Relatives recount distress and loneliness their loved ones went through in pandemic as a result of isolation policy

“At the time it felt like a devil’s bargain – it was horrible, but it was what [we thought] we had to do to keep people safe,” says Amy of the “devastating” and “terrifying” restrictions that led to her maternal grandparents being locked down in separate care homes during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Eva and Eric had been married for more than 60 years when her dementia and his increased frailty meant they needed separate residential support. When the first lockdown was announced in March 2020, however, it in effect cut them off from each other and their granddaughter, to whom they had been especially close after the early death of Amy’s mother.

Ginebra, 21 oct (Prensa Latina) El Centro Europeo para la Prevención y el Control de Enfermedades (ECDC por sus siglas en inglés) alertó hoy que el virus del Nilo Occidental se propaga por el norte de Europa.

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When Americans vote in the midterm elections next month, it seems likely that Democrats will see decisive victories across the country.

This trend seems likely to affect Georgia's two most high-profile races differently. Sen. Jon Ossoff, a Democrat, is running for reelection against Rep. Mike Collins, a Republican who represents the state's 10th congressional district, while in the race to replace Gov. Brian Kemp, former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms faces Republican billionaire Rick Jackson.

Ossoff and Bottoms may both be Democrats, but their prospects look very different: A recent poll put Ossoff nearly seven points ahead of Collins, but Bottoms was a point and a half behind Jackson, trailing the senator from her own party by more than five points.

Democrats hope that if Ossoff does well enough, it will boost their other candidates. But it's worth asking why Bottoms, who was feted as a possible vice presidential candidate, is struggling to break even against someone with no prior name recognition, in a year expected to be a boon for her party.

It's possible that the crime and protests of 2020 could be weighing down Bottoms' candidacy in an otherwise auspicious year for Democrats.

Mayor Bottoms and the 'COVID Crime Wave'

Bottoms' single term as mayor of Georgia's capital city would be defined by summer 2020. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, violent crime rose across the country, but it was worse in Atlanta—homicides were up 59 percent, while most other cities averaged 33 percent. Bottoms herself later called it the "COVID crime wave."

Then on May 25 in Minneapolis, a police officer killed George Floyd, an unarmed black man accused of passing a counterfeit $20 bill. Footage went viral, and protesters across the country took to the streets.

In some places, including Atlanta, protests turned destructive, and the police responded in kind.

Bottoms called for peace. "If you care about this city, then go home," she exhorted rioters in a news conference. "When you burn down this city, you're burning down our community."

She won bipartisan praise. "Your passion, your composure, your balance, has been really incredible," then-presidential candidate Joe Biden told her.

But just days later, Atlanta police officers shot and killed a black man, Rayshard Brooks, in a Wendy's parking lot. Protesters gathered the next day and burned the restaurant to the ground.

Meanwhile, after the district attorney announced charges against the cops involved in Brooks' shooting, more than 170 officers called out sick in protest. Bottoms admitted that officer morale "is down tenfold."

Then on July 4, less than half a mile away from the site of Brooks' death, protesters shot into a car, killing 8-year-old Secoriea Turner.

The crime spike persisted into 2021, and in May of that year, Bottoms announced that she would not run for a second term.

Officially, she said, it was "time to pass the baton on to someone else," though her announcement "came as the city faces a homicide rate topping that of this time last year—a historically deadly one in Atlanta," Henri Hollis wrote at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Indeed, it seems the "COVID crime wave" had caught up with her: A September 2021 poll found that while 57 percent of city residents approved of the job she was doing, 53 percent also felt the city was on the wrong track, including 48 percent of Democrats. The top issue was crime, which 70 percent of respondents felt was headed in the wrong direction.

She later told New York that by stepping down, she was "putting my emotional and mental health first"—a worthy reason, though a bit odd since she now seeks an even higher office.

Then again, she also had higher aspirations. Bottoms was one of the first officeholders to endorse Biden for president in 2020, and she later made his shortlist of potential running mates. After the end of her term, she joined Biden's White House as director of the Office of Public Engagement, after which she moved over to the President's Export Council for the remainder of his term.

Bottoms announced her run for governor just four months after leaving Washington. And while she locked up the Democratic nomination easily, winning 56 percent of the vote among seven candidates, she didn't exactly fire up the base, and it seems like she just expected to coast to victory.

"It feels a lot like she gained the nomination…largely from name identification," progressive journalist Zaid Jilani tells Reason. "She really wasn't raising that much money or spending that much on television….It should be a high-profile race in many ways, but the ideas she's putting forward are fairly rehashed," and "she doesn't have that much creative advertising."

Rick Jackson's Deep Pockets and Shallow Record

Rick Jackson, meanwhile, seemed to come out of nowhere.

