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Reid G Sheftall, M.D.'s avatar

Also Jay mentioned we agreed about the vaccine not blocking the transmission of the virus but the issue was how fast I figured it out. Jay himself told me in other videos it was impossible for me to have figured it out that fast. No one else was able to figure it out until 2 1/2 months later because they didn't understand immunity-in-place, didn't use calculus, didn't know the distribution of the rollout , and didn't subtract the placebo effect as you must do, among other things. I took all that into consideration and it was clear it wasn't blocking transmission by January 1 but I waited until it was correct to 399 parts out of 400 on January 15, 2021 to announce it to the world. I was right on everything. I wasn't about to be wrong on this. The rest of the medical community didn't catch on until April! And Fauci and Walensky kept saying "if you get the vaccine you and the people around you are protected" into July. It was absolutely criminal because people got Covid when they thought they were protected.

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Reid G Sheftall, M.D.'s avatar

Just a quick correction of Dr. Bhattacharya's summary above. Dr . Leanna's last name is Wen, not Nguyen. She is of Chinese descent, not Vietnamese. . The two spellings are pronounced similarly, and that is why Dr. Jay mixed up the spelling.

Also I wanted to add a few things that are confusing. When I derived the IFR from the DIAMOND PRINCESS Cruise ship, the quotient came out to be about .3%. I wanted to add that my final value came out to be .1% and why but Jay needed to move on to the next topic. .You have to reduce the quotient because the average age on the ship which was 68 years is much higher than the average age in the countries that want to know what the actual IFR is; around 47 years. When you make this adjustment, it comes out to be .1%. Jay's came out I think, about 4-5x higher from his seroprevalence study but that was because he missed the ones who no longer had antibodies in their blood after 3 months (because they're gone by then because several half lives have gone by by then) but had been infected (so his denominator was too small , making the quotient too large).

A few other things. The volume of my cosmetic surgery patients did stop during the lockdowns and this hurt me because I needed the income to pay for the OR time and anesthesia on the free surgeries as I have gotten only $1500 in donations over 23 years and I have to pay about $2000 out of my own pocket for each operation I do- the open heart cases, much, much more-. I've done 1514 in the 23 years. (I was a plastic surgeon for 21 years before I got my training in pediatric cardiac surgery.)

Another thing I wanted to add was, please don't be too hard on Jay for moving on to the next topic when I had more to say. I know everything about this and can talk for hours on every topic, mistake free, and Jay knows this. But Jay had many topics he wanted to cover and wanted to limit it to one hour. Jay was nice enough to let us go over by 20 minutes.

One thing I was disappointed to not be able to explain was how I proved the vaccine was released deliberately and this of course is incredibly important. Maybe Jay will have me back on to present my proof so we can discuss it. I haven't been wrong on anything yet and I'm certain I'm right on this too. 16 Firsts and 4 Onlys. They're all in my new book coming out very soon- in about a week. I hope you'll get a copy and give some out as Christmas gifts.

Thank you for reading. Sorry I was so long-winded.

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Donna's avatar

What is the title of the book?

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Henry Engelking's avatar

Dr. Sheftall had information and thoughts he wanted to share but too many redirections, and he never got a chance. Disappointing.

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Donna's avatar

That is why they should release the 24 hours they have previously recorded. YouTube took them down, is what I recall them saying.

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Trying hard's avatar

Thank you for this gentlemen. Very interesting. Easily could have listened another hour. So much to cover. I have been to Cambodia several times and am closely tied to a sweet family there. Both parents were their family's only survivors of the killing fields. They live in Siem Reap. The father normally guides tourists to the ruins. What was not mentioned in the interview were 2 big points that I do think are relevant. Especially the town of Siem Reap focuses around tourism and it was devastated financially during the covid lockdowns from lack of tourism. Also ivermectin and hydroxychloriquin are used for many different parasitic infections throughout Asia and I have always assumed that was one reason they did so well, until the vaccines began affecting immune response. But my friend's answer broke my heart somewhere into the first or early second year. I had written asking how his family was and what it was like with COVID over there. His answer, " We do not worry about covid. It is nothing. We worry about starving because there is no work and no tourism. We can only get food from the rice fields."

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Dr. K's avatar

Reid is one of the brightest Covid lights out there (and a card counter in med school like yours truly...lol). I gave away copies of his book last year for the Holidays. It is a worthwhile stack -- eclectic sometimes, directed always.

