homeless, as well as jailing and fining them.

“They’re criminalizing those residents, fining them for existing in public spaces and they are also taking their property [that they] need to function within our society and to hopefully transition out of homelessness,” Laura Ives, partner at the law firm of Ives and Flores, told ABC News.

Albuquerque has gotten rid of tents, bed rolls, shopping carts, identification cards and even birth certificates, all things that can help people escape homeless, Ives said.

The ACLU said that the city closed Coronado Park, a place where homeless New Mexicans could sleep at night, by fencing it off, ultimately forcing those staying at the park to leave and got rid of their belongings, according to the suit.

“Unhoused people in Albuquerque make up the city’s most vulnerable population,” the lawsuit reads. “Subject to the harms and indignities of abject poverty, many unhoused people live outdoors, exposed to the extremes of Albuquerque’s climate, to hunger, thirst and to the constant fears and worries that accompany being unsheltered.”

There aren’t enough shelter spaces in Albuquerque for even close to every homeless person to go to the shelters, Ives said, describing the conditions at the shelters as “inhumane.”[MORE]

Prison Authorities in Virginia and Elsewhere Only Allowing Inmates to Get Photocopies of Incoming Mail

From [HERE] Many people who are incarcerated at Virginia prisons and jails won’t get the cards, drawings and photos they’re sent in the mail this holiday season. Instead, they’ll get black-and-white photocopies. 

That’s because the Virginia Department of Corrections only delivers scans of incoming mail to people inside prison facilities and shreds the original copies. Virginia prison officials said the policy began in 2017 to stop the flow of drugs into their facilities. But the strategy is not unique to Virginia. The Prison Policy Initiative said it’s a growing trend among jails and prisons nationwide.  

Santia Nance’s fiancé is incarcerated at Lawrenceville Correctional Center. Now in their 30s, Nance said they’ve known each other since they were teenagers and only reconnected a few years ago. 

“I do think that during the holidays especially, it can be a drag,” she said about trying to maintain their relationship.   

Her fiancé, Quadaire Patterson, whom she calls "Q," has about 3-and-a-half years left in prison, after having already served 14 years for robbery — a crime that makes him ineligible for early release on good behavior. 

The couple has occasional video visits and phone calls, but mail gets complicated.  

“Handwritten mail is very special to us,” said Nance, who is co-founder of Sistas in Prison Reform, a criminal justice reform organization. “We both are very creative individuals and we like to make things for each other.” 

But she said the scans of their correspondence are dark and spotty, and it’s often difficult to make out detailed drawings, pictures and handwriting. The department also limits the number of pages it scans and delivers to three pages, front and back, including the envelope. [MORE]

After Making Pledge Liar Biden Refuses to Adopt UN Resolution for a Moratorium on the Death Penalty as a Record No. of Nations Do So. US Death Row is 41% Black, but Blacks are Only 13% the Population

From [HERE] With the support of a record 125 nations, the United Nations General Assembly has overwhelmingly adopted a resolution calling for a global moratorium on the use of the death penalty with a view towards its ultimate abolition. The United States voted no, placing it in the company of Iran, Iraq, Saudia Arabia, China, North Korea, and Vietnam.

The final vote, taken on the 15th anniversary of the General Assembly’s first adoption of a moratorium resolution on December 15, 2007, was 125 nations in favor, 37 opposed, and 22 abstentions. Support for a global execution moratorium topped the previous record of 120 attained in 2018 and matched in 2020. In November 2020, 120 nations supported the resolution, 39 opposed, and 24 abstained. 

In a joint statement, Penny Wong and Arnoldo André Tinoco, the foreign ministers of Australia and Costa Rica who led the moratorium discussion, characterized the supermajority vote “of almost two thirds” of the world’s nations as “historic.” 

“The record level of support for the resolution shows that the majority of Member States agree this brutal and inhumane punishment must end,” they wrote. “Already, four out of every five countries have abolished the death penalty or no longer apply it.”

The U.S. vote disappointed death penalty opponents who considered the resolution a major opportunity for the Biden administration to take action to advance the President’s campaign pledge to work to end the death penalty. 

ACCORDING TO THE DPIC, AMERICA’S DEATH ROW IS 41% BLACK, YET BLACKS ARE ONLY 13.6% of the ENTIRE POPULATION. IN WHAT WAYS DOES A GOVERNMENT DOMINATED BY WHITE, LIBERAL PUPPETICANS HELP BLACK PEOPLE?

Former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley, who signed into law the bill abolishing the death penalty in Maryland in 2013 and now serves as a commissioner on the International Commission Against the Death Penalty, urged Biden to support the moratorium resolution. “All of America’s European allies, every country in the Western Hemisphere and a fast-increasing number of African nations will be among th[e] super-majority” supporting the resolution, he wrote in a December 12 commentary in America Magazine. “Why then would President Biden—who has done so much to repair America’s alliances abroad—have us side with Iran, Saudi Arabia and North Korea in voting for continued use of the death penalty in the world? … It is time for America to stop giving political cover on the world stage to Iranian and Saudi executions.”

Botched “Executions" or Murders of [disproportionately Black] Inmates by [mostly white] Authorities Reach All-Time High in US, report finds

From [HERE] While the use of the death penalty continues to decline in the United States, a new report has found that “botched” executions reached a new high this year.

In its annual report on the use of capital punishment in the country, the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) said on Friday that seven of the 20 attempted executions by US states in 2022 were “visibly problematic”.

That included a case in which Alabama officials struggled to insert an intravenous (IV) line into a man for three hours, said the report, which defined a “botched” execution as one that includes “executioner incompetence, failures to follow protocols, or defects in the protocols themselves”.