President Donald Trump endorsed Lt. Gov. Burt Jones in August 2025, and Jones led the Republican primary field at the end of that year.

While Kemp famously resisted Trump's efforts to subvert Georgia's presidential election results in 2020, Jones was a willing participant in the scheme.

"I've been the Trump guy since 2015, not '16," Jones bragged. "I've taken all the battle scars and everything else. I know who ran and hid during 2020 and everything else."

Then in February 2026, just three months before the primary, Jackson entered the race. He was a septuagenarian with no name recognition, but he was also quite wealthy, so he blanketed the state with ads to introduce himself to voters.

In six weeks, he spent over $30 million—"more than any candidate has ever spent in a primary race for Georgia governor, with more than two months before the May 19 election," wrote Jeff Amy of the Associated Press.

It worked: Jackson beat Jones in a primary runoff with 53 percent of the vote. By then, he had spent $108 million on his campaign while raising less than $400,000 from donors.

Jackson has made much of his background, as a child of poverty who entered the foster system at age 13 to escape a dysfunctional household. As an adult, he started in sales and worked his way up to entrepreneurship, starting Jackson Healthcare in 2000 and growing it to more than $1 billion in annual revenues. He is also a generous donor to charitable causes, particularly those relating to foster care.

But with no political record, Jackson can be hard to pin down on certain issues.

For example, one Jackson ad criticizes Bottoms for the rise of data centers in Atlanta, even though he has also spoken positively of their economic potential.

Georgia Democrats have tarred Jackson as a Trumpian election denier, singling out a comment he made at a campaign event: When asked if the 2020 election was stolen, Jackson replied, "That was totally ridiculous what happened in 2020 and our people really let us down." ("Just as Governor Kemp did, Rick acknowledges both Biden's win and that there were issues in the 2020 election that needed to be resolved in order to ensure Georgians have faith in our electoral system," a campaign spokesperson told CNN.)

During the primaries, he even took heat from both sides on abortion: Jones accused Jackson's company of working with Planned Parenthood, while Jackson himself seemed to suggest he wanted to change the state's abortion ban to remove exceptions for rape or incest. ("Rick believes we have a strong pro-life law in place and he wants to keep it as it is," his campaign said in a statement.)

And while he made Trump-like pledges, like to "make Georgia No. 1 in the nation for criminal deportations" and keep "the religion of woke ideology" out of schools, his platform calls for an "intelligent Medicaid expansion" in the state.

Jackson has also pivoted just over the course of the campaign.

He bragged in his campaign announcement video that he "donated a million bucks to Trump," and he's said that if elected, he would be "just like" Trump but "with a southern tone."

He said Trump had "no bigger supporter" than himself, and he could not name a single Trump policy he disagreed with. When Trump endorsed Jackson at a campaign rally in July, the candidate pointed to the president and said, "I'm going to be this man's favorite governor."

But like many other Republicans, Jackson has distanced himself from the president, whose approval rating is at an all-time low. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that in campaign appearances, Jackson has stopped mentioning Trump directly, preferring to compare himself to Kemp, the sitting governor who remains popular.

He apparently also scrubbed all mentions of the president from his campaign website.

But one thing that has remained consistent in Jackson's campaign strategy is criticizing Bottoms' record as mayor.

Will the 'COVID Crime Wave' Sink Bottoms?

Some of Jackson's campaign ads feature grateful children who grew up in foster care and benefited from his philanthropy, but for the most part, they have targeted Bottoms over her record.

One ad, titled "Disaster," paints Bottoms' tenure as exactly that, with the city becoming practically unlivable during summer 2020.

"Keisha ended cash bail, gutted the corrections budget, let Atlanta burn, and unleashed a crime wave," Jackson wrote on X to accompany another ad. "Then she walked away."

"If Keisha wants to run from her record," according to a campaign email, "we're going to make sure Georgia remembers exactly what that record was."

Many Jackson ads, flyers, and mailers have featured images of Secoriea Turner, the 8-year-old girl killed by gunfire. (Turner's parents have asked Jackson's campaign to stop.)

But is it fair to blame everything on Bottoms? While Atlanta was worse than most, many major cities saw large homicide spikes: Chicago's murder rate climbed more than 50 percent that year, while New York City's went up nearly 40 percent. Murders in Columbus, Ohio, rose a staggering 67 percent.

Regardless, Bottoms was in charge at the time. And the attacks do seem to have an effect, as she's locked in a dead heat against Jackson.

Granted, Bottoms was never a particularly strong candidate. When she ran for mayor in 2017, she won the runoff election by fewer than 800 votes, even with the endorsement of the outgoing mayor.

Georgia also has not elected a Democratic governor in nearly three decades, though it has elected Democrats to the U.S. Senate three times since 2020 and seems poised to reelect one this year.

There's also the fact of Jackson's money, saturating the state with eight-figure ad buys while Democrats were spending only a fraction of that.

