Health Friday 8.22.2025 Open Thread: “Clean Sweep” Edition: An Opinion Piece

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“Clean Sweep.” This means completely dismantling the FDA (the Food and Drug Administration); the NIH (the National Institutes of Health); and, the NIAID (the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases), all of which are divisions of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) — and completely rebuilding them from the top down. Why “Clean Sweep” for these divisions? Because it is becoming more apparent by the week that they are more devoted to using “career” medical bureaucrats/officials, many of whom are “holdovers” from the “Collins / Fauci era” in the NIH and NIAID; they are more devoted to injecting American citizens with the proven-dangerous, proven-deadly COVID-19 “vaccines” than they are to approving readily-available, cheap drugs (such as, Ivermectin) and other therapeutics (such as, Zinc) to prevent or to treat COVID-19 infection; and, they are more devoted to pushing through injectables via “Fast Track” or “accelerated approval” methods, rather than taking the time to fully test and analyze test data. “Completely rebuilding them from the top down” means establishing entirely redesigned divisions that are fully devoted to the betterment of the public health.

Yours Truly presents a transcript of the op-ed published in the Washington Post on 12 August 2025 by Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, the current Director of the NIH (National Institutes of Health); the op-ed appears here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinons/2025/08/12/nih-mrna-vaccines-jay-bhattacharya/, “Jay Bhattacharya: Why the NIH is pivoting away from mRNA vaccines”, 12 August 2025. Yours Truly provides her personal commentary, which will appear in Bold and surrounded in brackets. (The Washington Post op-ed is behind a paywall; Yours Truly is indebted to Shannon Joy, whose X tweet has the entire article: https://xcancel.com/ShannonJoy/status/1956140133474034025.) Note: Yours Truly will make it clear that the commentary is done with all due respect to Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, MD.

The transcript:
“The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ decision to wind down its mRNA vaccine development activities marks a necessary pivot in how we steward public health innovation in vaccines. The right path requires us to consider the inherent strengths and weaknesses of a technology as well as any alternatives, along with public attitudes and experience with the technology. The mRNA platform is promising technology. I do not dispute its potential. In the future, it may yet deliver breakthroughs in treating diseases such as cancer, and HHS is continuing to invest in ongoing research in oncology and other complex diseases.”

[YT: First of all, if HHS is truly going to “wind down” mRNA vaccine development, why is Moderna being allowed to progress to Phase 3 clinical trials of its modRNA “vaccine” against CMV (Cytomegalovirus), mRNA-1647? This “vaccine” contains six different mRNA sequences, two different antigens, the dangerous lipid nanoparticle SM-102 (the same LNP that is in the Moderna modRNA COVID-19 “vaccine”, SPIKEVAX), and apparently targets both the IgG immune system cells and the CD4-CD8 cells of the body. Please see: https://doi.org/10.1128/jvi.01603-23, “Characterization of humoral and cellular immunologic responses to an mRNA-based human cytomegalovirus vaccine from a phase 1 trial of healthy adults”, Kai Wu, et al.; J Virol. 2024 Mar 25;18(4):e01603-23. Please refer to Fig. 2 and Fig.4. Secondly, the current modRNA (aka mRNA) COVID-19 “vaccines” have demonstrated that they do not have “inherent strengths”: in fact, they only have what may be called “inherent dangers.” These “inherent dangers” include: altering of the LINE1 Human Liver cell line; replacement of natural Uridine RNA with the lab-created N1-Methylpseudouridine; crossing the Blood-Brain Barrier to attack areas of the brain that are not protected by this barrier (for example, the Pituitary Gland); causing autoimmune attack on heart tissue via aggregation of lymphocytes induced by the COVID-19 “vaccines” in that organ; and, causing infiltration of lymphocytes in lung tissue. Regarding the DNA alteration, and heart and lung damage, caused by the COVID-19 “vaccines”, please see: https://doctors4covidethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/causality-article.pdf, “Vascular and organ damage induced by mRNA vaccines: irrefutable proof of causality”, Michael Palmer, MD, and Sucharit Bhakdi, MD, Slide 9 through Slide 14. Thirdly, why on Earth is oncology (cancer study, diagnosis, and treatment) included in the phrase “and other complex diseases?” Yours Truly calls this a writing mistake; however, one believes someone should have proofread the op-ed for “context or syntax” issues before publication.]

“But as a vaccine intended for broad public use, especially during a public health emergency, the platform has failed a crucial test: earning public trust. No matter how elegant the science, a platform that lacks credibility among the people it seeks to protect cannot fulfill its public health mission.”

