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USDA conditionally approves bird flu vaccine for poultry: report

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By Emily Mangiaracina

Dr. Peter McCullough and his colleague are warning that poultry vaccines are ‘leaky’ and therefore will likely result in even more dangerous bird flu strains.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) granted conditional approval for a new bird flu vaccine for poultry created by the animal health care company Zoetis.

Dr. Peter McCullough, one of the most highly published cardiologists in history, warned Sunday that “leaky vaccines are likely to result in new pathogens,” linking to a Substack post by John Leake, who collaborates with Dr. McCullough.

 

Leake quoted from a Science magazine article explaining that the Zoetis vaccine being considered “contains a killed version of an H5N2 variant that the company has designed to work against circulating variants of the H5N1 virus that have decimated poultry flocks and have even jumped to cows and some humans.”

The vaccine cannot be administered to chickens and other poultry before it is fully approved.

Leake asserted that bird vaccines in general are “leaky,” meaning they “do not prevent infection and transmission” but are said to instead mitigate the severity of illness.

He then pointed to a paper he co-authored with Dr. McCullough and Nicolas Hulscher in which they highlighted the findings of a research team of the University of Georgia that noted in a 2021 paper when the H5N1 virus was successfully suppressed in poultry in China, H5Nx viruses emerged.

The paper concluded that “Avian influenza vaccination programs would benefit from universal vaccines targeting a wider diversity of influenza viruses to prevent the emergence of novel subtypes.”

This idea is also supported by a 2015 “landmark” paper titled Imperfect Vaccination Can Enhance the Transmission of Highly Virulent Pathogens, which was reported on in a National Geographic article  titled Leaky Vaccines Enhance Spread of Deadlier Chicken Viruses.

These findings support the theory of Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche that “mass vaccination with non-sterilizing vaccines can result in the emergence of a new, more virulent viral strain,” according to Leake.

Leake maintains that mass culling and the new vaccines are “equally unlikely to end the problem.”

Dr. Robert Redfield, former director for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has for years warned of a dangerous impending bird flu that will devastate humans despite the fact that it has historically been detected only in animals.

In a March 30, 2022, CenterPoint interview, Redfield stated, “I believe the great pandemic is still in the future, and that’s going to be a bird flu pandemic for man. It’s going to have significant mortality in the 10% to 50% range. It’s going to be trouble.”

Remarkably, Dr. Michael Gregor, a scientist and vegan who once testified on behalf of Oprah Winfrey in her “meat defamation” trial, has repeatedly claimed that chicken farms will trigger an apocalyptic virus that will threaten half of humankind. In 2006, he published a book called Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching, in which he asserts that “leading public health authorities now predict as inevitable a pandemic of influenza, triggered by bird flu and expected to lead to millions of deaths around the globe.”

Accordingly, Westbrook “suspects a weaponized bird flu may be released to usher in The Great Reset and Fourth Industrial Revolution, which include the elimination of traditional farming and meat consumption in favor of patented, lab-created ‘foods,’” Dr. Joseph Mercola noted. In Westbrook’s words, this would be a “a controlled demolition of the protein supply.”

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Long waits for health care hit Canadians in their pocketbooks

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By Mackenzie Moir

Canadians continue to endure long wait times for health care. And while waiting for care can obviously be detrimental to your health and wellbeing, it can also hurt your pocketbook.

In 2024, the latest year of available data, the median wait—from referral by a family doctor to treatment by a specialist—was 30 weeks (including 15 weeks waiting for treatment after seeing a specialist). And last year, an estimated 1.5 million Canadians were waiting for care.

It’s no wonder Canadians are frustrated with the current state of health care.

Again, long waits for care adversely impact patients in many different ways including physical pain, psychological distress and worsened treatment outcomes as lengthy waits can make the treatment of some problems more difficult. There’s also a less-talked about consequence—the impact of health-care waits on the ability of patients to participate in day-to-day life, work and earn a living.

According to a recent study published by the Fraser Institute, wait times for non-emergency surgery cost Canadian patients $5.2 billion in lost wages in 2024. That’s about $3,300 for each of the 1.5 million patients waiting for care. Crucially, this estimate only considers time at work. After also accounting for free time outside of work, the cost increases to $15.9 billion or more than $10,200 per person.

Of course, some advocates of the health-care status quo argue that long waits for care remain a necessary trade-off to ensure all Canadians receive universal health-care coverage. But the experience of many high-income countries with universal health care shows the opposite.

Despite Canada ranking among the highest spenders (4th of 31 countries) on health care (as a percentage of its economy) among other developed countries with universal health care, we consistently rank among the bottom for the number of doctors, hospital beds, MRIs and CT scanners. Canada also has one of the worst records on access to timely health care.

So what do these other countries do differently than Canada? In short, they embrace the private sector as a partner in providing universal care.

Australia, for instance, spends less on health care (again, as a percentage of its economy) than Canada, yet the percentage of patients in Australia (33.1 per cent) who report waiting more than two months for non-emergency surgery was much higher in Canada (58.3 per cent). Unlike in Canada, Australian patients can choose to receive non-emergency surgery in either a private or public hospital. In 2021/22, 58.6 per cent of non-emergency surgeries in Australia were performed in private hospitals.

But we don’t need to look abroad for evidence that the private sector can help reduce wait times by delivering publicly-funded care. From 2010 to 2014, the Saskatchewan government, among other policies, contracted out publicly-funded surgeries to private clinics and lowered the province’s median wait time from one of the longest in the country (26.5 weeks in 2010) to one of the shortest (14.2 weeks in 2014). The initiative also reduced the average cost of procedures by 26 per cent.

Canadians are waiting longer than ever for health care, and the economic costs of these waits have never been higher. Until policymakers have the courage to enact genuine reform, based in part on more successful universal health-care systems, this status quo will continue to cost Canadian patients.

Mackenzie Moir

Senior Policy Analyst, Fraser Institute
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