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ill-will-editions · 5 years ago

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Covid-19: The 21st Century Begins Now Jérôme Baschet

Historians readily accept that the global 20th century began in 1914, with the onset of the cycle of the World Wars. One day it will no doubt be said that the 21st century began in 2020, with the introduction of SARS-CoV-2. The range of scenarios to come remains, of course, very open; but the sequence of events triggered by the spread of the Coronavirus offers a preview of the disasters that are bound to intensify in our convulsive world, marked as it is by the effects of a global warming well on its way towards an average increase of 3 or 4 degrees. What is happening before our eyes is an increasingly tight intertwining of multiple crisis factors, which it suffices for a random element, both unforeseen and widely announced, to activate. The collapse and unravelling of life, climate disorder, accelerated social decomposition, the discrediting of governments and political systems, the unbridled expansion of credit and financial fragility, failure to maintain a sufficient level of growth (to mention only a few): these dynamics all reinforce one another, generating an extreme vulnerability that derives from the fact that the world system is now in a situation of permanent structural crisis. Henceforth, any apparent stability is merely a mask for growing instability.

Philippe Sansonetti, a microbiologist and professor at the Collège de France, recently remarked that Covid-19 is an "Anthropocene disease”. The current pandemic is a total fact, in which the biological reality of the virus is inseparable from the societal and systemic conditions of its existence and spread. Invoking the Anthropocene — a new geological period in which the human species has become a force capable of modifying the biosphere on a global scale — invites us to take into account a threefold timeline: firstly, the recent period in which, under the pressure of perceptible evidence, we became aware, albeit too slowly, of this new era; secondly, the decades after 1945, which were those of the rise of consumer society and the great acceleration of all the markers of humanity's productive (and destructive) activity; lastly, the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries which, by setting in motion the cycle of fossil fuels and industrialization, caused the curve of greenhouse gas emissions to take off, thus marking the beginning of the Anthropocene.

The virus that afflicts us has been sent by the living, who have come to present us with the bill for the turmoil that we ourselves have caused. The Anthropocene means: in whatever befalls us, human responsibility is involved. But whose responsibility is it exactly? The three timelines mentioned above allow us to be more precise. On the most immediate horizon, our attention is monopolized by the staggering affair of the evaporation of mask stocks since 2009 and by the indolence that has failed to replenish them urgently as the epidemic approaches. This is merely one more aspect of Europe's overwhelming lack of preparation. In this inability to anticipate, we bear witness to another disease of the times, namely, its presentism, that force by which everything that extends beyond the immediate disappears from our view. The coldly calculative neoliberal methods of hospital management took care of the rest, with its persistent lack of resources, reduction in the number of beds, on top of a shortage of staff and personnel who are already exhausted during normal times. Care workers have been howling their despair for a long time, without being heard. Today, the criminal nature of long-standing policies has been proven to everyone. As Philippe Juvin, head of the emergency department at the Pompidou Hospital in Paris recently stated, "careless and incompetent people" have caused us to find ourselves "naked in the face of the epidemic". And if Emmanuel Macron wanted to set himself up as a war chief, he should not overlook the fact that this same rhetoric, invoked by so many rulers these days, could also one day one day turn (metaphorically?) into an accusation of high treason.

Glancing back over the second half of the twentieth century allows us to identify several of the major causalities behind the multiplication of zoonoses, those diseases caused by infectious agents that are able to make a species leap from animals to humans. The expansion of industrial livestock farming, with its despicable tendency toward concentration, led to the sort of deplorable health consequences we now know far too well (swine flu, H5N1 bird flu, etc.). Meanwhile, excessive urbanization and metropolization have shrunk the habitats of animals, pushing them into closer contact with humans (HIV and Ebola, in particular). These two factors may not have played a role in the case of SARS-CoV-2, although more still needs to be known about the entire chain of transmission. On the other hand, it is clear that the sale of wild animals in the Wuhan market would not have had such consequences had Wuhan not become one of the world capitals of the automobile industry. The globalization of economic flows is indeed at work; and this is the third causality to be invoked, all the more so as the senseless expansion of air traffic was the vector of the rapid planetary spread of the virus.

