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Media Hypes Moderna’s COVID Vaccine,

Downplays Risks
Media mostly silent on safety concerns and lack of transparency surrounding Moderna’s experimental
COVID vaccine, while stakeholders get richer.

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For the second time in a week, news of a “promising” COVID-19 vaccine sent global stock markets on a
joy ride and triggered an avalanche of positive news stories which, for the most part, avoided any killjoy
questions about vaccine safety or transparency.

On Monday, Moderna announced that its mRNA-1273 COVID vaccine candidate was 94.5% e ective,
based on interim Phase 3 trial data.

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Last week P zer announced that analysis of preliminary Phase 3 trial data indicated its BNT162b2 COVID
vaccine, developed in partnership with Germany’s BioNTech, was “more than 90% e ective.”

Both announcements came in the form of press releases — with neither company providing the actual
data behind their claims. Though e cacy rates in the ninetieth percentile were enough to make Wall
Street and most media outlets swoon, at least one publication, STAT, pointed out what the companies
themselves didn’t: Both trials are ongoing, and as they continue, e cacy rates could decline, as “it’s often
the case that a vaccine performs less well in the real world than it does in the setting of a clinical trial.”

STAT also noted that neither company can yet say how long the vaccine, which in both cases is
administered in two doses, will provide protection as that “can only be determined over time as large
numbers of people are vaccinated.“

Both drugmakers said they will seek Emergency Use Authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) for their experimental vaccines as soon as they meet the criteria. The authorization,
which allows vaccine makers to skip standard mandatory safety and compliance inspection of their
vaccine manufacturing facilities, is a winner-takes-all-prize awarded exclusively to the rst COVID vaccine
approved by the FDA.

The announcements triggered sharp increases in the companies’ stock prices. Moderna stock shot up by
nearly15% on Monday. According to STAT, “Every Tuesday Moderna’s top doctor gets about $1million
richer” by selling his existing stock like clockwork through pre-scheduled trades, “earning him more than
$50 million since the dawn of the pandemic.”

Moderna’s news also buoyed stock prices of companies that stand to bene t from the economy
reopening, including airlines, cruise ships and banks.

Last week, P zer CEO Albert Bourla raised eyebrows when he sold $5.6 million of P zer stock on the
same day the vaccine maker made its “90% e ective” announcement. Reporting on the sale, NPR said it
was part of an increasingly controversial stock-trading plan that “aims to shield corporate executives
from allegations of illegal insider trading plans.” The plan — which is legal but not without questions
about abuse — allows major shareholders to sell a predetermined number of shares at a predetermined
time and is often used by corporate executives to avoid accusations of insider trading.

So much praise, so few questions

For all the media hype surrounding how fast the P zer and Moderna vaccines will be ready, how many
billions of doses will be available, who will be the rst to get them and how the vaccines will get us all
back to “normal,” there’s been little scrutiny of news from from the standpoint of safety and proven
e cacy.

That’s a mistake, according to Mary Holland, Children’s Health Defense’s (CHD) general counsel.

“To imagine that Moderna’s unlicensed COVID vaccine, tested for under a year, will be safe is wishful
thinking,” Holland said. “There’s a reason vaccine producers insist on blanket indemni cation from
injuries and deaths.”

Holland is referring to the fact that vaccine makers, already immune from liability for vaccine injuries
under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, were granted expanded protection via the
Declaration Under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act for Medical
Countermeasures Against COVID-19 in March.

In fact, as Holland pointed out — in the EU, at least — o cials expect a high volume of adverse vaccines
as evidenced by this recent notice by the Medical and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency which is
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“urgently” seeking an “Arti cial Intelligence (AI) software tool to process the expected high volume of
COVID-19 vaccine Adverse Drug Reaction …”

Why so many secrets?

Vaccine safety and transparency go hand-in-hand, and Moderna gets low marks on both. The company,
formed in 2010 and rebranded in 2016, has yet to produce a single commercial vaccine. Still, Moderna
was able to enroll in Operation Warp Speed, a highly secretive public-private partnership, dominated by
military personnel, most of whom have no experience in healthcare or vaccine production. Participation
in the program means that taxpayers are footing a big chunk of the bill for developing Moderna’s
vaccine. As the New York Times reported:

“The United States government provided $1 billion in support for the design and testing of the
Moderna vaccine. Researchers at the National Institutes of Health oversaw much of the research,
including the clinical trials. Moderna also received an additional $1.5 billion in exchange for 100
million doses if the vaccine proved to be safe and e ective.”