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Reid G Sheftall, M.D.'s avatar

One more minor clarification. Remember, the Narrative people wanted everyone to think the virus got into the human population from a wet market through natural zoonotic spillover so they were trying to say if you say it came from a lab, you're being racist because it would be racist to say the Chinese were so incompetent they let it leak from a lab. or something like that But it's not racist to say that at all. It would be FAR more racist to say it came from a wet market because those places are filthy and the implication that Chinese people eat the diseased animals from there is way more derogatory than saying they ran a lab from where a virus escaped. That happens in our country. Jay had it flipped around at first which is easy to do. He corrected himself after I pointed it out. Both origins are incorrect. It was released deliberately, of course.

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Christine Badura's avatar

Jay, I wanted t hear what he had to say about intentionally released virus. Are you proprietary about what version we can consider? It felt just a bit like censorship.

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Maenad's avatar

Please both of you wonderful docs, go read Shellenberger’s drop today on Public, right here on Substack, on the breadth and depth and timeline of the censorship efforts, in place because our fearless leaders were gnashing their teeth over the loss of their control of the narrative. They were locked and loaded when Covid came along, ready to censor every whisper of WrongThink on every controversial issue. This is far and beyond a divisive partisan problem that can be fixed by a vote.

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Freedom Fox's avatar

Surgeon General Vivek Murthy led Doctors for Obama in 2008 and Doctors for America as he was completing his residency to pass Obamacare and the takeover of public health. Along with Mandy Krauthamer Cohen, now CDC Director. Who was a medical school student, not a practitioner at the time.

Remember those "spiffy" white coats for the photo ops in the Rose Garden? Many doctors were doctors of sociology and psychology. Murthy and Cohen. Pretend medical doctors. Setting our nation's health policy.

https://nypost.com/2009/10/05/prez-makes-health-care-push-in-sea-of-white-coated-doctors/

https://nypost.com/2009/10/06/white-houses-botched-op/

https://www.nationalreview.com/2009/10/obamas-men-white-coats-c-jay-nordlinger/

https://www.unz.com/author/michelle-malkin//2009/10/07/spin-doctors-for-obamacare/

Organizers of that Obamacare Rose Garden campaign stop were with the group 'Doctors for America." An organization that grew out of 'Doctors for Obama' that worked to elect Obama in 2008:

https://www.milandevries.org/dfo/aboutus.html https://web.archive.org/web/20091020003303/http://drsforamerica.org/organizers.php

In both those organizations you'll notice a couple familiar names. The current US Surgeon General and new CDC Director:

DFO -

Vivek Murthy, President and Co-Founder

Mandy Krauthamer Cohen, Outreach Director 2008

DFA -

Vivek Murthy, National Co-Chair

Mandy Krauthamer Cohen, Executive Director 2009

Both of them had very light medical experience when they led DFO/DFA. Both were recent graduates from top medical schools, hadn't even completed their residency's. Neither have any real experience practicing medicine, they've focused on public health policy, political science, social and behavioral sciences. Not medical sciences, natural sciences. Social political policy implemented through the practice of medicine, wearing white coats as props to imply authoritative understanding of hard, natural, medical science. When all they know is soft, social, political science. More proficient with words of manipulation than the practice of medicine. Anyone looking to the top health officials like they actually know medicine when they are just politicians in white coats is very, very foolish. And many died because they did.

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Swamp_Yankee's avatar

This was a fascinating conversation. Unfortunate that it could not go on longer. Hopefully, Dr. B will have Dr. S. back for another conversation.

It is true that Fauci and Wilensky (as well as the talking heads in MSM) kept saying "if you get the vaccine you and the people around you are protected.", and Dr. Sheftall figured that out before anyone else questioned the issue of the modRNA shots preventing transmission. The thing I find most disturbing is that they knew the shot didn't prevent transmission. Dr. Brix attested to this in a Fox News interview. She went as far as to say that they "oversold the vaccine.".

A thorough congressional investigation into the handling of the pandemic is in order and Dr. Sheftall's book could be used as a blue print for this. Any criminal malfeasance needs to be brought to light, and the actors prosecuted.

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Brad Banko, MD, MS's avatar

Thank you, Jay & Reid,

Looking forward to more from you both.

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Donna's avatar

Jay and Rav, you should read Racket and Public recent Substack reporting regarding how the censorship industrial complex was going about all this. The way you are describing how they went after you guys, is most likely exactly what those news sites are referring to.

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Nicole Dickens's avatar

Hey, if you need an expert social media person, I can hook you up, she used to do social media for The Giants.

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