But we can't stop there; we must also look back two centuries and give the Anthropocene its real name: Capitalocene. For it is the result, not of the human species in general, but of a specific historical system. The principal characteristic of this system, capitalism, is that the bulk of production is based, above all else, on the imperative of turning a profit from the money invested (capital). Although its configurations are variable, the world is ultimately organized according to the imperious demands of the economy. The result has been a civilizational break with all previous human experience, in which private interest and competitive individualism now reign as supreme values, the obsession with pure quantity and the tyranny of urgency opening up a void in being. The result is also and above all a deadly productivist compulsion, one which lies at the origin of the overexploitation of natural resources, the accelerated disorganization of living things, and climate change.

When the current quarantine and health emergency ends, nothing will be the same as before; that much has been made clear. But what will change? Will our self-examination be limited to a short-term temporality, as is to be feared, or will we take into account the full cycle of the Capitalocene? We have now reached the threshold of the twenty-first century. The real war that is about to be waged will not have the Coronavirus as its enemy, but will be fought between two opposing options: on one side, there will be the continuation of a world in which the fanatical drive for merchandise reigns supreme and whose compulsive productivism will only lead to the deepening of the ongoing devastation; on the other side, there lies the invention, already being explored in a thousand places, of new ways of existing that would break with the categorical imperative of the economy, in order to lend priority to a good life for all. Preferring the joyful intensity of the qualitative to the false promises of an unlimited impossibility, the latter would combine an attentive concern for inhabited milieus and the interactions of the living with the construction of the common, mutual aid, and solidarity, and the collective capacity for self-organization and self-government.

The Coronavirus has come to sound the alarm and stop the mad train of a civilization hurtling towards the destruction of life on a mass scale. Shall we let it continue down its course, once again? That would only guarantee new and unprecedented disasters, which will make what we are experiencing now look pale in retrospect.

Paris, March 27, 2020

Translated by Ill Will Editions

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Jérôme Baschet is an historian currently teaching at the Autonomous University of Chiapas in San Cristóbal de Las Casas. Author of several books on medieval history, he has also published Défaire la tyrannie du présent. Temporalités émergentes et futurs inédits (2018), La Rébellion zapatiste (2019), and Une Juste colère. Interrompre la destruction du monde, on the Gilets Jaunes.

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tinyshe · 4 years ago

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Is Natural Immunity More Effective Than the COVID Shot?

According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data,1 COVID-19 “cases” have trended downward since peaking during the first and second week of January 2021.

At first glance, this decline appears to be occurring in tandem with the rollout of COVID shots. January 1, 2021, only 0.5% of the U.S. population had received a COVID shot. By mid-April, an estimated 31% had received one or more shots,2 and as of July 13, 48.3% were fully “vaccinated.”3

However, as noted in a July 12, 2021, STAT News article,4 “cases” had started their downward trend before COVID shots were widely used. “Following patterns from previous pandemics, the precipitous decline in new cases of Covid-19 started well before a meaningful number of people had been vaccinated,” Robert M. Kaplan, Professor Emeritus at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, writes. He continues:

“Nearly 50 years ago, medical sociologists John and Sonja McKinlay examined5 death rates from 10 serious diseases: tuberculosis, scarlet fever, influenzae, pneumonia, diphtheria, whooping cough, measles, smallpox, typhoid, and polio. In each case, the new therapy or vaccine credited with overcoming it was introduced well after the disease was in decline.

More recently, historian Thomas McKeown noted6 that deaths from bronchitis, pneumonia, and influenza had begun rapidly falling 35 years before the introduction of new medicines that were credited with their conquest. These historical analyses are relevant to the current pandemic.”

‘Case’ Decline Preceded Widespread Implementation of Jab

As noted by Kaplan, COVID-19 “cases” peaked in early January 2021. January 8, more than 300,000 new positive test results were recorded on a daily basis. By February 21, that had declined to a daily new case count of 55,000. COVID-19 gene modification injections were granted emergency use authorization at the end of December 2020, but by February 21, only 5.9% of American adults had been fully vaccinated with two doses.

