HJNO Nov/Dec 2024

POLITICIZATION OF COVID 16 NOV / DEC 2024 I  HEALTHCARE JOURNAL OF NEW ORLEANS Abraham Not to my knowledge. Rep. Amedee Do you have any experience with vaccine injury? Abraham I do. Rep. Amedee What’s your experience with vaccine injury? Abraham As I mentioned a little bit ago, everything from heart-related problems to skin-related problems, there’s all kind of dermal issues. Vasculitis is a big deal. Guillain-Barré is certainly a known result of COVID vaccine. And there are many oth- ers that are kind of outliers, but you get a patient that has never had what I would consider an odd issue that presents to your clinic, and you’re scratching your head and you’re trying to figure out why this partic- ular patient has this particular oddity. So, you do the history, and the physical, and you go through the motions of what we do as docs, and the only commonality is they had a COVID vaccine. Coleman It might be worth you commenting on you drawing spike protein levels in your clinic. You know, I don’t practice real medi- cine. I just look at eyeballs all day. So, these guys are the real doctors. I realized how unessential I was in the midst of the pan- demic when I was sitting at the house talk- ing to them about how it was really going. But, you know, you might want to comment on that, I think, is an interesting point that’s come up since the test is now available. Abraham We have the ability now to test for the spike antibodies. And when I have a patient that comes in with, what I consider, could potentially be a vaccine injury, I will run a spike protein level. The test that I use, I think, is a Houston lab, and test only goes to 25,000, whatever that number is. And hun- dreds, if not thousands, of patients that I do the spike protein levels on that have vac- cine injury, their numbers are greater than 25,000 — they could be 100,000, I don’t know, they could be 25,001, all I know is that they’re greater than 25,000. So that gives somewhat of a qualitative aspect to it. Now, will you get spike protein antibodies with the disease itself? Yes, you will. Are they as large as those that have had the vaccine? I can only speak from my experience, and I have seen no other studies that will either deny or affirm what I’m fixing to say, but in my own little clinic, those vaccine injury patients, their spike protein levels are, in general, much greater than those that actu- ally went through the disease. Rep. Amedee Is there treatment for vaccine injury? Abraham There is some that is being [mar- keted] as that. Most of them are amino acids, some supplements. What they do is they kind of kick the immune system in the hiney and say, “Hey, get to work. Let’s see if we can push back on this.” As far as any licensed pharmaceuticals, to my knowledge, there are not at this point. Rep. Amedee Thank you. I was looking more for protocols. I hear some things like detox- ing … Abraham Yeah, I use a protocol. The way we do it is we will put them on this particular protocol, and I will bring them back in four to six weeks, and I will remeasure that S pro- tein and they’re usually lower. So, I know something working. Rep. Amedee Why did the Department of Health promote COVID shots under EUA as FDA approved, and what are the legal ramifications for Louisiana consumers or patients? Abraham Yeah, Rep., I don’t know. Rep. Amedee I know, you weren’t there. Abraham To both of those, I am certainly not an attorney, as far as the legal aspect, you know, we weren’t there then. I, again, in my opening statement, I would have done it dif- ferently. But I just don’t know that answer. Rep. Amedee We’ll ask some certain people in the future if we can get them in here. Rep. Raymond J. Crews What you said in the beginning was so encouraging to me. I kind of forgot to bring my focus back here. You said “When in doubt, choose freedom,”and that meant the world to me, and I think the most of Louisiana. The preamble of both the U.S. Constitution and the Louisiana Consti- tution emphasized liberty. And I’m glad you brought that to the fore. That’s very impor- tant. And I’m so glad you said that. Abraham And Rep., I always give credit where credit is due, and I plagiarized that from Dr. Coleman. Rep. Crews Great job, Dr. Coleman. I was in health and welfare during this so I heard this regularly, and it was very disappoint- ing, the attitude that the state was taking as more of a parrot for whatever the CDC said instead of evaluating this. And it brought to mind something I brought up yesterday, and this isThomas Sowell, a famous economist who used to say anytime we had any policy proposal, we should ask these three ques- tions: Compared to what – if we do some- thing, compared to not doing something, or doing something else?At what cost?What is it going to cost us for implementing what- ever this policy is; and what hard evidence do you have? And I felt every one of those three question some of these counter-mea- sures was not asked and was not answered. I mean some of them, let’s say masks even did work – what was the cost of that working? I mean a lot of people brought to the fore that covering the face of the kids in school and their teachers was antithetical to teaching in that relationship, and how they under- stand expressions, and emotions. So we didn’t examine these three questions, and