Of course, money alone can't buy a victory: Kemp defeated Stacey Abrams in each of the last two races for governor, despite being comfortably outraised and outspent each time.

But Bottoms currently trails Ossoff by five points in an election cycle expected to be quite beneficial to their party.

It seems the race will serve as an indicator of how fresh the summer of COVID-19 still feels for Georgians.

"To the kind of voter that Jackson is courting, it probably is true that had Democrats [instead] nominated the mayor of Macon [a smaller Georgia city], they would be in a stronger position than nominating the mayor of Atlanta, especially one who was in power during those years," Jilani tells Reason. "If he wins, it demonstrates that that is still a fairly potent line of attack."

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Latest report paints a painful picture of the care sector during the pandemic. But timid recommendations and a lack of accountability threaten to undermine it

Of all 10 reports due to be published by the long-running Covid-19 inquiry, this week’s findings on adult social care were especially anticipated.

The impact of Covid-19 on the care sector was calamitous: tens of thousands of people died, staff were forced to wear bin bags due to a lack of protective clothing and relatives were banned from seeing their loved ones in their dying days.

Inquiry chair says failure to advise care homes to isolate people discharged from hospital was ‘significant oversight’

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The care sector was “an afterthought” during the Covid-19 pandemic, and government failures caused the virus to spread “like wildfire” among vulnerable and elderly people, a public inquiry has found.

Heather Hallett, who is leading the Covid-19 inquiry, said it was a “significant omission” that the government did not advise that patients discharged from hospitals into care homes should be isolated, causing the virus to spread rapidly among residents and staff.

“Credetemi, non so quanto resisterò ancora”. Con queste parole Francesco Totti ha riunito i suoi figli a distanza di sicurezza in una stanza della sua villa, convinto di non riuscire a superare le conseguenze del Covid-19. Nell’autunno del 2020, l’ex capitano della Roma ha affrontato una polmonite bilaterale severa, a poche settimane dalla morte del padre Enzo per la stessa malattia.

La ricostruzione di quei giorni, segnati dal crollo dell’ossigenazione e dal rifiuto categorico del ricovero ospedaliero, è contenuta nelle pagine della sua nuova autobiografia, di cui il quotidiano Leggo ha riportato gli stralci più significativi. A sbloccare il quadro clinico è stato l‘intervento di Pier Silvio Berlusconi e le indicazioni mediche a distanza di Alberto Zangrillo.

L'articolo “Pier Silvio Berlusconi mi ha salvato la vita. Non volevo fare la fine di mio padre, ho detto: ‘Se devo morì, voglio morì a casa mia, non rinchiuso qui dentro senza rivedere i miei figli”: il racconto di Totti nel suo libro proviene da Il Fatto Quotidiano.

Influenza, Covid e prevenzione: l’intervista a Fabrizio Pregliasco sui rischi della stagione invernale, sull’importanza delle vaccinazioni e sulle nuove sfide sanitarie

Con l’arrivo della stagione autunnale e invernale torna alta l’attenzione sulle infezioni respiratorie, dalla influenza stagionale al Covid-19, fino ai virus che possono provocare complicanze soprattutto nei soggetti più fragili. Quali rischi dobbiamo aspettarci, quanto conta la prevenzione vaccinale e come affrontare il crescente problema dell’antibiotico-resistenza?

A questi interrogativi risponde il professor Fabrizio Pregliasco, virologo e direttore sanitario dell’IRCCS Ospedale Galeazzi-Sant’Ambrogio di Milano. Un approfondimento che, partendo dalle prospettive della stagione influenzale, affronta anche il tema della preparazione alle future pandemie e dell’importanza di una corretta informazione sanitaria.

L’intervista del Prof. Placido Bramanti (Affaritaliani) al Prof. Fabrizio Pregliasco

Influenza stagionale, rischi e prevenzione

Professor Pregliasco, con l’arrivo dell’autunno e dell’inverno, quali virus dobbiamo aspettarci e come possiamo proteggerci?

Come spiega il professor Fabrizio Pregliasco, durante la stagione invernale circolano diversi virus respiratori, tra cui quello influenzale, il virus respiratorio sinciziale e il metapneumovirus. “Nelle persone giovani e in buona salute queste infezioni provocano generalmente sintomi lievi. Negli anziani e nei soggetti fragili, invece, possono causare complicanze importanti, aggravando patologie preesistenti“. Le previsioni indicano una stagione di media intensità, con circa 12-14 milioni di italiani colpiti dalle infezioni respiratorie, anche se molto dipenderà dalle condizioni meteorologiche. Pregliasco ricorda inoltre che la vera influenza si distingue per febbre elevata a esordio brusco, sintomi respiratori e dolori muscolari o articolari, mentre le forme più lievi sono spesso provocate da altri virus.

