US Buying $290M Worth Of Anti-Radiation Drugs for Use In “Nuclear Emergency”

Authored by Chris Menahan via InformationLiberation.com,

The Biden regime is buying up $290 million in anti-radiation drugs for use in “nuclear emergencies” amid escalating tensions with Russia and heightened threats of a nuclear war.

From Health and Human Services:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 4, 2022

Contact HHS Press Office
202-821-9446
[email protected]
www.hhs.gov/news
Twitter: @HHSgov

HHS purchases drug for use in radiological and nuclear emergencies

As part of long-standing, ongoing efforts to be better prepared to save lives following radiological and nuclear emergencies, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is purchasing a supply of the drug Nplate from Amgen USA Inc; Nplate is approved to treat blood cell injuries that accompany acute radiation syndrome in adult and pediatric patients (ARS).

Amgen, based in Thousands Oaks, California, developed Nplate for ARS with support from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), part of the HHS Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR), as well as the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health.

BARDA is using its authority provided under the 2004 Project Bioshield Act and $290 million in Project BioShield designated funding to purchase this supply of the drug. Amgen will maintain this supply in vendor-managed inventory. This approach decreases life-cycle management costs for taxpayers because doses that near expiration can be rotated into the commercial market for rapid use prior to expiry and new doses can be added to the government supply.

ARS, also known as radiation sickness, occurs when a person’s entire body is exposed to a high dose of penetrating radiation, reaching internal organs in a matter of seconds. Symptoms of ARS injuries include impaired blood clotting as a result of low platelet counts, which can lead to uncontrolled and life-threatening bleeding.

To reduce radiation-induced bleeding, Nplate stimulates the body’s production of platelets. The drug can be used to treat adults and children.

Nplate is also approved for adult and pediatric patients with immune thrombocytopenia, a blood disorder resulting in low platelet counts. Repurposing drugs for acute radiation syndrome that also are approved for a commercial indication helps to sustain availability of the product and improves healthcare provider familiarity with the drug.

“The US government said the procurement of Nplate was not in response to the war in Ukraine,” The Telegraph reported.

“An HSS spokesman told The Telegraph: ‘This is part of our ongoing work for preparedness and radiological security. It has not been accelerated by the situation in Ukraine.'”

The State Department last week urged all Americans to leave Russia “as soon as possible” in the wake of the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines.

The official reasoning they gave was to avoid getting conscripted in their mobilization effort but that logic only applied to dual citizens and their advisory was for all Americans.

As I noted at the time, the real reason they told everyone to leave is more likely the risk of a full-blown war breaking out due to the US, Ukraine or Poland being responsible for the belligerent bombing of the Nord Steam pipelines.

While Russia has issued statement after statement warning the US they will use nuclear weapons to defend their territory and are “not bluffing,” the US has been shipping billions in high-tech weaponry to Ukraine to attack Russian forces and strike inside of Russia.

Just last week, Congress voted to send another $12.3 billion in military and economic aid to Ukraine.

Biden said in February after the war broke out that Americans should not be worried about a nuclear war then spent the next eight months antagonizing Russia (and China) with endless provocations to make nuclear war more likely than ever.

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Boogieman
Boogieman

What’s 10% of $290M?

Marky
Marky

$6

Dr. Zedder Strangelove
Dr. Zedder Strangelove

Nine Nine Nine

Winchester
Winchester

Good thing I already have some!

Avalon
Avalon

Me too! ITP?

~L
~L

Something sweet headed your way soon, Mrs. Admin.
+ a treat for the hub to enjoy, along w a few zlotys toward the cause. In a week or so.

Avalon
Avalon

Thank you! You’re thoughtfulness is greatly appreciated ❤️

bidenTouchesKids
bidenTouchesKids

“The US government said the procurement of Nplate was not in response to the war in Ukraine,”

Of course not, totally normal to prepare for nuclear war. Happens all the time.

GrungeVet aka Scipio Eruditus

“It’s not because of the Ukraine we promise! No seriously it’s not!”

Yeah sure bub

Boogieman
Boogieman

Iodine is sort of maintenance process, you need to take it well before exposure, it needs to build up in your thyroids. I take it every day as part of a regular vitamin and mineral regime.

Stucky

Oh … “anti-radiation drugs”, you say?

Bullshit. It’s actually the SHIT SHOT in disguise. Don’t take it!!!!”

