Special thanks to Steven Kirsch, Livio Sanches and the team at VSRF Live. It was an honor to join the program and to engage in an in-depth discussion about, as Livio so pointedly phrased it, “One of the most uncomfortable and least discussed questions in modern medicine: What’s really in the Blood Supply in the Age of mRNA.”
Here’s what’s new.
Livio and I discussed the greatest possible threat to medical freedom: medical kidnapping. The ongoing case of now seven-year-old KenLee Zuraff so alarming brought this to light.
What follows here is a deeper dive that expands on my conversation with Livio. What surfaces has all the appearance of industry capture enforced by child confiscation.
The post is Part I on this case and SafeBlood’s involvement in the Zuraff’s fight for their daughter. Part II follows later this week. With the battle for KenLee’s future to be decided now on April 23, watch for more updates.
Taken at Age 5
Kenlee’s and her mother’s and sister’s plight grabbed national attention earlier this month thanks to the efforts of John Davidson, filmmaker and warrior for medical freedom of BrokenTruth.TV, Freedom Counsel attorneys Brian Festa and Rachel Rodriguez, who is also candidate for Governor of Florida.
With the court imposing a gag order on the mother, preventing her from discussing the fact of the case and her family’s treatment, Davidson and Festa have taken it upon themselves to inform the public.
The essential facts of the case are these:
Kenlee Zuraff suffers from cystic fibrosis. She is seven years old and has been separated from her family since she was five. She lives in a foster family caring for seven children, six hours drive from her mother and sister.
When she was five, one of her doctors recommended a new medication called Trikafta. Made by Vertex Pharmaceuticals, the drug is priced at $300,000 per year. The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF), described as a “venture philanthropy,” funds and accredits CF centers nationwide, invests in CF drug development, and sets standard of care accredited centers are required to follow.
In the early 2000s, the foundation invested $150 million in Vertex-related drug development. By 2014 that return was $3.3 billion with the sale of royalty rights. In 2020, after Trikafta’s approval by the FDA, the foundation received another $575 million with up to another $75 million tied to drug performance, and restructuring of royalty interests.
That’s close to $4 billion. It is $3.8 billion in profit, a sweet 2533.3% ROI for the organization also setting standard of care.
Trikafta is currently the standard of care for accredited CF centers for CF patients with certain genetic mutations, which is about 90% of CF patients. It is the first-line foundational treatment with the only exceptions being if the drug is unavailable or contraindicated.
Trikafta also comes with a black box warning — the FDA’s strongest—informing that liver damage may result.
Concerned about side effects, one of which could be a liver transplant, Kenlee’s mother, Joy Zuraff, explained her preference to continue her daughter on her current treatment and take more time to evaluate Trikafta as an option. At the time, the drug had only been on the market for a year and a half.
Kenlee previously suffered multiple reactions when taking Orkambi, another Vertex medication. Orkambi shares a common ingredient that is also in Trikafta. A summary of Kenlee’s care, written by Joy Zuffar and circulated prior to the gag order, reports these symptoms subsided when Kenlee’s doctor ceased treatment with Orkambi. She also reports that Kenlee experienced her best health with several treatments in combination with NAC.
One cannot fail to notice, thanks to a quick query to ChatGPT, that adding NAC to a regimen for a five-year-old girl, in place of Trikafta, would cost only about $200 per year.
Immediately following her request for further evaluation, a pediatric pulmonologist, not Kenlee’s primary physician overseeing her care, called CPS.
The shocking events that followed were captured on police body cam. Agents from the Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) arrived arrived at the Zuraff home claiming Joy was refusing treatment for her daughter. Lacking a warrant, agents were then able to enter the home with police escort and without a warrant by claiming “imminent danger.”
In spite of Joy offering to put Kenlee on Trikafta in order to keep her daughter, the girl was taken from her home with mother, daughter, and older sister in tears.
In an apparent retroactive attempt to justify the claim of “imminent danger” (a prescription for Trikafta normally takes one to three weeks to fill) the DCF further violated medical ethics by utilizing a nurse practitioner who never met or interviewed Joy Zuraff to diagnose her with Munchausen by Proxy, a rare psychological condition in which a person repeatedly inflicts harm on someone in their care to garner attention.