Qual è l’impatto di queste infezioni e quali sono le categorie maggiormente a rischio?

I bambini sono tra i più colpiti, anche per la minore esperienza immunologica. Nei più piccoli, il virus respiratorio sinciziale può provocare la bronchiolite, contro la quale oggi sono disponibili anticorpi monoclonali a scopo preventivo. I rischi maggiori riguardano però anziani e pazienti con patologie croniche. “Si stimano tra i 10 e i 15 mila decessi legati alle complicanze dell’influenza, soprattutto per sovrainfezioni e aggravamento di malattie cardiovascolari e respiratorie“. Nei periodi più critici dell’inverno, inoltre, i ricoveri ospedalieri tra gli anziani possono aumentare del 15-20%, contribuendo alla pressione sui pronto soccorso.

Quanto è importante la prevenzione e quale ruolo svolgono i vaccini?

La vaccinazione è fondamentale per ridurre il rischio delle forme gravi, soprattutto nelle persone vulnerabili. “Non disponiamo di vaccini contro tutti i virus respiratori, ma abbiamo strumenti efficaci per prevenire molte complicanze“. Pregliasco richiama l’attenzione anche sul Covid-19, ancora pericoloso per i soggetti fragili, raccomandando di valutare sia il vaccino antinfluenzale sia quello contro il Covid, somministrabili nella stessa seduta. “Nei pazienti fragili è importante effettuare il test Covid in presenza di sintomi respiratori: una diagnosi tempestiva consente, quando indicato, di intervenire con antivirali come il Paxlovid, riducendo il rischio di complicanze“.

Vaccini ed esitazione vaccinale

Quanto sono utili i test per distinguere influenza e Covid-19 e quali vaccini sono più indicati?

Secondo Pregliasco, i test diagnostici sono particolarmente importanti per i soggetti fragili e per chi li assiste, così da limitare la trasmissione del Covid-19. Per le comuni infezioni virali, il trattamento è generalmente sintomatico. “È importante evitare l’uso improprio degli antibiotici, che non sono efficaci contro i virus“. Il professore evidenzia inoltre la scarsa adesione vaccinale: “Tra gli ultrasettantacinquenni la copertura antinfluenzale è intorno al 50%, mentre i richiami contro il Covid-19 nelle persone a rischio sono sotto il 10%“. Per anziani e soggetti fragili sono disponibili vaccini antinfluenzali potenziati, con adiuvante MF59 o ad alto dosaggio, capaci di stimolare una risposta immunitaria più efficace. La scelta va effettuata con il medico in base alle caratteristiche del paziente.

Da cosa dipende la diffidenza verso i vaccini e come si può migliorare la sensibilizzazione?

Pregliasco osserva che, dopo la pandemia, è aumentata la sfiducia verso le vaccinazioni, anche a causa delle fake news diffuse sui social. Un fenomeno che coinvolge anche vaccini consolidati, contribuendo alla ricomparsa di malattie come il morbillo. “Accanto a una minoranza di no-vax ideologici, esiste una fascia più ampia di persone esitanti, che sottovaluta i rischi dell’influenza perché in passato l’ha superata senza conseguenze“. Il problema riguarda soprattutto chi, dopo i 60-65 anni, sviluppa patologie croniche senza percepire l’aumento della propria vulnerabilità. Per il professore, è fondamentale una comunicazione scientifica trasparente, che illustri benefici e possibili effetti avversi dei vaccini: “Occorre distinguere i rischi reali dalle fake news, aiutando le persone a compiere scelte consapevoli“.

Vaccinazioni complementari e antibiotico-resistenza

Esistono ulteriori vaccini per proteggere i polmoni? Possono essere somministrati insieme all’antinfluenzale?

Pregliasco sottolinea l’importanza del vaccino antipneumococcico, che protegge dalle infezioni causate dallo Streptococcus pneumoniae, tra i principali responsabili delle polmoniti batteriche. “L’influenza può indebolire le difese dell’organismo e favorire sovrainfezioni batteriche. Vaccinarsi contro lo pneumococco offre quindi un’ulteriore protezione, soprattutto ai soggetti fragili“. La vaccinazione antinfluenzale può essere l’occasione per programmare anche quelle contro Covid-19, pneumococco ed herpes zoster, nell’ambito di un piano vaccinale personalizzato.

È possibile effettuare più vaccini nella stessa seduta oppure è necessario attendere tra una somministrazione e l’altra?

Secondo Pregliasco, due o tre vaccini possono essere somministrati contemporaneamente, in sedi differenti, senza necessariamente aumentare gli effetti indesiderati. “Esistono alcune precauzioni per determinati vaccini vivi attenuati, ma generalmente non riguardano le vaccinazioni raccomandate agli anziani“. Quando opportuno, le somministrazioni possono essere distribuite in appuntamenti successivi, senza intervalli obbligatori per i vaccini considerati.

