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When I first pressed the zoom link, I immediately got excited about the course and reassured my decision to enroll. The music, energy, and team seem incredible. A little about me is that I love working out. Before this class, I ran a 5k, and this is the same environment that I need from a class with my inability to sit still on zoom for too long. I remember finding this course first semester freshman year when I looked at the class options for the Nonprofit Leadership and Social Innovation minor. With my knowledge in the foundations of Nonprofits, approaches and entrepreneurial skills required to make a social impact, and generating solutions to our world's most significant challenges, I am excited to learn how to bring this to healthcare. In the minor courses I have previously taken (PLCY213, PLCY214, and PLCY215), I have worked with Sexual Assault and disability organizations in the Washington D.C. area. I have learned how to make an impact from a nonprofit and the work that goes into a nonprofit organization in terms of understanding business, finance, communication, and so much more. The aspect of design-thinking and working in a team through this course will bring success to all of my interests. Working to bridge the gap between wealthy and low-income communities with healthcare delivery has always been an interest to me. In my opinion, all pre-medical students should learn about healthcare delivery as it is a field to better the world around them. I am so excited to learn from the teaching team and expand on my interests. Surayyah made me even more thrilled with her years of involvement from this course beyond one semester, making me eager for how my future will change to improve the world around me from this course.

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My name is Sophia Glaros. I am currently a Sophomore majoring in Physiology and Neurobiology and minoring in Nonprofit Leadership and Social Innovation on a pre-medical track. I am contemplating the option of getting a Master's degree in Public Health or applying for an MD/P.h.D program. My interest lies in many different areas, such as child and maternal health and disability advocacy, public health policy, nonprofit leadership to achieve social impact, healthy lifestyle communication, and medicine.
In high school, I spent 275 hours volunteering with the allied sports program throughout high school, working to bridge the gap between the students with typical and atypical development through an inclusive sports team. This led to my desire to learn both the policy and scientific sides of Autism Spectrum Disorder. In the iGive Carillon Community, I had the opportunity to work in a group of four to create a virtual Spread the Word to End the Word Campaign by conducting empathy interviews and working with the local Special Olympics Chapter. I also work in the Developmental Social Cognitive Neuroscience Lab on campus, where I am working on completing a meta-analysis on the brain regions involved in social interaction to understand atypical development for individuals with ASD (I just submitted a poster of my research to the annual Stanford Research Conference, which was pretty exciting!). Furthermore, last semester, I completed the Federal Fellows Public Health Policy program, where I was able to look at the formulation, implementation, and evaluation of health policy. These experiences led me to take HLSA484 to expand my knowledge on a local level. I want to take what I have learned in the past and combine it with skills and advanced designed thinking to redesign health care delivery on a local level. I also want to learn more about my passions and my future as a pediatric doctor to lead me. I know this course will also be a form of self-discovery to see where my interests lie.
Another fun fact about me is that I love exercising and cooking. I have a healthy lifestyle social media account where I post life advice, exercise routines, and recipes that I have created myself. I have expanded this interest in becoming an F the Freshman 15 Ambassador and the health and wellness chair for my sorority. My account deepened my passion for healthy eating patterns as I have discovered the world of eating disorders through many of the other health accounts that I follow on social media. I am not sure how this ties to my academic interests, but there is not a day where I do not cook or exercise, whether it is running, biking, strength, kickboxing, yoga, or anything else. I have attached a picture of my fitness account feed to show some of the recipes I have made and some of my favorite exercises.

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I loved class today. I have taken courses in the past where two and a half hours on zoom is dreadful. I like how engaged everyone in the class is and how everyone indeed took this class to learn the material. I have never been in a class this engaged in the morning, and the passion shines through each member of the teaching team and student.
I was in the iGive Carillon community and took the IDEA101 course, which was directly focused on the design thinking process. I worked with Erica a lot through these courses, so it was cool for her to play a role in this course. I have done similar activities where I incorporated design thinking into my daily life, which is actually how I declared the Nonprofit Leadership and Social Innovation minor and found this course. It was very cool coming back to this way of thinking to change the way I view myself and my daily activities. It is interesting when all of the courses start to blend and utilize skills from one class to another.
I also really enjoyed getting to know my classmates. Through being interviewed, I learned that one of the students in my group worked as a personal trainer, and she explained how I could get certified through a course at the University of Maryland. It was very insightful to hear ideas and perspectives from all of my classmates. This went to show that my passions for serving the medical needs of communities, nonprofit leadership, public health policy, and health and wellness all blend. Furthermore, I learned that I could learn something new in this course to advance my future from the students as much as the faculty.
I am very excited to apply this information more to healthcare and expand on my current interests and career aspirations. It was also beneficial to have a break in the middle of class to eat breakfast and settle into my morning routine. I enjoy everything about this class and the whole teaching team. I am super excited for the entire semester to come.