“As lethal injection turns 40 years old this year, 2022 can be called ‘the year of the botched execution,'” the DPIC, a non-profit research group based in Washington, DC, said in a statement accompanying its findings, calling the proportion of problematic execution attempts “astonishing”.

Capital punishment – which refers to the sentencing of convicted offenders to death – continues to receive support in the US, with about 55 percent of people approving of its use against convicted murderers, according to a Gallup poll released last month.

A total of 18 people were executed across the country this year, in six states alone: Alabama, Arizona, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Missouri and Texas. However, that is far lower than in previous years before the COVID-19 pandemic, as the practice has come under growing scrutiny. [MORE]

Review Discovers that Tennessee’s Lethal Injection Chemicals Haven’t Been Tested Properly for Years [Tenn. Death Row is 51% Black despite Blacks Making up only 17% of the entire Population]

From [HERE] Gov. Bill Lee is changing the way Tennessee carries out its executions, following an independent review of the state’s lethal injections.

In April, Gov. Lee paused the state’s executions hours before Oscar Smith was scheduled to be killed by lethal injection, citing concerns with the drugs themselves.

The investigation, conducted by former U.S. Attorney Ed Stanton, found that the state’s lethal injections in the last few years were not tested for endotoxins, and sometimes failed — or were not subjected to — potency tests. According to the review, it was a miscommunication issue between the testing pharmacy and the state that led to the oversight.

Lee announced Wednesday that the Tennessee Department of Correction will make staffing changes at the leadership level and hire a permanent commissioner in the new year. It will be up to the new TDOC leadership to revise the state’s lethal injection protocol — a method of execution that has long been scrutinized. People on death row have opted to be killed in the electric chair or by firing squad, out of fear that lethal injection would be more painful.

The Tennessee Supreme Court will be responsible for setting new execution dates after the governor’s reprieves expire. Currently, the state has no executions scheduled for 2023.

‘Troubling findings’

The new findings were described as “troubling” and “shocking” by Kelley Henry, chief of the Capital Habeas Unit within the Nashville Federal Public Defender’s Office

“What we learned today is that secrecy in our state’s execution process breeds a lack of accountability, sloppiness, and a high risk of horrifying mistakes,” she wrote in a statement.

Advocacy groups praised the independent report, but expressed ongoing concerns.

Tennesseans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty called the lethal injection protocol “irreparably flawed.” Other groups questioned the state’s ongoing use of resources to create a method of execution and said they remained skeptical.

“We remain deeply concerned about Tennessee’s execution process,” wrote Gloria Sweet-Love, president of the Tennessee State Conference of the NAACP. “This report has given us a glimpse into an execution process plagued by human error, deception, and inconsistency that mirror many of the same problems that infect the death penalty as a whole, including the racial bias that infects the whole system.”

Gov Kate Brown Commutes the Sentences of Oregon’s Death-Row Prisoners (5% Black)

From [HERE] Calling the death penalty “both dysfunctional and immoral,” Oregon Governor Kate Brown has commuted the death sentences of the 17 prisoners on the state’s death row. The commutations, which the governor announced on December 13, 2022, went into effect December 14 and resentenced the prisoners to life without parole.

According to DPIC, Oregon’s death row is 71% white, 14% Latino and 5% Black.

Brown’s commutations are the culmination of what she characterized as “the near abolition of the death penalty” by the state legislature in 2019. At that time, Oregon amended its death-penalty statute to significantly limit the crimes for which capital punishment can be imposed. . In 2021, the Oregon Supreme Court overturned the death sentence of David Ray Bartol, finding that it violated the prohibition on “disproportionate punishments” in the Oregon constitution. Experts and advocates said at the time that the rationale for that decision made it likely that every death sentence in the state would be overturned as a result of the 2019 law.

Oregon has had a moratorium on executions since 2011, when then-Governor John Kitzhaber announced he would halt executions. The state’s last execution was in 1997. Upon taking office in 2015, Brown said she would maintain the moratorium. In 2020, after the new death penalty law went into effect, Oregon closed its death-row facility and moved death-row prisoners into the general prison population, marking another step in the dismantling of the state’s capital punishment system. 

In her statement announcing the commutations, Brown called the death penalty “an irreversible punishment that does not allow for correction; is wasteful of taxpayer dollars; does not make communities safer; and cannot be and never has been administered fairly and equitably.” She said the commutations were “consistent” with the legislature’s effort to functionally end the death penalty.

Brown is the third Oregon governor to commute death sentences. In 1964, following a referendum in which Oregon voters approved a ballot question repealing the state’s death penalty law, Gov. Mark Hatfield commuted the sentences of everyone then on death-row. Previously, Gov. Robert D. Holmes had commuted every death sentence that was imposed during his term in office from 1957–1959.

The 17 commutations are the only clemencies that have been granted to death-row prisoners in 2022. Brown is the seventh broad grant of clemency to death-row prisoners by a governor in the last 50 years, and the second largest. On January 10 and 11, 2003, Illinois Gov. George Ryan pardoned four death-row prisoners and commuted the sentences of 167 others, clearing Illinois’ death row. Five other governors exercised their clemency powers to commute the death sentences of every death-row prisoner in their states: Gov. Pat Quinn commuted the death sentences of the 15 prisoners on Illinois’ death row when he signed the bill that prospectively abolished the death penalty in 2011. Gov. Jon Corzine commuted the death sentences of the eight prisoners on New Jersey’s death row in 2007, the day before he signed the bill that abolished the state’s death penalty. Gov. Toney Anaya commuted the death sentence of the five prisoners on New Mexico’s death row in 1986. In 2015, Gov. Martin O’Malley commuted the death sentences of the four prisoners still on Maryland’s death row after the legislature’s prospective abolition of capital punishment in 2013. Gov. Jared Polis commuted the death sentences of the three prisoners still on Colorado’s death row after the legislature’s prospective abolition of capital punishment in 2020. 

