Christopher Dreisbach

“If you define the problem correctly, you almost have the solution.”

― Steve Jobs

Definitions matter. In almost any context, problems left undefined inevitably remain problems left unsolved.

For this reason, healthcare professionals worldwide rely upon the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10), a standardized system used to categorize and code diseases, symptoms, and health conditions. In the United States, ICD-10 codes serve as the foundation for medical records, insurance billing, epidemiological research, and public health policy. Without specific ICD-10 codes, severe conditions may remain invisible in the healthcare data ecosystem—making it harder to track, study, or provide adequate care.

This is precisely the challenge facing thousands of Americans suffering from persistent severe adverse events after receiving a Covid vaccine—a condition recently defined as Post-Covid Vaccine Syndrome (PCVS). As one of those individuals, I know all too well how debilitating and life-altering this condition can be. Our symptoms include exercise intolerance, excessive fatigue, brain fog, insomnia, and dizziness. They develop shortly after vaccination, within a day or two, can become more severe in the days that follow, and persist over time.

At present, there are no dedicated ICD-10 codes for PCVS. This absence has significant consequences for patients, clinicians, researchers, and policymakers alike.

Visibility in the Healthcare System

One of the primary functions of ICD-10 codes is to make a condition visible within the healthcare system. Without specific codes, PCVS is at best recorded under vague categories like “unspecified adverse effect of vaccine” or “other specified postvaccination complication.” Leery of contradicting the safe and effective narrative, many providers simply utilize codes for general symptoms such as “fatigue” or “paresthesia.” As a result, PCVS is effectively lost in a sea of unrelated data.

Dedicated codes would allow providers to document PCVS in a standardized way, ensuring it is recognized in patient records, insurance claims, and national health databases. This visibility is crucial for legitimizing PCVS in the eyes of both a conflicted medical community and a polarized public.

Facilitating Research and Data Collection

Medical research thrives on accurate, reliable data. Without discrete ICD-10 codes, it is extremely difficult to track how many of us are affected by PCVS, what our symptoms are, how long they last, and what treatments are effective.

Currently, researchers who want to study PCVS must sift through miscellaneous adverse event codes, searching for possible cases—a process that is slow, imprecise, and prone to undercounting. Specific codes would enable more precise epidemiological studies, making it easier to identify risk factors, compare outcomes, and develop evidence-based treatment guidelines.

Improving Public Health Response and Policy

Public health agencies use ICD-10 coding data to monitor trends, allocate resources, and shape policy decisions. The lack of codes for PCVS means that policymakers are operating without a complete picture of vaccine safety profiles and long-term outcomes.

By establishing dedicated codes, health officials could more accurately assess the frequency and severity of PCVS, helping them balance the benefits and risks of vaccination programs and design better safety monitoring systems in the future. This transparency would strengthen public confidence in vaccination campaigns by demonstrating that potential adverse events are being taken seriously and tracked systematically.

Reducing Stigma and Improving Clinical Recognition

Those of us suffering from PCVS often face intense skepticism, with our symptoms crudely dismissed as unrelated or psychosomatic. The absence of recognized diagnostic codes can inadvertently reinforce this stigma, making it harder for those suffering with PCVS to be taken seriously.

Specific ICD-10 codes would send a clear signal to clinicians that PCVS is a legitimate medical condition worthy of investigation, empathy, and appropriate care.

Ethical and Societal Responsibility

Healthcare systems have an ethical duty to acknowledge and address all medical conditions – especially those that may be rare or controversial. Creating specific ICD-10 codes for PCVS would demonstrate a commitment to transparency, patient welfare, and scientific inquiry.

This step would not undermine legitimate vaccination efforts; rather, it would enhance them by showing the public that adverse events are being tracked rigorously and addressed proactively. Public health trust depends not only on promoting the benefits of a medical intervention but also on an honest acknowledgment of its risks, however small.

Aligning with the Approach to Long Covid

The World Health Organization and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have already recognized the need for specific ICD-10 codes for post-acute sequelae of Covid, commonly known as Long Covid. These codes have helped researchers and clinicians better identify, study, and manage that condition.

The same logic applies to PCVS. Both prolonged conditions involve complex overlapping symptoms following an acute event (infection or vaccination) and require long-term monitoring.

For that reason, React19, a science-based 501(c) non-profit organization dedicated solely to supporting those suffering from long-term Covid vaccine adverse events, has submitted a formal proposal to the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics to create ICD-10 codes for PCVS mirroring those for Long Covid.

PCVS Patients Deserve Action, not Argument

“We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.”

― Ayn Rand

While opinions differ greatly to what extent – by all credible accounts the Covid vaccines simply did not perform as public health officials assured the American public they would. As to efficacy, they failed to stop transmission and infection. As to safety, in addition to the emergence of PCVS, the CDC has conceded that myocarditis and pericarditis are “linked to certain types of COVID-19 vaccinations.” And of course, the Johnson & Johnson vaccine was pulled entirely from the market after multiple cases of fatal blood clotting after vaccinations.

Yale Medical School professor of cardiology Dr. Harlan Krumholtz well summarized, “It’s clear that some individuals are experiencing significant challenges after vaccination. Our responsibility as scientists and clinicians is to listen to their experiences, rigorously investigate the underlying causes, and seek ways to help.” Creating distinct ICD-10 codes for PCVS mirroring those currently utilized to identify Long Covid would be the logical first step to provide this much needed support.

Failure to create specific ICD-10 codes for PCVS would be to ignore the agonizing reality of the syndrome, leaving the sick and suffering to face the grim consequences of inaction – left adrift in a medical system unwilling to acknowledge our existence and desperate need for treatment. We must expect more of our public health agencies – those debilitated by PCVS deserve no less.    