Despite such a low vaccination rate, new “cases” had declined by 82%. Considering health authorities claim we need 70% of Americans vaccinated in order to achieve herd immunity and stop the spread of this virus, this simply makes no sense. Clearly, the COVID shots had nothing to do with the decline in positive test results.

To be clear, reported cases mean positive test results, and we now know the vast majority of positive PCR tests have been, and still are, false positives. They’re not sick. They simply had a false “positive.” Right now, we’re also faced with yet another situation that complicates attempts at data analysis, and Kaplan understandably did not address any of these confounding factors.

But just so you’re aware, if you have been fully “vaccinated,” then the CDC recommends running the PCR test at a cycle threshold (CT) of 28 or lower, which dramatically lowers your chance of a false positive result, but if you are unvaccinated, the PCR test is recommended to be run at a CT of 40 or higher, virtually guaranteeing a false positive.

This is just one way by which the CDC is manipulating data to make the COVID shots appear more effective than they are. This also allows them to falsely claim that the vast majority of new cases are among the unvaccinated.

Naturally, if unvaccinated are tested in such a way as to maximize false positives, then they’re going to make up the bulk of the so-called caseload. In reality, though, the vast majority of them aren’t sick.

Meanwhile, those who have received the jabs only count as a COVID case if they’re hospitalized and/or die with a positive test result. These widely differing testing strategies skew the data and allow for false interpretations to be made.

Natural Immunity Explains Decline in Cases

As noted by Kaplan, the most reasonable explanation for declining rates of SARS-CoV-2 appears to be natural immunity from previous infections, which vary considerably from state to state.7 He goes on to cite a study8 by the National Institutes of Health, which suggests SARS-CoV-2 prevalence was 4.8 times higher than previously thought, thanks to undiagnosed infection.

In other words, they claim that for every reported positive test result, there were likely nearly five additional people who had the infection but didn’t get a diagnosis. To analyze this data further, Kaplan calculated the natural immunity rate by dividing the new estimated number of people naturally infected by the population of any given state. He writes:9

“By mid-February 2021, an estimated 150 million people in the U.S. (30 million times five) may have had been infected with SARS-CoV-2. By April, I estimated the natural immunity rate to be above 55% in 10 states: Arizona, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, and Wisconsin.

At the other end of the continuum, I estimated the natural immunity rate to be below 35% in the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, New Hampshire, Oregon, Puerto Rico, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington …

By the end of 2020, new infections were already rapidly declining in nearly all of the 10 states where the majority may have had natural immunity, well before more than a minuscule percentage of Americans were fully vaccinated. In 80% of these states, the day when new cases were at their peak occurred before vaccines were available.

In contrast, the 10 states with lower rates of previous infections were much more likely to experience new upticks in Covid-19 cases in March and April ... By the end of May, states with fewer new infections had significantly lower vaccination rates than states with more new infections.”

COVID Shots Cannot Eliminate COVID-19

So, SARS-CoV-2 cases were actually higher in states where natural immunity was low but vaccination rates were high. Meanwhile, in states where natural immunity due to undiagnosed exposure was high, but vaccination rates were low, the daily new caseload was also lower.

This makes sense if natural immunity is highly effective (which, historically it has always been and there’s no reason to suspect SARS-CoV-2 is any different in that regard). It also makes sense if the COVID shots aren’t really offering any significant protection against infection, which we also know is the case.

The survivability of COVID-19 outside of nursing homes is 99.74%. If you’re under the age of 40, your chance of surviving a bout of COVID-19 is 99.99%.

Vaccine manufacturers have already admitted these COVID shots will not provide immunity, meaning they will not prevent you from being infected. The idea behind these gene modification injections is that if/when you do get infected, you’ll hopefully experience milder symptoms, even though you’re still infectious and can spread the virus to others.

Kaplan ends his analysis by saying that COVID shots are a safer way to achieve herd immunity, and that they are “the best tool available for assuring that the smoldering fire of [COVID-19] is extinguished.” I disagree, based on two major issues.

