The new Director of the Maine Center for Disease Control (CDC) Dr. Puthiery Va joined the taxpayer-funded Maine Calling radio program Monday, urging listeners to take the latest COVID-19 vaccine and to wear masks.
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Dr. Va, a University of New England graduate, became the head of the Maine CDC in August, after previously serving as the Director of Public Health for a population center of the Navajo Nation in Arizona.
Va was born in a Thai refugee camp after her parents fled the Communist Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, and later immigrated to United States with the help of a sponsor family in Louisiana.
The new Maine CDC Director said Monday that her prior experience as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer at the U.S. CDC prepared her to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic during her time in Arizona.
Va told Maine Calling host Jennifer Rooks that although “we’re no longer in this emergency phase of the pandemic,” COVID is here to stay and “we’re still not out of the pandemic.”
“The virus itself continues to change and mutate, and it’s — the way it comes in these ebbs and — you know, this like, sort of, like, flows and waves, it’s not quite predictable,” Va said.
Va explained that the Maine CDC is no longer calling the latest COVID-19 vaccine a “booster” because it is similar to the seasonal influenza vaccine in that it is tailored to the latest strain of the virus which is currently circulating.
Instead, Va said, they are calling it the “updated 2023-2024 vaccine.”
After responding to various questions from listeners regarding the timing of their vaccines and travel plans, Rooks asked Va if the Maine CDC is noticing an uptick of COVID cases in the state.
According to Va, the Maine CDC’s analysis of waste water has shown “high activity” of COVID, but that the agency is focusing on hospitalizations and deaths to gauge the current risk and severity of the virus more closely than the number of cases.
Va told one caller during Monday’s program that even though they received the latest vaccine three days ago, the caller should still wear a mask while traveling over the coming days.
Rooks then asked Va what the Maine CDC knows about the current risks of not wearing a mask while traveling more generally.
“Yeah, and so this is not just at airports, it’s anytime you’re in an area where there’s a lot of people mingling and moving about,” Va said. “So it doesn’t always have to be an airport, it could also be the mall, or the Target.”
“And so, like, I know, like, at this point we’re all individually risk assessing ourselves, right?” she said. “You go into a building, you start looking at the ventilation — you know, how free is air moving?”
“If you’re going in, and you don’t feel comfortable and you want to mask up, please go ahead, feel free to mask up,” she said. “And I think it’s important to also stress that we should also respect other people that feel more comfortable masking up, because likely we don’t know the reason why.”
“It’s okay to mask up, and it’s okay for others to mask up as well,” she added.
Turning again to vaccines, Va said that of the reasons “universal coverage from six months and older” is recommended under the latest vaccine is the prevention of “long COVID.”
“What we do know, is the vaccine works,” Va said. “And the way it works, is that it reduces your likelihood of getting the virus, but, should you get the virus — cause that can still happen, even if you’re vaccinated — should you get the virus, you’re likely to get it in a more mild form and for a shorter period of time.”
“So the less time you’re symptomatic, the less likely you are to get long COVID,” she said.
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Rooks then read a question from a listener regarding the rate of adverse side effects from COVID vaccines.
“A friend believes from an internet doctor that the vaccine is more dangerous than the disease — how many billions of people worldwide have received the vaccine and what is the rate of severe side effects?” The listener’s question read.
“Millions, hundreds of millions, have received the vaccine here in the United States,” the Maine CDC Director responded. “And the COVID vaccine, because of the pandemic, and because of everything that’s happened, is [probably] — it’s not even probably — it is the most scrutinized vaccine ever.”
“Its safety is so closely monitored,” Va said. “The risk of complications from COVID, such as inflammation of the heart — myocarditis, I mentioned long COVID — the risk of complications from COVID is much, much, much higher from the disease itself from the vaccine.”
Data from the U.S. CDC shows that although over 270 million Americans received at least one dose of a COVID vaccine as of May 2023, the number Americans who have received the previous updated booster dose is just 56 million, 17 percent of the total U.S. population.
The CDC states that for children ages 5 through 11, there were a total of 20 confirmed reports of myocarditis out of approximately 18.1 million doses given of the Pfizer vaccine between Nov. 2021 and April 2022.
That number is larger for males ages 12 through 15, with a myocarditis rate of around 70 cases per million doses — and even larger for males 16 through 17, with a rate of 105 myocarditis cases per million doses.
From the start of the pandemic in January 2020 through June of this year, the CDC reports that there have been a total of 1,071 deaths from COVID among children ages 5 through 18, and 588 total deaths for males ages 5 through 18.
The CDC states that data from the Vaccine Adverse Effects Reporting System (VAERS) shows that rates of myocarditis following COVID-19 vaccination are highest among males in their late teens and early 20s, usually following the second dose of the vaccine.
However, CDC says that serious cases of cardiac dysfunction following the vaccine are rare, and that the benefits for all children ages 6 months and older taking the vaccine outweigh the potential risks.
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No thanks! The data shows more issue with the mrna vaccines daily! This shouldn’t be given to children at all.
How about we look at data in Sweden and India and use ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine! Mayo Clinic released a report today that it does infact help covid! It’s pretty sad when most medical workers have seem the results and refuse any more! Natural immunity is a real thing!