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In class today, it was very interesting interviewing my roommate Jacklyn. I interviewed her on both health and the origins of her name to bring us closer together. I learned that her name is not spelled the American way because she was named after her grandpa Jack, so her parents wanted the full name "Jack" in her name. I found this very interesting because I did not even realize there was a reasoning behind the k in her name. Furthermore, I loved interviewing Jacklyn about health because that is something that brings us together as roommates. Every day, we do Yoga together and it is the highlight of our day. We both have taken a strong approach to improving our mental and physical health during the Pandemic, which is so important. It really is crazy how much people can open up on a one-on-one setting and how one question allows you to learn so much about an individual.
Furthermore, incorporating health into class made me very excited for the semester up ahead. Learning about a prototype that was implemented at the Mona Center gave me a lot of hope and excitement for the semester up ahead. I absolutely love starting the design thinking process and learning each step. I utilized this method to create my disability advocacy campaign through the iGive carillon community course. It is very interesting learning everything again and learning small details to continue building my utilization of the design thinking process. I am excited for what is to come for the rest of the semester. There is no other class that makes me this excited, especially on a Friday morning!

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The class today was very enjoyable and interactive. In the beginning of the class, I absolutely loved the flower and vase drawing idea. It truly showed how different everyone views flowers and their purpose. In our society, a flower is used to symbolize love, the environment, a garden, congratulations, or even a painting on a wall. A painting is how I took the approach of a flower because my bedroom at home has two huge flowers on the wall, so it always reminds me of home. I attached my drawing on the top.
I have also really enjoyed the interview process and learning about different perspectives of health. I think in many ways the pandemic has brought a positive outlook on health as more individuals are prioritizing exercise and healthy eating. This trend has become evident across my friends and now I have learned my classmates as well. I am very excited to interview a stranger this week to keep on learning more perspectives. I am truly loving the work and community feel of this course and look forward to continuing a great semester.

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The largest highlight of the class was watching the Feed Anne Arundel. This video really captured how personal narratives can capture attention more than a statistic. As a biology major, I am consistently focused on the science, the research, and the math behind everything. This video reminded me to take a step back and focus on one person. When half a million individuals have died from COVID-19, it is challenging to relate to that number. However, the story of one family almost brought tears to my eyes. This really helped me see how to incorporate storytelling and then a call to action. This is truly something I want to build my skills in to learn how to know who my audience is and how to bring an emotional appeal to them.
Furthermore, I always enjoy the group work and discussing the differences between the interviews with my groups. We were truly able to discover the similarity in numerous individuals prioritizing holistic healthcare as opposed to simply mental or physical health. However, we distinguished a difference between the male and the female interviews where males were more focused on strength and growth in a weight room whereas females tend to workout to advance their mental health and physical health. Furthermore, we discovered a consistent trend in the lack of health care access to University of Maryland students. It is very concerning that students prefer an urgent care or their home pharmacy as opposed to the resources offered on campus.

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I genuinely have really enjoyed working in my group. We all always have positive aspects to contribute to the group conversation. It is very interesting how people with such different backgrounds and interests could pull out the same timestamps of parts of the webinar that we found fascinating.
I am also in a a program called EMRAP where we learned about clinical research. I am now seeing how this course can connect with all of my other courses. I shared the webinar with Dr. Faucci with my class today to demonstrate how to approach clinical trials and work towards ensuring every community is getting the COVID-19 vaccines. The statement that Dr. Faucci used in the webinar that stuck with me the closest was the phrase, "Non-brown black people need to understand the historical issues that cannot go away. The history of how the federal government have treated brown and black people. You cannot get upset with brown and black people. You have to say that you respect your hesitancy and that you have to accept that those things did happen, but now there are safeguards in place. You need to be understanding of hesitancy and acknowledge the past."
With a desired future in medicine, public health, and research, I know I will carry this webinar with me and continue to share it with my peers.
The fact that my group completes all of the assignments and are always ready to have an engaging conversation on a Friday morning will always inspire me. I am beyond excited to continue analyzing the webinar into this week with my group.

