Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo spoke Thursday in support of guidelines that no longer recommend COVID-19 vaccines for healthy children and pregnant women.
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All right, good morning everyone. So, first I want to thank you all for being here today and I want to also thank our speakers who’ve come to join us. Dr. Pierre Corey, Dr. Joel Walscog. So, Dr. Pierre Corey who is a you know fantastic critical care physician. I got to know him early during the pandemic. He was uh in very notably back when people were first getting critically ill and in the ICU. Dr. Corey gave testimony at the Senate or the House, I can’t remember which, and said that he was taking care of these patients and they were doing better with steroids. And Dr. Corey was, you know, sort of ridiculed and there was there was he he received a lot of push back for what he was saying. months later. In fact, the randomized clinical trials showed that Dr. Corey was exactly correct and steroid therapy for people who were intubated, people who had hypoxia with CO 19 became the standard of care. Just a fantastic physician. Dr. Walscog, today’s my first day meeting him and he is a leader in a group called React 19. React 19 is a group that tends to the needs of the vaccine injured. Right now there’s a tragedy going on in the background and that tragedy is that first a product was designed too rapidly without sufficient testing and that is the mRNA co 19 vaccines. Second, that product was pushed out, often forced out and distributed with coercion to so many millions, tens of millions of people in this country and millions of people around the world to the tune of billions of people in total. And finally, when people were injured by that inadequately tested product, the ability to study their injuries, the ability to help them, which is what is needed when you’ve got to be able to collect data on patients, you’ve got to allow physicians to to test different treatments. You’ve got to allow physicians to be able to communicate with one another e um one another in a very open manner and to be able to communicate with uh patients in a very open manner. All of that was demolished. So terrible things happened and even the ability to rectify those terrible things was not made possible because of the the infrastructure that we saw for communication, for clinical care, for even patient interaction and connection with social media censorship and things like that. So it’s it’s a terrible crime. It’s still happening. It’s happening in the background and Dr. Joel, Dr. Joel Walskcog has done a tremendous amount with his organization React 19 and other courageous individuals who have been directly injured by mRNA coid9 vaccines and other types of co 19 vaccines and um and so I’m really pleased that he’s here too. So, you know, when we talked about having an event today, really what’s inspired this discussion first was finally seeing the federal government making a uh I would say a a position, a statement that is a Florida statement. And the characteristic of Floridaesque statements is that we tend to make these statements uh months if not years before other people. So, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., he’s a good friend of mine, Dr. J. Bacharia, also someone who’s a good friend of mine. And you know, I was really happy to hear Robert F. Kennedy Jr., uh, who’s the Secretary of Health and Human Services, make an announcement saying that, well, guys, we’re no longer going to going to recommend or promote mRNA CO 19 vaccines for healthy children. And um some of some of the people here may remember when thankfully thanks to the to the courage and the willingness to do what is right irrespective of whether it’s popular of Governor Ronda Santis we made that same announcement three years ago I think in um in in South Florida in Miami. And so we were we were happy to see the federal government doing that. And it’s important to acknowledge that, you know, Florida certainly over the last few years for many reasons, but in the health arena, particularly as it relates to medical freedoms and co 19, we’ve been in the news a lot and we’ve taken a lot of heat and you know, we’ve taken a lot of heat from the mainstream media. Ironically, during all this time, the people have been aligned with us. So more and more people have really moved from the position of buying into the things that we hear from the federal government into frankly agreeing whether explicitly or implicitly with what we’ve said in Florida. Very fortunately very few people very few children and very few adults are putting these mRNA co 19 vaccines in their bodies. Uh we still have older people doing it but fewer people who are older are doing it also. and and they shouldn’t be doing it because they they are not fit for human use. When was the last time that you had a vaccine that literally almost every single person knows someone who’s had a bad reaction for them. Okay. I’ve been a physician with with my MD since 2011. And you know, I I’ve taken care of many, many, many patients, many patients. Boston, Los Angeles, and in Florida. I I also see patients in the county health department from time to time. I have seen until this pandemic, I mean, I could not tell you someone I knew individually who I was confident was actually injured from from a vaccine. Now I there are very