'Vaccinated my child without my consent': Rapper M.I.A. unloads on feds as COVID claims crumble
London-born rapper claimed the media turned vaccine skeptics like her into "murderers for believing we were healthy."
The London-born rapper Mathangi Arulpragasam, stage name M.I.A., isn't afraid to take on powerful American government and corporate interests.
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire awardee performed in front of the Home Office in London in 2019 to protest the sought extradition of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to the U.S. She questioned the cultural dominance of the Black Lives Matter movement in America in 2016.
Before that the NFL tried to extract more than $16 million from M.I.A. for breach of contract: ruining its "reputation for wholesomeness" by flipping the bird during the 2012 Super Bowl halftime show. They settled privately.
But what has put the Sri Lankan Christian convert in the cultural cross hairs is her renewed criticism of the alliance between American public health regulators and pharmaceutical interests, in response to developments that illuminate the thinness of evidence invoked to authorize certain COVID-19 treatments.
The so-called bivalent boosters that include Omicron subvariants BA.4/5, authorized by the FDA without human trial data, perform no better than the original boosters, according to two recent preprint studies that are not yet peer-reviewed.
CDC Director Rochelle Walenksy tested positive for COVID twice in nine days last month, first after her bivalent booster and then after a five-day course of Pfizer's oral antiviral Paxlovid, which was authorized to treat high-risk people and not tested on vaccinated individuals like Walensky.
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