Doctor Robert Malone said NOT to give to children. I think Dr. Malone (The MRNA Inventor) would knows better than the new Director of the Maine Center for Disease Control (CDC) Dr. Puthiery Va.
Especially after all of the lying and deceitful actions that took place by Dr. Nirav Shah!
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE absolutely DO NOT trust the Maine CDC,
So here’s what’s going to happen. This fall and winter, captive populations (seniors in nursing homes, healthcare workers, students at Rutgers, ideologically captured Democrats, etc.) are going to be injected with GMO mRNA that was never tested in humans. They will die from heart attacks, strokes, and turbo cancers (amongst other things) at a higher rate than the unvaccinated population. This will keep happening until we overthrow this system.
Whether you use the term or not, this is iatrogenocide. This is the world we live in now, where stochastic mass murder is normalized (and indeed even celebrated) by elite and bourgeois society.
So, we have one “box checker” (Shah) now being replaced with another “box checker” (Vu). She will push the narrative because that’s what government bureaucrats in the CDC do despite all the data to the contrary that these shots are safe or that the masks work.
I will not comply!
Just personal observations of people I know who have had the experimental treatment injected convinces me that the treatment does indeed interfere with normal immune responses. It’s disappointing that after Nirav Shah left for greener pastures Maine found another like-minded Director for its CDC. Covid-19’s true impact on people aged 19 and younger was minimal – the number of deaths directly and solely attributed to Covid-19 with no comorbidities has been intentionally withheld from the public.
At this point I’d encourage weak-minded people to wear masks and preferably stay home and to take every booster whenever they get an opportunity as a means of improving America’s gene pool. Rugged individualists, people that don’t respond well to misinformation hopefully will thrive while those that are fearful and weak will not. Seems cold but not nearly as cold as what our government is trying to do to every citizen.
Corey (above) is correct. This new director is now on record. If she does not know the truth about the iatrogenocide, she is incompetent. If she has the data and she pronounces this totalitarian babble she is guilty of murder. The Maine government that gives her authority to pronounce is guilty of Democide. Every person in public health and in the government apparatus that enables her is guilty.
If she needs more information she might want to tune in to the Dr. Drew show on the criminal You Tube channel to hear forecaster Ed Dowd speak about the latest excess death and other harms data for 2023. John Beaudoin from Massachusetts is also revealing harm data from actual birth certificates.
The medico-PHARMA-military complex and all of their extensions in so-called public health must be overthrown.
Excellent post Rev Kev.
Btw, the Children’s Health Defense bus was in Augusta yesterday. They gave everyone who wanted to an opportunity to submit by video their personal story of their own or a loved one’s “vaccine” or Remdesivir injury or death.
They’re on the right track with the China Virus unlike Vu and the Fauci Cabal.
I’d say she has had several doses of the kool-aid.
The Big Pharma Democrats will comply. They cannot think for themselves.
This woman is almost too stupid for words as it has already been clinically proven and there are peer reviewed and published papers specifically stating that the vax does NOTHING to stop the spread of the flu and that it might just kill you. Masks do nothing to stop the spread either and we as citizens must just say “NO”. She probably can’t find her way out of a paper bag without a guidebook.
Interesting that there are a number of comments here regarding this recent graduate of the University of New England’s school of alternative, osteopathic, medicine; however, no one points out the real reason for the ressurection of Covid: There is to be another presidential election soon. Without the boogie man of covid, pick a number, it will be difficult for the party in power to steal another election.
Perhaps targeted vaccination promotion to the most vulnerable is where these bureaucrats should concentrate their efforts. The mantra of every one 6 months or older needs Covid vaccination is malpractice using history as our guide.
Vu is frightening. She parrots the same lies we heard in Round 1. It’s deja “Vu” all over again!
Has she even heard of the Cochrane study? https://www.cochrane.org/news/featured-review-physical-interventions-interrupt-or-reduce-spread-respiratory-viruses
Having graduated from UNE I am not surprised. I watched as the medical board basically threatened the students to toe the line or go bankrupt. This particular idiot who claims to influenced by communism has sold her soul to “ public health” which is euphemism for the greater good( depopulation) . It is time we Dox these fools and stop giving silly little children authority.
Follow the advice of Maine’s new affirmative action hire HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Plain ignorant or a down right liar?
I find it interesting that her family fled the ideologically Leftist Khmer Rouge, only for her to work with the American version here in Maine.
Half of recent autopsies had white fibrous clots, starting just after the vaxx began.
Brain damage, cognitive thinking, is also a side effect.
Add this to the childhood genital surgeries, I’d say’ Winter is Coming.’
Why can’t they hire a Mainer to guide the lives of Mainers?
People like her and her predecessor don’t give a rats ass about Mainers.
My Labradoodle Jake could be the head of the Maine CDC. All you need to do is to take all the propaganda the US CDC puts out and attach it to Janet Mills letterhead. No medical degree needed! Good boy Jake, and you get a pension too.
CDC, FDA has lost all credibility! No I will not be trusting these entities! I believe the Vax has more risks attached to it vs getting covid. Pfizer is an obitual offender for falsified data! They will never have my trust!!
Maine democrats blocked a request by a state Republican urging investigation into the 18% in sudden deaths, most likely related to the vaccine. This woman is a joke.