First, and perhaps most importantly, this is an untested “vaccine” and we have no idea of the short-term let alone long-term damage it will cause, as any reasonable effort at collecting this data has been actively suppressed. Secondly, the survivability of COVID-19 outside of nursing homes is 99.74%. If you’re under the age of 40, your chance of surviving a bout of COVID-19 is 99.99%.10,11,12

You can’t really improve your chances of surviving beyond that, so COVID shots cannot realistically end the pandemic. Meanwhile, the COVID shots come with an ever-growing list of potential side effects that can take years if not decades off your natural life span. The shots are particularly unnecessary for anyone with natural immunity,13 yet that’s what the CDC recommends.14

Why Push COVID Jab on Those with Natural Immunity?

In January 2021, Dr. Hooman Noorchashm, a cardiac surgeon and patient advocate, sent a public letter15 to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration commissioner detailing the risks of vaccinating individuals who have previously been infected with SARS-CoV-2, or who have an active SARS-CoV-2 infection.

He urged the FDA to require prescreening for SARS-CoV-2 viral proteins to reduce the risk of injuries and deaths following vaccination, as the vaccine may trigger an adverse immune response in those who have already been infected with the virus. In March 2021, Fox TV host Tucker Carlson interviewed him about these risks. In that interview, Noorchashm said:16

“I think it’s a dramatic error on part of public health officials to try to put this vaccine into a one-size-fits-all paradigm … We’re going to take this problem we have with the COVID-19 pandemic, where a half-percent of the population is susceptible to dying, and compound it by causing totally avoidable harm by vaccinating people who are already infected …

The signal is deafening, the people who are having complications or adverse events are the people who have recently or are currently or previously infected [with COVID]. I don’t think we can ignore this.”

In an email to The Defender, Noorchashm fleshed out his concerns, saying:17

“Viral antigens persist in the tissues of the naturally infected for months. When the vaccine is used too early after a natural infection, or worse during an active infection, the vaccine force activates a powerful immune response that attacks the tissues where the natural viral antigens are persisting. This, I suggest, is the cause of the high level of adverse events and, likely deaths, we are seeing in the recently infected following vaccination.”

Despite being widely ignored, Noorchashm continues to push for the implementation of prevaccine screening using PCR or rapid antigen testing to determine whether the individual has an active infection, and an IgG antibody test to determine past infection.

If either test is positive, he recommends delaying vaccination for a minimum of three to six months to allow your IgG levels to wane. At that point, he recommends testing your blood IgG level and use that as a guide to decide the timing of your vaccination.

Those with Natural Immunity Have Higher Risk of Side Effects

Mere weeks after Noorchashm’s letter to the FDA, an international survey18 confirmed his concerns. After surveying 2,002 people who had received a first dose of COVID-19 vaccine, they found that those who had previously had COVID-19 experienced “significantly increased incidence and severity” of side effects, compared to those who did not have natural immunity.

The mRNA COVID-19 vaccines were linked to a higher incidence of side effects compared to the viral vector-based COVID-19 vaccines, but tended to be milder, local reactions. Systemic reactions, such as anaphylaxis, flu-like illness and breathlessness, were more likely to occur with the viral vector COVID-19 vaccines.

Like Noorchashm before them, the researchers called on health officials to reevaluate their vaccination recommendations for people who’ve had COVID-19:19

“People with prior COVID-19 exposure were largely excluded from the vaccine trials and, as a result, the safety and reactogenicity of the vaccines in this population have not been previously fully evaluated. For the first time, this study demonstrates a significant association between prior COVID19 infection and a significantly higher incidence and severity of self-reported side effects after vaccination for COVID-19.

Consistently, compared to the first dose of the vaccine, we found an increased incidence and severity of self-reported side effects after the second dose, when recipients had been previously exposed to viral antigen.

In view of the rapidly accumulating data demonstrating that COVID-19 survivors generally have adequate natural immunity for at least 6 months, it may be appropriate to re-evaluate the recommendation for immediate vaccination of this group.”

CDC Misrepresents Data to Push Jab on Those with Immunity

So far, the CDC has refused to change its stance on the matter. Instead, officials at the agency seem to have doubled down and actually go out of their way to misrepresent data in an effort to harass those with natural immunity to inappropriately take the jab, which is clearly clinically unnecessary.

