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Johns Hopkins ordered to pay another $2 million to students not given refunds for COVID lockdown

From LifeSiteNews
U.S. District Judge Julie Rubin ruled this week that an additional 2,607 students qualify for reimbursement from Johns Hopkins University.
The prestigious Johns Hopkins University must pay an additional $2 million into a settlement fund for students who never saw tuition refunds after the school canceled in-person classes in the name of containing COVID-19 during the first semester of 2020 for a total of $10 million.
The Epoch Times reported that the settlement stems from a class-action lawsuit by students who argued they were cheated out of the education they paid for when Johns Hopkins locked down in March 2020, halfway through the spring semester, and attempted to argue that online instruction sufficed to fulfill its end of the bargain.
Tuition averaged for more than $26,000 per semester at the time. A total of 10,851 students had already received or been slated for refunds previously settled. U.S. District Judge Julie Rubin ordered an additional $2 million be added to the fund this week to account for an additional 2,607 qualifying students having since been identified. The school must also pay $2.2 million in attorney fees.
“Defendant is attempting to replace the irreplaceable – on-campus life at an elite university – with ‘virtual learning’ via online classes and is attempting to pass off this substitute educational experience as the same as or just as good as fully (sic) participation in the university’s academic life,” argued the original May 2020 lawsuit led by former student Elena Botts.
As late as February 2024, Johns Hopkins still required COVID-19 vaccination for anyone studying or working on site. Later, it ended the general mandate for students while continuing to require the shots for individuals in healthcare settings.
A large body of evidence has found that mass restrictions on personal and economic activity undertaken in 2020 and part of 2021 caused far more harm than good in terms of personal freedom and economics as well as public health, and that lives could have been saved through far less burdensome methods, such as the promotion of established therapeutic drugs, narrower protections focused on those most at risk (such as the elderly and infirm), and increasing vitamin D intake.
In Florida, a grand jury impaneled by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis is currently investigating the manufacture and rollout of the COVID vaccines. In February, it released its first interim report on the underlying justification for Operation Warp Speed, which determined that lockdowns did more harm than good, that masks were ineffective at stopping COVID transmission, that COVID was “statistically almost harmless” to children and most adults, and that it is “highly likely” that COVID hospitalization numbers were inflated. The grand jury’s report on the vaccines themselves is highly anticipated.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch has called America’s COVID response one of “the greatest intrusions on civil liberties in the peacetime history of this country,” against which Congress, state legislatures, and courts alike were largely negligent to protect constitutional rights, personal liberty, and the rule of law.
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RFK Jr. revokes emergency use authorization for COVID shots

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CDC Director Susan Monarez was fired from her position the same day the EUA repeal was announced.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), under the leadership of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., revoked emergency use authorizations for the COVID-19 shots, including the experimental mRNA jabs.
“The emergency use authorizations (EUA) for Covid vaccines, once used to justify broad mandates on the general public during the Biden administration, are now rescinded,” Kennedy announced Wednesday on X.
Instead, the FDA has issued “marketing authorization” for those who meet a minimum risk threshold for the following mRNA “vaccines”: Moderna (6+ months), Pfizer (5+), and Novavax (12+), Kennedy shared.
“These vaccines are available for all patients who choose them after consulting with their doctors,” the HHS Secretary explained.
He pointed out that this decision was the result of his pledge to accomplish the following four things as head of HHS: “end covid vaccine mandates, keep vaccines available to people who want them, especially the vulnerable, demand placebo-controlled trials from companies,” and “end the emergency.”
The repeal of the COVID “vaccine” EUA is long overdue considering that former President Joe Biden ended the COVID-19 “national emergency” in April 2023, about seven months after Biden admitted to 60 Minutes that the COVID-19 “pandemic” was “over.”
A large, growing body of evidence shows that the experimental mRNA shots were dangerous to human health in a wide variety of ways and caused deaths at a rate far exceeding usual safety standards for vaccines. As Dr. Mary Talley Bowden, an ear, nose and throat specialist in Houston, Texas, explained to Tucker Carlson in April:
Normally, the FDA will put a black box warning on a medication if there have been five deaths. They will pull it off the market if there have been 50. Well, according to VAERS, (the) Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System — and it’s vastly under-reported, which I have seen firsthand — there have been 38,000 deaths from these COVID shots.
That number has since increased according to the federal Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), which now reports 38,742 deaths, 221,113 hospitalizations, 22,346 heart attacks, and 28,995 cases of myocarditis and pericarditis due to the COVID shot as of July 25, among other ailments.
Despite the outrageously high number of reported deaths due to the COVID shots — which were produced in a fraction of the time ordinarily required to bring a vaccine to market — instead of pulling the shots, the FDA “doubled down” on them, Bowden noted, including by placing them on the childhood vaccine schedule. However, under Kennedy, the CDC has since removed the COVID mRNA shot recommendation for healthy children and pregnant women.
CDC Director Susan Monarez was fired from her position the same day the EUA repeal was announced.
“Susan Monarez is no longer director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. We thank her for her dedicated service to the American people. @SecKennedy has full confidence in his team at @CDCgov who will continue to be vigilant in protecting Americans against infectious diseases at home and abroad,” the HHS X account wrote Wednesday.
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Sudden deaths, incapacitations soar among COVID-jabbed airline pilots: report

