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In this issue:

Pulmonary Infarction following COVID-19 Shots in Washington
Shades of 2019 Measles Fearmongering Returns To Clark County
Kwan-Gett and Krager to Speak at Washington Board of Health Meeting
Visit our Table at Summer Freedom Festival August 15 in Redmond
Fauci memes gathered from afar

The Sunlight Solution

Episode 377 Guest William Supple is welcomed back. Dr. Bill Supple, neuroscientist and author of Cancer is a Parasite, makes the case that our modern fear of sunlight has contributed to widespread vitamin D deficiency and chronic disease. His new book, The Sunlight Solution: Reclaiming Vitamin D, Reversing the Chronic Disease Epidemic, and Making America Healthy Again, challenges the modern caution against sun exposure and invites readers to reconsider the role of sunlight as natural, life-giving medicine. He looks at vitamin D as more than a bone-health nutrient – including its role in immune regulation, inflammation, cardiovascular health, brain health, aging, and resilience.

Watch replay on ICWA’s: Website, Rumble, X, YouTube
Watch replay on CHD-TV, and CHD-WA chapter’s: Website, Rumble, X
Listen to replay: KKNW AM 1150, SoundCloud, Apple Podcast, Spotify

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Previous ICWA articles on Vitamin D:

Upcoming August 8 Episode 378: Research, Decide, Document

Chris Downey, creator of VaxCalc, joins us to examine the top mistakes parents make when evaluating vaccines—from treating an entire “well-visit” as one decision to overlooking product differences, cumulative ingredient exposure, risk of the targeted illnesses, and what to monitor after vaccination. Chris walks us through the expanded VaxCalc platform and demonstrates how parents can prepare for the appointment, evaluate each proposed intervention separately, compare vaccine brands and ingredients, document their decisions, and develop a plan before they are asked to consent. We also look at the major new tools added to the platform since we last welcomed Chris in October 2024.

A few days before last week’s Tony Fauci “Taking the Fifth 111 Times” Senate hearing, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul released to the public the work diary of the retired head of the NIAID.

One of the diary takeaways reported by the Epoch Times and The Focal Points showed that Fauci was diagnosed with pulmonary infarction after taking his primary COVID-19 shots.

In a bit of prescient reporting on a similar injury just two weeks ago, ICWA Weekly News covered pulmonary embolism as another of the numerous reported reactions to covid shots. What is the difference between these two lung diseases? A “pulmonary embolism (PE) happens when a blood clot stops an artery in the lungs, whereas pulmonary infarction happens when there is insufficient blood flow to a particular area of the lung” and when tissue dies from a shortage of blood supply. (iCliniq) You can easily see how one can cause the other.

The Epoch Times listed highlights of this incident in their article titled What’s in Fauci’s Diary?

Fauci in mid-2021 was diagnosed with pulmonary infarction, or the death of part of the lung, according to a diary entry that has since been redacted.
The condition typically results from blood clotting in the lung. Doctors have reported in studies that some patients have suffered blood clots following receipt of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine, which Fauci had received six months prior.
Although there was no evidence in the diary that the vaccine caused Fauci’s infarction, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Fox News pointed out the timeline: the infarction followed the vaccination.
“He never told anybody,” Kennedy said.

At least Fauci could be credited for admitting to The Hill about passing out for twenty-four hours after taking the second COVID-19 shot.

The January 21, 2021, article in The Hill began as follows:

The nation’s top infectious diseases expert Anthony Fauci told reporters on Thursday that the second round of the COVID-19 vaccine knocked him out for 24 hours.
“I did. I had it on the 19th. I was hoping that I wouldn’t get too knocked out. I did for about 24 hours. Now I’m fine,” Fauci said after he was asked if he received the second dose of the vaccine at a White House event.
“Fatigued. A little achy. You know. Chilly. Not sick,” Fauci clarified.

No other media outlets, however, reported this story.