few people that I run into who either themselves have not had a bad reaction from these mRNA co 19 vaccines or who don’t who who don’t know someone who’s had a bad reaction from these vaccines. They are terrible vaccines. I want to also acknowledge something else. Some of the reason that there hasn’t been enough discussion about uh these uh mRNA co 19 vaccines is because because there’s a perception among some people that President Donald Trump is somehow responsible for this. I want to make it very clear. President Donald Trump last I checked he didn’t go to medical school. Okay? He doesn’t have a PhD in epidemiology or viology or immunology. His job was to lead the nation and he did that the best way he could with the information he had. The people are responsible for the carnage that we are witnessing and frankly that whether we witness it in a way that we know or witness it in a way that is unknown and I’m talking about people who die suddenly or die unexpectedly or for whatever reason. Um and but they’re no longer here to speak. Right? So that story goes away except in the minds of their loved ones. The people who are responsible are the people who had the training, you know, who had the the scientific training, the clinical training, the training in data to be able to to know when things are risky, to be able to know how to properly evaluate new products. Those are the people responsible. Dr. Dr. Anthony Fauci is one of the people that are responsible and frankly every physician who decided to bury their head in the sand instead of facing up to the fact that the patient in front of them has some condition that could or probably was related to their vaccine injury. They are responsible. We all share to some degree a level of responsibility when we have training and expertise in this area. President Donald Trump is not responsible for the carnage that we have seen. He did the best that he could with the skills and the training that he has. Trying to protect President Trump is not a reason to not take care of the millions of people who have been injured by these mRNA co 19 vaccines. We have a duty to do that. We absolutely have a duty to do that as clinicians, as scientists. We must do what we can. It is the ultimate travesty to allow this to continue to fester in the background without adequate attention. So today I want to call on the federal government NIH to expand the work that they are doing in longco to genuinely and wholly include vaccine injured people specifically people who have been injured by mRNA covid-19 vaccines. We need to study this better. We need to fund physicians who are caring for these patients clinically and who are doing scientific work in this area. And we need to create networks that allow physicians to do what they are trained to do. And you do that by facilitating communication, exchange of data and exchange of ideas. And it is long past time. I mean, this is this is a terrible tragedy that it’s still happening. even though we have a change of leadership, it is a terrible tragedy. So, so that’s what I’m calling on the federal government to do today. And um and with that, um I just I want to want to call Dr. Pier Corey to the to the podium. Thanks, Dr. Cy. Good morning. Um just want to start by saying how honored I am to be here um to speak on an issue that really is to say near and dear to my heart. It’s it’s really the central focus of my current life’s work um is trying to treat the vaccine injured and the other thing is I’m just honored to be a citizen of Florida and you know uh Dr. Latapo used the word Floridaesque and um you know I think we should all recognize that Florida has been a leader in actually science of COVID in terms of being open transparent willing to ask the tough questions and provide guidance and really look at their data transparently and share it with others. um they’ve evolved with the data you know these consensuses that were created within minutes of this COVID which is that there you know an experimental vaccine is safe and effective that was the mantra before any real data of long-term safety or efficacy was there um needed to be re-examined and I think Florida has led that uh they have very quickly acted in terms of resisting mandates coercion proof of vaccination uh they even um you know created a statewide grand jury to look into fraud fraud behind this because I guarantee you there is fraud. I’m hard to detect and provide the evidence for, but it’s there. Um, and so anyway, I’m I’m just uh um I’m I’m honored to be here and part of that. Uh I think it’s good science that’s being done. It’s science which is intended for the health of the public. You cannot make correct decisions unless you’re fully informed. So, how do you make uh health decisions unless you really are aware of the risks and benefits of any therapy that’s being recommended or offered? And that wasn’t the case in CO. We were just simply told that everything was safe and effective and many people were very trusting that was their only fault if that is a fault and uh you know like Dr. Latapo mentioned I think now uh the people are starting to ask questions because they know that they were essentially you could say lied to or misrepresented and um you know one thing I’ll say is Florida led led the charge here but um Florida will never be as fast as an astute clinician. We know this stuff before any of you. Before the studies