[YT: The “public trust” for the COVID-19 “vaccines” was destroyed when it was proven that hundreds of persons who took these injectables passed away from immediate heart attacks induced by them just after being injected; when “vaccinated” persons began to present with myocarditis or pericarditis after being injected; when stillbirths and miscarriages began to be reported among pregnant women who had been injected; and much, much more. And, by the way, the initial modRNA COVID-19 “vaccine” rollout in December 2020 was intended for the elderly and for healthcare workers; it was when the “COVID-19 health emergency” was declared in March 2021 that the “vaccines” began to be “mandated” for all persons. “Elegant science?” Does “elegant science” include the kind of “science” that was rushed through the initial EUAs for the modRNA COVID-19 “vaccines” without proper testing and data analyses?]

“It is critical to understand the development of the mRNA coronavirus vaccines in the context of the very successful Operation Warp Speed launched during the first Trump administration.”

[YT: Does “the development of the mRNA coronavirus vaccines” include the fact that neither Pfizer-BioNTech, nor Moderna, had never previously brought a successful mRNA injectable to market prior to “Operation Warp Speed?” And that Dr. Albert Bourla, DVM, the CEO of PfizerUSA, admitted on video that he had been “convinced” by Pfizer scientists to use the then-new and unproven mRNA technology in a COVID-19 “vaccine?” (10 March 2022, “Albert Bourla on why mRNA technology was “counterintuitive” to producing an effective vaccine”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9_YRw7jBF4.)]

“Operation Warp Speed represented a paradigm shift in how the government should invest in new technologies and solutions and embrace strategic investments in public-private partnerships, innovation in trial design and removal of bureaucratic red tape to allow parallel rather than sequential vaccine development. It produced a new vaccine in record time and also helped develop a successful monoclonal antibody.”

[YT: Really? “Embrace strategic partnerships in public-private partnerships?” What about that “public-private partnership” document between the NIAID and Moderna, which includes development of RNA-based vaccines, and that was filed with the SEC in 2015, several years BEFORE the COVID-19 disaster? That “partnership” is still going on, with patent-ownership sharing, royalty payments sharing, “partnering” in developing new COVID-19 “vaccines”, and so on, until at least 2041. “Innovation in trial design?” — Meaning the “Next Gold Generation Standard”, announced in May 2025, in which lab testing with animals using humane, safe protocols, then progressing to better and safer human-subject testing, may well be replaced with “Petri-dish testing” only” for new “vaccines”? “Parallel vaccine development?” — Meaning that “Universal Vaccine” that’s touted in the “Next Gold Generation Standard?”]

“Unfortunately, the Biden administration did not manage public trust in the coronavirus vaccines, largely because it chose a strategy of mandates rather than a risk-based approach and did not properly acknowledge Americans’ growing concerns regarding safety and effectiveness.”

[YT: So, “risk-based approach?” Like the “risk populations chart” in the “opinion piece” that Dr.Martin Makary and Dr. Vinay Prasad published in the New England Journal of Medicine in May 2025 (https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMsb2506929, “An Evidence-Based Approach to Covid-19 Vaccination”— a chart in which, for example, even healthy pregnant women are considered to be at “risk” for “severe complications from COVID-19” and should get COVID-19 “vaccinated?” And what about the statements about how the “known and potential benefits of the for COVID-19 vaccines outweigh the known and potential risks?” — like the one here: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/planning/children/6-things-to-know.html, “6 Things to Know about COVID-19 Vaccination for Children.“]

“Consider the data: In a late 2024 Pew Research Center survey, 60 percent of American adults reported no intention of getting an updated coronavirus mRNA vaccine despite the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s advice that nearly all adults receive yet another dose. As of late April 2025 (the latest data published reported by the CDC), only 13 percent of children between the ages of 6 months and 17 years had received an updated coronavirus vaccine, even though the Biden-era CDC had placed the vaccine on the childhood immunization schedule.”

[YT: It appears that the real reason behind why “only 13 percent of children between the ages of 6 months and 17 years had received an updated coronavirus vaccine” is that their parents or guardians have concluded that these “vaccines” are more dangerous than helpful. And how did these adults come to this conclusion? Because of the news spreading that these “vaccines” cause myocarditis / pericarditis in children; because of the news spreading that these “vaccines” do not prevent COVID-19 infection, but instead actually damage the “vaccinated” person’s immune system, making it vulnerable to COVID-19 infection; and so on. In Yours Truly’s opinion, the COVID-19 “vaccines” have no place in the CDC Childhood Immunization Schedule whatever — due to the foregoing and other reasons.]