Quali rischi comporta l’uso eccessivo degli antibiotici e come possiamo contrastare l’antibiotico-resistenza?

Pregliasco richiama l’attenzione sull’abuso di antibiotici, spesso prescritti anche per infezioni virali o assunti autonomamente dai pazienti. “Gli antibiotici non agiscono contro i virus e non devono essere utilizzati preventivamente per evitare eventuali sovrainfezioni batteriche“. Una complicanza batterica può manifestarsi dopo un apparente miglioramento dell’infezione, con un nuovo peggioramento dei sintomi. In questi casi, il medico può ricorrere, quando indicato, a esami microbiologici e all’antibiogramma per individuare la terapia appropriata. È fondamentale, inoltre, rispettare dosi e durata della prescrizione, senza interrompere o prolungare autonomamente il trattamento. “L’antibiotico è come la lama di un coltello: ogni utilizzo improprio rischia di comprometterne l’efficacia. Ma mentre un coltello può essere affilato, un antibiotico contro il quale i batteri hanno sviluppato resistenza può diventare inutilizzabile“.

Contagio e rischio di nuove pandemie

Quando una persona con l’influenza può considerarsi non più contagiosa e tornare alla normale vita sociale?

Pregliasco spiega che la contagiosità può iniziare già uno o due giorni prima della comparsa dei sintomi e proseguire durante la malattia. “Finché persistono sintomi respiratori, soprattutto tosse e starnuti, può esserci ancora un rischio di contagio. I farmaci antinfiammatori e sintomatici alleviano i disturbi, ma non eliminano l’infezione né riducono la contagiosità“. Il professore raccomanda quindi il riposo, quando possibile, per favorire il recupero ed evitare di esporre altre persone al contagio.

Qual è la sua valutazione sul piano pandemico italiano e sulla capacità di affrontare nuove emergenze sanitarie?

Pregliasco esprime preoccupazione per alcune posizioni politiche che rischiano, a suo giudizio, di indebolire la cooperazione sanitaria internazionale e la preparazione alle future pandemie. “Il Covid-19 ci ha insegnato l’importanza dello scambio tempestivo di informazioni tra Paesi. La collaborazione internazionale è indispensabile per affrontare emergenze che non conoscono confini“. Pur riconoscendo una maggiore capacità di risposta del sistema sanitario italiano dopo la pandemia, il professore sottolinea la necessità di rafforzare prevenzione e coordinamento.

“Prima del Covid-19 temevamo soprattutto virus influenzali come H5N1. Oggi parliamo di patogeno X, cioè della possibilità che una nuova pandemia sia provocata da un agente infettivo ancora sconosciuto“. La densità della popolazione mondiale, la rapidità degli spostamenti internazionali e i conflitti possono favorire la diffusione delle infezioni, rendendo necessaria una pianificazione preventiva. “Le pandemie hanno attraversato tutta la storia dell’umanità. Dobbiamo prepararci prima dell’emergenza, investendo nella ricerca, nella prevenzione e nella collaborazione internazionale“.

Il confronto con il professor Fabrizio Pregliasco ha permesso di approfondire temi di grande rilevanza per la salute pubblica, dalla prevenzione delle infezioni respiratorie all’importanza delle vaccinazioni, fino ai rischi legati all’antibiotico-resistenza e alla necessità di prepararci alle future emergenze sanitarie. Ne emerge un messaggio chiaro: la prevenzione, un’informazione scientifica corretta e una maggiore consapevolezza dei cittadini rappresentano strumenti fondamentali per tutelare la salute, soprattutto delle persone più fragili.

L'articolo Influenza e virus respiratori, Pregliasco: “Vaccini fondamentali per proteggere i più fragili” proviene da Affaritaliani.it.

“What plague?” an Irkutsk resident exclaims when the epidemiological crisis that has put this small Siberian city near Mongolia on the front pages over the past week is mentioned. “Do you see me wearing a mask?” the annoyed clerk at a pharmacy retorts when asked whether she has noticed any concern over reports of quarantines and the death of a laboratory worker. “Whatever the authorities say, we’ll obey. We all obey the authorities,” say two elderly women, carefree as they sit on swings in a park in Shelekhov, the suburb that their own governor advised people not to visit due to “a particularly dangerous infection.”

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A comprehensive atlas of the 18 main respiratory viruses circulating in Catalonia, produced for the first time in Spain by researchers from that northeastern region, reveals that the coronavirus that caused the Covid-16 pandemic — SARS-CoV-2 — “is currently not a winter virus. In recent years, it has shown clear peaks during the spring and summer, which is different from what was initially expected.”