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I absolutely loved speaking with the guest speakers today. My group had the opportunity to talk with Barbra Hoffstein and Wesley Queen. Each of these individuals had a remarkably different organization and background, which provided instrumental and compelling interviews.
Barbra Hoffstein mentioned that she worked in adult nursing homes before the pandemic to affect those that did not have the means to go to a nursing home. She noted that these centers had to be closed down from COVID and that her organization's grants have not been used. This made her very concerned because she is unsure where these adults are now and caring for them. Furthermore, she mentioned that her organization almost entirely consists of all white, older women, so she has had to go out of her way to obtain racial equity information to ensure that her organization is effective and know how to work with black-run organizations with empathy. I think that this is something every organization should take advantage of.
Wesley Queen left us with the piece of advice that "You won't get everything done that you want, so you will have to adjust and change to move forward. Do not waste your time worrying about others because not everyone will love you, so you have to be prepared to work with different personalities." I felt this quote this week when planning for my future semesters, potential internships, and brainstorming my future. I have started to learn that I have too many goals and interests, so I need to know how to narrow down my aspirations and figure out where I can make the most significant impact and what I would find the most rewarding. He also mentioned that getting started was even more challenging than the COVID-19 pandemic, which I found very interesting.
I am very excited to discuss these interviews with my group after spring break to work on our projects.

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Unfortunately, I have really not been feeling well this past week. My roommate got COVID-19, so I have been taking care of her and feeling very fatigued. Luckily my PCR just came back negative, so it must have just been a cold.
Since I was unable to participate in class, I am going to write my reflection on my reaction to the

Colors of COVID-19 Barbershop & Salon Talk.

I watched this talk directly after my passover Seder with my family from New York, Florida, and Arizona. We were discussing the differences in mask regulations, school openings, and the availability of vaccines. In the introduction of the talk when Dr. Thomas asked for one word, and Omar Near responder “power,” I was taken back. An hour before, my aunt was complaining about the lifting of the mask mandate in Arizona, so I was immediate feeling “powerless.” I felt like we had gone so far forward to now move back in the direction against masks.
The next part of the talk directly related to me when discussing, "can you get COVID-19 more than once?" In September, I already had COVID-19, which worsened my IBS significantly and I am now forced to take double the amount of medication. My hair falls out, my taste never came back, and I cannot sleep a night without waking up in sweat. Fear raced through me as I was petrified of these symptoms worsening. I knew most people could not get COVID-19 again, but I also know the select few that have. It was very fascinating to learn the science behind contracting the COVID-19 for a second time.
"Variants of concern have arisen in Brazil, South Africa, and the United Kingdom:

1. More transmissible

2. Cause worsened disease

3. Evade the immune protection created from vaccines"

It was shocking to me to learn about the B17  variant in the US currently, which causes much worsened transmission. 50-100% more transmissible than the COVID-19 virus we were dealing with right now. Furthermore, I learned that the cause of these infections are mutations.  If everyone is vaccinated than these mutations cannot occur. Even if people are not scared of the current COVID-19 virus, new variants can arise without the vaccine. This goes in line with how getting a vaccine both protects those around you and your community.

“Lets save each others life” Vaccines are not new, so we need to work as a community to continue saving each others lives.
After watching this webinar, I was shocked with only seeing 53 views. I was always going to get the vaccine as soon as it became available to me, however, I was even more convinced through this video. It seems that these messages need to be on the road, websites, and everywhere to truly get the message across for the need to vaccinate.

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The best part about this course is that I can truly combine what I am learning in my foundations of nonprofit leadership course to the materials in this class. As part of that course, I am learning about leadership within the nonprofit sector and interviewing many successful individuals. Yesterday, I interviewed Julie Rosenthal who is the founder of Food on the 15th in Howard County. This program operates on no overhead where non-perishable food is donated and people volunteer their time to collect, sort, and deliver the food to low-income older individuals in Howard County. The name Food on the 15th stems from the food being donated to Morningside Apartments and Timber Hudson Building on the 15th of every month. This organization works to overcome the challenges of social security checks running out and older individuals unable to buy food for the second half of the month and the physical limitations that make it difficult to travel to food banks. When I asked about what prepared her for her leadership position, she explained that graduating from the college of business and management at the University of Maryland, she learned to have tenacious ideas and have bold ideas. She learned how to work in the system in a good way, looking at what you are given and how you can make it happen. She has this belief that when you have an idea, there are three questions that you have to answer:

1. Is it legal?

2. Is it ethical?

3. Does it hurt anyone?

If the idea is legal, ethical, and harmless, then you can run with the idea. It is essential to find workable solutions around obstacles. She developed this from a story of her son when he was three. There was a big bowl of individually wrapped bright candy at a doctor’s office when he was three. She initially would not let him eat the candy because they thought he would choke on this candy, so he could not have the candy. In two minutes, he asked again if he left the candy in his hand and licked it instead. He just saw a solution to the problem, and now she does not have to worry he will choke, but he still gets candy. This was the start of him finding solutions to everything. When you come across an obstacle, find a solution that will not hurt anyone.

I really enjoyed the Stanford University Center for Professional Video about the design thinking process, which related to Julie Rosenthal's Philosophies. The video mentioned individual limits and the fear of failure, which he combatted by saying you have to fail fast if you want to succeed sooner.
These resources combined helped me work with the my team because we are gathering all of our ideas that could potentially better the community. We are not worrying about failure, we are just keeping all of the ideas out no matter how challenging these could be to succeed.

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Learn about Food on the 15th in this video

by award winning filmmaker, June Soh, of Voice of America.

Thank you to all the volunteers in our community who make Food on the 15th so successful. This wouldn't be happening without each of you!!

Our student and adult volunteers collect donated non-perishable food and deliver the groceries each month to low-income older adults in Howard County. Anyone of any age can volunteer as long as their parent or guardian are there to supervise them.
Food on the 15th is an award winning program that literally operates on $0 overhead. All non-perishable food are donated and people volunteer their time to collect, sort and deliver the food to low-income older adults in Howard County. We have been in existence since 2006 and, using our $0 overhead model, have delivered over 50,000 free bags of groceries and toiletries to economically disadvantaged older adults at the following apartment complexes:

Around the 15th of each month Food on the 15th brings in healthy, nutritious, non-perishable regular and DIABETIC foods for economically challenged older adults.

Hundreds of low-income older adults in Howard County don't have enough healthy food to eat. Our program participants often live on social security checks, which often run out by the middle of the month. Yes Howard County has food banks, but transportation and physical limitations make it difficult for older adults to get to food banks.

In addition to helping low-income older adults, Food on the 15th enables students to make a meaningful difference in our community, exposing children to philanthropy and community service at a young age by participating in all steps in the process: promotion, collection, organization, preparation of groceries and delivery.

Summer Deliveries
Over the summer, New Hope Seventh-day Adventist Church on Hall Shop Road in Fulton has supported the program by collecting and delivering food to the low-income older adults.

Drop off site for non-perishable foods is at Mikey and Mel's Famous Deli, in Maple Lawn located at 8191 Maple Lawn Blvd in Fulton. Hours: 7 a.m. - 4 p.m. daily. Phone: 443-663-3354. Please no glass jars, ramen or cup-a-noodles.
This domain name sponsored in loving memory of Jerry Wells by his wife, Myra Wells.

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Food on the 15th is an award winning program (we won the Howard County Parent Teacher Partnership Award from the Howard County PTA as well as the Healthy Howard Healthy School Innovation Award in Nutrition). We are proud to operate on $0 overhead.

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This week was really phenomenal to see how we are personally going to have the ability to make an impact. Through our knowledge that we have obtained in class, it is incredible that we are already at the prototype stage. Our group has been working really hard to learn how vaccination centers have formed and the specific practices that have been  used to effectively get individuals that have distrust in the past to get vaccinated.
It is also really cool how much I am learning from my other group members. We all come from a different past and interests, but when we come to working on creating our project, we are all on the same page in the change that we want to make in PG county.
In a world where the past year has been consistent hate and negativity on the news, it is really incredible to see the impact that we can make with people that see the light and positivity at the end of the tunnel. I am also really looking forward to being able to work in the farm to see this impact in person.

