How to restore trust in the CDC and FDA

Guest Post by Steve Kirsch

There is a conference at GSU on March 24 that I will be attending. They didn’t invite me to speak, so I’m writing this Substack to submit my suggestions. I bet mine are better than theirs.

Executive summary

There are many ways for the CDC and FDA to regain the trust of Americans. This article lists 20 ways.

I was not asked to speak at the conference, so I thought I’d prepare my list for people who attend.

The conference to restore trust

More details here. You can still register. It is free.

20 ideas for how to restore trust

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FDA is using Covid Vaccines as a “Platform Technology”

Guest Post by Dr. Robert Malone

There was a World Health Organization (WHO) consultation in April, 2021 (Sept, 2022 online publication ahead of Dec, 2022 print) whereby US government officials laid out strategies for the process of future mRNA vaccine approvals by the FDA. A summary of this meeting has just been published online, ahead of print. So, we no longer have to speculate about what the FDA has decided about considering future mRNA vaccines and using the past pre-clinical data package as the foundation for these vaccines as being a “platform” technology.

The 2021 WHO informal consultation on regulatory considerations discussed these issues. Dr Keith Peden (Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), Food and Drug Administration presented the FDA’s experience and position on licensure of new mRNA vaccine products.

WHO informal consultation on regulatory considerations for evaluation of the quality, safety and efficacy of RNA-based prophylactic vaccines for infectious diseases, 20-22 April 2021

Emerg Microbes Infect 2022 Dec;11(1):384-391. doi: 10.1080/22221751.2022.2026742.

From the World Health Organization article:

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Sounding the Alarm: Normalizing the Jab with Lies

Guest Post by Dr. Robert Malone

Endless mRNA vaccines are in the works, as the CDC and FDA play “hide the data”

This weekend, while speaking at the Liberty Forum of Silicon Valley, I was asked a question about the status of the development of an influenza/COVID-19 mRNA vaccine.

A quick search on clinicaltrials.gov (which is a government website where clinical trials are registered), found the following combined influenza/COVID-19 clinical trial, which is currently recruiting:

A Safety, Reactogenicity, and Immunogenicity Study of mRNA-1073 (COVID-19/Influenza) Vaccine in Adults 18 to 75 Years Old

This is a phase 1 and 2 combined randomized clinical trial which anticipates enrollment of 1,050 participants.


Today, a reader sent me a link to the article below, which clearly shows that the pre-clinical phase of these combination vaccines has been concluded and APPROVED by the FDA. Enrollment for the clinical trials is about to begin.

Clinical trials for ‘entirely new’ mRNA flu vaccines launching soon. Will they work better?

Based on COVID-19 ‘messenger’ RNA or mRNA vaccines, the new flu vaccines could better protect people from multiple types of flu. First up for testing: older people. Continue reading “Sounding the Alarm: Normalizing the Jab with Lies”

Former BlackRock Advisor Tells RFK, Jr.: ‘FDA Is in on the Cover-Up’

Via The Defender

In an interview with former BlackRock advisor Edward Dowd on “RFK Jr. The Defender Podcast,” Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Dowd discussed why they believe COVID vaccine makers committed fraud, and government agencies know it.

by David Marks

Edward Dowd and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

In an interview with former BlackRock advisor Edward Dowd on “RFK Jr. The Defender Podcast,” Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Dowd discussed the financial and moral implications of fraudulent data from the COVID-19 vaccine trials.

Dowd, a managing director with BlackRock from 2002 to 2012, said, “what tipped me off to the fraud” was when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced it wouldn’t release the trial data for 75 years. He knew something wasn’t right.

Dowd told Kennedy:

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Confidence in COVID Narrative Wanes

Via Armstrong Economics

The University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg Public Policy Center conducted a survey where it polled 1,656 adults about their views on the leading health agencies shaping the COVID narrative. Only 65% stated that they trusted Dr. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). This comes as no surprise considering he constantly changes the narrative and is attempting to push us into the junior year of the pandemic. Over one-third (35%) said they are not confident in Fauci at all, an increase from 29% in April 2021.

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Do 0 deaths in 2 years justify a vaccine mandate?

Guest Post by Steve kirsch

Apparently so! We live in very strange times, don’t we?

Credit to UCSF Professor Aditi Bhargava for bringing this particular UK FOIA request to my attention. I haven’t seen it anywhere else, so I thought I’d share it with you in case you missed it as well.