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A significant increase in West Nile virus infections is being recorded in Greece, with 45 new locally acquired cases reported over the past week, bringing the total number to 110 since the start of the 2026 season through 12 August. Of these, 81 patients developed severe central nervous system manifestations, while nine deaths have also […]

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The number of West Nile virus infections in Greece continues to rise, according to an announcement of the National Public Health Organization (EODY), which on Wednesday reported 23 additional locally acquired cases over the past week. Since the start of the surveillance period and up to 5 August, 2026, a total of 65 locally acquired […]

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The cover image shows Dr. Fauci showing Trump the 2020 COVID studies during Operation Warp Speed ​​to fund the Moderna vaccine.

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Trump suggests Fauci should be prosecuted. But he only faces a few months in prison

U.S. President ​Donald Trump on Thursday suggested that Dr. ‌Anthony Fauci should be prosecuted, hours after Republican Senator Rand Paul said that he would ask the Justice ​Department to do so after US Senate panel voted the contempt of Congress.

When asked if the Justice Department should prosecute Fauci, Trump ‌told ⁠reporters that former aides Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon had faced similar action “over something that essentially was never prosecuted before, and there are ​sort of telltale ​signs ⁠of similarity.”

The Republican president added: “When you see that happen, you sort of ​say maybe he should (be prosecuted). What ​he did ⁠is far more serious than a lot of crimes, frankly.”

The criminal offense of contempt of Congress is a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not more than $100,000 nor less than $100 and imprisonment in a common jail for not less than one month nor more than twelve months.

Therefore, even if the preemptive pardon Biden received, which protects the virologist from any conviction, is not deemed valid, he would only risk a few months in prison.

A ridiculous punishment when compared to the fact that the American virologist, a White House consultant also during the first Trump administration, was accused of having contributed to the laboratory construction of SARS-Cov-2 and of having induced the Biden administration to impose mandatory vaccination on many professional categories despite the vaccines being experimental and potentially lethal, as demonstrated by multiple scientific studies even before they were released on the market.

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US Senate panel votes to hold former official Fauci in contempt of Congress

A United States Senate panel has voted to hold former health official Anthony Fauci, a key figure in the country’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, in contempt of Congress.

The move on Thursday came after Fauci last week invoked the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution, which includes the right to remain silent, during a hearing before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. The 8-5 vote fell along party lines.

Fauci, the former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), charged that the Republican-led hearing was designed to entrap him. He had previously been pre-emptively pardoned by former President Joe Biden after a politically divisive government response to the pandemic, which included school closures and vaccine promotion.

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Fauci blames the committee chairman, Sen. Rand Paul: “He wants me behind bars”

In his opening statements last week, Fauci accused the committee chairman, Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, of having an “unhinged obsession” with him, arguing he had previously cooperated in several congressional hearings and investigations following the pandemic.

“The only conclusion I can reach is that the sole reason he is calling me before this committee is to get me to say something – anything – that could vindicate his repeated public pledges that I end up, in his words – quote – ‘behind bars’,”Fauci said.

After the vote on Thursday, the panel could refer Fauci to the Department of Justice for possible criminal prosecution.

Speaking before the vote, Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut said there was “virtually no chance that a court would actually approve any contempt because [Fauci] had a well-founded fear of self-incrimination, which entitled him to invoke the Fifth Amendment”.

Rand, meanwhile, argued that Fauci’s decision to deliver an opening statement decrying the hearing before invoking his Fifth Amendment right during questioning, showed he was “trying to have it both ways”.

Democrats and critics have charged that last week’s hearing, which comes six years after the pandemic spread across the US, was a purely political exercise that shed no new light on the issue.

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Fauci invokes Fifth Amendment refusing to anwer alla questions on Covid-19 before the US Senate

The investigation into Covid-19, from the origins of SARS-CoV-2, built in laboratories in China and the US, to experimental vaccines comparable to innovative and dangerous gene therapies, concludes in three sentences.

Anyone who expected to see a Western-style battle before the United States Congress between former White House virologist Anthony Fauci and Senator Rand Paul was certainly disappointed.

Those of us who knew full well that Fauci has enough biological weapons secrets to arrest hundreds of Pentagon officials feared he would get away with it by invoking the Fifth Amendment and refusing to answer any questions to avoid the risk of perjury.

Dr. Anthony Fauci was asked at least 111 questions today during a contentious congressional hearing on the origins of COVID-19 and his role in leading the government’s response to the pandemic. And at least 111 times (details in The Defender article among the sources), Fauci said the same thing:

“On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.”

But the key phrase that foreshadowed this attitude had already emerged from the famous “Diaries” of the former Director of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases…

Perhaps the only truly important one in a diary of private notes that contradicts his policy on the Covid emergency, as his emails, which ended up in the two investigations of the Senate and the House of Representatives, had already done.