The DCF is now seeking to terminate all of Joy’s parental rights through the Sarasota County Court and adopt Kenlee out to another family.
Please visit FreeKenlee.com to support the Zuraff family, view the police body-cam footage, follow updates, news, and more.
The Nuclear Threat Against Medical and Political Freedom
Joy Zuffar never refused treatment for her daughter, she only sought to better examine side-effects and alternatives in a non-urgent situation. When threatened she even sought to comply. This is a case of child confiscation as a consequence for a parent’s employing responsible inquiry.
Context also matters.
This happened in 2024, when courtesy of Big Pharma’s capture of regulatory agencies, the nation was forced to face the death and human suffering that is still underway after cheap, highly effective, longstanding drugs with stellar safety profiles were sidelined for expensive new and experimental treatments with often deadly side-effects.
Once child-confiscation becomes the consequence of non-compliance with a captured system, Democracy is over.
The same playbook is everywhere.
Florida is not alone. An Iowa mother of a child with CF reported an experience that mirrors the Zuraff’s (reported here).
Medical kidnapping is the nuclear option.
The Canadian trucker’s Freedom Convoy of 2022 was rumored to have come to a end not through Draco-Orwellian government action like freezing of bank accounts, but rather when police notified the protestors that children present could be deemed at risk and reported to the Children’s Aide Society, Canada’s version of the US’s Child Protective Services. With children accompanying one-quarter of the protestors, the threat put a significant number of the truckers at nightmare-level risk.
We see the same pattern in the UK. Cornish doctor, David Cartland recounts that he and other colleagues agreed that the mRNA vaccines posed an unjustifiable risk to young people. By contrast, however, Cartland bravely stood out by refusing to vaccinate young people with the mRNA vaccine. Observing severe adverse reactions in patients first hand, he resigned his position and later supported the rights of patients with urgent transportation needs.
The result is that like pathologist Dr. Ryan Cole and pediatric PA, Scott Miller, in the US, Carltland was stripped of his livelihood. Then he was stripped of the possibility of other possible replacement livelihoods, then banned from a favorite past-time where he contributed to the community. Most concerning, he now learns the UK’s Child Services may investigate him as a danger to his own children.
“Finally, there’s whispers of Child Services being nudged to my direction to come and put a microscope on my parenting.” Dr. David Cartland
This last persecution is taking place long after the benefit of scientific hindsight demonstrates Cartland was one of very few who took the correct action.
Our concern is that what we are seeing, therefore, is not just the blind gears of “justice” grinding mindlessly once activated. It has the appearance of a pharma-industrial-governmental-complex marshaling one of its arms to punish dissent by threat of child confiscation.
If so, this must be opposed and overcome immediately. If not, no one should be surprised if medical child kidnapping becomes a standard reprisal to ensure big pharma accomplishes all of its goals.
Silencing the Truth
The pattern of the Zuraff’s treatment, topped off by a gag order, follows the dangerous pattern of oppressive social control that became the new reality in 2020.
Captured agencies establish, as standard of care, a new treatment with severe side effects for some or many members of the population.
Compliance is coerced through risk of severe consequences for noncompliance.
Evidence-based rebuttal against the standard of care or the bases for compliance are silenced through removal of free speech.
Clearly that new reality remains entrenched for families persecuted by DCF in , Florida.
That it is, is a warning to everyone.
Once child-confiscation becomes the consequence of non-compliance with a captured system, Democracy is over.
*Pollack, Andrew. “Deal by Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Raises Cash and Some Concern.” The New York Times, Nov. 19, 2014.
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Dr. R. Clinton Ohlers, PhD is Vice President and Director of Media Relations for SafeBlood Donation. He holds a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and taught and conducted research at the University of Hong Kong, returning to the US in the early COVID outbreak. His work focuses on blood safety, medical ethics, and informed consent, with an emphasis on restoring transparency and patient choice in transfusion medicine.
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