March 30, 2022 - Epoch Times
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| This is your daily Facts Matter Update, and I'm your host, Roman, from the Epoch Times. | |
| And now let's begin today's discussion by talking about one of the most censored subjects over the past two years, which is, of course, the topic of natural immunity. | |
| Just yesterday, a new study was published over in the country of Sweden, which provided a possible explanation for why some healthcare workers, specifically the healthcare workers who were in constant contact with COVID patients every single day, why they remained uninfected, even though they were not vaccinated. | |
| Which, by the way, is a situation which not only played itself out in Sweden, but actually across the entire world. | |
| And according to these researchers, the answer has to do with a certain type of antibody that was found in their respiratory tracts. | |
| Here's specifically what the University of Gothenburg, which is in Sweden, released in a statement regarding the findings of the study. | |
| The reason why some of the staff did not contract the disease seems to have been that IgA, which is immunoglobulin A, was present in their respiratory tract. | |
| These antibodies, found naturally in the secretions of mucus membranes in the airways and gastrointestinal tract, can protect the body by binding to viruses and other invading organisms. | |
| Now, in regards to what the researchers in the study were actually looking for specifically, well, here's what Dr. | |
| Christine Wineris, who is one of the lead authors in this particular study, here's what she wrote about their intentions going in. | |
| We all have IgA. | |
| It's found on the mucus membranes, and COVID-19 is an infection that spreads via those membranes. | |
| We thought it was important to investigate what happened when completely healthy people encountered the coronavirus before vaccines became available. | |
| Now, the study itself, it was conducted by researchers at this particular university by examining 150 unvaccinated employees at five different primary care health centers within the Gothenburg area. | |
| And for your reference, these individuals, they were recruited into the study between April and May of 2020, which is when COVID first exploded onto the world stage. | |
| But it's before the vaccines became readily available. | |
| And in the study, the researchers checked in with these participants every month for a period of six months to see whether they contracted COVID to monitor their serum IgA and their IgG antibodies for the COVID spike protein. | |
| And they were also subject to things like blood tests and as well as questionnaire surveys in order to monitor other health factors which might be protecting them against the disease. | |
| And what these researchers found once they conducted the study for a period of six months and then reviewed the data was that about a third of the participants, specifically 53 out of the 150 health care workers where they were monitoring, had developed the natural antibodies to COVID. | |
| And then the remaining two thirds of the participants, specifically the 97 other health care workers, had developed the natural antibodies to COVID. | |
| they ended the study with having either no antibodies against the virus at all or only borderline levels of IGA antibody responses. | |
| And what's really interesting to note is that out of the 150 participants in total, who are again healthcare workers who are dealing with COVID patients on a daily basis, only 16 of them contracted COVID themselves during the six-month period during which the study was conducted, and none of them were hospitalized. | |
| So what does this all ultimately mean? | |
| Well, according to the findings that the researchers documented in their study, which, by the way, you can find the study over on the European Journal of Immunology website. | |
| I'll throw a link into the description box below if you want to check it out for yourself. | |
| But what they found was that there were two main patterns of immune response to COVID among the 53 participants who developed antibodies, quote, an IgG-dominated and an IgA-dominated pattern. | |
| And just for your reference, when they actually broke it down, 38 of the participants had an antibody response dominated by the IgG antibody, while 15 of them showed antibody responses dominated by the AGA antibody. | |
| And here's what the findings continued on by saying within the context of this report. | |
| Quote, IGA responsiveness was associated with limited T-cell responses to SARS-CoV-2, autoimmunity, airborne allergy, and not contracting COVID-19. | |
| And so just to pause here for a quick moment, this was quite an interesting finding, that the 15 people who had an IgA antibody-dominated response, they never showed any symptoms for COVID, and nor did they ever even test positive for COVID. | |
| Here's specifically what the researchers went on to write, quote, Now that might sound very technical, but the reason that this really matters is because it builds on the existing but the reason that this really matters is because it builds on the existing studies which have predominantly focused | |
| on the IgG antibodies, as well However, these researchers from Sweden, they studied how these IgA responses have perhaps added a missing piece to the natural immunity puzzle. | |
| Here's specifically what they wrote in regards to how this new study compares to the other studies that have been out there already. | |
| "A lot of the COVID-related research has been about IgG antibodies and T cells. | |
| The interesting thing is that when we now examine other people's articles and tables, we find evidence for the conclusion we've arrived at about IgA ourselves. | |