The notable passages document his initially amicable relationship with President Trump—who called him “the smartest person in the world” and said “We are counting on you.”

And in light of the statements of the POTUS, who has returned to lead the star-spangled nation, it seems we can still count on it…

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This testimony was particularly anticipated after a CIA whistleblower confirmed both Fauci’s role in SARS virus experiments in China and his attempts to hide the artificial origin of the Covid pandemic virus, supported by the same counterintelligence agency.

Sen. Rand Paulwarned former government health official Fauci that there would be “repercussions”

Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky warned former government health official and COVID czar Dr. Anthony Fauci that there would be “repercussions” for his refusal to answer questions during a Senate hearing on Wednesday. Paul proceeded to ask questions of Fauci anyway, who then repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment (details in The Western Journal article among the sources),

The senator responded, “The chairman has denied your assertion of privilege and directed you to answer [the questions]. You nonetheless refused and stand on privilege despite the existence of the pardon.”

“The committee will have to consider after this hearing what appropriate action should be taken against you for the failure to testify after being directed to do so. It’s against the law to obstruct an investigation of Congress. There will be repercussions,”Paul said.

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“Then Chairman Paul put a contempt resolution on next week’s Senate calendar” The Substack Duty to Dissent detailed (among the sources).

But a few hours before the important hearing, US President Donald Trump intervened. In one of his many posts on Truth, where he practices the administration of a democratic country without having to verify that it is within the law, he effectively “protected” the former White House health and Covid-19 emergency adviser from the media spotlight.

Trump blames Fauci of “Crazy Ideas,” not Bioterrorism: to protect Warp Speed ​​on Moderna vaccine

He called him a “crazy man” and not the bioterrorist many believe him to be, given that he is among the prime suspects for having created a SARS-CoV-2 in various experiments funded by the Pentagon’s DARPA in the US, China, Ukraine, and the UK...

He is also accused of having sworn on the efficacy and safety of experimental mRNA vaccines that turned out not to be so.

But precisely because Trump doesn’t want to admit that he funded a project to test dangerous gene therapies on hundreds of millions of American citizens, with high risks of adverse reactions such as myocarditis, strokes, and turbo-cancer, he has effectively issued an unwritten “pardon” that will protect Facui from the risk of prison or even a possible federal trial.

«Many more people died of Covid under the Biden Administration than under the Trump Administration. “Operation Warp Speed” was a SPECTACULAR SUCCESS, in fact, many say, one of the most successful things ever done by an American President. I overrode Fauci on this. His ideas were CRAZY!» Trump posted.

«Also, I said from the beginning that the Virus came from the Wuhan Laboratory in China. Fauci strongly disagreed, always trying to protect China. I Inherited Fauci, who was there since the 1980’s, but with each passing day, relied less and less on him. He made too many bad calls, like on MASKS. Remember at the beginning he was an anti-masker. He then switched to a super-masker» the US president added on Truth.

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«In any event I didn’t let him shut the Country down, although he wanted to. I went the Federalist way, and let the governors decide. The Republican governors did a much better job than the Dumocrats. Fauci was largely taken out of play, and then along came Sleepy Joe Biden, who made Fauci a “King!” I called Biden to tell him Fauci was no good, either didn’t have a clue, or was dishonest. The call was well received, but sadly, not acted on. Biden went on to give Fauci vast destructive power. The rest is history! President DJT»

The ODNI-Gabbard Dossier on Fauci, Wuhan and SARS-Cov-2 Manmade

These words reveal a distancing from the state virologist, clearly highlighted in the dossier that Tulsi Gabbard, the outgoing director of the ODNI, declassified as the last act of her tenure as head of the US Intelligence Community.

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This dossier highlights the well-known and notorious research activities on the Gain-of-Function-enhanced SARS virus in the laboratories of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, but it contains perhaps less damning documents than those published by Gospa News on the Pentagon’s secret activity in the construction of recombinant chimeric viruses such as SARS-CoV-2, whose lethality derives primarily from the insertion of the HIV-AIDS pathogen plasmid.

Trump’s words of heavy moral censure, faced with the gravity of a laboratory-prepared pandemic and a holocaust caused by COVID-19 mRNA vaccines that can cause cancer (as Moderna knew well before releasing them), feel like a small slap in the face.

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“The rest is history” conclude Trump… Why bring to trial the human archive of American bioterrorism, which since the anthrax emergency in 2001 has hidden behind the alibi of national biodefense?

Why make Americans wonder why Ralph Baric, Fauci’s operational arm at the University of North Carolina, published a study in 2017 on “The Recipe for Building a Laboratory-Based COVID”during the Trump administration, and in 2018, DARPA, together with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, funded top-secret experiments on the SARS virus at the UK’s Pirbright Institute?