Ohio Gov. Richard Celeste commuted the death sentences of 8 death-row prisoners just before leaving office in 1991.

Brown has served the maximum two terms as governor permitted under Oregon’s constitution and will leave office in January 2023. Her successor, Tina Kotek, has said she is also opposed to the death penalty, and would maintain the moratorium on executions in the state.

The 17 people whose death sentences were commuted are:

• Jesse Compton

• Clinton Cunningham

• Randy Guzek

• Gary Haugen

• Michael Hayward

• Robert Langley Jr.

• Christian Longo

• Ernest Lotches

• Michael McDonnell

• Marco Montez

• Horacio Reyes-Camarena

• Ricardo Serrano

• Matthew Thompson

• Bruce Turnidge

• Joshua Turnidge

• Michael Washington Jr.

• Tara Zyst

Contrary to Media Lies, COVID Injections Have No Demonstrated Safety. A German Health Insurance Dataset (72 million people), Shows Massive Increases in Sudden and Unexpected Deaths after “Vax” Rollout

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• Dr. Kathryn Edwards, a member of Pfizer’s data safety monitoring board (DSMB), was previously a paid adviser to Pfizer. DSMBs are supposed to be independent, and aren’t if members have previous relationships with the company

• German autopsies found “highly unusual tissue inflammation” in people who died shortly after getting the jab, and investigators suspect the inflammation observed would be fatal. They also found spike protein in the tissues of the deceased, but not another key part of SARS-CoV-2. This suggests the actual virus was not part of the problem; the only possible source of the spike protein was the jab

• Data from the German health insurance provider BKK, which covers about 10.9 million Germans, show 2.05% of COVID jab recipients sought medical care after their jab

• The largest German statutory health insurance dataset, which encompasses 72 million Germans, show massive increases in sudden and unexpected deaths after the COVID jabs rolled out

• December 13, 2022, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis petitioned the Florida Supreme Court for a statewide grand jury investigation of crimes and wrongdoing committed against Floridians related to the COVID-19 jabs. He also established an independent Public Health Integrity Committee to analyze and assess federal health guidance before they’re implemented in Florida

From [HERE] Contrary to the official narrative (and hence popular belief), the COVID shots have no demonstrated safety. In Episode 298 of The Highwire, Del Bigtree interviews attorney Aaron Siri about the various lawsuits his firm has brought to reverse COVID jab mandates.

Siri describes a recent deposition of Dr. Kathryn Edwards, a world-leading vaccinologist who sat on Pfizer's data safety monitoring board (DSMB). This five-member committee oversaw the safety of Pfizer's jab. A DSMB is supposed to be an independent group of experts, whose responsibility it is to monitor patient safety and treatment efficacy data while a clinical trial is ongoing.

Pfizer's Not-so-Independent Safety Monitoring Board

As noted by Siri in the deposition, since the DSMB is supposed to be independent, it's crucially important that all the members of that board have no potential conflicts of interest and are in fact truly independent of the drug company whose product they're evaluating.

In the case of Edwards, she was a paid adviser to Pfizer before she was hired (by Pfizer) to be on the DSMB for their COVID jab. According to Edwards, this fact is irrelevant, because that prior relationship did not influence the work she did on the board.

"I say what I believe based on my expertise," she told Siri. "So, you don't think financial incentive can sway people's judgment at all?" Siri asked. "It does not sway my judgment, Sir," she replied. "Then why have an independent DSMB?" Siri asked. "Why doesn't Pfizer just have some of its employees on it?"

"Because we are independent; we are independent from Pfizer in this assessment," she replied. But just how can an independent advisory committee possibly be "independent" if members have prior relationships with the company?

Another noteworthy tidbit from that deposition was Edwards' comment that she reviewed "lots of reactions and adverse events" from the COVID jab trial. Yet the public has continuously been told there are no bad reactions. So, what was she looking at? And why, if there were "lots of reactions," did the DSMB conclude that there are no safety concerns?

Of course, we know at least some of what she was looking at. Pfizer trial documents1have been released showing the company amassed nine single-spaced pages' worth of "adverse events of special interest" (see pages 30 through 382), including 1,223 events with fatal outcomes between December 1, 2020 and February 28, 2021 alone.

A whistleblower who worked on Pfizer's Phase 3 trial has also come forward with evidence showing data were falsified, patients were unblinded and follow-up on reported side effects lagged way behind. Why didn't any of these issues concern the DSMB? Was it because there really was no independent DSMB?

What German Autopsy Data Have Revealed

In a mid-December 2022 Substack article, the anonymous writer who goes by the moniker "A Midwestern Doctor" reviewed German autopsy data, which demonstrate:3

• The presence of "highly unusual tissue inflammation" in people who died shortly after getting the jab. As noted by the author, "Pathologists had not observed this phenomena before the COVID-19 vaccines, and they suspected this inflammation would be fatal."

• The presence of COVID spike protein in the tissues of the deceased, whereas another key part of the SARS-CoV-2 virus was absent. This suggests the actual virus was not part of the problem; the only possible source of the spike protein was the jab.

The most recent and "most definitive" study on this subject, according to A Midwestern Doctor, examined 35 people who died within 20 days of getting the COVID jab. After thorough autopsy examination, 10 of the deceased were determined to have died from causes other than the jab.