| But it's not something those studies have highlighted." And so, this new study from Sweden, it adds another piece of understanding to the over 160 such studies regarding natural immunity that have come out over the past two years. | |
| If you'd like to actually get a great database for all the different studies that have come about, you can find it over on the Brownstone Institute website where they list all the natural immunity studies one by one. | |
| I'll throw a link to that into the description box below this video. | |
| However, the reason that I believe it's worth highlighting again, again, again, and again, all these studies which pertain to natural immunity is because the various administrations throughout this country, they have by and large discounted, disparaged, or sometimes just outright ignored the existence of natural immunity to this very day. | |
| A great example of that is the state of California, which has a population of approximately 40 million people, meaning that approximately 12% of all Americans live within the state of California. | |
| And those Americans are currently facing the prospect of living with even new, even stricter COVID vaccine-related laws. | |
| That's because at this very moment, there are currently 10 bills within the California state legislature which aim to get more people vaccinated by any means possible, while at the same time offering no caveats for people who have natural immunity. | |
| Here's in fact a brief summary of those 10 bills, which are again currently working through the California state legislature. | |
| In regards to the bills in the state assembly, you have AB1993, which would require proof of COVID vaccination for all employees and independent contractors who work in California. | |
| You have AB 2098, which would classify any physician who expresses an anti-COVID medical opinion as quote unquote unprofessional conduct subject to discipline by the state's medical board. | |
| You have AB 1797, which would create an immunization tracking system, essentially giving all government agencies across the entire state access to the vaccination records of all people. | |
| And then you have the bills in the state Senate, such as SB 871, which would add COVID injections to the list of mandatory immunizations for public and private schools in the state, regardless of FDA approval. | |
| You have SB866, which would lower the age of vaccination consent so that you can have 12-year-olds now within the state of California choosing to get the vaccine without either parental consent or parental knowledge. | |
| You have SB 920, which would authorize the state medical board to inspect a doctor's office as well as a doctor's medical records without patient consent. | |
| You have SB 1464, which would require law enforcement agencies throughout the state to either enforce public health guidelines or to lose their funding. | |
| Then you have SB 1479, which would require schools in the state of California to create a long-term COVID testing plan as well as to report the test results to the California Department of Public Health. | |
| You have SB1390, which would prohibit any person or even any entity from making statements that the government deems to be untrue or misleading by any means, including even on social media. | |
| And then lastly, you have SB1184, which would authorize the health personnel within schools to disclose a child's medical information without parental consent to a third party. | |
| And so that is what is coming down the pipe in the state of California. | |
| And by the way, just as a small aside, the trucker's convoy, which has been circling Washington, D.C. for the past few weeks, they found these pieces of legislation to be so egregious that they've actually decided to drive the convoy all the way back to California in order to protest these 10 bills. | |
| But what's even more surprising about these specific California bills is that they come at a time when more and more health officials in this country are beginning to publicly recognize natural immunity, including even Dr. | |
| Fauci himself. | |
| Now, Dr. | |
| Fauci is an interesting case because if you've been following his public statements for a while now, then you know that he has been relatively mum regarding the topic of natural immunity. | |
| For instance, late last year, late in 2021, when Dr. | |
| Fauci was asked about the topic of natural immunity during an interview over on CNN, well, here was his answer. | |
| Quote, I don't have a really firm answer for you on that. | |
| That's something that we're going to have to discuss regarding the durability of the response. | |
| I think that is something that we need to sit down and discuss seriously. | |
| And this was, by the way, at a time when there was already a solid amount of research regarding natural immunity. | |
| And to be fair, it was not only Dr. | |
| Fauci who was not willing to acknowledge natural immunity publicly. | |
| That was the general stance of the U.S. government. | |
| For instance, during a Senate hearing late last year, I believe in October of 2021, when he was grilled by Senator Rand Paul, the director of the Department of Health and Human Services, he likewise refused to say anything regarding natural protection. | |
| And it wasn't even only the U.S. government either. | |
| As we discussed on a previous episode, the World Health Organization, they actually went so far as to change the very definition of the word immunity. | |
| They eliminated what was there before, and they replaced it with a new claim that immunity comes from, quote, protecting people from the virus and not, quote, exposing them to it. | |