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This class was the best class thus far. Hearing the perspectives of Mike and Beth was very helpful and powerful. It was also very impressive that Mike was able to give a haircut while speaking to us.
First, Beth was very insightful to our project. She allowed us to understand that we need to advocate for the positive benefits of receiving the vaccine. She explained that a lot of the population finds the vaccine pointless, so they need to understand the benefits. Furthermore, she explained that we need to visually show the prototype.
Second, Mike allowed us to understand that we need to get more background on the places we want to implement a vaccine clinic. We have the idea of speaking to the Mona Clinic when we go to volunteer tomorrow morning, but he explained that we need to come with specific questions and demonstrate our understanding of their work.
It was very promising to hear that all of our prototypes will be possible to achieve and all we need is the energy behind our idea to make it a reality. I am very excited to implement these ideas and hopefully have a real prototype for our final presentation.
Lastly, it is very exciting that after this virtual class, Ellie and I are carpooling to the Mona Farm together, so we can finally meet in person. This class is honestly the highlight of my week and I am very excited to see what is to come.

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Going to the farm with Ellie and Sheree was truly incredible. It was amazing to see the resources and food that the Mona Farm can provide to the community. The best part was that I was physically involved in the production. I enjoyed seeing the results of my efforts, whether it was putting nutrients into the soil, planting new crops, or harvesting spinach.
The best part was that a member of the community stopped by to see what was going on at the farm and left with fresh spinach. This was a true example of what we learn in class every week: communities are built through word of mouth, and all it takes is one positive experience in the community.
This prompted Ellie and me to conduct additional research at the Mona Center in order to potentially integrate a vaccination clinic with the existing mobile clinic. It was fascinating to see how a current solution to societal problems such as food insecurity and a lack of fresh food was being addressed, as well as how a similar approach was being used to address the COVID-19 pandemic via the same mechanisms.

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Live work at the farm putting nutrients into the soil to grow crops for this upcoming growing season.

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Due to health concerns, I was unable to attend class last week. My high heart rate turned out to be a delayed reaction to my COVID-19 vaccine. When I learned the results of these tests, I realized the dilemma of vaccine hesitancy in the United States. Taking the side effects, knowing that I will be protecting my community from COVID-19 is preferable to not receiving the vaccine at all. This made me think about other people in the community who might not share my viewpoints. It's frightening to think that the potential side effects of vaccines could scare people away from protecting their community from a pandemic that has lasted over a year.
This has convinced me that I want to continue working on vaccine advocacy after this course and find ways to educate members about the importance of specific health measures, such as keeping up with vaccines, even after COVID-19. Our project excites me because it has provided us with the opportunity to learn about the design-thinking process and apply it to our community. The best part about the project was working with Ellie because we are like-minded individuals with similar goals and interests, which we discovered by volunteering at the Mona Farm together. The time spends in doctors' offices getting tests done allowed me to reflect on the course and the ways my mind has changed in the sense of the COVID-19 pandemic and the essential nature of the vaccines.

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Details leaked from an Israeli Health Ministry report have raised concerns among experts about a possible link between the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine and myocarditis, according to The Times of Israel and other news outlets.
Article by Megan Redshaw from Children's Health Defense.
The preliminary report by a committee tasked with monitoring vaccine side effects found 62 cases of myocarditis, including two deaths, in people who received the Pfizer vaccine. Fifty-six of the cases occurred after the second dose of the vaccine, and 55 cases occurred in men - most between the ages of 18 and 30.

The two patients who died were reportedly healthy until receiving the vaccine and had no pre-existing conditions. One was a 22-year-old woman, the other was a 35-year-old man. The report noted that 5 million people in Israel have been vaccinated for COVID.

Myocarditis, or inflammation of the heart muscle, can lead to cardiac arrhythmia and death.

Israel's pandemic response coordinator, Nachman Ash, confirmed "tens of incidents" of myocarditis occurred in vaccinated people, primarily after the second dose, but emphasized the health ministry had yet to draw any conclusions.

Determining a link, Ash said, would be difficult because myocarditis, a condition that often goes away without complications, can be caused by a variety of viruses, and a similar number of cases were reported in previous years, Reuters reported.

However, according to researchers at the National Organization for Rare Disorders, myocarditis can result from infections, but "more commonly the myocarditis is a result of the body's immune reaction to the initial heart damage."

Israeli researchers presented their findings to the Israeli Health Ministry Director-General, Pfizer, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Asked by Reuters about the review, Pfizer said it was in regular contact with the Israeli Health Ministry to review data on its vaccine and was aware of the Israeli observations of myocarditis that occurred predominantly in young men.