“In 2021, the Biden administration’s HHS spent nearly a billion dollars on a campaign supporting the coronavirus vaccine, the most expensive pharmaceutical campaign in history. The government spent the money on a vast number of TV, radio and internet spots, which misinformed the American public that the vaccine would protect them from contracting and spreading covid. Nevertheless, just a few years later, less than half the U.S. adult population will heed the CDC’s guidance. Some outlets have blamed the poor coronavirus mRNA vaccine uptake on poor messaging or “anti-vax” counter-messaging. But the Biden administration made suppression of speech — and a mandate for all on the vaccines — into a priority.”

[YT: Perhaps Dr. Bhattacharya should look at the FDA Package Insert for the modRNA COVID-19 “vaccine”, COMIRNATY (Pfizer-BioNTech), section 1 INDICATIONS AND USAGE. The Package Insert is here: https://www.fda.gov/media/151707/download. Notice that the FDA officially states that COMIRNATY is “to prevent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19.)” Is the FDA “spreading misinformation?”

“The failure was thus not a communications problem. It is a trust problem due to the Biden administration’s scientific overreach, public pressure and, frankly, arrogance.”

[YT: Does this mean that “the new FDA”, and the “Next Generation Gold Standard”, and the “accelerated approval” of “vaccines” that may be lab-created in Petri-dishes will somehow magically restore public trust?]

“In addition to the trust problem, the mRNA technology has special biological features that make it different from other vaccines in that it (ideally) instructs our cells to produce proteins that subsequently invoke an immune response. To do so with complete confidence about vaccine safety and efficacy requires an exact understanding of dosage, biodistribution and off-target effects. Unfortunately, we fall short in all three. We lack clarity on how much antigen each mRNA molecule produces, where in the body the mRNA product winds up, how long it stays in the body, and whether unintended proteins are created.”

[YT: Unfortunately, this paragraph, in Yours Truly’s opinion, “has more holes than a Swiss cheese.” First: the mRNA “vaccines” do instruct the cells of the “vaccinated” person to “invoke an immune response”: that “response”, among other things, causes multiple types of autoimmune attack within the COVID-19 “vaccinated” person’s body — for example, in the heart (please refer above to the article by Doctors For COVID Ethics.) Second: Perhaps Dr. Bhattacharya would like to read this report, which Pfizer-BioNTech gave to the FDA in January 2021, regarding the biodistribution of BNT162b2 (FDA-approved in 2022 as COMIRNATY.) The report is here: https://phmpt.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/125742_S1_M2_pharmkin-tabulated-summary.pdf, “MODULE 2.6.5. PHARMACOKINETICS TABULATED SUMMARY.” Yours Truly has included images of Page 7 and Page 8 of this report, which are the Biodistribution Tables for BNT162b2. (The BNT162b2 used in this experiment is the same one that was granted the initial FDA for use in the United States in December 2020.) Third: Stephanie Seneff, PhD, and Greg Nigh, wrote back in 2021 about the unintended consequences of the mRNA COVID-19 “vaccines” creating “unintended proteins.” Their paper is here: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Worse-Than-the-Disease-Reviewing-Some-Possible-of-Seneff-Nigh/, “Worse Than the Disease? Reviewing Some Possible Unintended Consequences of the mRNA Vaccines Against COVID-19”, 16 June 2021, International Journal of Vaccine Theory, Practice and Research 2(1), May 10,2021 Page 389 – 430. The point is: there is an “exact understanding” of multiple aspects regarding the mRNA COVID-19 “vaccines” already.]

“From a regulatory perspective, getting approval for a vaccine with such inherent uncertainties should be difficult.”

[YT: Agreed— except that the “new FDA” is doing exactly that already (such as the recent FDA “approval” without any human trials testing of the “2025-2026 Formula COVID-19 Vaccines” by Pfizer-BioNTech, by Moderna, and by Novavax.)]

“Still, I do not believe the mRNA vaccines caused either mass harm on the one hand or saved 14 million lives on the other. Those estimates swing wildly based on speculative modeling, not concrete evidence. A recent modeling study conluded that the global coronavirus vaccination campaign saved 2.5 million lives from 2020 to 2024, mainly among the elderly.”