Among the remaining 25, most died from causes that, in general, have frequently been linked to vaccination. Five died from myocarditis, which could potentially be linked to the shot. In three of those five cases, the COVID jab was determined to be the definitive cause of the myocarditis that led to their death.

As noted by A Midwestern Doctor, "These results are very important for convicting the vaccines if it can also be proven that a large number of unexpected deaths are occurring following vaccination." As it turns out, that's exactly what excess mortality data tell us.

German Insurance Provider Data Show Rise in Doctor's Visits

A Midwestern Doctor also cites data from the German health insurance provider, BKK, which covers about 10.9 million Germans. One of the BKK board members, Andreas Shöfbeck, discovered concerning trends in their data, which he sent to the Paul-Ehrlich Institut, an agency of the German Federal Ministry of Health.

No good deed goes unpunished in the era of COVID censorship, however, so Shöfbeck was summarily dismissed from the board as thanks for his contribution to public health and safety. The BKK dataset showed 2.05% of COVID jab recipients sought medical care after their jab. A Midwestern Doctor continues:4

"This concerning safety signal prompted … the AfD [Alternative for Germany, a conservative political party] … to file the German equivalent of FOIA [Freedom of Information Act request] for the rest of the insurance data …

Recently AfD obtained AOK Sachsen-Anhalt's data, which once analyzed, demonstrated that many of the conditions we associate with COVID-19 injuries noticeably increased when the vaccination campaign initiated … [C]onditions which rose five-fold or more were:"

"AfD also submitted a FOIA request to KBV, the association which represents all physicians who receive insurance in Germany and thus the largest insurance dataset available."

Largest Insurance Dataset Reveal Rise in Sudden Deaths

The larger statutory health insurance dataset from KBV, which encompasses 72 million Germans, show massive increases in sudden and unexpected deaths after the COVID jabs rolled out.

The following graph is from a press conference presentation by data analyst Tom Lausen (see video below; it's in German, but you can enable English subtitles).5 No mainstream media attended the press conference. [MORE]

Autopsy Report Shows Doctors Found “Abundant Spike Protein” in Man’s Heart and Brain Tissues

From Fig.10. Image from brain tissue. The brown granules are spike or spike subunit

From [HERE] It’s just a single case report, but the implications of a patient whose brain and heart were found to contain COVID spike proteins after receiving three doses of two different COVID shots are many. And the whole scenario opens the door to lots of questions about the safety of the mRNA shots.

The patient had Parkinson’s disease, and his family had “remarkable behavioral and psychological changes and a sudden onset of marked progression of his PD symptoms, which led to severe motor impairment and recurrent need for wheelchair support,” Substack blogger Joomi said.

Even though he never fully recovered from the earlier shots, he was still given a third one, and he subsequently died. 

At autopsy, doctors found an “abundant spike protein” in the man’s heart and brain tissues. “Importantly, spike protein could only be demonstrated in the areas with acute inflammatory reactions (brain, heart, and blood vessels) … This is strongly suggestive that the spike protein may have played at least a contributing role to the development of the lesions and the course of the disease in this patient,” doctors wrote. [MORE]

Are COVID Injections Injuring or Killing 7500 Americans per Day?

New Book Analyzes the Epidemic of Sudden Deaths: Insurance Data Shows that in 2021, People Ages 25 through 64 suddenly experienced 40% excess mortality, compared to 32% in the general population

Story at a glance:

• In his new book, “Cause Unknown: The Epidemic of Sudden Deaths in 2021 and 2022,” former BlackRock fund manager Edward Dowd details data showing the COVID-19 shots are a crime against humanity.

• Insurance industry research in 2016 concluded that group life policyholders die at one-third the rate of the general U.S. population, so they’re the healthiest among us. Group life policyholders are those employed with Fortune 500 companies, who tend to be younger and well-educated.

• In 2020, the general U.S. population had higher excess mortality than group life holders, but in 2021, that flipped. Ages 25 through 64 of the group life policyholders suddenly experienced 40% excess mortality, compared to 32% in the general population. In short, a far healthier subset of the population suddenly died at a higher rate than the general population.

• American disability statistics are equally revealing. In the five years before COVID-19, the monthly disability rate was between 29 million and 30 million. After the COVID-19 jabs, the disability trend changed dramatically. As of September, there were 33.2 million disabled Americans — an extra 3.2 million to 4.2 million — a three-standard deviation rate of change since May 2021.

• Since May 2021, the overall U.S. population has experienced an 11% increase in disabilities, while the employed — which is about 98 million out of a total population of about 320 million — experienced 26% increased rate of disability. So, something was introduced into the workforce that caused working-age people to die.

From [HERE] In the video below, I interview repeat guest Edward (Ed) Dowd, a former analyst and fund manager with BlackRock, the largest asset manager in the world.

With more than $10 trillion in assets, BlackRock wields greater financial power than any country in the world with the exception of the U.S. and China.

Dowd has a knack for seeing trends, and was able to grow the assets he managed during his time at BlackRock from $2 billion to $14 billion. Ten years ago, he left BlackRock, moved to Maui and became an entrepreneur.

More recently, he’s come out as a whistleblower against the COVID-19 shots and Big Pharma corruption.

In our last interview, we discussed the mathematical certainty of a financial collapse, and how COVID-19 provided a convenient smoke screen to hide this reality.

Data reveals crimes against humanity

Dowd has now published a book, “Cause Unknown: The Epidemic of Sudden Deaths in 2021 and 2022,” in which he details the data showing the shots are a crime against humanity.