"Adverse events are regularly and thoroughly reviewed and we have not observed a higher rate of myocarditis than what would be expected in the general population," the company said. "A causal link to the vaccine has not been established. There is no evidence at this time to conclude that myocarditis is a risk associated with the use of Pfizer/BNT COVID-19 vaccine."

Pfizer said it had not detected similar findings in the rest of the world but would look deeper into the phenomenon.

However, a search for "myocarditis" in the CDC's Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System revealed 62 cases of myocarditis, with 70% occurring in people between the ages of 17 and 44. Of the reported cases, 23 were reported after the Pfizer vaccine.

Researchers who conducted the Israeli study stressed further investigation was needed to confirm a link between myocarditis and the vaccine, but added they had significant concerns. They wrote:

"At this stage, according to preliminary findings, which need further corroboration, there is an impression of a higher number than expected, especially for ages up to the age of 30. A more advanced report on the subject will be prepared soon."

"The impression is that there is an increase in the incidence of the phenomenon especially in young men on the scale of 1:20,000 after vaccination. It is likely that the onset of myocarditis is associated with receiving the vaccine (especially the second dose)."

Experts at the health ministry are reviewing the report and will make results public. However in an interview, Ash said the benefits of the vaccine are so great that "even if we do find a connection between some of the cases and the vaccine, it won't be justified to take any action regarding the vaccine."

Past research suggests mRNA vaccines can cause same symptoms as COVID

According to Lyn Redwood, RN, MSN, and president emerita of Children's Health Defense, "It is not surprising that we are seeing the same immune response resulting in myocarditis from the vaccines' spike protein as we see in the actual infection."

Redwood explained that mRNA vaccines work by incorporating the genetic blueprint for the key spike protein on the virus surface into a formula that - when injected into humans - instructs our own cells to make the spike protein.

"The problem with this approach is that the spike protein alone - which the mRNA vaccines instruct the body to make - has been implicated as a key cause of cardiac injury and death in people with COVID-19," Redwood said.

According to Redwood, based on research conducted to date, it is very likely that some recipients of the spike protein mRNA vaccines will experience the same symptoms and injuries associated with the virus.

As The Defender reported Feb. 10, Dr. J. Patrick Whelan, M.D., Ph.D sought to alert the FDA about the potential for COVID vaccines to cause injuries. Specifically, Whelan was concerned that the mRNA vaccine technology utilized by Pfizer and Moderna had "the potential to cause microvascular injury (inflammation and small blood clots called microthrombi) to the brain, heart, liver and kidneys in ways that were not assessed in the safety trials."

While Whelan did not dispute the vaccines' potential to quickly arrest the spread of the virus (assuming the vaccines prove to actually prevent transmission - also not assessed in the clinical trials), he cautioned that "it would be vastly worse if hundreds of millions of people were to suffer long-lasting or even permanent damage to their brain or heart microvasculature as a result of failing to appreciate in the short-term an unintended effect of full-length spike protein-based vaccines on other organs."

In October 2020, physicians warned that research demonstrated the SARS-CoV-2 virus could impact multiple organs of the body, including the heart, and that nearly a quarter of people hospitalized with COVID experience myocardial injury, such as arrhythmias or thromboembolic disease.

Dr. Hyung Chun, a Yale cardiologist, suggested that the endothelial cells lining the blood vessels potentially release inflammatory cytokines that further exacerbate the body's inflammatory response and lead to the formation of blood clots. Chun stated: "The 'inflamed' endothelium likely contributes not only to worsening outcome in COVID-19, but also is considered to be an important factor contributing to risk of heart attacks and strokes."

In a prospective study that followed 100 patients who recovered from COVID, researchers found involvement of the heart on MRI scans in 78% of patients, and ongoing myocardial inflammation in 60%. These findings were independent of the severity of the infection, overall course of the illness and time from the original diagnosis.

In October 2020, researchers took a more detailed look at the heart after death from COVID-19 and found "cardiac damage was common, but more from clotting than inflammation" and that "microthrombi (small blot clots) were frequent."

"We did not expect this," said study co-author Dr. Renu Virmani, of CVPath Institute in Gaithersburg, Maryland. "It seems to be unlikely that the direct viral invasion of the heart is playing a major role in making myocardial necrosis and microthrombi."