Getting back to the pulmonary infarction, Dr. Peter McCullough has gone as far as to lambast Fauci for the damage he did that went beyond his silence:

The most damning aspect of this revelation is not merely the medical failure itself, but the behavioral response of the architect of the policy. Even as Dr. Fauci was personally navigating the dangers of vaccine-associated vascular events—evidenced by his own prescription for Eliquis—he continued to utilize the full weight of his office to pressure the American public into accepting the same pharmaceutical interventions.
There is a profound, sick irony in a public health leader suffering a life-threatening blood clot following a novel mRNA inoculation, only to return to the podium to demand that millions of others accept the same risk profile. While he navigated his own recovery with the specialized care of top-tier pulmonologists and radiologists, he simultaneously championed policies that forced the populace into a state of medical compliance. He moved to normalize the very health outcomes he was personally managing behind closed doors, effectively putting the public on the same path of potential iatrogenic harm while preaching a doctrine of “extreme confidence” in the safety of these products.

The harm of pulmonary infarction, which Fauci failed to disclose to the public, can be seen in the VAERS reports, which shows 501 cases following the COVID-19 jabs.

When looking at the VAERS data, it’s important to keep in mind the 2011 Harvard Pilgrim Health Care study, which estimated that perhaps only one percent of adverse events from vaccinations are reported to VAERS. And don’t forget about the pulmonary embolism numbers: 15,141 cases of pulmonary embolism following the COVID-19 shots with 1,068 of those cases resulting in death.

In addition to the 119 cases of pulmonary embolism in Washington following the COVID-19 shots, there were also three cases pulmonary infarction.

The write-ups for the three case reports:

64-year-old male: Today, his chest pain persisted and his shortness of breath had progressed. He also noted left arm swelling with mild discomfort. He felt that his left leg swelling and pain had improved today. Nevertheless, given persistent symptoms, he decided to come to the emergency room for further evaluation management. In the emergency room, his initial blood pressure was 218/104 with mild tachycardia of 99, normal oxygen saturation and no fevers. CBC showed a white count of 12.35, hematocrit of 50.4 and normal platelet count 198. INR was normal at 1.06. BMP showed mild hyperglycemia at 148. Troponin was 5 and BNP was 8. Imaging studies show extensive left upper extremity DVTs that involved the left subclavian vein, left lower extremity DVTs and bilateral lower lobe pulmonary emboli. 4/30/2021 Presumed unprovoked extensive DVT of the left upper extremity and left lower extremity. However, he did recently receive Johnson & Johnson Covid vaccine. Now status post catheter directed thrombolysis to the left upper extremity.
The write-up for this 73-year-old male only said this much: Patient developed cough and SOB 1.5 weeks after 2nd Moderna shot. Saw doctor at that point and treated for cough, but due to history or previous PEs and DVT a chest CT was ordered.
64-year-old female: Approximately November 19 acute shortness of breath, swelling of right arm and side. went to walk in clinic, sent home no treatment. symptoms became more severe, admitted to er on12/15/21. hospitalized for acute pulmonary embolism without acute cor pulmonale. diagnoses: acute heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (Hfpef), atrial fibrillation by electrocardiogram, primary hypertension, type 2(myocardial infarction), pulmonary infarct, acute deep vein thrombosis (DVT) of axillary vein of right upper extremity.

We are left to wonder if Fauci ever reported his probable vaccine injury to VAERS.

Clark County has reported eight measles cases since July 22, and all those children were unvaccinated, according to their public reporting. So, they turned to social media (Facebook) and announced:

Vaccines provide invisible protection against viral bad guys like measles, whooping cough and chickenpox.

One response in the comments seemed sarcastic: “Such invisible protection that you don’t know if it’s working. Get the measles vaccine and then get told you can still get the measles.”