The request was:

​Please supply deaths caused solely by covid 19, where covid is the only cause of death listed on the death certificate, broken down by age group and gender between feb 2020 up to and including dec 2021.

Here is the most interesting part of the full response which covered nearly two years since the very start of the pandemic: the number of young people in the UK who died solely from COVID:

Your chance of being killed from COVID is basically 0 if you are under 24 years old.

Therefore, based on this data, if you were a policymaker in the US, you’d want to mandate the vaccines for anyone under 24, right?

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The Anecdotes of an American Nobody at the End of Things

By Doug “Uncola” Lynn via TheBurningPlatform.com

 

No man has been shattered by the blows of Fortune unless he was first deceived by her favours. Those who loved her gifts as if they were their own forever, who wanted to be admired on account of them, are laid low and grieve when the false and transient pleasures desert their vain and childish minds, ignorant of every stable pleasure. But the man who is not puffed up in good times does not collapse either when they change. His fortitude is already tested and he maintains a mind unconquered in the face of either condition: for in the midst of prosperity he has tried his own strength against adversity.

– Seneca

 

You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.

– Revelation 3:17

 

There is no denying the Creature from Jekyll Island is a snake eating its own tail. Unfortunately, the tail is the entire world and it was devoured slow and sure:  banking, Wall Street, sovereign governments, international corporations, and, now, Main Street and entire populations around the globe.

It’s been a year and a few days since The Great Reset officially began on November 3, 2020. That was when a handful of Democrat Party controlled precincts, in Democrat Party controlled cities, in key electoral swing states, all stopped counting votes in the middle of the night.  Forgetting that Trump received more votes than any other president in history and Sleepy Joe was said to have received even more votes with the winning margins secured in those Democrat-controlled precincts – the unbelievable irony is now this: Those who believe Biden is a legitimate president consider those who disagree with that consensus as believers of “The Big Lie”.

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Arkansas doctor under investigation for prescribing ivermectin thousands of times for Covid-19 despite FDA warning

An article from the Communist News Network on that evil poisonous drug Ivermectin. Beware, it can cause GI upset! Of course they also talk about overdose symptoms. Anyone who takes enough of this to lead to OD symptoms has to be a complete “Maroon”. The local Justice of the Peace ratted out the old school country Doctor, when notified by some “Karen Whistleblower” county employee. What a F’ng asshole.

By Devon M. Sayers and Rebekah Riess, CNN 8/27/2021

The Arkansas Medical Board is investigating after a doctor said he prescribed an anti-parasitic drug “thousands” of times for treatment of Covid-19, including to inmates in an Arkansas jail.

The FDA has been warning against the use of ivermectin for treatment of Covid-19 since March. The drug is used to treat parasitic infections, primarily in livestock, and the CDC recently cautioned about an increase in reports to poison centers of severe illness caused by the drug.

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FOR HUMAN USE THIS HAS NOT BEEN APPROVED

They’re on to us! FDA is freaking out because folks have figured out a way around their inability to list Ivermectin as a treatment choice for the “Coof”. Now they’re trying to scare people that it’s poisonous. FDA can stuff it BFTTW!! Oh I also see they’re giving the Pfizer #Clotshot the stamp of approval.

Moooooo…

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/568865-fda-warns-against-using-animal-parasite-medicine-as-at-home-covid-19

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FDA Approves Fake Vaccine For Staged Photo Shoots

Via The Babylon Bee

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The FDA has approved a fake vaccine for staged photo shoots by celebrities and politicians, the administration announced today.

After reviewing the placebo vaccine for weeks, FDA experts confirmed it was totally safe for celebrities to take while posting selfies to social media telling you to get vaccinated.

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FDA Policies Kill

Guest Post by Walter E. Williams

FDA Policies Kill

Among the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s responsibilities are approval and regulation of pharmaceutical drugs. In short, its responsibility is to ensure the safety and effectiveness of drugs. In the performance of this task, FDA officials can make two types of errors — statistically known as the type I error and type II error. With respect to the FDA, a type I error is the rejection or delayed approval of a drug that is safe and effective — erring on the side of over-caution — and a type II error is the approval of a drug that has unanticipated dangerous side effects, or erring on the side of under-caution.

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MORE GOVERNMENT OVERREACH

Anthony, a TBP reader, is in the fight of his life. Retailers are already fighting an uphill battle to stay in business. The last thing they need is the fucking Feds sticking their nose where it doesn’t belong. Obama and his control freaks at the FDA allow teenagers to be on Xanax, leading to mass murder, but for guys who just want to smoke a cigar they impose Nazi-like restrictions.