According to Public Citizen, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) owns a 50% stake in Moderna’s mRNA-
1273 vaccine, which it helped develop under the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
(NIAID), run by Dr. Anthony Fauci. In fact, as Public Citizen reported in June:

“Moderna has bene ted signi cantly from federal support. As we described in The People’s
Vaccine, the U.S. government provided millions of dollars to Moderna as early as 2013 to help
develop its mRNA technology. The NIH meanwhile was also developing new methods to target
coronavirus spike proteins. When the new coronavirus emerged in Wuhan, the NIH worked with
Moderna to design and test a vaccine. The U.S. Biomedical Advanced Research Development
Authority (BARDA) has provided Moderna an additional $483 million to further develop the vaccine
and scale-up manufacturing.”

Despite all the taxpayer money behind the development of vaccines by Moderna and other enrollees in
Operation Warp Speed, lack of transparency dominates the program and the contracts between
drugmakers and the U.S. government.

For example, in October CHD reported on a contract between the NIAID and the leading vaccine
candidate Moderna. The contract, obtained by journalist Emily Kopp of Congressional Quarterly, through
a Freedom of Information Act request to the NIH, was heavily redacted, raising questions about Fauci,
transparency and con icts of interest. Under another NIAID contract, the Pentagon is required to buy
500 million doses of Moderna’s COVID vaccine for $9 billion.

Speed trumps safety?

Like the P zer vaccine, Moderna’s mRNA-1273 uses synthetic messenger RNA (mRNA) technology — a
type of genetic engineering never before used, much less proven safe, in vaccine production.

Yet under Operation Warp Speed, vaccine makers are rushing this untested and unproven technology to
market in record time.

Here’s how the technology works, according to Horizon, the EU Research and Innovation Magazine:

“To produce an mRNA vaccine, scientists produce a synthetic version of the mRNA that a virus uses
to build its infectious proteins. This mRNA is delivered into the human body, whose cells read it as
instructions to build that viral protein, and therefore create some of the virus’s molecules
themselves. These proteins are solitary, so they do not assemble to form a virus. The immune
system then detects these viral proteins and starts to produce a defensive response to them.”
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Because there are no mRNA vaccines in use yet, it’s impossible to predict what type of long-term
unintended consequences or injuries could arise from their use.

Tal Brosh, head of the Infectious Disease Unit at Samson Assuta Ashdod Hospital, this week told the
Jerusalem Post that the mRNA vaccines come with “unique and unknown risks,” including local and
systemic in ammatory responses that could lead to autoimmune conditions.

The Jerusalem Post also mentioned an article published by the National Center for Biotechnology
Information, a division of the NIH, which said other risks associated with mRNA vaccines include the bio-
distribution and persistence of the induced immunogen expression; possible development of auto-
reactive antibodies; and toxic e ects of any non-native nucleotides and delivery system components.

Absent from Monday’s news reports on the Moderna vaccine was another potential risk tied to
Moderna’s mRNA-1273 vaccine: The vaccine relies on a nanoparticle-based “carrier system” containing a
synthetic chemical called polyethylene glycol (PEG). Roughly seven in 10 Americans may already be
sensitized to PEG, which may result in reduced e cacy of the vaccine and an increase in adverse side
e ects.

That’s not news to Moderna. In a statement led in 2018 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission, the drugmaker told investors that the use of PEG in its vaccines “could lead to signi cant
adverse events in one or more of our clinical trials.”

In June 2020, CHD reported on the story of Ian Haydon, who was among 15 volunteers in the high dose
group for Moderna’s COVID vaccine trial. Within 45 days, three participants — 20% of the volunteers,
including Haydon — experienced “serious” adverse events according to Moderna’s press release,
meaning they required hospitalization or medical intervention. Less than 12 hours after vaccination,
Haydon su ered muscle aches, vomiting, spiked a 103.2 degree fever and lost consciousness. His
Moderna trial supervisor instructed Haydon to call 911 and Haydon described himself as being the
“sickest in his life.” Moderna let Haydon, who had been selected for the trial based on his robust “good
health,” believe the illness was just a sad coincidence unrelated to the jab. Moderna never told Haydon
he was su ering an adverse event.

In August, CHD sent letters to Dr. Jerry Meniko , director of the O ce for Human Research Protections,
Department of Health and Human Services and Fauci, in his role as director of NIAID, detailing concerns
about the use of PEG in Moderna’s mRNA-1273 vaccine. In the letter to Meniko , CHD wrote that the use
of PEG in drugs and vaccines is increasingly controversial due to the well-documented incidence of
adverse PEG-related immune reactions, including life-threatening anaphylaxis. In the letter to Fauci, CHD
urged Fauci to require Moderna to inform clinical trial participants of the unique risks associated with
PEG in the “NIAID-funded Moderna mRNA1273 vaccine.”