Dorit Rubinstein Reiss, a notorious pro-vax member of the Parents Advisory Board of Voices for Vaccines, also posted a comment in the Clark County Public Health thread:

As a reminder, most anti-vaccine activists were, themselves, vaccinated by their loving parents, and benefit from living in a highly-vaccinated country, which protects any children whose parents don’t protect - the unvaccinated children - from preventable diseases. Vaccines provide their invisible shield to many of the commenters that are now victims of anti-vaccine misinformation.

Someone brought in the big guns!

Be Brave Washington Leader Natalie Chavez gave this response to ICWA about Reiss’s post:

Dorit’s comment is out of line. First off, the majority of anti-vax activists have around three times fewer vaccines than the number of vaccines that they want the children to get these days, So there’s that. The quantity of vaccines available today is very different than the quantity available decades ago, and we’re still alive.

Unfortunately, this measles vaccination conflict sounds all too familiar to what happened in 2019 when this same Clark County declared a public health emergency on January 18, 2019 in response to reports of eighteen measles cases. When it was all over a couple months later, a total of 71 individuals, mostly children, had caught and fully recovered from the measles. At most, there were a dozen who were infectious in any given three day period – in a metro population of 250,000. Most cases likely were part of a smaller religious community that respectfully isolated themselves, and were quite comfortable with being “inoculated” the old-fashioned way. Those 71 individuals now have lifetime immunity, unlike the vaccinated who have inferior and less durable protection.

But public health officials, through their media minions, never told the public those inconvenient details. Instead, they fanned fear that every person in the state was in danger of the “dread” disease.

In the week following January 18, seven more cases were reported in Clark County along with an isolated case in King County, which Governor Jay Inslee deemed enough of a reason to declare a health emergency for the entire state on January 25^th.

The controversy escalated when the answer for the measles outbreak (which was actually an “inbreak” that never threatened the general public) was to put needles into arms, as also reflected in the governor’s declaration:

WHEREAS, The measles vaccine is effective at preventing the disease when given prior to exposure, and proactive steps to provide the vaccination and other measures must be taken quickly to prevent further spread of the disease;

It is common knowledge that it takes nearly four weeks to mount a proper immune response after vaccination. And it is true - but never admitted by public health - that vaccine-strain cases of measles can be caused via shedding by those recently vaccinated with the MMR, amplifying the case count. In the case of the California Disneyland outbreak, nearly one third of the confirmed measles cases were vaccine strain!

Misty Gehrke, a daycare operator and Clark County mother of young twins, was advised by doctors to get the measles “booster” if she wanted to return to work as soon as possible. Eighteen days later, she was paralyzed.

“So I called my mother, and she took me to the emergency room.” The neurologist diagnosed her with Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS), which is recognized on the injury table for the vaccine court established under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Program.

When pressed by CBS Reporter Stephen Stock in an interview that was never aired, Misty said she felt forced, that she didn’t have an informed choice. “I felt like I was basically forced and bullied into it. I mean, what do you do? I didn’t know. I thought I was going to kill everybody and I needed my job.”

ICWA Weekly News 12-27-23

While Misty was busy rehabilitating herself, Paul Harris (“R” in the 17^th LD) and the state legislature passed the bill HB 1638 that now requires childcare workers to get the measles shot. The bill not only removed the personal exemption to the MMR vaccine for kids, but also enacted Washington’s first vaccine mandate for adults, requiring day care workers to show proof of MMR vaccination, proof of immunity, or a medical exemption. [RCW 43.216.690] This law for adults does not allow for religious or non-medical exemptions, while parents can claim a religious exemption from the shot for their kids.