If you are a cigar aficionado, visit Anthony’s site and show your support.

http://www.cigarscity.com/

Band Together – Help Keep Uncle Sam Out of Your Humidor!

The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) plans to deem cigars subject to federal regulation and cigar lovers need to band together to protect our rights.

Protect the right to enjoy cigars

What Does It Mean For You?

Well, mainly it means the government wants to change a number of aspects about the regulation and red-tape associated with cigars. This could have a drastic detrimental impact on the cost of smoking cigars and the culture we enjoy as cigar lovers if the FDA moves forward.

What Could Happen To Cigars If The FDA Steps In?

CigarsCity.com opposes any new regulation of premium or traditional cigars by the United States government. We’re not alone as thousands of cigar fans, the advocacy group Cigar Rights of America, and most cigar manufacturers have also voiced their opposition to the threat of more regulation. The government’s uninvited intrusion into cigar culture is unwelcome and unnecessary!
Here are a few of the things that could happen if the FDA steps in:

– Complete elimination of your right to buy cigars from law-abiding online vendors like CigarsCity.com
– Elimination of walk-in humidors at cigar shops and cigar lounges
– Restrictions on advertisements and promotions of cigars
– Forcing manufacturers to submit blends to the FDA for testing, making cigar production more expensive and time-consuming
– Tougher restrictions on flavored tobacco and flavor infused cigars

What’s Being Done To Stop Them?

Cigar enthusiasts and the industry are fighting back. The good news is, some ears in Washington D.C. are listening.

Specifically, bi-partisan efforts like House Resolution 792 and Senate Bill 772 will clearly spell out that premium and large cigars are off-limts to the FDA. These two pieces of legislation are in committees right now in each the House of Representatives and Senate.
Want more details — well, here’s a bit of legalese if you want to know the specifics:

This proposed definition means any roll of tobacco that is wrapped in 100 percent leaf tobacco, bunched with 100 percent tobacco filler, contains no filter, tip or non-tobacco mouthpiece, weighs at least 6 pounds per 1,000 count, and–

A.) Has a 100 percent leaf tobacco binder and is hand rolled;

B.) Has a 100 percent leaf tobacco binder and is made using human hands to lay the leaf tobacco wrapper or binder onto only one machine that bunches, wraps, and caps each individual cigar; or

C.) Has a homogenized tobacco leaf binder and is made in the United States using human hands to lay the 100 percent leaf tobacco wrapper onto only one machine that bunches, wraps, and caps each individual cigar; and

D.) does not include a cigarette (as such term is defined by section 900(3)) or a little cigar (as such term is defined by section 900(11)).’.

So What Can Cigar Fans Do?

That’s a great question. Generally, we try to stay as far away from politics as possible and we’re guessing you do too. However, if you’re willing to contact your legislators there’s a great tool available at the bottom of this page thanks to the folks at Cigar Rights of America.

Also, it’s going to take more than just those of us who enjoy a good cigar. This political fight is also about personal liberty. If you believe in liberty and to preserve individual freedom, we’d love to have you on our side as part of our band of brothers in support of cigars.

Band Together and Spread the Word

CHOKING THE CHINESE CHICKEN

I received this email today. Would you eat chicken processed in China? Do you think packages of chicken will be clearly marked that they were processed in China? Do you trust the Chinese? Do you trust the FDA? I personally would never knowingly consume any food that came from China. I prefer my cat and dog MADE IN AMERICA.

Congress: KEEP CHINESE CHICKEN OUT OF OUR SCHOOLS AND SUPERMARKETS!

By Bettina Siegel, Nancy Huehnergarth and Barbara Kowalcyk
Houston, Texas

Over the summer, we were alarmed to learn that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) will allow four Chinese facilities to process poultry raised and slaughtered in the United States, Canada, or Chile, then export the cooked poultry products back into the United States for human consumption.

China has an unusually troubling record when it comes to food safety. Specific instances include: dangerously high levels of mercury found in Chinese baby formula; more than 16,000 diseased pig carcasses dumped in a river to rot; more than $1 million worth of rat and other small mammal meat sold to Chinese consumers as lamb; and more than 300,000 Chinese children sickened, with several dying, from melamine-tainted milk powder.

Last year, according to news reports, a Chinese poultry supplier provided Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants in China with chicken fattened by large quantities of illegal drugs. And in the U.S., the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently warned pet owners not to feed their pets jerky treats from China. Since 2007, approximately 600 dogs and cats in the United States have mysteriously died, and 3,600 have been sickened from eating Chinese pet treats, including those containing chicken or duck.

