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  1. https://bnonews.com/index.php/2023/06/poland-investigating-bird-flu-outbreak-among-cats/ "Poland is investigating the deaths of dozens of cats and some of them have been linked to H5N1 bird flu, veterinarians reported on Friday. If confirmed, it would be the first time that avian influenza has affected cats in large numbers...."
  2. Any thoughts, Dr. Niman, as to whether this strain spreading in red-tailed hawks constitutes a significant development? If a virus spreads efficiently between ferrets does that mean it's likely to spread efficiently between people?
  3. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12015805/Fresh-pandemic-fears-virologists-discover-bird-flu-spreads-efficiently-ferrets.html https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-2842567/v1
  4. He's not saying the vaccines are unsafe but that we are, for the first time ever, implementing mass vaccination in the midst of a heated pandemic with a somewhat mismatched vaccine which won't provide sterilizing immunity - with many people getting infected in the period between getting vaccinated and developing immunity - and this will not only drive the emergence of variants which completely evade the vaccine-acquired immunity but the vaccinated will be less able to fight off those variants than if they hadn't been vaccinated since the then ineffective vaccine-acquired immunity, having some affinity for the virus, will take precedence over the immune system's innate response to novel viral attacks. He also explains the mechanics of pandemics and why the waves of this pandemic are somewhat different than in the past very interestingly, seeming to have an excellent grasp of the situation. If you haven't watched the YouTube video which I linked to, which is a scientific presentation, I think you'll find it at least interesting (and his two YouTube interviews explain his position further). He has excellent credentials, if you look at his LinkedIn page, and says he feels so confident in what he is saying he isn't afraid to put his professional reputation on the line. He's asking scientists to evaluate and comment.
  5. Dr. Niman, Please address the serious concerns being raised by virologist Geert Vanden Bossche. Basically he's saying, if I understand him correctly, that the vaccination campaigns are driving viral immune escape which will result in increasingly vaccine-resistant variants, with the vaccinated losing their natural immune resistance and the vaccine updates unable to outpace the variants - and that a different kind of vaccine, which enhances natural killer cells, should be used. He's painting a pretty grim picture and seems quite credible, at least to me. https://twitter.com/GVDBossche https://mcusercontent.com/92561d6dedb66a43fe9a6548f/files/bead7203-0798-4ac8-abe2-076208015556/Public_health_emergency_of_international_concert_Geert_Vanden_Bossche.01.pdf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shg0VWkz0VM&t=0
  6. Any thoughts as to whether the UK variant or the South Africa variant is more worrisome, Dr. Niman? If the two were circulating in the same area - as may be the case already, I think you might say - any guess as to which would dominate?
  7. That's a bad recording or the file is corrupted, Dr. Niman. The audio can't be understood.
  8. I don't know why nobody but Jeff Rense is interviewing you, Dr. Niman, when you're always so far ahead of the pack! https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/09/23/houston-coronavirus-mutations/ Massive genetic study shows coronavirus mutating and potentially evolving amid rapid U.S. spread
  9. This scenario from another research seems much more plausible: https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2020/09/09/alina-chan-broad-institute-coronavirus/ Could COVID-19 Have Escaped from a Lab?
  10. Nevermind, I posted before hearing Wednesday's show and seeing this article: https://www.factcheck.org/2020/09/report-resurrects-baseless-claim-that-coronavirus-was-bioengineered/ Report Resurrects Baseless Claim that Coronavirus Was Bioengineered
  11. Any thoughts on this paper, Dr. Niman? https://zenodo.org/record/4028830#.X2KwouhKiMr Unusual Features of the SARS-CoV-2 Genome Suggesting Sophisticated Laboratory Modification Rather Than Natural Evolution and Delineation of Its Probable Synthetic Route
  12. Just as Dr. Niman has been saying: Coronavirus: recovered Chinese patients may be defenceless against foreign mutation, study says Antibodies found in blood of people who have fought disease failed to stop D614G, Chinese scientists say Mutant form identified in genetic data of samples collected at Xinfadi food market in Beijing where latest outbreak began https://www.scmp.com/coronavirus/greater-china/article/3089983/coronavirus-recovered-chinese-patients-may-be-defenceless
  13. Well, I'm not sure which comments you're referring to, the article I had linked to seems to be raising important questions which I think at least merit a comprehensive response by someone. At the same time I'm seeing some articles written by Childrens Health Defense, an organization Kennedy supposedly heads, which seem to me to be somewhat paranoid. Perhaps he is associated with some people because "politics makes strange bedfellows," nevertheless I was very disappointed to see him in a recent Daystar TV program with neither social distancing nor masks in the audience or on the panel. With regard to hydroxychloroquine, do you think there's any merit in this analysis by Paul Craig Roberts, a former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy? Roberts is another enigmatic figure to me, with some things he says seeming brilliant and others off the wall. https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2020/05/28/the-campaign-against-hcq-part-ii/ Thank you for your Rense interviews. It's a shame you're not being aired in the mass media.
  14. You don't think Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., is well-versed in science? He sure seems to be to me. I was hoping you would comment on his research and conclusions.