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Why should Americans risk knowing that Trump’s own aides, or even Trump himself, knew full well about those dangerous experiments, just as the White House knew—or should have known—that Operation Warp Speed ​​funded Moderna’s vaccine, developed with the help of DARPA, Fauci, and Baric, but curiously patented nine months before the emergence of Covid-19 in China.

But we must not forget that during its multiple research activities on vaccines, Big Pharma Moderna of Cambridge (Massachusetts), financed by the Bill Gates foundation, developed in 2016 an artificial human gene that turned out to have a genomic makeup practically identical to that of SARS-Cov-2.

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“The rest is history” sentenced Trump…

“Rest in Peace” doctor Fauci, now you can secretely work in the Italian National Anti-Pandemic Center through one of your best close collaborator of NIAID: Barney Graham, former deputy director of the Vaccine Research Center (VRS) inside the ational Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (in the previous pics above beside Trump),

His hidden employer, however, always has the same three-letter name: CIA aka Central Intelligence Agency.

Stay tuned and subscribe Gospa newsletter because in the next days we will publish an investigation on the Genesis of Fauci Bioterrorism… 

PS I’ve added below the article by John Leake, published on Peter McCuollough’s Substack, “Focal Points,” which confirms my analysis in every detail in his post titled “Why Prosecuting Fauci is Off Limits”

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Why Prosecuting Fauci is Off Limits

Discovery and prosecution of the former NIAID director would expose the entire rotten edifice of the US government. The liabilities would be astronomical.

by John Leake – originally published on his Substack Focal Points

All the links to previous Gospa News article have been added in the aftermath

Octavian (later the Emperor Augustus) was offended when Mark Antony cheated on his sister (Octavia the Younger) with Cleopatra. However, he also knew that the embarrassing affair that became the talk of the town in Rome served his ultimate design to get rid of Mark Antony.

Had Antony shown real contrition, left Cleopatra, and returned to Rome to patch things up with Octavia, it would have derailed Octavian’s plan to seize unrivaled power.

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A close study of history teaches us that whenever the populace is treated to the spectacle of a powerful man being pilloried and lampooned, it is almost certainly a distraction from the true, behind-the-scenes exercise or preservation of power.

I’m pretty sure that everyone in Washington understands that prosecuting Anthony Fauci—and the official discovery it would entail—would be the end of the US government because the liabilities would be incalculably astronomical.

Fauci’s NIAID was the lynchpin of the Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex that perpetrated a massive crime against all of humanity.—literally ALL of the earth’s inhabitants. As I noted in my poster yesterday (President Biden’s Preemptive Pardon of Fauci) the following is clearly evident from the enormous paper trail.

• Knew that Daszak, Baric, et al. were conducting GoF research with their colleagues at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (a Chinese biosecurity lab connected with the Chinese military).
• Knew that Baric et al. were creating SARS coronavirus variants capable of infecting and causing pathogenesis in humans.
• Knew that the NIH continued to fund (and therefore to endorse) the research of Baric et al. even after the federal pause on GoF in October 2014.
• Knew that Moderna patented the genetic sequence of the SARS-CoV-2 furin cleavage site in 2016.
• Knew that his own NIAID began collaborating with Moderna in 2016 to develop an mRNA vaccine against coronaviruses.

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NIAID Collaboration with Moderna

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists at NIAID’s Vaccine Research Center and the biotechnology company Moderna had collaborated for four years on mRNA vaccines for other emerging infectious diseases.

• Knew (documented in his private email correspondence with eminent virologists in February 2020) that the genome SARS-CoV-2 displayed clear features of lab manipulation.
• Fraudulently concealed that SARS-CoV-2 was produced in a lab by directing the publication of The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2, authored by the same virologists who had just told him in private that the virus appeared to have come from a lab.

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In other words, Anthony Fauci was a leading conspirator in perpetrating this crime, fraudulently concealing it, suppressing early treatment for it, and promoting the dangerous, experimental mRNA vaccine that NIAID (of which he was the director) developed with Moderna.

The trouble for the sewer known as the US government is that EVERY stinking agency—HHS, DoD, DARPA, BARDA, CIA, FBI—all of them understood the obvious reality of what was going on.

As for the parcel of imbecilic and venal elected representatives in Congress and the White House—stupidity and cowardice aren’t a persuasive defense.

Senators Paul and Johnson are perfect gentlemen, acting in good faith, but I suspect they too know that if this horror show is officially revealed in the discovery phase of a criminal trial against Anthony Fauci, it would be the end of the entire rotten edifice of the US government. The liabilities with respect to all of humanity would be too astronomical.

Fauci also understands that he is, in the language of the Sicilian and Neapolitan mafia, “intoccabile”—untouchable.

FULL ARTICLE CONTINUES HERE ON FOCAL POINTS

John Leake – originally published on his Substack Focal Points

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