Yet despite these concerns, chicken can now be processed in China and sent back to this country for human consumption even though there will be no on-site USDA inspectors in Chinese processing facilities to ensure food safety. Furthermore, Chinese-processed chicken does not have to bear “Country Of Origin Labeling,” which means that consumers will not know if they are purchasing or eating chicken processed in China.

To make matters worse, under USDA rules, Chinese-processed chicken can be used in the National School Lunch Program and other federal child nutrition programs, despite the fact that children are particularly vulnerable to foodborne illnesses and dangerous chemicals.

Even more alarming is that chicken raised and slaughtered in China may eventually be imported directly into the United States, despite the fact that a December 2013 USDA audit found that China’s poultry slaughter system is not yet equivalent to that of the United States in terms of food safety practices.

Given the many reported, critical lapses in China’s enforcement of its food safety laws, both Chinese-processed and Chinese-slaughtered poultry could pose a potential threat to public health in the United States, and immediate action by Congress and the President is needed.

By starting this petition, we urge Congress, President Obama, and his administration to stop chicken from, or processed in, China from reaching our supermarkets and the meals we feed our school children by:

(1) Ensuring that Chinese-processed chicken is not included in the National School Lunch Program, School Breakfast Program, Child and Adult Care Food Program and Summer Food Service Program; and

(2) Preventing funds from being used to implement any rule that would allow poultry raised or slaughtered in China to be exported to the United States.

Fourteen members of Congress have already publicly supported these goals in an open letter to the Agricultural Appropriations Committee.

We, Bettina Siegel, Nancy Huehnergarth, and Barbara Kowalcyk, are concerned parents who care a great deal about food and food safety. Please join with us and these lawmakers to show Congress, President Obama, and his administration that American consumers care about food safety for themselves and their families. Thank you!

15 EYE OPENING MINUTES AT WALGREENS

I dropped into the Walgreens near my house yesterday to pick up a couple of prescriptions. Every time I go to this store, the workers outnumber the customers. It must have something to do with the other 10 drug stores within five miles. There is absolutely no possibility this store is turning a profit. It will eventually be closed. But, in the meantime it is very convenient for our family. I noticed two things that I hadn’t seen before in this Walgreens. As I walked towards the pharmacy I noticed there were big red signs on all of the refrigerator doors. There must have been 10 of these signs. SNAP ain’t just for West Philly anymore. I live in an upper middle class area. There are no slums or ghettos within 20 miles. Why would Walgreens be making such a big deal about accepting SNAP? This is just another example of what a scam this program has become. Allowing people to purchase ice cream and goodies with taxpayer money is a joke. I’d love to know what volume of business this Walgreens is doing in SNAP purchases. 

Once I arrived at the pharmacy, I had to wait a few minutes for the customer ahead of me. I glanced up at the wall and saw a large notice. I started scanning it and was blown away by who Walgreens will give our private health information to. Below is the complete notice that was hung on their wall. Calling it protect health information is an oxymoron. Walgreens essentially is telling you they will give your information to any governmental agency that asks for it. They will give it to the police, FBI, FDA, DHS, and probably to MSNBC if they ask nicely. Here is the best one:

National Security, Intelligence Activities, and Protective Services for the President and Others. We may release PHI about you to federal officials for intelligence, counterintelligence, protection to the President, and other national security activities authorized by law.

They will provide information about your constipation or having a limp dick to DHS in order to protect the President. I feel so much safer now.

Nothing you say, do, type, order online, or put into your body is not known to the Orwellian government we live under today. We’ve learned to love our servitude as long as we can use our EBT cards to buy Cherry Garcia ice cream.

 

Notice of Privacy Practices

THIS NOTICE DESCRIBES HOW MEDICAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU MAY BE USED AND DISCLOSED AND HOW YOU CAN GET ACCESS TO THIS INFORMATION. PLEASE REVIEW IT CAREFULLY.

Walgreen Co., including its subsidiaries, is required by law to maintain the privacy of Protected Health Information (“PHI”) and to provide you with notice of our legal duties and privacy practices with respect to PHI. PHI is information that may identify you and that relates to your past, present or future physical or mental health or condition and related health care services. This Notice of Privacy Practices (“Notice”) describes how we may use and disclose PHI to carry out treatment, payment or health care operations and for other specified purposes that are permitted or required by law. The Notice also describes your rights with respect to your PHI. We are required to provide this notice to you by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”).