come out, before the database analysises, we know it. Uh because we see it, those of us on the front lines. Um I will just kind of transition. I want to say a few minutes of what I’ve been doing for the last few years. But three and a half years ago, I left the system of medicine or was excommunicated, one of the two. Uh I think it was mutual. Um but I went into private practice and with the sole intent of building a a specialty practice focused on the care of the vaccine injured and long COVID. Uh I recognized that it was the greatest unmet medical need in the country. The patients were being gaslit, ignored, misdiagnosed. Um and there were legions of them in my public advocacy and wherever I traveled or asked to speak. I was talking to just innumerable vaccine injured. Um, as a curious clinician and I like challenges, I decided to take on this disease and I’ve now spent three and a half years treating patients who are chronically ill from the vaccine. Now, without going too much into the science, I personally differentiate, I use two different terms. Vaccine injury, the way I use it, I think about that as a single organ dysfunction problem. So, a stroke, a heart attack, myocarditis, an autoimmune condition, uh, what have you. When I use the term postvaccine injury syndrome, that is a constellation of symptoms. And although we know this syndrome called long COVID, and we’re only beginning to recognize long vax, um I will tell you that is what my practice specialty specializes in. Those are new terms for an old syndrome. What we’re seeing is an epidemic of a disease that has long been called myalgic and sephilitis/chronic fatigue syndrome. There’s three pillars to that diagnosis and they’re all clinical. There are no tests for this syndrome, but it’s patients who pre present with this constellation of fatigue, post exertional malaise, and some sort of cognitive dysfunction that we sometimes use brain fog. That’s not the only thing the three things they come with, but those are generally present in any patient who comes to see me. They have a whole side menu, a side list of other symptoms from sensory neuropathies, motor neuropathies, cranial symptoms, headache syndromes, tinitis, um, uh, vertigo, inflammatory syndromes. But the core is that and the Mayo Clinic called that out in 2021 in regards to COVID that they were seeing unprecedented rates of ME/CFS. Historically, ME/CFS has always been associated with infections. Most common is EBV or mono. Uh, Lyme disease can do it. Uh, myopplasma can do it. ood with COVID it’s immense and here’s what I want to tell you that in my practice we treat long co and long vax 70% of the patients in my practice became ill after the vaccine they are long vax the vast majority of what this rest of science in this country is calling long covid is actually long vax and how do I know the difference very easy it’s called temporal association if someone’s symptoms be be um you know present present within days to weeks of COVID, long COVID. If it presents within days to weeks or sometimes minutes to hours of the vaccine, it’s long vax. It’s not that complicated to know what the trigger was. And they both share pathogenic uh insults, which is this spike protein. And the the sadness, and I’ll try to wrap up because I don’t want to go too long, but the sadness is in my first year in practice, I think the value that I brought to the patients is I listened to them. They understood that I understood them. I wasn’t gaslighting them. I knew what was wrong with them or I knew what caused their illness and I was willing to try to treat it. Three and a half years later, I think the value I bring is immense clinical experience using a diversity of therapies where I’ve been able to mitigate much of their suffering and return to quite a bit of functioning. Many of them became disabled. And when I say that is so many of my patients when you take their history prior to their illness, they will report that they ate well. They were absolutely successful in their careers. They like to exercise and stay fit. They were raising their children and now they found themselves barely able to get out of bed in some cases or if they do they immediately get fatigued and they’re back in their house and a lot of them are housebound. They cannot work anymore. They become financially unhealthy. So the the amount of kind of uh ways in which they get sick is immeasurable. It’s not only physical, it’s financial, it’s sexual, like with their relationships, it’s um occupational, they can’t work. And so I see these these multiply disabled patients who are really enjoying like the peak of their lives and now are decimated. And it’s it’s an endless sadness. Uh but I’m very proud of the work I’ve done with myself and my colleagues. We’ve helped innumerable of them, but it is the most complex and idiosyncratic disease that I’ve ever encountered. And uh I hope to continue that work. And so I want to second that call that Dr. Latapo just made is that I’ve been doing this like hook in the crook like a like a gum shoe detective trying to figure out how to help these patients. But I’d love for the government to back us up and find really uh good research that can help understand the disease better, select therapies better in order to mitigate the immense suffering that I see on a daily basis. So I again I’m really appreciative and grateful that you asked me to