Dr. Zedder Strangelove
Dr. Zedder Strangelove

I haven’t heard anyone else postulate that some batches got really “live” virus. Like being spiked with Cobalt 56 or 58. Then they wonder about iron…… am i Magnetic, no you were poisoned with cobalt. Hooray! Halflife of Cobalt 56,58 is approx 70 days.

Stucky

Surviving a nuke blast is relatively easy, IF you take just a few precautions …

Stucky

**** BREAKING NEWS ****

“Scientists at the CDC finally discover how cockroaches survive nuclear war!”

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Joe Blow
Joe Blow

Maybe that is why they want us to eat bugs so that we have this protection….

Dr. Zedder Strangelove
Dr. Zedder Strangelove

How to survive nuclear war. Don’t throw that party. How about we set off little firecrackers instead?

Boogieman
Boogieman

Well now I feel much better knowing that one small inefficient a-bomb only killed 93% of the population in Hiroshima. I mean shit, 93% that ain’t bad.

bidenTouchesKids
bidenTouchesKids

Hiroshima bomb was only 20 KT, Russia’s nukes are 800 KT. Everything at the blast site is vaporized followed by a few miles of everything including the air catching on fire. Even if you’re outside that radius the heat alone will cook you and burn down your house.
No way anyone is surviving in the area a modern nuke hits. Not to mention the fallout travel for those outside the cities.

Note from Nevada
Note from Nevada

Bought some Potassium Iodine last Spring……

Stucky

If you believe iodine will save your ass in a nuke blast …. then, surely, you also believe in ducking under a wooden desk.

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“Sales of potassium iodide or KI pills, which are often marketed as protecting the body from radioactive fallout, are soaring.

But radiation health experts say the pills aren’t really helpful in the aftermath of a nuclear attack.

The pills account for a fraction of a percent of the radiation emitted by fallout.

It’s more important for survival kits to include water, food, a radio, flashlight, and other basic necessities to last a few days.”

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https://www.businessinsider.com/pills-drug-nuclear-attack-fallout-survival-gear-2018-1

Boogieman
Boogieman

Iodine protects the thyroid from certain types of isotopes, it will not save you from a nuclear blast or even massive exposure to radiation. The thyroid is extremely susceptible to the absorption of isotopic radiation. It regulates your heart and other organs in your body. The inert isotopes in Iodine fill the thyroid and prevent it from absorbing the harmful isotopes from gamma radiation. It will actually save your life from gama radiation in low level exposure. However, it won’t protect your skin or other internal organs. Caution, don’t take more than 200 micrograms a day. It’s just one more thing you can do if you should happen to survive the initial blast. Iodine is good for you anyway in appropriate dosage..

m
m

Guys, can we try to get it halfways right?

Iodine has some radioactive isotopes which occur in abundance in fission products (i.e. after splitting atoms). Those have a half-life of a few days, which on the positive side means they are gone half a year after a nuclear blast, but on the negative side while they’re still decaying are an intense source of radioactivity.

A human thyroid needs iodine to produce iodine-containing thyroid hormones such as thyroxine. Therefore Iodine taken up through the stomach will largely end up in your thyroid.

This means after a nuclear blast or nuclear power plant accident, if you don’t have access to clean food and water, you should take potassium iodide or KI pills (made with non-radioactive iodine) to give it a higher probability the stable iodine goes to your thyroid, instead of the radioactive iodine you take up with your contaminated food and water.
If you use stored food and water for half a year, you don’t need the pills.

All other forms of radioactivity either irradiating you from the outside, or which you breathed in or swallowed as radioactive isotopes, the KI pills help exactly NOT AT ALL against.

(And the wonder medicines the US govt is just now ordering for $290M will also only help a tiny bit for low grade radiation poisoning, would be -in this case- my guess.)

Boogieman
Boogieman

What part did I get wrong?

m
m

Just for the record: you feel you got nothing wrong at all?

Boogieman
Boogieman

No, just asking what part is wrong.

Dr. Zedder Strangelove
Dr. Zedder Strangelove

The thinking that if the planet is contaminted, that stored pre blast food is going to save your ass. Though it is good as part of an ALARA plan. Lots more than food needed to survive after everything is contaminated.

Dr. Zedder Strangelove
Dr. Zedder Strangelove

Even low levels of settled radiation particles can be deadly if the wind picks up. Ask Switzerland.

Dr. Zedder Strangelove
Dr. Zedder Strangelove

Downvotes? Come on guys, my condition can’t just be from my parents strange love. Inbreeding alone can’t account for me.