[YT: “Still I do not believe the mRNA vaccines caused either mass harm…” Really, Dr. Bhattacharya? Did you read through the OpenVAERS website? (https://openvaers.com/) Have you read through the thousands of actual reports of persons who took a COVID-19 “vaccine” and then either died from the injection, or had serious medical issues afterwards from the injection? Are you saying that these reports are “wildly based on speculative modeling?” Are you saying that these reports are not “concrete evidence?” Are you dismissing the extensive work of Ed Dowd, who analyzes statistical reports of claims from insurance companies, claims that have skyrocketed since the COVID-19 “vaccine” rollout in 2021? https://phinancetechnologies.com/, then click on the “Our Projects” PDF brochure on the webpage to find the “Current Projects” section, then click on any of the green arrows.]

“The scientific controversy over the vaccine’s effect on mortality rages on. Science isn’t propaganda agenda. It’s humility.”

[YT: Real science is truth. There isn’t a “controversy” about the “vaccine’s effect on mortality” — the COVID-19 “vaccines” have increased mortality across the board and across the world. Have you read Steve Kirsch’s Substack, Dr. Bhattacharya? (https://kirschsubstack.com/). Mr. Kirsch’s Substack has many articles that quote studies which show that the COVID-19 “vaccines” increase mortality across the board. However, since Mr. Kirsch is not a medical professional, that removes him from “credibility” in the medical professional world, as far as the NIH is concerned? It doesn’t matter that Mr. Kirsch makes his living from collecting and analyzing data (financial and medical)?]

“And when public health officials stopped communicating with humility, we lost much of the public, an absolute necessity for any vaccine platform.”

[YT: Actually: It’s when public health officials withheld the truth about the dangers and the deadliness of the COVID-19 “vaccines” (which the FDA knew about back in early 2021 — please see here: https://phmpt.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/5.3.6-postmarketing-experience.pdf, “5.3.6 CUMULATIVE ANALYSIS OF POST-AUTHORIZATION ADVERSE EVENT REPORTS OF PF-07302048 (BNT162B2) RECEIVED THROUGH 28-FEB-2021.” Please go to the APPENDIX 1. LIST OF ADVERSE EVENTS OF SPECIAL INTEREST section.) — and the public had to find out the truth themselves — that public health officials “lost much of the public.”]

“I am not here to litigate the past. I am here to chart a better path forward. That is why the NIH, under the leadership of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., is investing in new vaccine technologies based on whole-virus inactivated vaccines, which offer a broader immune response and have a longer track record of safety and public acceptance.”

[YT: So, here, apparently, is the “kernel” of the op-ed. Dr. Bhattacharya is not interested in anything related to how dangerous and deadly the current types of COVID-19 “vaccines” have been, and still are. “Let bygones be bygones and just move on” seems to the situation. Not so fast, Doctor. And that “whole-virus inactivated vaccine” scheme that is central to the “Next Generation Gold Standard?” The “Universal Vaccine?” Which, according to the “Next Generation Gold Standard” ethos, may be developed in Petri-dishes in federal government-based facilities only? And the PATENT for which “Universal Vaccine” is owned by the current Acting Director of NIAID, Dr. Jeffery Taubenberger? (https://www.techtransfer.nih.gov/tech/tab-3388)]

“We are continuing the Operation Warp Speed model of investing in technology with the most potential to help Americans.”

[YT: And, will this “continued” Operation Warp Speed model again be done in such a way that important information is deliberately withheld from President Trump47, as was the case with the original Operation Warp Speed in President Trump’s first term?]

“We will move forward with scientific rigor, transparency, and humility. At the NIH, we will fund promising research based not on hype, but on evidence. And I will continue to use my platform to communicate candidly in public conversations where debate and disagreement are welcomed.”

[YT: “Humility” is always a good thing. So is TRUTH.]

“We are entering a new era of public health, grounded not in wishful thinking or performative consensus, but in open inquiry and respect for the American people’s intelligence. The only to rebuild trust is to earn it — one honest conversation at a time.”

[YT: The “one honest conversation at a time” must include the honest admission by the NIH / NIAID / FDA / CDC, that the entire COVID-19 “vaccine” disaster could have been prevented through FDA approval of using re-purposed items to prevent or to treat COVID-19 infection: Ivermectin, Hydroxycholorquine, Doxycycline, Zinc and Vitamin D supplementation. There are plenty of peer-reviewed, published scientific papers which prove that these work. Instead, the FDA, TO THIS DAY, still refuses to approve the use of these items to prevent or to treat COVID-19. Can you explain why this is still the case, Dr. Bhattacharya?]

THERE. MUST. BE. ACCOUNTABILITY.

THERE. MUST. BE. JUSTICE.

THERE. MUST. BE. TRUTH.

Peace, Good Energy, Respect: PAVACA