Sometimes late is not necessarily better than never.
The Times gave the delicate task of offering a Modified Limit Hang-Out to the public they've been immunizing with massive doses of disinformation to Apoorva Mandavilli, who herself has been noted as one of the worst covid reporters and a constant font of alarmist panic-porn disinformation.
The New York Times Spreads Misinformation About COVID-19
Patiently waiting for senators and whistleblowers to freak out over this
Regime Lies are not disinformation, they are a Deeper Form of Truth.
The purported threat of social media has emerged once again as a top concern of senators, whistleblowers, and members of the press. They are very, very worried about Facebook fanning the flames of hate, compromising U.S. democracy, and spreading COVID misinformation.
How many of them are worried about the COVID misinformation being spread by The New York Times?
The paper of record had to print a lengthy correction to a big error in a Thursday news article. The story was about other countries' approaches to vaccinating young people, and whether one shot would be better than two given the risks of heart inflammation in teenagers. The article wrongly claimed that nearly one million U.S. children--900,000 to be precise--had been hospitalized with COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic.
The actual number? About 63,000 since August 2020, when stats first became available.
And while that was the biggest error, it wasn't the only mistake in the story. According to the correction, the reporter "described incorrectly the actions taken by regulators in Sweden and Denmark" and misstated the timing of a crucial Food and Drug Administration meeting.
This wasn't a junior reporter new to the job. The author was the paper's lead coronavirus correspondent, Apoorva Mandavilli. (Her bio, which notes that she won the Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting in 2019, appears under the correction.)
This isn't Mandavilli's first questionable article. In early August, FiveThirtyEight's Nate Silver accused her of framing the Provincetown study of the delta variant's spread in a "misleading and sensationalist way."
Mandavilli also tweeted, as recently as May of 2021, that the lab leak theory of COVID-19's origins is "racist" at its roots. She eventually deleted that tweet but doubled down on the sentiment.
In general, her pandemic reporting has manifested a paranoid slant. But the Thursday article wasn't just slanted; it was wrong, wrong, wrong.
And only now, after hundreds of millions of doses, does the Times even admit the possibility that people have been getting injured (or killed) by their miracle non-vaccine vaccine.
Note that from the start, the article speaks of "belief" that the non-vaccine vaccine causes injury.
Thousands Believe Covid Vaccines Harmed Them. Is Anyone Listening?
Given that this is the Times' first foray into the entire subject, how is it merely a "belief" that they're being ignored? They are being ignored. That's a fact, not a "belief." Why did it take the Times so long to even address this important subject? Ah, they've got that covered -- see, they've been researching this single story for more than a year, you see. Some might say that the year of "talking" wasn't for purposes of gathering information, but for endlessly delaying any reporting about the information that's been in hand for a year. It's almost as if The Regime has told us ten Foundational Lies in the past eight years upon which all of their authority depends, and are extremely unwilling to admit they lied.Within minutes of getting the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine, Michelle Zimmerman felt pain racing from her left arm up to her ear and down to her fingertips. Within days, she was unbearably sensitive to light and struggled to remember simple facts.
She was 37, with a Ph.D. in neuroscience, and until then could ride her bicycle 20 miles, teach a dance class and give a lecture on artificial intelligence, all in the same day. Now, more than three years later, she lives with her parents. Eventually diagnosed with brain damage, she cannot work, drive or even stand for long periods of time.
"When I let myself think about the devastation of what this has done to my life, and how much I've lost, sometimes it feels even too hard to comprehend," said Dr. Zimmerman, who believes her injury is due to a contaminated vaccine batch.
The Covid vaccines, a triumph of science and public health, are estimated to have prevented millions of hospitalizations and deaths. Yet even the best vaccines produce rare but serious side effects. And the Covid vaccines have been given to more than 270 million people in the United States, in nearly 677 million doses.
Weird. You say it's routine and predictable that "even the best vaccines" cause injury.
But you've denied it until this moment with this vaccine. In fact, you're not even admitting it here. You're still claiming the covid non-vaccine vaccine might not be causing injury, and that all the people claiming injury merely "believe" they've been injured.
If injuries are commonplace and to be expected -- and thus, no big deal -- why have you denied their very existence until now?
Dr. Zimmerman's account is among the more harrowing, but thousands of Americans believe they suffered serious side effects following Covid vaccination. As of April, just over 13,000 vaccine-injury compensation claims have been filed with the federal government -- but to little avail. Only 19 percent have been reviewed. Only 47 of those were deemed eligible for compensation, and only 12 have been paid out, at an average of about $3,600.
Some scientists fear that patients with real injuries are being denied help and believe that more needs to be done to clarify the possible risks.
"At least long Covid has been somewhat recognized," said Akiko Iwasaki, an immunologist and vaccine expert at Yale University. But people who say they have post-vaccination injuries are "just completely ignored and dismissed and gaslighted," she added.
In interviews and email exchanges conducted over several months, federal health officials insisted that serious side effects were extremely rare and that their surveillance efforts were more than sufficient to detect patterns of adverse events.
The events are "extremely rare," and so, as with women making false sexual abuse claims, they can be safely propagandized as entirely non-existent. Is that how The Science (TM) works?
"Hundreds of millions of people in the United States have safely received Covid vaccines under the most intense safety monitoring in U.S. history," Jeff Nesbit, a spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services, said in an emailed statement.
But in a recent interview, Dr. Janet Woodcock, a longtime leader of the Food and Drug Administration, who retired in February, said she believed that some recipients had experienced uncommon but "serious" and "life-changing" reactions beyond those described by federal agencies.
"I feel bad for those people," said Dr. Woodcock, who became the F.D.A.'s acting commissioner in January 2021 as the vaccines were rolling out. "I believe their suffering should be acknowledged, that they have real problems, and they should be taken seriously."
"I'm disappointed in myself," she added. "I did a lot of things I feel very good about, but this is one of the few things I feel I just didn't bring it home."
Even Basement Boy Chris Cuomo is now airing the testimony of people who "BELIEVE" they were injured by the vaccine.
In fact, the Basement Boy, who once warned that America's greatest enemies were "our fellow Americans" who were vaccine-hesitant, now says that he himself has a lingering health problem caused by the non-vaccine vaccine:
NewsNation anchor Chris Cuomo admitted to suffering from side effects he believes were caused by the COVID-19 vaccine.
"We know that vaccines can have unintended consequences, aka side effects, but nobody's really talking about it because they're too afraid of blame, and they just want it to go away," Mr. Cuomo said on his eponymous show while interviewing nurse practitioner Shaun Barcavage.
"But the problem is people like Shaun -- and me -- and millions of others who still have weird stuff with their bloodwork and their lives and their feelings, you know, physically, are not going away," he said.
Mr. Cuomo brought Mr. Barcavage on the show after he was featured in a New York Times article about several people who feel they have been harmed by the vaccine. Mr. Barcavage recounted his story, saying that since his first shot, his heart starts racing every time he stands up. He said he has had pain in his eyes, mouth and genitals that has since gone away, but continues to have tinnitus.