A subsequent study published in January confirmed the findings of microthrombi resulting in myocyte necrosis, indicative of a recent myocardial infarction (heart attack), in 40 individuals who died from COVID infection - the studies also identified microthrombi as a major cause of cardiac injury.

Clinicians around the world have seen evidence suggesting the virus may cause heart inflammation, acute kidney disease, neurological malfunction, blood clots, intestinal damage and liver problems.
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'The Purge' by Big Tech targets conservatives, including us

Just when we thought the Covid-19 lockdowns were ending and our ability to stay afloat was improving, censorship reared its ugly head.

For the last few months, NOQ Report and the American Conservative Movement have appealed to our readers for assistance in staying afloat through Covid-19 lockdowns. The downturn in the economy has limited our ability to generate proper ad revenue just as our traffic was skyrocketing. We had our first sustained stretch of three months with over a million visitors in November, December, and January, but February saw a dip.

It wasn't just the shortened month. We expected that. We also expected the continuation of dropping traffic from "woke" Big Tech companies like Google, Facebook, and Twitter, but it has actually been much worse than anticipated. Our Twitter account was banned. Both of our YouTube accounts were banned. Facebook "fact-checks" everything we post. Spotify canceled us. Medium canceled us. Apple canceled us. Why? Because we believe in the truth prevailing, and that means we will continue to discuss "taboo" topics.

The 2020 presidential election was stolen. You can't say that on Big Tech platforms without risking cancellation, but we'd rather get cancelled for telling the truth rather than staying around to repeat mainstream media's lies. They have been covering it up since before the election and they've convinced the vast majority of conservative news outlets that they will be harmed if they continue to discuss voter fraud. We refuse to back down. The truth is the truth.

The lies associated with Covid-19 are only slightly more prevalent than the suppression of valid scientific information that runs counter to the prescribed narrative. We should be allowed to ask questions about the vaccines, for example, as there is ample evidence for concern. One does not have to be an "anti-vaxxer" in order to want answers about vaccines that are still considered experimental and that have a track record in a short period of time of having side-effects, including death. One of our stories about the Johnson & Johnson "vaccine" causing blood clots was "fact-checked" and removed one day before the government hit the brakes on it. These questions and news items are not allowed on Big Tech which is just another reason we are getting canceled.

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Pfizer vaccine may cause heart inflammation in people under 30, leaked study suggests

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Share the truthDetails leaked from an Israeli Health Ministry report have raised concerns among experts about a possible link between the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine and myocarditis, according to The Times of Israel and other news outlets. Article by Megan Redshaw from Children's Health Defense.

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I wanted to write my final padlet post after finishing my group's final presentation. It breaks my heart to see this course come to an end. It's incredible to think about how much I've grown and learned over the course of this semester.
First and foremost, I thoroughly enjoyed working on the prototype with the majority of my group. Afroditi, Ellie, and Shayda were, without a doubt, the best group members I could have asked for. Making friends with people who share my interests and passions has been difficult while attending online school. Fortunately, this course changed that and made it feel like we were in person for the vast majority of the time.
It astounds me that our group was able to engage with the community and create a prototype for a vaccine clinic in Temple Hills, Maryland. When I first started looking into the non-profit leadership and social innovation minor, my involvement with the Mona Clinic was a deciding factor because I wanted to learn how to combine my passion for nonprofit leadership with my passion for working in the healthcare field. The COVID-19 pandemic, in particular, fueled my desire to learn how to better my community. This course unquestionably assisted me in learning that through the design thinking process and truly figuring out how to transform an idea into a prototype to better the community. It also enabled me to cultivate a more creative mindset, as evidenced by the infographic depicting the establishment of our vaccine clinic at the Mona Center.

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The Process- Setting Up a Vaccination Clinic 

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I am so proud and happy how the final presentation and project turned out. I would always call my parents on Friday afternoons and tell them how much I loved this course. This led my mom to take off work to attend the final and my grandparents to listen in as well. They were beyond impressed what we were able to accomplish as undergraduates.
For the project, it was great that we were able to work as a team to create the powerpoint as opposed to only working on the slides we were presenting. It was evident that all of the group members, aside from Shawn, wanting a prototype that could be implemented into the community and create sustainable change.
I am hoping to continue this work and the design thinking process to make a change in PG County. I have been in contact with Mr. Slade to figure out how to spend my summer working to reach community immunity in Prince George's county.