Pfizer Batch Code Starting with "E" Means "Everyone is Potentially at Risk"

Early batches of C19 vaccines were contaminated with DNA and other impurities.  New batches may offer more safety.

Pfizer Batch Code Starting with "E" Means "Everyone is Potentially at Risk"

Look for "E"

"Five lots had high outliers for death (i.e., EL0140, EL9261, EL3248, EN9581, and EJ1686); four for serious (EK4176, EK5730, EH9899, and EJ1685), and five for ALL SAEs (EK5730, EH9899, EK4176, EK9231, and EJ1685). These vaccinations were the first to be distributed in December 2020 and early 2021."

Jabbed? Keep Your Records and Search Your Batch
Pfizer’s lots or batches have been evaluated and studied for variation in risk by Schmeling, Manniche, and Jablonowski. All three studies have concluded the earlier batches were more lethal and the variation in risk was considerable from lot to lot. Now Jablonowski and Hooker report:
"Five lots had high outliers for death (i.e., EL0140, EL9261, EL3248, EN9581, and EJ1686); four for serious (EK4176, EK5730, EH9899, and EJ1685), and five for ALL SAEs (EK5730, EH9899, EK4176, EK9231, and EJ1685). These vaccinations were the first to be distributed in December 2020 and early 2021."

A search of 'How Bad is My Batch' revealed that 1266 (26.4%) of the 4790 Pfizer batches at at least one death reported in VAERS. Of the top 100 batches with the highest crude deaths, 96% started with the letter “E.” When lethality or percent of fatal adverse reports was searched, 55% started with “E.”

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Navigating the Post-Election Healthcare Landscape

 Will you. vote Democratic or Republican?

Does it matter?  Health Train Express has analyzed your choices.

Yes, there are significant differences between the healthcare platforms of Democrats and Republicans in the United States. Here are some key distinctions:

### Democrats

1. **Universal Coverage**: Many Democrats support initiatives aimed at achieving universal health care coverage, often advocating for a single-payer system or expanded public options like Medicare for All.

  2. **Affordable Care Act (ACA)**: Democrats typically aim to strengthen and expand the ACA, which includes provisions for protecting individuals with pre-existing conditions and expanding Medicaid in states that have opted for it.

3. **Regulation of Pharmaceutical Prices**: They often support measures to lower prescription drug prices and increase transparency in health care costs.

4. **Public Health Investments**: Democrats generally emphasize the importance of investing in public health and preventive care.

### Republicans

1. **Market-Based Solutions**: Republicans tend to favor market-oriented approaches, promoting competition among private insurers and reducing government involvement in health care.

2. **Repeal/Modification of the ACA**: Many Republicans have sought to repeal or modify the ACA, arguing that it leads to increased costs and reduced choices for consumers.

3. **Health Savings Accounts (HSAs)**: They often promote HSAs as a way for individuals to save for medical expenses with tax advantages, encouraging consumer-driven health care.

4. **Less Regulation**: Republicans typically advocate for less regulation of the healthcare industry, believing that this will lead to lower costs and greater innovation.

### Summary

In summary, Democrats generally support more government involvement and regulation in health care to ensure broader coverage and lower costs, while Republicans emphasize market-driven solutions and personal choice with less government intervention.

The post-election landscape has the potential to bring changes to organizations across the healthcare ecosystem, from healthcare services providers to pharma and biotech, necessitating immediate strategic considerations. These potential shifts—as well as how executives and investors can stay ahead of them—will be front and center in this important webinar convened by the healthcare-focused advisory team at FMG Leading.

Join our esteemed panel of healthcare leaders for a glimpse of what’s ahead and the strategies that foster institutional change readiness, including:

• Identifying and analyzing performance drivers, as well as institutional strengths and gaps, to help focus collective energies and investments
• Properly equipping and preparing the key leaders and teams who play an outsized role in expediting scale
• Embedding a growth mindset—and the ability to execute it— into organizations already contending with healthcare’s pressing challenges
• Elevating the importance of growth among those whose primary purpose is tied to care delivery and clinical outcomes
• Accelerating scalability post-M&A or integration through proven people-focused strategies 

Although there are radical differences these proposals face congressional approval and there are challenges ahead for some of these ideas. Some of these ideas are radically different.  Because there are serious differences and disagreements the upcoming election is open to a guess given the close analysis of the impending election within the bounds of statistical accuracy.

If you have an opinion please vote.