“When this product [the COVID shots] came to market, I was very suspicious because I know a lot about health care,” Dowd says. “I was on Wall Street and I used to analyze health care stocks. I knew that normal vaccines took seven to 10 years to prove effectiveness and safety.

“This was an experimental vaccine, a nontraditional gene therapy that had never been tested on humans. I read the literature on the animal tests and they were an abomination.

“Then, this thing was approved in 28 days. They got rid of the control group. I knew it was Operation Warp Speed, so I was highly suspicious of this whole thing from the get-go.

“Then in early 2021, I started hearing anecdotes that people were getting sick and/or injured, or died, from distant friends and relatives. I started reading about sudden athlete deaths, [and] suspected the vaccine right away. I didn’t have the data that I have now, but I said to myself, ‘You know, I’m going to look at insurance company results, funeral home results.’

“That eventually led to excess mortality statistics … I’m known as ‘the excess mortality guy’ right now. What I’ve learned through my own personal experience is that Pharma is, on the whole, mostly fraudulent. Most drugs that have been approved by the FDA [U.S. Food and Drug Administration] aren’t really all that safe and effective.

“They have to recall so many drugs every year. The FDA has been wholly captured by the pharma industry. Seventy to 75% of the drug approval pharma arm of the FDA comes from pharma fees, directly from the companies, so this has been corrupted for a long time.

“It’s now exposed primarily because [the COVID shot] is [injuring and killing] such a large amount of people. It’s hard to hide this one … This fraud is unveiled and out there for people to see, but it’s only in the echo chamber. Mainstream media is still beholden to Big Pharma because of all the ad spend and the government policymakers … [who] want this to go away.

“There’s a giant cover-up going on as far as I’m concerned. The data that I’m going to talk about today is there for the global health authorities to see. They see what I see, and at this point it’s negligence, malfeasance, a cover-up and a crime.

“That’s why I’m here, because I don’t believe anybody has a right to tell me what to do with my body, and I can’t believe this actually happened. The numbers I’m going to reveal to you are now a national security concern.”

Group life insurance statistics tell a curious story

Dowd’s concerns are based on a variety of statistics, including but not limited to government mortality and disability data, as well as data from private insurance companies, such as group life insurance data.

As explained by Dowd, group life policies are policies given to large Fortune 500 corporations and mid-sized companies.

Basically, when you start to work at one of these companies, you sign onto a policy from Day 1 that includes a health care plan and life insurance plan (death benefit), which is typically one or two times your annual salary.

The only way you can get a claim on these policies is if you die while employed. If you quit or get fired, you don’t get this claim.

Group life insurance is a lucrative business for insurance companies because the death rates have historically been highly predictable.

In the U.S., the available civilian labor force is about 164 million people in total. Of those, 98 million are actually employed, and of those 98 million, only small subset actually has group life insurance.

“These people are a tiny subset of the 98 million because these are the workers at the best corporations with access to the best health care. They’re highly educated and employed, and you have to have some measure of health to be employed.

“The industry did research in 2016 to determine how healthy this population is compared to the general U.S. population … This report said that in any given year, the group life policyholders die at one-third the rate of the general U.S. population. They experience a third the mortality rate of the general U.S. population, so they’re healthy.

“What happened in 2021 to this group? Well, let’s talk about what happened in 2020. COVID affected everybody, and the general U.S. population experienced more excess mortality from COVID pre-vaccine than the group life holders, so that relationship helped. Well, in 2021 that flipped. Ages 25 through 64 of the group life policyholders, as reported by the Society of Actuaries, experienced 40% excess mortality.

“The general U.S. population in 2021 experienced 32% excess mortality. This is year two of the pandemic with miracle vaccines. Isn’t that interesting? A much healthier subset of the population died at a higher rate than the general population.”

Disability stats reveal jabs are a national security concern

American disability statistics are equally revealing. Every month, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics conducts surveys on disability. In the five years before COVID-19, the monthly disability rate was between 29 million and 30 million. Those are absolute numbers.

After the COVID-19 jabs, starting in May 2021, the disability trend changed dramatically. As of September, there were 33.2 million disabled Americans.

That’s an extra 3.2 million or 4.2 million, depending on whether you’re using the 29 million or 30 million baseline. That’s a three-standard deviation rate of change since May 2021.

A three-standard deviation means that the chance of this happening is 0.03%, so something happened around May 2021 that was highly unusual.

Since then, the overall U.S. population has experienced an 11% rate of increase in disabilities, while the employed — which is about 98 million out of a total population of about 320 million — experienced 26% increased rate of disability.

“So, we have two different databases suggesting the same thing,” Dowd says. “It was detrimental to your health to be employed in 2021 and 2022 … Something is happening to the most able-bodied amongst us, college students, those employed, those in the military, the frontline workers …

“Those who are employed are getting disabled faster than the general U.S. population. That shouldn’t happen. The employed amongst us are healthier, generally speaking … If you have a job, you tend to be able to show up at work. Basically, the bottom line is this. The only explanation for this that I can see is mandates for experimental biological inoculations …

“One of my whistleblowers from the insurance [industry] told me that as of August 2022, the millennial cohort of the group life holders is still experiencing 36% excess mortality.

“People in Fortune 500 companies are dying at a much more excessive rate than those who are not employed there, so this has implications for years to come. It’s a national security concern as far as I can tell … We seem to have poisoned the most able-bodied amongst us through [COVID jab] mandates.”

The same trends are seen in Europe. Excess mortality amongst the young has gone up. In the first year of the pandemic, old people died. In the second year, it suddenly shifted to younger working folks.

