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Juan Williams, co-host of The Five on Fox News,
called out the network on Tuesday for its recent repeated coverage of
false stories. This was in the context of discussing the as-of-yet
unsubstantiated story that recently broke about former Secretary of
State under President Obama, and current Climate Czar John Kerry, allegedly giving classified Israeli information to Iran when he was Secretary of State, which Kerry denies.
Williams suggested using caution when reporting on the story, pointing
to two recent narratives that got a lot of airtime on Fox News that
turned out to be untrue.
One such story was the false claim that President Biden
plans to limit the amount of red meat Americans can consume as part of
his climate plan. The story was first printed in British tabloid The Daily Mail,
which combined Biden’s goal of cutting down on greenhouse gasses with a
year-old study out of the University of Michigan which suggested
cutting down on red meat as a way of doing just that. The story blew up
among conservative groups, right wing media and Republican elected
officials at all levels of government. After reporting on Biden’s
nonexistent plan for days, on Monday, Fox News issued a correction.
“To
me, when you talk about, you know, ‘Oh, is this right wing going after
John Kerry. They don’t like John Kerry.’ It just worries me,” Williams
said. “Like last week we had the hamburger story. ‘Oh, Biden’s gonna
take your hamburger.’”
Williams also pointed to another bogus story, that Vice President Harris’s
children’s book was being given out at a migrant shelter. Once again,
many in right wing media, including Fox News, jumped on the story, some
suggesting the book, Superheroes Are Everywhere, was part of an
official welcome package handed out to every child. But in reality,
only one copy of Harris’s book was given to a child at a migrant shelter
in Long Beach, California, and that particular book was a one-time
donation during a charity drive. The New York Post reporter responsible for the story resigned on Tuesday, claiming she was ordered to write it.
“Or,
you know, it’s always, ‘Kamala Harris’s book is being given to
immigrants.’ These stories are false,” Williams said, “but the right
wing echo chamber starts going crazy because you can go after a
Democrat.”
As for the Kerry story, Williams pointed out that even
staunch Republican Lindsey Graham is unsure of the validity of the
allegations.
“On this story, I think it’s important that you notice that people like Lindsey Graham,
you know, strong Republican voice out of South Carolina, says he
doesn’t know whether or not we can trust this so-called tape,” Williams
said. “The State Department saying that the timeline is way off."
After
a long year and a lot of anticipation, getting the COVID-19 vaccine can
be cause for celebration, which for some might mean pouring a drink and
toasting to their new immunity. But can alcohol interfere with your
immune response?
The short answer is that it depends on how much you drink.
There
is no evidence that having a drink or two can render any of the current
COVID vaccines less effective. Some studies have even found that over
the longer term, small or moderate amounts of alcohol might actually
benefit the immune system by reducing inflammation.
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Heavy
alcohol consumption, on the other hand, particularly over the long
term, can suppress the immune system and potentially interfere with your
vaccine response, experts say. Since it can take weeks after a COVID
shot for the body to generate protective levels of antibodies against
the novel coronavirus, anything that interferes with the immune response
would be cause for concern.
“If you are truly a moderate drinker,
then there’s no risk of having a drink around the time of your
vaccine,” said Ilhem Messaoudi, director of the Center for Virus
Research at the University of California, Irvine, who has conducted
research on the effects of alcohol on the immune response. “But be very
cognizant of what moderate drinking really means. It’s dangerous to
drink large amounts of alcohol because the effects on all biological
systems, including the immune system, are pretty severe and they occur
pretty quickly after you get out of that moderate zone.”
Moderate
drinking is generally defined as no more than two drinks a day for men
and a maximum of one drink a day for women, whereas heavy drinking is
defined as four or more drinks on any day for men and three or more
drinks for women. Keep in mind that one “standard” drink is considered
five ounces of wine, 1.5 ounces of distilled spirits, or 12 ounces of
beer.
Some of the first concerns about alcohol and COVID
vaccination began circulating after a Russian health official who warned
in December thatpeople should avoid alcohol for two weeks before
getting vaccinated and then abstain for another 42 days afterward.
According to a Reuters report, the official claimed that alcohol could
hamper the body’s ability to develop immunity against the novel
coronavirus. Her warning sparked a fierce backlash in Russia, which has
one of the world’s highest drinking rates.