Seeking compensation for this injury, Misty brought suit against the Secretary of Health and Human Services in the United States Federal Claims Court. On January 17, 2023, nearly four years after the injury and three years after filing the claim, the court recorded the following settlement decision:

On January 5, 2023, the parties filed a joint stipulation concerning the petition for compensation filed by Misty Gehrke on November 27, 2019. Petitioner alleged that the measles, mumps, and rubella (“MMR”) vaccination she received on March 5, 2019, caused her to suffer Guillain Barre Syndrome (“GBS”). Petitioner further alleges that her symptoms persisted for more than six months … Respondent Secretary of Health and Human Services denies that the vaccine caused petitioner to suffer from GBS. Nevertheless, the parties agree to the joint stipulation, attached hereto … Damages awarded in that stipulation include a lump sum of $50,000.00 ... This amount represents compensation for all damages that would be available under 42 U.S.C. § 300aa-15(a).

So, the entire compensation this single mom received for doing what she thought was the responsible thing to do was $50,000. Sadly, for a lifelong, debilitating injury. At the time, she felt she was lucky to even get that much from the court after three years of waiting. She needed finances quickly. She was able to catch up on past-due rent and bills for a moment.

If you haven’t already seen it, please watch Misty’s interview with Polly Tommey on the People’s Study.

The pressure to take the shot also came from the fearmongering spread by Clark County Public Health Officer Dr. Alan Melnick, who just announced his retirement.

Back in 2019, Melnick had claimed, “Immunizations are highly effective against the disease, but in Clark County, 22 percent of the students are not vaccinated for it.”

ICWA advocate Karl Kanthak called him out for using inaccurate data:

This statistic is not from the legally required, hard copy school registration vaccination records called the CIS, but from a voluntary online database called the Immunization Information System, IIS. This false rate IIS statistic was then improperly linked to 1) the availability of non-medical exemptions in Washington state, and 2) as evidence and justification for legislation to restrict the right to exempt from school attendance vaccine requirements. The WA DOH Certificate of Immunization Status, CIS, Clark County reports show that only 5.3% of students use an exemption to be less than two MMR, and 93% plus of parents list the dates that their children received MMR injections. The only way the lower, “78%” online database IIS rate could be correct is if 15% of Clark parents are listing, certifying, and submitting hard copy records of MMR injections that their children never received. This is a wild claim.

Melnick has also been part of spreading one of the most damaging lies of this century, which is that the Covid-19 shots prevent transmission of the disease. In a three-minute video montage gathered by Rob Anderson, and as covered in the Weekly News on June 19, 2024, Melnick provided plenty of what can now easily be called misinformation:

As we progress in that direction, the more people who get vaccinated, the more the virus is blocked from being transmitted. The more people we get vaccinated, that helps prevent transmission. The good news is that if you’re fully vaccinated, you can be with other people. The fact is that the more people we get vaccinated, that helps step down transmission and spread of the virus.

Last year, Karl Kanthak also posted commentary on a June 9, 2025, National Vaccine Advisory Committee (NVAC) Meeting presentation minutes in which Kathleen Harriman, PhD, MPH, of the California Department of Public Health, Immunization Branch, had given a presentation, “It’s a Small World After All,” analyzing the Disney Measles Outbreak.

The following quotes from the NVAC minutes reflect the ineffectiveness of the Measles shots:

“People fully vaccinated for measles have been involved in measles transmission.”
“CDPH treats vaccinated people as infectious as all other measles cases during contact investigations.”

Karl then commented in his article, “If the CA DPH is not confident the MMR will prevent measles transmission, then why should we?”

It should be noted that Clark County is not the only spot in this country that has taken to the measles fear mongering, for it also took to the national stage just this week during a clash between HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. and CNN’s Dana Bash.

Bash cited recent spikes in measles cases in several U.S. states, which she said has led to “a 35-year high” in the U.S. — the “second record-breaking year in a row,” she said. She suggested the unvaccinated, spurred on by Kennedy’s “vaccine skepticism,” were to blame. “The outbreak is happening on your watch,” Bash said, asking Kennedy if he accepted “some responsibility.”

“Absolutely not,” Kennedy said. He called it “an international outbreak,” citing outbreaks in England, Canada and Mexico, which have recorded higher per capita levels than in the U.S.