| Meaning that their new definition of the term immunity could quite literally no longer include natural immunity. | |
| However, that all appears to be changing. | |
| Because even while California is currently pushing these 10 new bills, well, the federal government, the U.S. federal government, appears to have changed their tune. | |
| To start with, just last month, in February of 2022, the CDC released a fairly large study which finally recognized natural immunity. | |
| In that particular study, it found that, quote, surviving COVID-19 provides excellent natural immunity not only for repeat infection, but also to hospitalization and death for the Delta variant of COVID-19. | |
| And then furthermore, in an interview with Fortune magazine just last week, Dr. | |
| Fauci himself finally publicly recognized natural immunity. | |
| Here's specifically what he said. | |
| And so then, going further along that line, perhaps Dr. | |
| Fauci is also considering that his job is actually done. | |
| That's because Dr. | |
| Fauci... | |
| Who, by the way, has been serving in his current position since the year 1984, he told an ABC podcast that he is considering stepping down. | |
| Specifically, here's what he said about a week and a half ago regarding the topic of retirement. | |
| Quote, I certainly am because I've got to do it sometime. | |
| I can't stay at this job forever unless my staff is going to find me slumped over my desk one day. | |
| I'd rather not do that. | |
| I have said that I would stay in what I'm doing until we get out of the pandemic phase, and I think we might be there already. | |
| However, regardless of whether he decides to step down or not, very likely Dr. | |
| Fauci will have to go back to Capitol Hill after the midterms if the Republicans take back control of Congress because they have publicly stated that they will be holding hearings, which is something that Dr. | |
| Fauci himself has acknowledged that he is preparing for. | |
| And so we'll just have to wait and see how this all plays out, whether he retires and whether these congressional hearings will actually take place once the midterms conclude. | |
| Now, while I was down in Florida late last week, I had the opportunity to sit down and speak with Ms. | |
| Elise Stefanik, who's a congresswoman from New York, as well as the current chairwoman of the House Republican Conference. | |
| And together we discussed what exactly is the platform that the Republicans are running on in order to take back control of Congress during the midterms. | |
| Take a listen. | |
| All right, so we are here in Florida, and we have the unique opportunity to be sitting down with Ms. | |
| Elise Stefanik, who is not only a congresswoman from the great state of New York, but she is also the chairwoman of the House Republican Conference. | |
| Elise, thank you so much for joining us. | |
| Great to be here. | |
| So earlier today, up at the podium, you were talking about how across the entire nation, American men and women have been suffering from inflation. | |
| Can you please define for us what a woman is? | |
| Well, I am a woman. | |
| We know who the women are in this room. | |
| You are either born a biological woman or a biological male. | |
| And the fact that the Supreme Court Justice nominee can't answer that question, I believe that Ruth Bader Ginsburg, if she were still living and was up for nomination, she would be able to answer that question. | |
| So to say that answer is just unacceptable. | |
| So let's circle back to the original topic then, the inflation that you were discussing. | |
| So it's true. | |
| I mean, it's rampant inflation right now. | |
| The gas prices are seeing record highs within the last 40 years. | |
| What would you say would happen if the Republicans actually are able to take back Congress? | |
| What concrete steps would you implement to change that? | |
| Well, first we have to rein in the trillions of dollars of spending that we've seen under Speaker Pelosi. | |
| And let me talk about the sort of stakes and impact of inflation, because that's the number one issue I hear from constituents no matter where I am in my district, that along with gas prices and energy prices skyrocketing. | |
| People are struggling to make ends meet, whether they go to the grocery store or whether they're purchasing anything. | |
| They're having to make really tough decisions, particularly families in my district, on really limited incomes and stretched budgets, and that includes seniors. | |
| There was a headline recently saying seniors are having to choose when they take hot showers and also whether they eat meat during their meal or not. | |
| That's not the United States of America. | |
| That's not who we are. | |
| And Republicans have a plan and we intend to make sure that we put a stop to this reckless trillions of dollars of one-party rule in Washington that has fueled inflation and that we get our budget on a path towards balance. | |
| So, what concrete pieces of legislation or steps would you take if you were to take back the House? | |
| Well, in our budget, since I've been in Congress for a little while under Republican majority, we will put up a budget that will come to balance. | |
| Democrats have never done that. | |
| We will stop the spending of these newly created programs and just the reckless trillions of dollars of waste that Democrats have passed this year. | |
| And also making sure that we hold this administration accountable in terms of their nominees and in terms of the decisions they're making at the Treasury Department, at the Commerce Department and OMB. What do you make of the plan, not only at the federal level, but also several states like California? | |
| California has actually enacted it, giving people money to fill up their gas tank. | |