In the United States,
some experts say they have heard similar concerns about whether it is
safe to drink around the time of vaccination. “We’ve been getting a lot
of questions from our patients about this,” said Dr. Angela Hewlett, an
associate professor of infectious diseases who directs the COVID
infectious diseases team at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
“Understandably, people who are receiving these vaccines want to make
sure they’re doing all the right things to maximize their immune
response.”
Clinical trials of the COVID vaccines that are
currently approved for use by the Food and Drug Administration did not
specifically look at whether alcohol had any impact on the effectiveness
of the vaccines, Hewlett said. It’s possible that there will be more
information on that in the future. But for now, most of what is known
comes from previous research, including studies that examined how
alcohol affects the immune system in humans and whether it hinders the
immune response in animals that received other vaccines.
One thing
that is clear from studies is that heavy alcohol consumption impairs
the immune response and increases your susceptibility to bacterial and
viral infections. It prevents immune cells from traveling to sites of
infection and carrying out their duties, like destroying viruses,
bacteria and infected cells; makes it easier for pathogens to invade
your cells, and causes a host of other problems.
In contrast,
moderate drinking does not seem to have this effect. In one study,
scientists exposed 391 people to five different respiratory viruses and
found that moderate drinkers were less likely to develop colds, but not
if they were smokers.
In another study, Messaoudi and colleagues
provided rhesus monkeys access to alcoholic beverages for seven months
and then looked at how their bodies responded to a vaccine against
poxvirus. Much like humans, some rhesus monkeys enjoy alcohol and will
drink a lot, while others show less interest and will limit themselves
to small amounts. The researchers found that the animals that were
chronically heavy drinkers had a weak response to the vaccine. “They had
almost a nonexistent immune response,” Messaoudi said.
The
animals that consumed only moderate amounts of alcohol, however,
generated the strongest response to the vaccine, even compared to the
teetotalers that consumed no alcohol at all. Studies in rats have found a
similar pattern: Those consuming large amounts of alcohol have only a
weak immune response to infections compared to animals given moderate
amounts of alcohol or none at all. Other studies have found that when
people drink moderately, it seems to lower inflammatory markers in their
blood.
Another reason to moderate your alcohol intake is that
heavy drinking — along with the hangover that can ensue — can
potentially amplify any side effects you might have from the COVID
vaccine, including fever, malaise or body aches, and make you feel
worse, said Hewlett of the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
Hewlett chose not to drink after getting the COVID vaccine. But she said
that people should feel free to imbibe so long as they drink within
reason.
“Having a glass of champagne probably won’t inhibit any
immune response,” she said. “I think having a celebratory beverage in
moderation is fine.”
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Cyber Ninjas Are
Also Part of Team Refuting Secretary of State Benson’s Letter Claiming
‘Operator Error’ in Election Results in Antrim County, Michigan
The Michigan case is still alive where the Secretary of
State’s office claimed that it was human error in Antrim County that
caused the error identified after the election that changed the winner
of the county from President Trump to Biden. This was identified in a
recount after the election and President Trump was announced the winner
in the county.
A lawsuit has been in place for some time led by attorney Mathew
Deperno. His team refuted this message from the Secretary of State’s
office that claimed operator error rather than machine-related errors
caused the voter discrepancy in the county. The audit team Diperno put
together includes Cyber Ninjas – the same firm running the election
audit in Maricopa County right now.
We’ve reported that the Secretary of State in Michigan is connected to George Soros:
We also reported in December that the results of Deperno’s initial
analysis of the voting machines in Antrim County included numerous
material errors and issues:
The fact that the machines sent such a material amount of ballots to
adjudication is a very BIG issue. We reported how this should be
addressed before these machines are ever used in an American election
again:
A
Michigan judge on Monday said he’ll allow a dozen tech and election
experts, including the Florida firm Cyber Ninjas and others who alleged
election fraud following the November presidential election, to refute a
secretary of state election report that determined mistakes in Michigan
voting results were caused by human error and didn’t signal
vulnerability or tampering with election machines.
Cyber Ninjas is the name of a Florida-based consulting firm
owned by Doug Logan, who’s expressed support for election fraud “Stop
the Steal” conspiracy theories on social media. The company was recently
hired by the Republican-majority Arizona Legislature to conduct an
audit of election results in Maricopa County. That audit began last
week…
Antrim
County Circuit Judge Kevin A. Elsenheimer said expert witness testimony
or any reports they produce should address only claims made in a report
published by Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s office that was
produced by J. Alex Halderman, a computer security and systems
specialist and professor at the University of Michigan.