A disaster in the making

For now, the excess mortality trend in the U.S. has leveled out between 15% to 20% for the general population. In the U.K. and Europe, the excess mortality trend in the general population is between 10% and 20%.

Meanwhile, American millennials in the workforce with group life policies have an excess death rate of 36% as of August.

As noted by Dowd, if you’re employed at a Fortune 500 company that mandate boosters, it makes sense that your excess mortality will be higher than the general population if the shots are harming people.

Many in the general population are too young to take the shots, are self-employed, work for small companies that aren’t obliged to mandate shots or are retired.

In short, the general population has had greater choice when it comes to taking the shots or not. If these trends continue at this same rate, it’s an absolute disaster for our economy and society at large.

“The CEO of OneAmerica, Scott Davison, said a 10% rise in excess mortality amongst younger-age working people is a three standard deviation event, or a once in a 200-year flood. That’s just 10%. He said the 40% they saw in 2021 was just unfathomable. They couldn’t even calculate what that meant.

“We’re above 10%, so we’re well above the three standard deviation event. What we don’t know is the long-term trends. Anecdotally, one young woman I know, [aged] 30, got it in December 2021.

“She’s presenting with heart issues now, in the month of October [2022]. She’s got a heart rate beat per minute of 30, so she’s got problems. I’m hearing about lots and lots of heart issues in my millennial friends’ circles that have presented themselves well after the shot.”

As detailed in “Is Long-COVID the Elephant in the Room?” recent research from Switzerland found the rate of subclinical myocarditis is hundreds of times more common than clinical myocarditis. In fact, 100% of those who got the jab suffered some level of heart injury, even if they were asymptomatic, as they all had elevated troponin levels (an indicator of or biomarker for heart damage).

Stock trading as an analogy for COVID jab uptake

The good news is that the uptake of the latest bivalent boosters is only 10%, which means 90% of those eligible for it have not gotten it. Hopefully, this is a sign of sanity returning. However, many remain stuck in the pro-mandate box for the simple reason that their egos are wrapped up in it.

Many didn’t take and push the shots for personal health reasons.

As noted by Dowd, “They did it for virtue signaling tribal reasons, and they wanted to feel superior to other people.” To break the spell, they must come to the realization that they were duped, they were fooled and that’s painful.

“If you buy a stock and your investment thesis is proven wrong, what you should do is pull a 180 and sell the stock, because you’re wrong. What I found, even with some of the greatest investors, is that if their ego was attached to it, they would ignore clear evidence that the thesis was compromised.

“Sometimes fraud would even be involved in some of these companies, but they would continue to buy the stock all the way down.

“That’s an analogy for what taking boosters is at this point — taking boosters for a product that doesn’t work at all, doesn’t prevent COVID nor transmission. Let’s say you think it’s safe and effective. But now there are serious safety concerns that are proven, so it’s literally your ego that’s going to kill you. We call that ‘dumb money’ on Wall Street, so think of this like a trade.

“You either long [i.e., take a long position on] the vaccine or short the vaccine. Those of us who didn’t take it are short. Those who are long have an opportunity to pull a 180 on this and not get boosters. That would be the equivalent of selling stock.

“Those who continue to get boosters are getting longer as more and more evidence [against the COVID shots] rolls out. [Editor’s note: In stock trading, a long position is held with the expectation that the stock will rise in value in the future. If the value goes down, you lose money.]

“This is the greatest asymmetric information gap I’ve ever seen in my lifetime, and it’s due to a whole host of factors — media blackouts, government corruption, regulator corruption and ego, people’s individual ego. This is the greatest trade of my lifetime and, what side of the trade do you want to be on?

“My hope is to convince people to cut their losses and stop taking this thing and then look at ways to heal the damage that’s been done. The good news is there does seem to be people working on protocols to at least mitigate and hopefully reverse some of the damage.”

Impacts on US infrastructure

If excess mortality and disability rates remain catastrophically elevated, the impacts on our infrastructure will be severe. Dowd estimates 2 million to 3 million Americans have already been disabled by the shots. Officially, the unemployment rate is 3%, but if you add in the excess disabilities, you find that the real unemployment rate is actually around 6%.

“Why is that important? We have 3% unemployment yet we have help wanted signs everywhere. Well, the reason you have help wanted signs is because people who used to be able to work, able-boded Americans, are no longer able to work, so it’s creating shortages.

“There’s also not complete disability. Some people are sucking it up and dragging their ass to work, but they’re also missing days. A lot of people are calling in and missing days … I can also talk about what I’m seeing with supply chain with automobiles. My car was hit July 14th [2022]. My left headlight panel was destroyed and the radiator was damaged.

“It took 10 days to get a police report because my police department has staff shortages. Then, I called around and there are shortages of parts all across the globe and the body shops are backed up. I couldn’t even get a tow to a body shop until November, so I couldn’t get an estimate to give to my insurance company. I had to do a photo estimate.

“It took them about a month to get back to me, and then when I put in [a claim for] the repairs, my insurance company said, ‘We’re going to junk your car. It’s a total loss. We’ll cut you a check.’ Now, the reason they did that was because they’re making money off my junk car.

“They’re going to sell the parts, [which is why] they gave me more money than the Blue Book value … This is kind of the glacial beginning, what I call the ‘glacial Mad Max’ scenario.

“Goods and services that we used to take for granted are going to start to disappear. Uber Eats, that’s going to go the way of the dodo bird. There’s just not going to be enough people to fill these jobs and it’s going to become increasingly more difficult to get things. Supply chains are already broken. They’re going to become more broken with less people on the margin.