“The measles vaccine is losing effectiveness as the virus mutates,” CHD’s Chief Scientific Officer Brian Hooker told The Defender. He also said it was unfair to blame Kennedy and his policies or public positions on vaccination for a rise in measles cases in the U.S. or worldwide. Instead, he attributed the outbreaks to the decreasing effectiveness of the MMR vaccine.

According to Hooker, Bash’s claim that 93% of the measles cases occurred among the unvaccinated is also likely false. He said many cases are being attributed to patients whose vaccine status is listed as “unknown.” Those figures are then added to the “unvaccinated” category.

Hooker elaborated further:

Information regarding vaccinated children who got measles in the Texas outbreak is obscured as the Texas Department of Health and Human Services looked at vaccinated versus a category called ‘unvaccinated or unknown vaccine status.’ In this way, they could inflate the numbers of unvaccinated cases without really checking status.

Kennedy suggested that declining MMR vaccination rates have contributed to a rise in measles cases but said the decline began during the COVID-19 lockdowns.

“Anthony Fauci in his diaries answers the question about why we’re having a measles outbreak right now,” Kennedy said. The reason we’re having a measles outbreak is because of the COVID lockdowns — because children during that period did not get vaccinated. And in his diaries, he says this is going to cause massive outbreaks of measles and more children — he says this — are going to die.”

Hooker told The Defender this explanation was plausible. “Any ‘vaccine hesitancy’ caused by the secretary would be minimal compared to the full duration of COVID,” he said.

Kennedy said he has “never questioned the efficacy of the MMR vaccine,” and explained why. He said that unlike several other routine childhood vaccinations, the Institute of Medicine — now the National Academy of Medicine has studied the MMR vaccine for a possible association with autism.

“It’s the only one that has been studied,” Kennedy said.

Hooker said the MMR vaccine, at face value, demonstrates effectiveness, with “up to 93% protection.” However, he said the decision to get the measles shot should be based on a risk-benefit analysis, evaluating the risk of death from measles versus the risk of adverse reactions from the MMR vaccine that can lead to death.

“A purported five individuals died of the measles in the U.S. in the past twenty years, whereas the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System [VAERS] shows nearly 100 deaths due to the MMR vaccine in the same time period,” Hooker said.

Three of those deaths following the MMR jabs over the past twenty years have occurred here in Washington:

For two of the deaths, the onset of symptoms began one day after the MMR shots. For the other death, the onset of symptoms began sixteen days after getting jabbed.

While Clark County residents continue to gain more lifetime immunity from a mild measles outbreak, its health department has also announced that it is staying clear of Kennedy’s reform policies at the CDC by making this announcement at the top of its website homepage: Clark County Public Health

Public Health has removed links to the CDC website due to concerns about the accuracy of some of its content. Public Health is replacing CDC resources with links to alternative evidence- and science-based sources of information as available.

Washington Department of Health (DOH) Chief Medical Health Officer Tao Kwan-Gett will be addressing the Board of Health (BOH) for the first time this year at its August 12 meeting. He will do so for the department’s health update starting at 10:10 a.m.

August 12 2026 Draft Agenda

The meeting will be held from 9 a.m. to 5:10 p.m. at the Washington State Department of Health Building in Tumwater at 111 Israel Road S.E.

Kwan-Gett last addressed the BOH on October 8, 2025, in which after receiving both written and oral public comments on the corrupting conflicts of interest by previous ACIP members, he still criticized their removal from their positions by Secretary Kennedy:

The dismissal of CDC scientists, the removal of the entire Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), and policy shifts, seemingly without input from subject matter experts, have created unprecedented instability at CDC. We are seeing clear departures from science-based policies, and more are expected.

Kwan-Gett then said, “Recently, for example. ACIP issued recommendations on the MMRV vaccine, which is against measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella, also called chickenpox. And these recommendations presented no new safety data to justify limiting parental choice and access.”