Antrim
County became a focal point for election challengers after the clerk
there reported incorrect preliminary results that indicated
now-President Joe Biden beat former President Donald Trump in the
conservative-leaning county.
It looks like Deperno, Cyber Ninjas and others will be busy
over the next month putting together a report refuting Secretary of
State Benson’s report that the issue in Antrim County was related to
operator error.
Andrew Brown Jr. – a Black man fatally shot as sheriff's deputies executed a warrant in Elizabeth City, N.C.,
on April 21 – was described as a drug dealer in the Pasquotank County
area and had a criminal rap sheet over 180 pages long and dating back to
May 1988, according to a copy of the search warrant and other records
obtained by Fox News.
Brown's family and their
attorneys entered the Pasquotank County Sheriff's Office Monday
afternoon to be privately shown the body camera footage of the shooting –
following a two-hour delay that Pasquotank County Attorney R. Michael
Cox said happened to blur faces and complete redactions to the video.
Six
days after the shooting, authorities have provided few details about
the circumstances of Brown's death, but Pasquotank County Sheriff Tommy
Wooten II petitioned the court Monday for the public release of the
body-camera footage even as the North Carolina State Bureau of
Investigation continues its independent probe into Brown's death.
An
initial search warrant signed off by North Carolina Superior Court
Senior Resident Judge Jerry R. Tillett on April 20 states that Agent
R.D. Johnson of the Dare County Narcotics Task Force was in
communication with a confidential source who said they had been
purchasing narcotics from Brown for over one year. The informant claimed
that they had purchased different quantities of cocaine, "crack"
cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine from Brown on numerous occasions.
Brown
would sometimes travel to Dare County to deliver the narcotics,
according to the informant. Other times the informant traveled into
Elizabeth City to purchase narcotics from Brown at numerous hotel/motels
and Brown's residence on Perry Street on at least three occasions.
On
March 17, the Dare County Narcotics Task Force utilized the informant
to conduct a "controlled purchase" of a quantity of cocaine from Brown
that was recorded with audio/video devices. On March 29, the informant
carried out another controlled purchase of meth from Brown captured on
camera.
The warrant was requested by Pasquotank County Sheriff's Office Investigator D. Ryan Meads.
Meads
and other agents assigned to the Albemarle Drug Task Force are also
"familiar with Brown and know him to be a source of supply of
'crack' cocaine, cocaine, heroin/fentanyl and methamphetamine to the
Elizabeth City/ Pasquotank County area," the warrant states.
Investigators
believe the establishment at 421 Perry St. in Elizabeth City "is being
used to store, package and distribute narcotics, namely
'crack' cocaine," the warrant states. Two vehicles regularly seen at the
residence were believed to be in Brown’s possession and were being used
by him to store, traffic and distribute illegal narcotics. There is
reason to believe that the home was being used by Brown as a "secure
location" to store drugs, currency and recordation of sales or monies
owed, the warrant says.
The search warrant included photos of two
vehicles seen parked outside: a green 2004 BMW 745 LI four-door sedan
with a North Carolina license plate registered to Andrew Brown Jr., as
well as a second BMW four-door sedan that was gray in color and has a
fictitious license plate number.
The informant described Brown as a
"drug dealer" in the Elizabeth City/Pasquotank County area and admitted
to purchasing "crack" cocaine from Brown on multiple occasions. The
individual also witnessed crack cocaine inside the residence within 14
days of the application of the search warrant.
Meads
has over 1,000 hours of law enforcement training, to include drug
enforcement, narcotics investigations and identification. As an employed
law enforcement officer he has dealt with informants, conducted
surveillance, arrested suspects, seized evidence and executed search
warrants. He has successfully developed narcotics investigations and
made felony and misdemeanor arrests for violations of the North Carolina
Controlled Substance Act, according to the warrant.
The
document, which indicated the search wasn't completed, didn't list
anything found. Fox News also obtained a copy of Brown's separate
criminal rap sheet that is more than 180 pages long and dates back to
May 1988. Arrest warrants against Brown that were released last
week charged him with possession with intent to sell and deliver
three grams of each of the drugs.
Fox News' James Levinson and the Associated Press contributed to this report.