In a report issued by the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) December 18, 2020, the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine was said to have “consistent high efficacy” of 92% or more among people with evidence of previous SARS-CoV-2 infection.20

After looking at the Pfizer trial data, Rep. Thomas Massie — a Republican Congressman for Kentucky and an award-winning scientist in his own right — discovered that’s completely wrong. In a January 30, 2021, Full Measure report, investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson described how Massie tried, in vain, to get the CDC to correct its error. According to Massie:21,22

“There is no efficacy demonstrated in the Pfizer trial among participants with evidence of previous SARS-CoV-2 infections and actually there's no proof in the Moderna trial either …

It [the CDC report] says the exact opposite of what the data says. They're giving people the impression that this vaccine will save your life, or save you from suffering, even if you've already had the virus and recovered, which has not been demonstrated in either the Pfizer or the Moderna trial.”

After multiple phone calls, CDC deputy director Dr. Anne Schuchat finally acknowledged the error and told Massie it would be fixed. “As you note correctly, there is not sufficient analysis to show that in the subset of only the people with prior infection, there's efficacy. So, you're correct that that sentence is wrong and that we need to make a correction of it,” Schuchat said in the recorded call.

January 29, 2021, the CDC issued its supposed correction, but rather than fix the error, they simply rephrased the mistake in a different way. This was the “correction” they issued:

“Consistent high efficacy (≥92%) was observed across age, sex, race, and ethnicity categories and among persons with underlying medical conditions. Efficacy was similarly high in a secondary analysis including participants both with or without evidence of previous SARS-CoV-2 infection.”

As you can see, the “correction” still misleadingly suggests that vaccination is effective for those previously infected, even though the data showed no such thing. Children of ever-younger ages are also being pushed to get the COVID jab, even though they have the absolute lowest risk of dying from COVID-19 of any group.

Data23 from the first 12 months of the pandemic in the U.K. show just 25 people under the age of 18 died from or with COVID-19.24 In all, 251 children under 18 were admitted to intensive care between March 2020 and February 2021. The absolute risk of death from COVID-19 in children is 2 in 1 million.

Vaccine Provides Far Less Protection Than Natural Immunity

While some claim vaccine-induced immunity offers greater protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection than natural immunity, historical and current real-world data simply fail to support this non-common sense assertion.

As recently reported by Attkisson25,26 and David Rosenberg 7 Israeli National News,27 recent Israeli data show those who have received the COVID jab are 6.72 times more likely to get infected than people who have recovered from natural infection.

Among the 7,700 new COVID cases diagnosed so far during the current wave of infections that began in May 2021, 39% were vaccinated (about 3,000 cases), 1% (72 patients) had recovered from a previous SARS-CoV-2 infection and 60% were neither vaccinated nor previously infected. Israeli National News notes:28

“With a total of 835,792 Israelis known to have recovered from the virus, the 72 instances of reinfection amount to 0.0086% of people who were already infected with COVID.

By contrast, Israelis who were vaccinated were 6.72 times more likely to get infected after the shot than after natural infection, with over 3,000 of the 5,193,499, or 0.0578%, of Israelis who were vaccinated getting infected in the latest wave.”

Breakthrough Infections Are on the Rise

Other Israeli data also suggest the limited protection offered by the COVID shot is rapidly eroding. August 1, 2021, director of Israel’s Public Health Services, Dr. Sharon Alroy-Preis, announced half of all COVID-19 infections were among the fully vaccinated.29 Signs of more serious disease among fully vaccinated are also emerging, she said, particularly in those over the age of 60.

Even worse, August 5, Dr. Kobi Haviv, director of the Herzog Hospital in Jerusalem, appeared on Channel 13 News, reporting that 95% of severely ill COVID-19 patients are fully vaccinated, and that they make up 85% to 90% of COVID-related hospitalizations overall.30

Other areas where a clear majority of residents have been vaccinated are also seeing spikes in breakthrough cases. In Gibraltar, which has a 99% COVID jab compliance rate, COVID cases have risen by 2,500% since June 1, 2021.31

US Outbreak Shatters ‘Pandemic of Unvaccinated’ Narrative

An investigation by the CDC32,33 also dispels the narrative that we’re in a “pandemic of the unvaccinated.” An outbreak in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, resulted in 469 new COVID cases among residents who had traveled into town between July 3 and July 17, 2021.