Navigating the Post-Election Healthcare Landscape | Fierce Healthcare

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Vaccine Induced Paralytic Syndrome

Guillain-Barre syndrome

Over each year the number of new vaccines expands and is applied to large populations including, newborns, children, adults, and pregnant mothers. With each shot, there is an opportunity for immune system misadventure. If there is an off-target immune attack on the neurological system a variety of severe debilitating syndromes can result. One of the most dreaded vaccine-induced paralytic diseases is Guillain-Barre syndrome. Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) was previously considered a rare disease that occurs when the body's immune system attacks the peripheral nervous system. This damage causes muscle weakness, tingling, numbness, and sometimes paralysis and loss of control over the bowel and bladder.

The Mayo clinic gives this terrifying advice for potential GBS patients on its website:

Nasal & Throat hygiene become the new norm in a post-COVID world, Q&A

Nasal & Throat hygiene become the new norm in a post-COVID world, Q&A 131 - America Out Loud News

In an article in America Out Loud News, Peter McCullough MD, cardiologist, is never reticent about creative thinking and looking for treatments that are unusual and tend to not be recommended by experts who follow paradigms and cookbook treatments the safest alternatives other than continuing vaccinations for COVID

Many others, including Robert Malone, MD, and Steven Hirsh experts were criticized, canceled, and ridiculed by physicians and others.

CofixRx Nasal Spray was developed by a board-certified anesthesiologist with the assistance and advisory information of seven other physicians. They also worked with a compounding pharmacist and pharmaceutical-grade manufacturer. It contains Povidone-Iodine and a mucoadhesive. Povidone is a well-known antiseptic used for preoperative sterilization of skin. The mucoadhesive is a polysaccharide solution. The initial formula was tested at Utah State University Institute of Antiviral Research and found to have amazing (95% or greater) antiviral properties against SARS-CoV-2, Delta, Omnicron, Influenza, Rhinovirus (common cold), RSV, and HRV 14. The spray lasts for hours in the nasal passages because of another special characteristic of the product’s ingredients. The ingredients also create a polysaccharide solution, which is a mucoadhesive. The mucoadhesive does three things. It creates a physical barrier to prevent viruses, bacteria, and allergens (like pet dander, pollen, mold spores, etc.) from adhering to and irritating the mucous membrane. Then, it allows the povidone-iodine to NOT get absorbed for hours, keeping it on the surface of the nasal passages where it does the best. Finally, it provides a moisturizing effect when combined with Vitamin D3.

There are some unanswered questions about what this spray does to the normal bacteria in the nose and throat, and for how long patients can use this spray.

Those figures exceed the effectiveness of masking and vaccination. It also prevents infection from other viruses...Influenza, Rhinovirus (common cold) RSV and HRV14.

James Bragman, DOFACP, is a board-certified member of the American Board of Internal, Geriatric, and Sports Medicine and has been working with CofixRx since its inception. He is a Full Clinical Professor of Internal Medicine at Wayne State University School of Medicine and an Assistant Clinical Professor at Michigan State University. 

Change Healthcare, owned by UnitedHealth Group has Massive Security Breach

Change Healthcare, owned by UnitedHealth Group has a Massive Security Breach

HIPAA (the Health Information Protection and Privacy Act) a federal mandate is an overriding regulation protecting patient personal information for all health care transactions. It provides penalties to organizations or persons who expose patient information.  Its jurisdiction is over hospitals, clinics, insurance companies or whoever has access to patient data.

It amounts to a classified system, not unlike that of the U.S. government, and the Department of Defense.

When a breach occurs the entity whose data was breached must notify patients and/or hospitals about the breach and when it occurred. Steep penalties and fines can be assessed.

 Matthew Phelan Senior Science Reporter For Dailymail.Com elaborates:

It's being called the largest-ever breach of protected patient health information by a government-regulated medical company in America's history.

Change Healthcare, owned by UnitedHealth Group, fell victim to a cyberattack eight months ago, but revealed on Thursday that 100 million people had been impacted.

That surpassed the previous record-holder for the worst breach of US patient data: a 2015 episode at Anthem Inc. that compromised 78.8 million individuals.

The first official report by Change Healthcare, which manages revenue and payments for medical providers, estimated in July that only 500 people had been compromised.  Now, the scope of the February 21 ransomware attack has spurred Congress to call for lifting the cap on how much a negligent healthcare firm can be fined. Ransomware attacks create a very dangerous method for stealing patient data. It totally blocks users from accessing their own data, stopping all systems in the entity such as patient notes, pharmacy orders, scheduling, and more. The victim's systems are locked and cannot be used unless the entity p says a ransom to unlock the system.

'The healthcare industry has some of the worst cybersecurity practices in the nation,' Senator Mark Warner said, 'despite its critical importance to Americans' well-being and privacy.'