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Via https://brownstone.org/articles/the-creation-of-new-icd-10-codes-for-post-covid-vaccine-syndrome/

Gateway Pundit

Utah Attorney Jesse Trentadue has spent 30 years litigating against the federal government, trying to uncover documents related to his brother’s likely murder by federal authorities on August 21, 1995.

Trentadue believes federal agents believed his brother was a federal agent who was involved in the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19, 1995, and tortured him to death for information, wrongly believing he was “John Doe #2.” Kenneth Trentadue was a match for the description of the suspect, the same height, weight, build, and even the same dragon tattoo on his left forearm. Trentadue says it’s his belief that the motive behind his brother’s murder was that “The FBI was desperate to eliminate anyone who might link the Bureau to a failed sting operation that resulted in the Oklahoma City Bombing.”

A recent book by investigative journalist Margaret Roberts, “Blowback,” provides a lot of corroboration to the document effort that Trentadue has been engaged in for a generation. Trentadue claims he has litigated the release of 2 million pages of documents. He is currently suing to release an additional 67,000 pages linking the FBI’s undercover operatives to the failed sting operation that, he says, led to the Oklahoma City bombing.

He has not found the names of his brother’s killers, but he has committed himself to uncovering the illegal operations the government has used for over 30 years to entrap and oppress Americans, a program known as “PATCON.”

Exclusively with the Gateway Pundit, Trentadue has also started sharing key files that dramatically challenge the official and mainstream view as to the bombing of the Murrah federal building in April 1995.

Trentadue points out that the Department of Justice spent over $80 million prosecuting Timothy McVeigh for the bombing, but notably did not admit any of the known video evidence of the bombing.

The reason, Trentadue claims, is that multiple independent video evidence reveals the presence of a second bomber exiting the bomb truck prior to the explosion.

Roberts claims in her book, as well, that there may have been a third conspirator with the bombers on-site, and that likely accounts for the mystery of the unidentified severed leg found among the explosion, which has never been positively identified. The idea that there was a lone-wolf attack is wrong, she claims, and instead, there was a team involved in the planning and execution of the bombing.

For proof of this explosive claim, Trentadue provides evidence he has uncovered from the FBI’s own files indicating that they seized video surveillance footage of the Oklahoma City bombing.

The locations of at least one camera that captured the bombing were the 24-story Regency Tower Apartments or “RTA.” The Regency had a direct view to the bombing.

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Via https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/fbi-doj-still-litigating-prevent-release-known-footage/

The Last Great Roman General

Epic History (2023)

Film Review

I found this documentary really intriguing. In US schools and universities, we are taught the “barbarians” caused the West to enter a dark age after the fall of the Rome. According to Western academics, there’s nothing worthwhile to study prior to Charlemagne and the rise of the Holy Roman Empire in 800 AD.

As I learned from this film, the depopulation and loss of scientific, literary and artistic brilliance has less to do with the rise of the Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy after 476 AD than with the continuous wars between the Roman empire (now ruled from Constantinople) to restore Roman control over Italy.

The truth is that Ostrogoth rulers, who consciously modeled their rule after their Roman rivals in Constantinople, made a concerted effort to continue their support for science, literature and art.

This film begins with the rise to power (in Constantinople) of the emperor Justinian in 527 AD (50 years after the fall of Rome) and his chief general Belisarius. The latter first came to prominence in 532 AD when he crushed a civil war in Constantinople that was trying to remove Justinian a emperor.

At the time the eastern Roman empire, which had 30 million people. Its territory Included the Egyptian bread basket, Palestine, the Balkans, and the Arabian desert. With strong alliances with both the Ostrogoths and the Vandals (who ruled North Africa), Constantinople’s primary enemy was the Sassanid (Persian) on its northwest border. .

After signing a perpetual peace with treat the Persians in 532 AD, Justin launched an aggressive war first in North Africa and then on the Italian peninsula. His goal waa to return these territories to Roman control.

The documentary examines all Belisarius’s battles in lengthy detail. What I found most significant is that while retaining the basic Roman legion structure initiated by Julius Caesar, Roman armies now mainly relied on cavalry to charge the enemy, as well as mounted archers using a composite bow (adopted from the Huns). In addition, both the Romans and the Ostrogoths employed advanced siege towers to besiege cities.

Belisarius, who employed a number of Hun and Ostrogoth mercenaries, quickly retook the Vandal kingdom in North Africa, followed by Sardinia, Corsica and Sicily. Over a period of five years, he gradually conquered the entire the Italian peninsula. Southern Italians, fed up with Ostrogoth rule, welcomed him.

After conquering Naples, his troops experienced no resistance in Rome (population 100,000 compared to 500,000 in its heyday) because the Ostrogoth troops, mistakenly believing they were outnumbered, had abandoned the city. Political intrigue among Justinian’s generals resulted in the Ostrogoth sacking of Milan, Italy’s largest city, which they burned to the ground. As the war resulted in two years of lost harvests, this disaster was compounded by famine.

Concerned by Belisarius’s successes in Italy and North Africa, the Persians attacked Antioch and other Roman strongholds, forcing Justinian to pay 10,000 pounds of gold in tribute over the next ten years.

Gothic War 535-554

Due to a combination famine, plague and Justinian’s refusal to adequately support Belasarius’s legions, the Ostrogoths retook Italy and the Berbers North African in 549.

In 552, a second Roman general Narses retook Italy, which Rome held until 568, when it was conquered by the Lombards.