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Since 2021, there has been a marked increase in deaths of ‘younger’ airline pilots while long-term disabilities for pilots have skyrocketed. All of this has been accompanied by an astronomical increase of near-miss incidents at the nation’s airports.
“Something happened in 2021” that has jeopardized air travel safety, according to a disturbing report by Dr. Kevin Stillwagon, a retired airline pilot and immunology expert.
Mounting evidence points to the COVID-19 vaccinations that airlines, acting under pressure from the U.S. government, mandated or otherwise coerced their cockpit, cabin, and ground crews into taking.
Since 2021, there has been a marked increase in deaths of “younger” airline pilots while long-term disabilities for pilots have skyrocketed. All of this has been accompanied by an astronomical increase of near-miss incidents at the nation’s airports.
“Incapacitations of pilots are definitely increasing, especially in younger pilots,” Stillwagon said in a video discussion with Nicolas Hulscher, an epidemiologist and administrator at the McCullough Foundation.
“There was a 40% increase in pilots dying early — before mandatory retirement age of 65 — in 2021,” Stillwagon said.
“Starting in 2021, pilot long-term disabilities have tripled,” he noted. “Prior to 2021, there was only one near-miss at the Washington National Airport (DCA). But after 2021, there were 28 near-misses per year.”
Airline Pilot Incapacitation Crisis After Illegal mRNA Shot Mandates — With Dr. Kevin Stillwagon and Nicolas Hulscher https://t.co/Cps1jGvK42
— Nicolas Hulscher, MPH (@NicHulscher) August 15, 2025
The mRNA COVID-19 jab was illegally forced on airline pilots
Stillwagon maintains that from the outset, the mRNA COVID-19 shots were illegally forced upon the nation’s airline pilots.
“They were illegal because you cannot put an experimental product into a pilot, as found in the ‘Aeromedical Advice Manual,’ given to all aeromedical examiners,” he pointed out.
Commercial pilots are legally prohibited from taking experimental medicines and face losing their medical certification for taking anything other than FAA-approved drugs.
If a pilot takes an unapproved medical product, flight surgeons must take administrative measures to revoke or deny issuance of the pilot’s flight physical certificate until the FAA rules on the safety of that product. Yet UAL encouraged, coerced and even paid pilots to violate this federal law.
Pilots who were forced into submitting to the experimental jabs found themselves trapped in a horrific catch-22, with their careers hanging in the balance. Those who accepted the COVID-19 jab under duress were not only strong-armed into violating their religious beliefs, they were forced to choose between abiding by FAA safety rules or breaching those rules, putting their health and the safety of their passengers at risk.
“This is exactly why we are seeing sudden heart failure in younger and younger people,” Stillwagon said. “We’re also seeing brain fog in pilots and air traffic controllers which can result in their ability to think properly (and) their reaction times.”
The COVID-19 mRNA jab can also induce seizures that, if experienced by an airline pilot during a flight, can produce disastrous results.
“This is a big deal,” Stillwagon declared. “This is huge.”
mRNA vaccines ‘were never safe nor effective’
mRNA-based injections instruct human cells to produce a genetically engineered version of coronavirus “spike protein” in order to trigger an immune system response.
Developers of the mRNA vaccines failed to foresee that once inside the body, the repeated development of the spike proteins can’t be controlled. For some recipients of the vaccines, their bodies became a human factory for the production of the spike protein, able to travel via the bloodstream from the injection site to their entire body, including major organs, the brain, liver, spleen, bone marrow, and reproductive organs.
As the immune system does its job attacking the cells it recognizes as “infected” due to the presence of the spike proteins, it attacks those organs and tissues, causing inflammation, myocarditis, and grotesque blood clots.
“The spike protein is directly toxic, and can directly damage tissues,” Stillwagon said.
‘Airline pilots are the ‘least monitored component in the cockpit’
Stillwagon said that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has failed to sufficiently collect data on the health of pilots since the introduction of the COVID-19 vaccines.
While aviation authorities and airline management focus a great deal of attention on how well pilots comply with general operating procedures while behind the controls in the cockpit — proper maintenance of airspeed, flaps usage, etc. — glaring pilot “data gaps” remain.
For instance, the FAA reportedly keeps no record of pilot injection history, and for some unknown reason, the agency discontinued its centralized pilot incapacitation database in 2022. Stillwagon suspects it’s because aviation authorities didn’t want information contained in the database to be seen by the public.
“The data silence that the FAA has created is preventing systemic trends from being detected,” he said.
“We monitor aircraft oil temperature to within a tenth of a degree centigrade, but we don’t track whether the pilot has the potential for cardiac or cerebrovascular events,” Stillwagon said.
“The pilot is the least monitored component in the cockpit,” he declared. “In modern aviation, we treat the jet like a data-rich spacecraft — and the pilot like a black box.”
“Science has gotten confused over the years,” Stillwagon said. “The problem with vaccines is mainly ideology. It’s almost like a religion.”
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