Boogieman
Boogieman

wear um like a badge of honor my friend.

Dr. Zedder Strangelove
Dr. Zedder Strangelove

I do, just thought I could work in another inbred strange love joke. 😉

m
m

“It will actually save your life from gama radiation in low level exposure”
and posted by you further above
“Iodine is sort of maintenance process, you need to take it well before exposure, it needs to build up in your thyroids”
are both completely wrong.

Boogieman
Boogieman

Nope. Once the thyroid has absorbed the radioactive isotopes, you can eat whatever amount of food, drink as much water or take as much potassium iodine as you would like. It’s to late, damage done. The salt theoretically can help to reverse the damage if taken prescriptively over time, Food and water wouldn’t do shit anyways, make your tummy full and that’s about it. The science is to simple. It’s just a type of salt.

m
m

Twice wrong again.
You cannot front-load your thyroid. (If you are the rare case that is severely iodine-deficient, that is a completely different aspect, and should be treated regardless of nuclear war aspects.)
Your thyroid will still take up iodine all the time, so the KI pills -as I said above- make it more likely you get the non-radioactive version into it, instead of the radioactive from the contaminated stuff you’re digesting.

That will however almost never save your life, as if you’re down to eating/drinking radioactive contaminated foods out of necessity to not starve, then you will take up so much other radioactive crap isotopes into your body, that making a future thyroid cancer less likely will not make much a dent in the overall probability that you’ll die from some kind of cancer within a few years (bone [marrow] cancer from Cs-137, for example.)

BL
BL

m- If you don’t have KI pills in your possession when the nukes start flying, you won’t be able to buy them.

There is a serious school of thought that it is 3 to 6 weeks before radiation is clear after a blast. (((The club))) will be selling high rise condos under construction at the 6 month mark.

m
m

KI pills are a nice afterthought, after you got food/water for 3 months stored away, plus a battery-operated geigercounter and a NBC mask with 30 filter cartridges.

Kathleen Madaras
Kathleen Madaras

What if your allergic to Iodine ?

Anonymous
Anonymous

If it works as well as Covid medicine—

Mary Christine

I’m pretty sure thrombocytopenia is one of the adverse side effects from the clot shot. I don’t think it necessarily shows up right away, either.

PorkChopSandwiches
PorkChopSandwiches

Over/under on the October surprise for mid-terms being WWIII?

brian
brian

Dude your alias reminded me of a funny story my BIL told me. He had a dog, named it porkchop. He lived in a small two story house in Kamloops with a small front yard. One day the dog was yap’n at somebody so he sticks his head out the upper window and yells, HEY Porkchop, shut the F*** UP.

There was some fat chick standing there, who the dog was barking at, and she thought he was yell’n at her. She started screech’n like a banshee… So after a couple minutes he says He added fat F*** before porkchop so as to not confuse the dog. Thx for that reminder…

Dr. Zedder Strangelove
Dr. Zedder Strangelove

I wonder who they tested these drugs on? Did I get the fatal or placebo radiation exposure? How come these aren’t used in nuclear plants?? Do you think your odds of survival really hinge on platlets you suffer pulled pork syndrome? And what is High Dose Penetrating Radiation? Like 300mRem after doing a 5 hour face job? We used to go drink our brains out. Haha fun times. Russia nuked us. Have a happy pill.

Dr. Zedder Strangelove
Dr. Zedder Strangelove

Ok, high dose to cause ARS .7 gray or 70 rem or 70,000 mrem. Long term survival unlikely. At 7 gray any survival is unlikely. Yeah so an initial hit of .7 gray plus the destruction of everything around you, totally contaminated air. Bio accumulating more radiation with each breath. Pills will fix that. Try to remain calm, as you watch your family die screaming out in pain. Or try not to breathe too hard while you put out your house that’s burning down. Did anyone stock up that paint they used in those preparedness videos form the 50’s. Oh yeah, during all this mayhem I think the power might be out, how long will plants be in cool shutdown for??

really
really

The major issue is the water-cooled nuclear waste sites that without power will dry up and overhead and melt down, shedding all their contaminants into the atmosphere for thousands of years.

Dr. Zedder Strangelove
Dr. Zedder Strangelove

All 400,000 tons of it. But to be honest. I think this is what will be harvested, along with many others and things.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Can’t wait to see what sort of poisons they’ve added to those pills.

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