| I think California instituted a $400 or $500 per car program. | |
| What do you make of something like that? | |
| That is not the right approach. | |
| The right approach is to unleash American energy independence, to make sure that we are not reliant upon foreign oil and gas, that we're not reliant upon So what would be your ideal outcome from this retreat? | |
| Would you come out with something like a Contract for America that you can then use for the midterms? | |
| Yes, we believe it's important as Republicans not only to prosecute the case against the unified far-left policies coming from Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi that have led to the crime crisis, the inflation crisis, so many crises across America. | |
| We want to put forth our agenda to earn this majority. | |
| We have a number of task forces, working groups led by our members of Congress from across the country on issues like taking on big tech, Making sure that we are counting communist China's malign influence around the globe. | |
| Making sure that we're growing our economy and tackling the inflation crisis and also tackling the labor crisis. | |
| We need to make sure that we have workforce development to fill these jobs and get people back to work. | |
| Also, healthy futures. | |
| We learned a lot during COVID. Democrats did not follow the science. | |
| They followed the politics. | |
| And I think there's opportunity in terms of Patient-driven healthcare focused on lowering the overall cost, stopping the government overreach when it comes to unconstitutional vaccine mandates, for example. | |
| So we have a lot of work ahead of us, but this retreat is focused on getting input from members of Congress across the country who are representing their constituents so that we're able to earn a majority and ready on day one. | |
| You sent out a letter about three months ago to the Biden administration after a video came out showing illegal immigrants being flown into White Plains, New York, right? | |
| Did anything ever come out of that letter? | |
| This administration has blocked almost all of our requests for information, and one of the important parts of a Republican majority is going to be oversight. | |
| And we will not hesitate to use subpoenas when the administration is trying to withhold information from the American people. | |
| I believe that every American deserves to know where these illegal immigrants are being flown to, how many are released, how many are on the terror watch list. | |
| This administration has refused to answer those questions. | |
| And make no mistake, that makes every community across the country less secure. | |
| Every community is facing a border crisis and the impact of our open southern border. | |
| So I just want to really highlight this and especially maybe you can speak to somebody who's maybe watching this interview but doesn't fully understand what's happening because when when I imagine an illegal immigrant coming in and they're being flown by the federal government throughout the entire country they're keeping track of them at the very least where they're going and maybe where they're setting up shop where they're going to be living after they're flown in but is that not happening there's no way that you can actually find who these people are and where they're being flown to? | |
| Well, we don't have those answers. | |
| I mean, as far as we know, the administration is not keeping track of where these individuals are being flown to and are released into the country. | |
| So that's why the subpoenas are going to be important, and that oversight role is going to be extremely important. | |
| So actually, even with the subpoenas, if they're not keeping track, they can't even give you those answers. | |
| They're refusing to answer even where the flights are going. | |
| They're refusing to answer even how many individuals are on the flights. | |
| They're refusing to provide basic data. | |
| Frankly, they're required to, by law, in terms of different data points at a certain amount of time. | |
| And that's why House Republicans have been really focused on this border crisis. | |
| And in February, you introduced a piece of legislation, if I'm not mistaken, right, that would actually require the DHS to give, what, like a monthly report as to where these people are going? | |
| Is that bill making any headway? | |
| Well, not in a Pelosi authoritarian house, but that will definitely be one of the bills under consideration, particularly in our American security and border security. | |
| Okay, last question. | |
| Just earlier today, Trump filed a lawsuit against Hillary Clinton, Christopher Steele, who's the ex-British spy, as well as about 30 other people for allegedly a plot to tie him to Russia during the 2016 and 2017 post-election period. | |
| Do you have any comment on that particular lawsuit? | |
| Good for President Trump. | |
| We need accountability, and we know that at the highest levels of the Hillary Clinton campaign, the highest levels of the Obama administration, including Joe Biden, they unconstitutionally spied on a presidential candidate. | |
| They unconstitutionally opened a counterintelligence investigation on a leading presidential campaign. | |
| They did not follow the law by notifying Congress. | |
| I was the one that discovered that of my questions of Jim Comey when he first testified after the 2016 election. | |
| This was a systematic attempt to suppress the American people in terms of casting their vote. | |
| So the deep state is real and good for President Trump. | |
| Elise, thank you so much. | |
| Thank you. | |
| Until next time, I'm your host, Roman, from the Epoch Times. |
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