At 11:25 a.m., the BOH will then hear from Benton-Franklin Health District Local Health Officer (LHO) Steve Krager for his Local Health Connection presentation. He is also the LHO for Walla Walla, Cowlitz and Mason counties.

ICWA last crossed paths with Krager when he appeared as an “expert presenter” at last January’s Badger Club Vaccine Forum and said during his presentation concerning vaccines, “We have a huge safety check, which is VAERS and the safety datalink.”

When Dr. Christina Parks, another of the four expert presenters, informed him about the 2011 Harvard Pilgrim Health Care study, which estimated that only one percent of adverse events from vaccinations are reported to VAERS, and when the study team asked the CDC to confer with them about resolving this issue, the CDC gave no response. Krager responded with, “That’s why we also have safety datalink.”

Krager was then told about the 240 deaths here in Washington following the COVID-19 shots in VAERS in which sixteen of those deaths came within just twenty-four hours after taking those shots. Krager responded with this:

My job is not to review those deaths. That’s actually the CDC’s job. But I am aware that they review every one of those deaths. While you may be able to look at the VAERS data, they actually look at the entire picture. They look at all the medical records and try to see whether there’s something else going on. So, again, it’s a complicated picture to try to determine cause and effect.

It should be noted that the CDC’s Vaccine Safety Datalink has high aspirations, has been long cited as the most-relied upon post-licensure safety monitoring tool, and is filled with data – not accessible by the general public. ICAN has sued for access to the data.

It should be further noted that as a public health officer, Krager gets around. Besides his position in Easter Washington, he also serves as a public health officer on the other side of the Cascades, specifically in Cowlitz County.

Long story shot, he was voted into the position by the county’s board of health in February 2024 to replace Alan Melnick. The Cowlitz County Board of Health chose not to renew Melnick’s Local Health Officer contract because of his arrogance and inaccessibility during the COVID-19 lockdown. (Covered in ICWA Weekly News 4-17-24). Before this time, Melnick had contracts with not just Cowlitz and Clark Counties, but also Skamania, Wahkiakum, and Pacific counties. He was fired from Lewis County before not being renewed by Cowlitz.

Before the vote at that February 2024 Cowlitz Board of Health meeting, Krager told the board this:

Regarding the statewide powers, I view my role, if I’m appointed as the public health officer, to advocate for Cowlitz County. Yes, we do have to follow state law. I want to have a finger on the pulse of the community and advocate for what’s best. Second of all, on whether I would overstep powers and duties, ultimately, I report to this board. If I do something that the board disagrees with, you can fire me. So, I think that’s a check on the health officer powers. The power of the health officer is quite broad, but there’s a check on that.

Public comment for the upcoming BOH meeting is scheduled from 9:25 a.m. to 9:55 a.m. In-person commenters should sign up by sending an email by noon on Tuesday, August 11 to wsboh@sboh.wa.gov. To attend virtually or make a public comment remotely, one should register for the meeting via their Zoom Link.

For written comments to have the most effect, it is best to have them included in the corresponding meeting materials package by sending them before noon on Friday, August 7, to wsboh@sboh.wa.gov.

ICWA and CHD Washington Chapter will be at the Saturday, August 15 Summer Freedom Festival hosted by Let’s Go Washington.

Let’s Go Washington - Events

This third annual event will be held in Redmond from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Speakers will be Brian Heywood, Brandi Kruse, and Ari Hoffman.

You must RSVP to get the specific address.

Meet up with ICWA and Children’s Health Defense chapter organizers and members at the Summer Freedom Fest.

Pick up a new book that promotes natural health and provides options for your health freedom

Join us for live music, fun, community and celebration!

Where you asked to enroll in the non-vaccinated Control Group?

Yes, there are many Fauci memes and artwork flying around, so we grabbed some of the best for you.

Notice the CBS screenshot used above couldn’t count past 70, where the count somewhat officially recorded was 111 times to plead the fifth. More journalism slant?