come. Joe, thanks. Thanks. And Dr. Oh, I’m supposed to uh supposed to introduce my colleague, Dr. Walskcog. Um he’s been a longtime friend and colleague now. We met in COVID. Uh we both worked in Wisconsin together and um uh you know, just as I talked about my experiences, I will say that Dr. Walskcog um he’s been involved in really attending to supporting the vaccine injured uh not only promoting research but also uh financial support. In fact, um uh part of your early fundraising was devoted to paying for the care of many of the vaccine injured and he’s since gone on to do lots more things and uh working on changing policy and so I appreciate his organization that he co-founded which is React 19 um and everything that they’re doing and so welcome to Dr. Joe Walsk. Thank you Pierre and thank you Dr. Latapo for the invitation to speak today at the press conference here to discuss the removal of the co 19 shots in pregnant women and from the childhood immunization schedule here in thei United States. Let me be clear that co shots should have never been authorized in children and pregnant women even in emergency use. as a physician, as a person who sustained an adverse event to the madna co 19 vaccine or I should say shot and as co-chairman of react 19 which represents almost 40,000 Americans. I am hopeful that I can provide you all with some unique perspectives in the development and the safety of the co shots. I enjoyed a successful orthopedic practice in Wisconsin for 19 years. On December 30th of 2020, I received my one and only Madna shot. Within one week after this injection, I developed problems with my legs, including weakness, numbness, and loss of balance, leading to numerous falls. I was diagnosed with transverse myelitis. All my providers did not even recognize the association of the injection. Since my original diagnosis, I’ve also been diagnosed with autonomic dysfunction and an unspecified immune disorder. I was forced to medically retire. I am now co-chair of REACK 19, which is a science-based non-political nonprofit organization that represents Americans seriously injured by the CO 19 shots. Our mission is to provide the injured community with financial, physical, and emotional support. I am here today to express my profound concerns regarding the development and safety of the CO 19 shots particularly in children and pregnant women. In 2021, the American public was reassured that the clinical trials were rigorous with required oversight by our federal health regulatory agencies. We were also reassured that the roll out of the shots was carefully managed. We were repeatedly told the shots were safe. Growing evidence paints quite a different story. The process was undoubtedly rushed. Safety data was withheld or in certain instances altered. Maddie de Gary, many of you may know her story. She’s she was injured during the phase three Fiser trial. She was 14. Uh that was at uh Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. She’s 17 now, still in a wheelchair and using a feeding tube for nutrition. She has been gas lit by almost all of her providers in Ohio. And she’s currently actually up in Jacksonville re rehabilitating uh through the Ronald McDonald House. If you review that phase three clinical trial data about Maddie, her symptoms are basically reduced to a stomach ache and of course not related to her Fiser injection that received as part of the phase three clinical trial. Reporting systems such as VERS and Vsafe have been dismal failures. Are such reporting systems deficient by design is one of my questions. Our regulatory agencies such as the FDA publicly supported and openly promoted the experimental countermeasures in an obvious conflict of interest to its mission to protect Americans from drugs and medical devices. Regulatory norms were ignored. Instead of requiring pharmaceutical companies to prove the product was safe and effective, the co 19s were assumed to be safe and effective with follow-up data sometimes as short as two weeks. These products were given to pregnant and lactating women as well as children with no long-term safety data. This decision to do that is counter to hundreds of years of medical dictim not to use experimental products in pregnant lactating women and in children. I say all this to you today not to relive the past. I choose instead to admit the things we could have done better. I choose to focus on science and not polarizing, excuse me, rhetoric. In React 19, we often say we’ve had negative reactions, but we seek positive actions. Science is rarely settled. Scientific conclusions can be changed with new information. I am certainly glad and appreciative that the CO 19 shots have been removed from the childhood vaccination schedule for healthy children. This decision in healthy children, pregnant women will undoubtedly reduce future injury to these populations. However, much damage has already been done. There are countless children and adults who have been injured by the CO 19 shots. As Americans, we need to recognize our fellow citizens injured by the CO 19 shots in a non-judgmental fashion. They need acknowledgement. research, medical care, as well as fair and just compensation. I will not stop until we achieve these humanitarian goals. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Thank you very much, Dr. Okay. Well, we we’ll take a few questions. Anyone who has questions for Dr. Corey, Dr. Walskcog, or myself. the future. Yeah, very very important questions. So first of all, multiple studies now to be very clear multiple studies now show that of the two Mona and Fizer Fiser is definitely worse. Fizer is worse for cardiovascular side effects related to blood clotting. Fiser is worse for uh for neurologic effects and Fiser is worse for serious adverse events overall. A few studies have shown that Fizer may be associated with u may be associated with an increase in mortality also compared to Mona. The vaccines they are not the same. Um you know we you’ve you’ve heard my opinion Dr. Cory’s Dr. Walscog’s opinions about their use in general, but between the two of them, Fizer is definitely worse. You’ve got probably more myocarditis cases with uh with Mona, but Fizer is worse overall. And then, you know, the second question you ask is a really good one. You know, another doctor that I think probably all of us admire, a doctor named Dr. Mary Bowden in in Texas, she’s been writing a bit about how she’s been te testing antibbody levels and what she’s finding is that levels of uh antibbody to spike protein for for people who have been vaccinated who are her patients, they remain elevated for long periods of time. And that’s that’s not normal. That’s completely abnormal. So this is just part of the reason why we absolutely need more infrastructure in this area, more scientific infrastructure, more funding to support the patients and the and the physicians and the scientists who can help us understand what the long-term impacts are for all populations who’ve received these products. Any other questions? Yeah, question. So can you speak a little bit to the determination to remove it from the vaccine for healthy children versus all children? Yeah, I mean I you know I I hope that we get there. Um obviously there’s a there’s a difference. Um and I hope that we get there. Um because these these products they should not be used in any human beings and you know there’s some people who are trying to put them in animals too and and I think many of us wouldn’t want to eat that food either that meat. Sort of along those lines. What’s your recommendation for the population if they’re weighing whether or not Okay. Yeah. So I I I apologize it hasn’t been clear they shouldn’t take them. They are products that should not be going into human beings. And in terms of alternatives for individuals who are still concerned, there are a few things to recognize. First of all, you should know that there is a lot of evidence from different studies in different groups that show that the people who receive these vaccines, including older people, eventually become at increased risk of of contracting CO 19. So there’s a negative effect or negative efficacy or pardon me, negative effectiveness associated with them. Second, there are treatments. The treatments aren’t fantastic, but there are treatments. There’s a drug that that Merc makes. Uh there’s a drug that that Fizer makes called Paxvid. Um there’s a you know there’s actually another outpatient option too that’s IV. And for prevention, there’s actually a monoconal antibbody that’s been approved by the FDA. So it it essentially functions similar to a vaccine that people can take it. It’s it’s every six or 12 months or so. Um so that there are options for people beyond that. In your opinion, should the adjectives healthy and young dediversal for everyone? Yeah. So actually that brings me to the third point that I didn’t mention before. So at this point literally every walking human being, every adult has had co 19 before and the risk of an adverse outcome for someone who’s had co 19 is extremely low. So we are in the area of of uh for for certainly for young people of something that is comparable to you know to the to the cold right to rhino virus. Um you know people can still get get sick but in terms of actual major health impacts for almost virtually all young people and virtually all healthy people who’ve had this before. it’s it’s really not something that that it should be elevated to the level of other conditions that we have more concern about. And then the other thing again to mention is that increasingly it appears that the folks who have received these vaccines particularly when they’ve been boosted and particularly when they continue to be boosted appear to actually be at highest risk of becoming seriously ill from the virus. Great. Okay, take one more. Go ahead, sir. What level of optimism are you at when it comes to we’ll figure this out, we’ll get safe vaccines or maybe no vaccines? How do you feel about that in the future going forward? Um, I’m I’m a uh am I an optimistic person? I I’m not I I generally I generally think that um you know I Yeah. Yeah. No, I wouldn’t even call it optimism. Optimism is a wrong wrong word. I am confident that things are going to get better. What I don’t know is the time, how long it’s going to take, what the timeline is, but I’m very confident that things are going to get better better, and it’s really up to us to keep doing what we’re doing, what we’re doing here today. Um, what what these guys have been doing for years and what other people who have been courageous and really stood with the truth, however uncomfortable it was. Um, so with all of that, we’re going to keep going in the right direction. The more of us that do it, the faster we’ll get there. All right. Thank you guys very much.