“Remember, supply chains are all done just-in-time. That was a big thing when I was on Wall Street. ‘Just-in-time supply chain, super-efficient.’ Well, just-in-time was algorithmically designed to use the least amount of people. Now, you just need a couple of people to call in sick or disappear, and everything gets backed up. So, this is beginning.

“I think it’s going to get worse and worse. What I’m hearing about the medium-term impacts scare me. Because of the uptake in boosters has lessened, we should have seen excess mortality start to drop into single digits. But it’s not.

“It’s still running [high], and I suspect when the numbers are in from the flu season this winter, excess mortality will trend up again because people’s immune systems are compromised. Illnesses that would have been easy to withstand are going to knock some people out.”

Life expectancy has plummeted

At the end of August, we also discovered that life expectancy in the U.S. dropped precipitously during 2020 and 2021, which further supports the hypothesis that the shots are prematurely killing people. [MORE]

Court Ordered Release of Pfizer Documents Reveal 5 People Died, 275 People Suffered Strokes In First 90 Days After Vaccine Rollout

Dr. Stephanie Seneff Explains Why COVID Jabs Are Injuring So Many People

Swissmedic and Vaccinating Doctors Criminally Sued in Switzerland for Authorizing and Administering COVID Shots

From [HERE] The detail-oriented Swiss are taking their medical establishment to task in a big way for authorizing and administering the Covid-19 mRNA jabs, in a formal criminal complaint. 

“That is what the criminal complaint against Swissmedic is about” (SRF, 2022.11.14):

That's what it's all about: On July 14, 2022, a lawyer submitted a 300-page criminal complaint to the responsible cantonal public prosecutor's office on behalf of six people allegedly injured by mRNA vaccinations. It is directed against three representatives of the Swiss licensing and supervisory authority for medicinal products and medical devices (Swissmedic) and five vaccinating doctors from the Inselspital in Bern. A criminal investigation is to be opened against them. The lawyer has now gone public with a media conference.

These are the plaintiffs: The lawyer for those affected, Philipp Kruse, is a declared opponent of vaccination and Covid measures. He represented people who refused to wear masks or parents who didn't want their children to take part in pool tests. Doctors who were noticed as corona skeptics also appeared at the media conference.

This is what the indictment says: The defendants are accused of violating basic drug law due diligence by allowing and administering the Covid 19 vaccination. There are a number of other charges listed, including intentional or possibly negligent bodily harm, endangering life, killing and abortion.

These are the alleged damages: According to lawyer Kruse, the damages range from circular hair loss, derailment of the menstrual cycle to polyarthritis, muscle weakness and chronic exhaustion to the death of a 20-year-old person. Some of the six victims listed are still unable to work. The connection to the Covid 19 vaccination was confirmed by experts in five cases. In the case of the deceased, the causal connection must be proven on the basis of pathological examinations. However, these investigations are not yet complete.

That's what Swissmedic says: Nothing. Swissmedic does not want to comment on the ongoing court proceedings. The Federal Office of Public Health and the Federal Vaccination Commission also do not want to comment.

What may fly under the radar in other countries, in terms of the lack of accountability and responsibility for Covid-19 jabbing injuries, is unlikely to pass muster in Switzerland. The Swiss proud themselves on being OBJECTIVE, diligent, thorough and just. Because of these very high public expectations, it is impossible to sweep under the carpet, gaslight, or outright ignore the laws on the books over there, let’s hope:

It is about these articles of the Medicines Act

Art. 3 Duty of care 1 Anyone who handles medicinal products must take all the necessary measures based on the current state of science and technology to ensure that the health of humans and animals is not endangered.

Chapter 8: Penal Provisions Art. 86233 Crimes and misdemeanors 1 Anyone who willfully: a. manufactures, places on the market, uses, prescribes medicinal products without the necessary authorization or authorization, contrary to the terms and conditions associated with an authorization or authorization or contrary to the due diligence obligations stipulated in Articles 3, 7, 21, 22, 26, 29 and 42, imports, exports or trades abroad; (...).

Link to the Medicines Act .

A New FDA Study Links COVID Shots to Blood Clotting in Older People. But Gov Won’t Take Any Action because Findings “are still under investigation” and [They Are Trying to Kill You]

From [HERE] Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine has been linked to blood clotting in older individuals, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

FDA researchers, crunching data from a database of elderly persons in the United States, found that pulmonary embolism — blood clotting in the lungs — met the initial threshold for a statistical signal and continued meeting the criteria after a more in-depth evaluation.

Three other outcomes of interest — a lack of oxygen to the heart, a blood platelet disorder called immune thrombocytopenia and another type of clotting called intravascular coagulation — initially raised red flags, researchers said.

More in-depth evaluations, such as comparisons with populations who received influenza vaccines, showed those three as no longer meeting the statistical threshold for a signal.

Researchers looked at data covering 17.4 million elderly Americans who received a total of 34.6 million vaccine doses between Dec. 10, 2020, and Jan. 16, 2022.

The study was published by the journal Vaccine on Dec. 1.

The FDA said it was not taking any action on the results because they do not prove the vaccines cause any of the four outcomes, and because the findings “are still under investigation and require more robust study.”

Dr. Peter McCullough, chief medical adviser for the Truth for Health Foundation, told The Epoch Times via email that the new paper “corroborates the concerns of doctors that the large uptick in blood clots, progression of atherosclerotic heart disease, and blood disorders is independently associated with COVID-19 vaccination.”

Pfizer did not respond to a request for comment.

How the research was done

FDA researchers, with assistance from researchers with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), analyzed data from the CMS database.

They included Medicare Fee-for-Service beneficiaries aged 65 or older who received a vaccine within the timeframe, were enrolled when they were vaccinated and were enrolled for a “clean window” of time prior to vaccination. The window was 183 days or 365 days, depending on the outcome.