  15. Good for him. He may be doing himself more harm than good but #HealthFreedom! I sure won't be forced to take a vaccine (unless they get nasty:): Of course it would have been more responsible if he had cautioned people to consult with a healthcare provider they trust, not to take anything which isn't from a pharmacy and not to take more than the recommended dosage. I only hope doctors can legally prescribe so people won't take unsafe products.
  16. In case you haven't seen, Dr. Niman, this is from Saturday's Washington Post: "The nation surpassed 64,000 coronavirus deaths on Friday, according to The Post’s compilation of state health department data. Weinberger [Dan Weinberger, a Yale professor of epidemiology] said his team’s estimates of excess deaths indicate that the pandemic’s true toll to date is likely substantially higher. 'It’s hard to say how much higher, but our best guess might be it’s in the range of one and a half times higher,' he said." Excess U.S. deaths hit estimated 37,100 in pandemic’s early days, far more than previously known https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2020/05/02/excess-deaths-during-covid-19/
  17. I imagine you've seen this article, Dr. Niman, but if not: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3079678/coronavirus-mutation-threatens-race-develop-vaccine Coronavirus mutation could threaten the race to develop vaccine A strain found in India showed changes in the mechanism used to bind the virus to human cells which could render current research futile Researchers are targeting the same process that allowed Sars to infect people, but the mutation could upend their assumptions
  18. This is an excellent interview, imo, from Tuesday with Dr. Michael Osterholm of CIDRAP who I'm sure you know, Dr. Niman, is an epidemiologist who has been warning about the need for pandemic preparedness for about as long as you have. He opines that implementing the Defense Production Act would not significantly increase the supply of PPEs (I hope Jeff Rense will listen) and questions whether school closings is in fact a good idea considering how many health care workers consequently have to stay at home with their kids, among other comments on various aspects of the pandemic. http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/podcasts-webinars/episode-1-how-we-got-here
  19. Dr. Niman, I wish you wouldn't be so focused on President Trump in the current situation. I agree that the Trump Administration has done a miserable job in preparing for a pandemic (like all previous administrations, although some did better) and is doing an absolutely horrible job in handling this one, but the question really needs to be raised as to how much power the POTUS really has. For example, can you really say with certainty that Trump isn't under threat to do what he is told or face assassination or harm to his family? In my opinion this country, like perhaps all others, is an oligarchy, not a democracy (as I explain somewhat in a draft article at MEVoting.com), and personally I think it was courageous of Trump to use a phrase like "deep State Department" in one of his press conferences the other day. I saw an article yesterday which said the reason Trump hasn't yet used his powers under Defense Production Act is, at least in part, due to pressure from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and some business leaders. So I don't think he has as much freedom as you (and Jeff Rense, especially) seem to think he does, and I think if he was impeached and Pence became president the country might be considerably worse off than it is now. I think a Clinton Administration would probably have done a lot better with regard to preparedness and the response to Covid-19, but with her anti-Russia, anti-Putin rhetoric it might possibly have gotten us into a nuclear war. You might want to read Stephen F. Cohen, professor emeritus of Russian studies and politics at New York University and Princeton University: https://www.thenation.com/authors/stephen-f-cohen/ I think a lot of people who were very critical of President Trump before this crisis are using the crisis for political reasons, to attack him further, and that's a distraction from the discussion and decision-making which is needed at this time. I'm all for criticizing the policies of the Trump Administration to hopefully effect a change, but I think personal attacks are counterproductive.
  20. Also, Dr. Niman, do you think one vaccine will work for both of the current two main lineages you described to Jeff Rense last night? And if they're only going to create one vaccine, do you think it's important that they base it on the "Italian strain"?
  21. Thanks. What I would most like Dr. Niman to comment on is why most virologists, according to the article, aren't accepting the proposition that there are different strains with different severity and/or transmission characteristics. Dr. Niman seems convinced that the strain in Italy (and now other countries) is more deadly, whereas others are attributing the higher case fatality rate in Italy to other factors.
  22. The coronavirus isn’t mutating quickly, suggesting a vaccine would offer lasting protection Dr. Niman, please comment on this story: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/the-coronavirus-isnt-mutating-quickly-suggesting-a-vaccine-would-offer-lasting-protection/2020/03/24/406522d6-6dfd-11ea-b148-e4ce3fbd85b5_story.html
  23. URL needs to be corrected, Dr. Niman, to http://mediaarchives.gsradio.net/rense/special/rense_031020_hr3.mp3
  24. Isn't that the opposite of what you've been saying? I thought you had said the first-released sequences, of which there was a pretty large number, did not contain the orf8 changes, which weren't seen until a sequence from Guangdong province was released, and the first Washington case did have them plus an additional rare mutation by which we know he infected at least one other person and it spread in Washington from there. So that would indicate that the Seattle-area version is the more severe orf8 lineage, no? (And the first Seattle case got sicker by the day, despite everything they were doing, until they tried intravenous remdesivir.)
  25. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/04/coronavirus-chinese-scientists-identify-two-types-covid-19.html Chinese scientists identify two strains of the coronavirus, indicating it’s already mutated at least once The more aggressive type of virus was found to be prevalent in the early stages of the outbreak in Wuhan — the Chinese city where COVID-19 was first detected late last year. But the frequency of this type of virus has since decreased from early January, the scientists said. Researchers cautioned that data examined in the study was still “very limited.” https://academic.oup.com/nsr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/nsr/nwaa036/5775463
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