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Jessica,

Astute and sobering analysis.

I was part of the leadership team for H1N1 in 2009-2011. Ran the clinical trials testing vax in pregnant women and also in AIDS patients, at NIAID under Fauci. Oct 2009 we distributed the vax and then "positive tests dropped dramatically over Thanksgiving". Of course, we attributed it to our 'great efforts'.

Seen much differently now, in retrospect. Sigh.

Laura Kragie MD. biomedworks.substack.com

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"WHO/CDC Swine Flu Venture was successful in what it demonstrated about testing. Specifically, that testing could be leveraged to a) get the public’s attention, b) justify the pandemic preparedness industry, c) expand global disease surveillance programs, and d) pin more P&I deaths on influenza. " Describes my several years of experience as a sentinel provider, then as an objector to the H1N1 HCW mandate in NYC - threatened with termination in 2009 and ultimately terminated in 2016. Finally, as an active primary and urgent care physician in NYC during the panic-demic of 2020, i will attest that everything you have observed in your research for this article reflects very accurately what I experienced in my day to day practice.

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