Walgreens is required to follow the terms of this Notice. We will not use or disclose your PHI without your written authorization, except as described or otherwise permitted by this Notice. We reserve the right to change our practices and this Notice and to make the new Notice effective for all PHI we maintain. Upon request, we will provide any revised Notice to you.

Examples of How We Use and Disclose Protected Health Information About You

The following categories describe different ways that we use and disclose your protected health information. We have provided you with examples in certain categories; however, not every use or disclosure in a category will be listed.

Treatment. We may use your health information to provide and coordinate the treatment, medications and services you receive. For example, we may contact you regarding medications, equipment, supplies, compliance programs such as drug recommendations, therapeutic substitution, refill reminders, other product or service recommendations such as specialty and infusion therapies, counseling and drug utilization review (DUR), product recalls or disease state management.

Payment. We may use your health information for various payment-related functions. Example: We may contact your insurer, pharmacy benefit manager or other health care payer to determine whether it will pay for your medications, equipment and supplies and the amount of your co-payment. We will bill you or a third-party payer for the cost of medications, equipment and supplies dispensed to you. The information on or accompanying the bill may include information that identifies you, as well as the medications you are taking.

Health Care Operations. We may use your health information for certain operational, administrative and quality assurance activities. Example: We may use information in your health record to monitor the performance of the staff and pharmacists providing treatment to you. This information will be used in an effort to continually improve the quality and effectiveness of the health care and service we provide. We may disclose health information to business associates if they need to receive this information to provide a service to us and will agree to abide by specific HIPAA rules relating to the protection of health information.

We may also use your health information to provide you with information about benefits available to you, and, in limited situations, about health-related products or services that may be of interest to you. If you register your email address on Walgreens.com, or any of our other websites, you may elect to receive this information via email.

We are permitted to use or disclose your PHI for the following purposes. However, Walgreens may never have reason to make some of these disclosures.

To Communicate with Individuals Involved in Your Care or Payment for Your Care. We may disclose to a family member, other relative, close personal friend or any other person you identify, PHI directly relevant to that person’s involvement in your care or payment related to your care.

Food and Drug Administration (FDA). We may disclose to the FDA, or persons under the jurisdiction of the FDA, PHI relative to adverse events with respect to drugs, foods, supplements, products and product defects, or post-marketing surveillance information to enable product recalls, repairs, or replacement.

Worker’s Compensation. We may disclose your PHI to the extent authorized by and to the extent necessary to comply with laws relating to worker’s compensation or other similar programs established by law.

Public Health. As required by law, we may disclose your PHI to public health or legal authorities charged with preventing or controlling disease, injury, or disability.

Law Enforcement. We may disclose your PHI for law enforcement purposes as required by law or in response to a subpoena or court order.

As Required by Law. We will disclose your PHI when required to do so by federal, state, or local law.

Health Oversight Activities. We may disclose your PHI to an oversight agency for activities authorized by law. These oversight activities include audits, investigations, inspections, and credentialing, as necessary for licensure and for the government to monitor the health care system, government programs, and compliance with civil rights laws.

Judicial and Administrative Proceedings. If you are involved in a lawsuit or a dispute, we may disclose your PHI in response to a court or administrative order. We may also disclose health information about you in response to a subpoena, discovery request, or other lawful process instituted by someone else involved in the dispute, but only if efforts have been made, either by the requesting party or us, to tell you about the request or to obtain an order protecting the information requested.

Research. We may disclose your PHI to researchers when their research has been approved by an institutional review board or privacy board that has reviewed the research proposal and established protocols to ensure the privacy of your information.

Coroners, Medical Examiners, and Funeral Directors. We may release your PHI to a coroner or medical examiner. This may be necessary, for example, to identify a deceased person or determine the cause of death. We may also disclose PHI to funeral directors consistent with applicable law to enable them to carry out their duties.

Organ or Tissue Procurement Organizations. Consistent with applicable law, we may disclose your PHI to organ procurement organizations or other entities engaged in the procurement, banking, or transplantation of organs for the purpose of tissue donation and transplant.

Notification. We may use or disclose your PHI to notify or assist in notifying a family member, personal representative, or another person responsible for your care, regarding your location and general condition.

Fundraising. We may contact you as part of a fundraising effort.

Correctional Institution. If you are or become an inmate of a correctional institution, we may disclose to the institution or its agents PHI necessary for your health and the health and safety of other individuals.