About 25 million people receive the Medicare Fee-for-Service, but only about 17 million were vaccinated during the period of time studied.

Researchers used probability testing to detect an increased risk of one or more of 14 outcomes following vaccination.

The goal was to see whether vaccination may increase the risk of adverse outcomes, such as pulmonary embolism, or blood clotting in the lungs. If an outcome met a certain statistical threshold, that meant it could increase the risk.

The initial results of the safety monitoring detected an increased risk of four events, the FDA announced on July 12, 2021. They were the same four outlined in the new paper, which is the first update the agency has given on the matter since its announcement.

As of Jan. 15, 2022, 9,065 cases of a lack of oxygen to the heart — known as acute myocardial infarction — were detected, researchers revealed in the new study. As of the same date, 6,346 cases of pulmonary embolism, 1,064 cases of immune thrombocytopenia and 263 cases of coagulation were detected.

The primary analysis showed a safety signal for all four outcomes. Researchers tried adjusting the numbers by using different variables.

For instance, at one point they adjusted for the variation of background rates, or the rates of each outcome in the general population prior to the pandemic. After certain adjustments — not all — the myocardial infarction, immune thrombocytopenia and intravascular coagulation ceased being statistically significant.

Pulmonary embolism, though, continued to be statistically significant, the researchers said. Pulmonary embolism is a serious condition that can lead to death.

Limitations of the study included possible false signals and possible missed signals due to factors such as parameters being specified wrongly.

The conditions that didn’t trigger a signal included stroke, heart inflammation and appendicitis.

The signals were detected only after Pfizer vaccination. Analyses for signals after receipt of the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines did not show any concerns.

Moderna and Johnson & Johnson did not respond to requests for comment.

Side effects Pfizer vaccine

All three vaccines have been linked to a number of side effects. Heart inflammation is causally linked to the Moderna and Pfizer shots, experts around the world have confirmed, while Johnson & Johnson’s has been associated with blood clots.

Other conditions, such as pulmonary embolism, have been reported to authorities and described in studies, though some papers have found no increase in risk following vaccination.

Approximately 4,214 reports of post-vaccination pulmonary embolism, including 1,886 reports following receipt of Pfizer’s vaccine, have been reported to the U.S. Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, or VAERS, as of Dec. 9.

As of the same date, 1,434 reports of post-vaccination myocardial infarction, including 736 following receipt of Pfizer’s vaccine; 469 reports of post-vaccination immune thrombocytopenia, including 234 following receipt of Pfizer’s vaccine; and 78 reports of post-vaccination intravascular coagulation, including 42 after receipt of Pfizer’s vaccine, have been reported.

Reports to the system can be made by anybody, but most are lodged by healthcare workers, studies show. The number of reports is an undercount, according to studies.

The new study states that the FDA “strongly believes the potential benefits of COVID-19 vaccination outweigh the potential risks of COVID-19 infection.” No evidence was cited in support of the belief.

The FDA is set to meet with its vaccine advisory panel in January 2023 about the future of COVID-19 vaccines, as the vaccines have been performing much worse against Omicron and its subvariants.

McCullough told The Epoch Times:

“A shortcoming of the CMS surveillance system is that it did not capture prior and subsequent SARS-CoV-2 infection which accentuate the cumulative risk of COVID-19 vaccination.

“Given the large number of individuals who have been vaccinated, the population attributable fraction of medical problems ascribed to the vaccines is enormous. I have concerns over the future burden to the healthcare system as a consequence of mass indiscriminate COVID-19 vaccination.” [MORE]

Dr John Campbell says ‘Its Time To Pause Mass COVID Injections’

Florida Supreme Court Approves DeSantis Grand Jury to Investigate “Criminal or Wrongful activity” in the Manufacture and Promotion of COVID Injections

From [HERE] Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has asked the Florida Supreme Court to appoint a statewide grand jury to investigate “criminal or wrongful activity” related to the development and promotion of COVID-19 vaccines.

The petition, filed Dec. 13, says grand jurors should consider whether the pharmaceutical industry engaged in “fraudulent practices” by promoting the effectiveness of vaccines for financial gain.

Publications with coverage include Law360, the Associated Press, CNN and Politico.

According to the AP, statewide grand juries in Florida can examine criminal activity. as well as “systemic problems.”

A press release from DeSantis claims that the Biden administration is pushing distribution of mRNA vaccines “through relentless propaganda while ignoring real-life adverse events.” The grand jury petition cites a Florida study showing an increase in cardiac-related deaths among men ages 18 to 39 within 28 days of an mRNA vaccination.

The grand jury petition says Florida has “rejected vaccine mandates and passports,” but some Florida residents chose to get the vaccine because they thought that it would prevent the transmission of COVID-19. They relied on assurances by drugmakers and government officials, the petition says.

According to CNN, DeSantis “has made COVID-19 vaccine skepticism his calling card ahead of a potential run for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.” The network cited an analysis released Tuesday estimating that vaccines prevented more than 3.2 million deaths and 18.5 million hospitalizations in the United States. The analysis was conducted by the Commonwealth Fund and the Yale School of Public Health.

Politico obtained a statement from Pfizer spokesperson Sharon J. Castillo, who said Pfizer’s vaccine has been approved by regulatory agencies across the world.

“These authorizations are based on robust and independent evaluation of the scientific data on quality, safety and efficacy, including our landmark phase 3 clinical trial,” Castillo wrote. “Data from real-world studies complement the clinical trial data and provide additional evidence that the vaccine provides effective protection against severe disease.”