Today, existing legislation provides a ceiling of $2 million per violation for offenders of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA).  If passed, these 'commonsense reforms' would also include 'include jail time for CEOs that lie to the government about their cybersecurity,' Wyden added.

These leaders have not implemented strong cybersecurity systems despite the ongoing penalties.  If the Department of Defense has such strong security it should also be available to ensure patient privacy

Change Healthcare's parent company attributed the hack to a 'foreign nation' this past winter.

Anthem was fined $16 million, the largest penalty imposed for a HIPAA violation, but experts worry such a fine would barely deter today's healthcare giants.

Change Healthcare alerted the Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights (OCR) on July 19, noting their internal investigation was ongoing.

Industry observers at the HIPAA Journal noted that the big round number of 100 million, issued in Change's update this month, suggests that 'that figure may change.'  'Neither Change Healthcare nor its parent company, UnitedHealth Group (UHG), has confirmed that the file review has been completed,' the journal noted.

But these eye-popping numbers mask the myriad of intimate tragedies created by Change Healthcare's and UHG's allegedly lax cybersecurity, which led to millions of Americans losing their healthcare privacy.  Linda Barbour, a career medical director for several large health insurance firms, told reporters that she had assumed the firm would have contacted her the moment it knew her data was exposed.  Change did not get around to informing Barbour until this month.

HIPAA Compliance

HIPAA is a federal law that applies to healthcare providers, health plans, and healthcare clearinghouses. These are covered entities. It sets standards for protecting sensitive patient health information, also known as protected health information (PHI). It can also be identified as electronic PHI or ePHI. HIPAA compliance requires that covered entities implement administrative, physical, and technical safeguards to protect PHI. This includes measures like access controls, encryption, secure messaging, and training employees on proper data handling procedures.

HIPAA also requires covered entities to notify patients and regulatory authorities in case of a data breach involving PHI. Failure to comply with HIPAA regulations can result in significant fines and legal action.

Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity refers to the practices and measures organizations use to protect their networks, systems, and data from unauthorized access, theft, and damage. This involves a range of measures like access controls, firewalls, and encryption. It also requires ongoing monitoring and testing to identify and remediate vulnerabilities.

Cybersecurity standards are not limited to the healthcare industry. They are applicable to all industries that handle sensitive data. There are several cybersecurity standards, such as the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework, that organizations can adopt to secure their data.

Differences Between HIPAA Compliance and Cybersecurity

While HIPAA compliance and cybersecurity both address data security, they have significant differences. HIPAA compliance focuses specifically on the protection of PHI in the healthcare industry. In contrast, cybersecurity standards are broader and apply to all industries that handle sensitive data.

HIPAA requires that covered entities implement specific administrative, physical, and technical safeguards to protect PHI. Cybersecurity standards provide guidelines for protecting data but do not prescribe specific measures. Organizations are free to choose the measures that best suit their needs and comply with the standards.

Another significant difference between HIPAA compliance and cybersecurity is the consequences of non-compliance. HIPAA violations can result in significant fines and legal action. In contrast, the consequences of cybersecurity breaches can vary depending on the industry and the severity of the breach.

HIPAA compliance and cybersecurity are both critical components of data security, but they address different aspects of it. HIPAA compliance focuses on the protection of PHI in the healthcare industry, while cybersecurity standards provide guidelines for protecting sensitive data in all industries. Understanding the differences between HIPAA compliance and cybersecurity is crucial for organizations that handle sensitive data to ensure that they implement the appropriate security measures and comply with the relevant regulations. At HIPAA Secure Now, we can help you decipher the difference and ensure that your business is properly protected and compliant.

It becomes apparent that interoperability and electronic health record systems are porous to hackers, foreign or domestic.

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Integrating AI-driven technologies like Ray-Ban Smart Glasses and Apple AirPods Pro is a game-changer for accessibility

Even. though I have been a techie and nerd, some of the advancements using AI and other smart devices are mind-boggling

When it comes to medicine and healthcare AI is a game-changer and will enable patients with challenges to lead near-normal lives.

Fascinating! Integrating AI-driven technologies like Ray-Ban Smart Glasses and Apple AirPods Pro is a game-changer for accessibility. Imagine further enhancing this with AI-powered health monitoring wearables that track vital signs in real time, alerting users and physicians to any anomalies instantly. Combining these with AI-driven telemedicine platforms could provide seamless, real-time consultations, making healthcare more proactive and personalized. The potential for improving patient outcomes and quality of life is immense. Exciting times ahead for both patients and healthcare providers!