As the weeks pass with more news on a coming COVID vaccine, perhaps more mainstream media will
expose the risks and lack of transparency surrounding the vaccines, in addition to focusing on the
potential bene ts.

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Jennifer Rose • 8 hours ago

Moderna and Pfizer are both listed as Partners in the Global Reset on the World Economic
Forum's site. I am looking for information regarding their delivery systems....will they involve the
quantum dot invisible dye developed a few years ago at MIT?
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wilula > Jennifer Rose • 6 hours ago

That is the creepiest vaccine delivery method ever.... it supposedly uses the
bioluminescent dye called "Luciferase": https://en.wikipedia.org/wi... .
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Bob • 7 hours ago • edited

Severe casualties are expected. However that is only a problem for those who are damaged by
the vaccine. It affects everyone who takes it. It cause you to become a genetically engineered
organism:

https://www.naturalblaze.co...

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Alix Mayer • 9 hours ago

In corresponding with Tom Cowan, he made an astute observation about the actual percentage
of each Moderna study arm that tested positive for SARS CoV-2. I take it a little farther, giving
credit to Dr. Cowan for jumpstarting our thinking. I'm going to dive into relative risk versus
absolute risk, but first, what does a "case" actually mean?

There were 90 cases in the placebo arm. 5 cases in the vaccine arm. 11 cases in placebo were
reported to be severe… in other words… 79 cases were reported to be moderate or mild or even
asymptomatic/antibody positive. Please note that by "case" they mean someone tested positive
for SARS CoV-2 by PCR test. We don't know if they were "saved" from getting COVID-19, the
symptoms said to be caused by SARS CoV-2 because many of 1,400 known human pathogens
can cause the same symptoms as COVID, but trial participants are not screened for those.
(Pfizer is screening for HIV, Hep A, B and C only. I can't recall if Moderna is doing the same.)

Now, regarding the efficacy rate.

Moderna is using relative risk. It’s not 90%+ effective when using absolute risk.

Absolute risk is: 90 in placebo divided by 15,000 = 0.6%; 5 in vaccine group divided by 15,000 =
0.03%. Moderna's vaccine “saved” 0.57% from testing positive for SARS CoV-2.
see more

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Anti • 5 hours ago

If the manufacture's have got immunity from risk or death's or injury WHY WOULD YOU GET A
JAB, if they dont think its safe why do you>>>>>>
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Anti • 5 hours ago

These Bio Injections have NOTHING to do with this farce virus hoax, and everything to do with
control of subhumans or Human2.0. Mode RNA look at the name, they will inject you with nano
particulates as well as sterilization crap, but the main idea is to control all the SERF's as we will
become Human2.0, by changing our DNA and what we are and what we pass onto our children
etc etc NEVER to be the same again, its never been tried but they want to control your brain by
5G radiation, you know the Internet of Things and YOU are now a thing to them... absolutely
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horrific we have insane greedmerchants where masses of wealth have allowede them to slowly
take our real freedoms and now they are in for the final push, and by the numbers I see still
wearing immune supressing masks and doing brain damage to their kids, I dispair they will get
their way !
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ShantiGirl • 6 hours ago

Anyone taking these vaccines should have their heads examined. It doesn't take a rocket
scientist, after all we've already read about the vaccines, to know you shouldn't put it in your
body.
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Deb Pawloski • 6 hours ago

My question - are the Moderna and Pfizer CEO's, Board of Directors, head developers and major
stockholders willing to take the vaccine first??? I think not.
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kaal • 4 hours ago

Synthetic RNA? Where do they get that from?
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Black Spot • 7 hours ago

all politicians in every state and every country have to take the covid 19 vaccine if they want to
stay in government.
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Steve Olsen • 9 hours ago

What other chemicals are in this new vaccine? Mercury, Aluminum?
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wilula > Steve Olsen • 6 hours ago

I work for a city government. If my work tries to force this vaccine on me, 1. I will produce
my doctor's note saying that my body cannot tolerate vaccines (which is 100% fact) & 2.
Can you please provide me with a certified list of all of the ingredients and I also want a
list of potential side effects and I want to know what are the liability options if I am injured.
I feel like this is a good starting point to educate those that wish to force this on all of us.
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