To Avert a Serious Threat to Health or Safety. We may use and disclose your PHI when necessary to prevent a serious threat to your health and safety or the health and safety of the public or another person.

Military and Veterans. If you are a member of the armed forces, we may release PHI about you as required by military command authorities. We may also release PHI about foreign military personnel to the appropriate foreign military authority.

National Security, Intelligence Activities, and Protective Services for the President and Others. We may release PHI about you to federal officials for intelligence, counterintelligence, protection to the President, and other national security activities authorized by law.

Victims of Abuse or Neglect. We may disclose PHI about you to a government authority if we reasonably believe you are a victim of abuse or neglect. We will only disclose this type of information to the extent required by law, if you agree to the disclosure, or if the disclosure is allowed by law and we believe it is necessary to prevent serious harm to you or someone else.

Other Uses and Disclosures of PHI
We will obtain your written authorization before using or disclosing your PHI for purposes other than those provided for above (or as otherwise permitted or required by law). You may revoke an authorization in writing at any time. Upon receipt of the written revocation, we will stop using or disclosing your PHI, except to the extent that we have already taken action in reliance on the authorization.

Your Health Information Rights

Obtain a paper copy of the Notice upon request. You may request a copy of our current Notice at any time. Even if you have agreed to receive the Notice electronically, you are still entitled to a paper copy. You may obtain a paper copy from a pharmacy, home care facility, mail service location or the Privacy Office.

Request a restriction on certain uses and disclosures of PHI. You have the right to request additional restrictions on our use or disclosure of your PHI by sending a written request to the Privacy Office. We are not required to agree to those restrictions. We cannot agree to restrictions on uses or disclosures that are legally required, or which are necessary to administer our business.

Inspect and obtain a copy of PHI. In most cases, you have the right to access and copy the PHI that we maintain about you. To inspect or copy your PHI, you must send a written request to the Privacy Office. We may charge you a fee for the costs of copying, mailing and supplies that are necessary to fulfill your request. We may deny your request to inspect and copy in certain limited circumstances.

Request an amendment of PHI. If you feel that PHI we maintain about you is incomplete or incorrect, you may request that we amend it. To request an amendment, you must send a written request to the Privacy Office. You must include a reason that supports your request. In certain cases, we may deny your request for amendment.

Receive an accounting of disclosures of PHI. You have the right to receive an accounting of the disclosures we have made of your PHI after April 14, 2003 for most purposes other than treatment, payment, or health care operations. The right to receive an accounting is subject to certain exceptions, restrictions, and limitations. To request an accounting, you must submit a request in writing to the Privacy Office. Your request must specify the time period. The time period may not be longer than six years and may not include dates before April 14, 2003.

Request communications of PHI by alternative means or at alternative locations. For instance, you may request that we contact you at a different residence or post office box. To request confidential communication of your PHI, you must submit a request in writing to the Privacy Office. Your request must tell us how or where you would like to be contacted. We will accommodate all reasonable requests.

Where to obtain forms for submitting written requests. You may obtain forms for submitting written requests from any Walgreens store, home care facility, mail service location or by contacting the Privacy Officer at Walgreen Co. Privacy Office, 200 Wilmot Road, Mail Stop 9000, Deerfield, Illinois 60015 or toll-free by telephone at (877) 924-4472. You can also visit www.walgreens.com to obtain these forms.

Incidental Disclosures
Walgreens will make reasonable efforts to avoid incidental disclosures of protected health information. An example of an incidental disclosure is conversations that may be overheard between the pharmacy staff and the patient at the drive-thru, as a result of the speaker system. To reduce the likelihood of this happening, we recommend that you go inside the store to the pharmacy for any consultations.

Minors
If you are a minor who has lawfully provided consent for treatment and you wish for Walgreens to treat you as an adult for purposes of access to and disclosure of records related to such treatment, please notify a staff member, pharmacist or the Privacy Office.

For More Information or To Report a Problem
If you have questions or would like additional information about Walgreens’ privacy practices, you may contact our Privacy Officer at Walgreen Co. Privacy Office, 200 Wilmot Road, Mail Stop 9000, Deerfield, Illinois 60015 or toll-free by telephone at (877) 924-4472. If you believe your privacy rights have been violated, you can file a complaint with the Privacy Officer or with the Secretary of Health and Human Services. You can also file a complaint through www.walgreens.com, and we will route your complaint to the Privacy Office. There will be no retaliation for filing a complaint.

Effective Date
This Notice is effective as of April 13, 2003.