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The combination of easily wearable, artificial intelligence and earpads allows for visual recognition of objects, and text yields an audible result describing the image and its instructions. The smart glasses can recognize a visual space and tell the wearer where the wearer is located. If you do not have AirPods, no matter what, the Rayban Smartglasses have built-in speakers

Additional uses include music and phone calls.

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Cardiovascular Damage Resulting from Chronic Excessive Endurance Exercise

How Much is Too Much?

Cardiovascular Damage Resulting from Chronic Excessive Endurance Exercise - PMC

A daily routine of physical activity is highly beneficial in the prevention and treatment of many prevalent chronic diseases, especially of the cardiovascular (CV) system. However, chronic, excessive sustained endurance exercise may cause adverse structural remodeling of the heart and large arteries. An evolving body of data indicates that chronically training for and participating in extreme endurance competitions such as marathons, ultra-marathons, Iron-man distance triathlons, very long distance bicycle racing, etc., can cause transient acute volume overload of the atria and right ventricle, with transient reductions in right ventricular ejection fraction and elevations of cardiac biomarkers, all of which generally return to normal within seven to ten days. In veteran extreme endurance athletes, this recurrent myocardial injury and repair may eventually result in patchy myocardial fibrosis, particularly in the atria, interventricular septum, and right ventricle, potentially creating a substrate for atrial and ventricular arrhythmias. Furthermore, chronic, excessive, sustained, high-intensity endurance exercise may be associated with diastolic dysfunction, large-artery wall stiffening, and coronary artery calcification. Not all veteran extreme endurance athletes develop pathological remodeling, and indeed lifelong exercisers generally have low mortality rates and excellent functional capacity. The aim of this review is to discuss the emerging understanding of the cardiac pathophysiology of extreme endurance exercise and make suggestions about healthier fitness patterns for promoting optimal CV health and longevity.

Dose of physical activity and all-cause mortality reduction. The mortality benefits of exercise appear with even small amounts of daily exercise and peak at 50 minutes of vigorous exercise.

Mortality and Running Speed

The graph indicates an optimal running speed of 7 mph

Risk Stratification of Endurance Athletes

Currently, we have no proven screening methods for detecting the CV pathology associated with EEE. A logical strategy for now would deploy post-competition cardiac biomarkers, echocardiography, and/or advanced imaging such as CMR to identify individuals at risk for and with subclinical adverse structural remodeling and the substrate for arrhythmias.61 For any individual who is considering EEE efforts such as marathons or day-long aerobic races for any other activity that elevates cardiac output for a sustained period (continuously over several hours), it may be reasonable to obtain a maximal treadmill exercise test to screen for ischemia and/or exercise-induced arrhythmias and Heart CT for CAC scoring, particularly for those who are over age 50 and who have been chronically training for and competing in EEE events. Aortic pulse wave velocity could give an inference into the development of vascular stiffness that may not be readily appreciated by cuff blood pressure measurement.

Avoiding Exercise-Induced CV Damage

Suggestions for an exercise routine that will optimize heath, fitness and longevity without causing adverse cardiovascular structural and electrical remodeling:

Avoid a daily routine of exhaustive strenuous exercise training for periods greater than one hour continuously. An ideal target might be not more than seven hours weekly of cumulative strenuous endurance ET.1,2,9,51

When doing exhaustive aerobic ET, take intermittent rest periods (even for a few minutes at an easier pace, such as slowing down to walk in the middle of a run). This allows the cardiac output to normalize temporarily, providing a ‘cardiac rest period’ when the chamber dimensions, blood pressure, and pulse come down closer to baseline resting parameters before resuming strenuous exercise again.2

Accumulate a large amount of daily light-to-moderate physical activity, such as walking, gardening, housekeeping, etc. Avoid prolonged sitting. Walk intermittently throughout the day. Look for opportunities to take the stairs. 1, 2 Buy a pedometer and gradually try to build up to 10,000 steps per day.

Once or twice weekly, perform high-intensity interval exercise training to improve or maintain peak aerobic fitness. This is more effective in improving overall fitness and peak aerobic capacity than is continuous aerobic exercise training, despite a much shorter total accumulated exercise time spent doing the interval workout.65, 66

Incorporate cross-training using stretching, for example, yoga, and strength training into the weekly exercise routine. This confers multi-faceted fitness and reduces the burden of cardiac work compared to a routine of daily long-distance endurance exercise training. 1, 2

Avoid chronically competing in very long-distance races, such as marathons, ultra-marathons, Iron-man distance triathlons, 100-mile bicycle races, etc., especially after age 45 or 50.

Individuals over 45 or 50 years of age should reduce the intensity and duration of endurance exercise training sessions, and allow more recovery time.