Of these cases, 74% were fully vaccinated, as were 80% of those requiring hospitalization.Most, but not all, had the Delta variant of the virus. The CDC also found that fully vaccinated individuals who contract the infection had as high a viral load in their nasal passages as unvaccinated individuals who got infected.34 This means the vaccinated are just as infectious as the unvaccinated. According to Attkisson:35

“CDC's newest findings on so-called ‘breakthrough’ infections in vaccinated people are mirrored by other data releases. Illinois health officials recently announced36 more than 160 fully-vaccinated people have died of Covid-19, and at least 644 been hospitalized; 10 deaths and 51 hospitalizations counted in the prior week …

In July, New Jersey reported 49 fully vaccinated residents had died of Covid; 27 in Louisiana; 80 in Massachusetts … Nationally, as of July 12, CDC said it was aware of more than 4,400 people who got Covid-19 after being fully vaccinated and had to be hospitalized; and 1,063 fully vaccinated people who died of Covid.”

It is important to note this data is over 1 month old now and it is likely that many thousands of fully “vaccinated” have now died from COVID-19.

Natural Immunity Appears Robust and Long-Lasting

An argument we’re starting to hear more of now is that even though natural immunity after recovery from infection appears to be quite good, “we don’t know how long it’ll last.” This is rather disingenuous, seeing how natural immunity is typically lifelong, and studies have shown natural immunity against SARS-CoV-2 is at bare minimum longer lasting than vaccine-induced immunity.

Here’s a sampling of scholarly publications that have investigated natural immunity as it pertains to SARS-CoV-2 infection. There are several more in addition to these:37

Science Immunology October 202038 found that “RBD-targeted antibodies are excellent markers of previous and recent infection, that differential isotype measurements can help distinguish between recent and older infections, and that IgG responses persist over the first few months after infection and are highly correlated with neutralizing antibodies.”

The BMJ January 202139 concluded that “Of 11, 000 health care workers who had proved evidence of infection during the first wave of the pandemic in the U.K. between March and April 2020, none had symptomatic reinfection in the second wave of the virus between October and November 2020.”

Science February 202140 reported that “Substantial immune memory is generated after COVID-19, involving all four major types of immune memory [antibodies, memory B cells, memory CD8+ T cells, and memory CD4+ T cells]. About 95% of subjects retained immune memory at ~6 months after infection. Circulating antibody titers were not predictive of T cell memory.

Thus, simple serological tests for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies do not reflect the richness and durability of immune memory to SARS-CoV-2.” A 2,800-person study found no symptomatic reinfections over a ~118-day window, and a 1,246-person study observed no symptomatic reinfections over 6 months.

A February 2021 study posted on the prepublication server medRxiv41 concluded that “Natural infection appears to elicit strong protection against reinfection with an efficacy ~95% for at least seven months.”

An April 2021 study posted on medRxiv42 reported “the overall estimated level of protection from prior SARS-CoV-2 infection for documented infection is 94.8%; hospitalization 94.1%; and severe illness 96·4%. Our results question the need to vaccinate previously-infected individuals.”

Another April 2021 study posted on the preprint server BioRxiv43 concluded that “following a typical case of mild COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2-specific CD8+ T cells not only persist but continuously differentiate in a coordinated fashion well into convalescence, into a state characteristic of long-lived, self-renewing memory.”

A May 2020 report in the journal Immunity44 confirmed that SARS-CoV-2-specific neutralizing antibodies are detected in COVID-19 convalescent subjects, as well as cellular immune responses. Here, they found that neutralizing antibody titers do correlate with the number of virus-specific T cells.

A May 2021 Nature article45 found SARS-CoV-2 infection induces long-lived bone marrow plasma cells, which are a crucial source of protective antibodies. Even after mild infection, anti-SARS-CoV-2 spike protein antibodies were detectable beyond 11 months’ post-infection.

A May 2021 study in E Clinical Medicine46 found “antibody detection is possible for almost a year post-natural infection of COVID-19.” According to the authors, “Based on current evidence, we hypothesize that antibodies to both S and N-proteins after natural infection may persist for longer than previously thought, thereby providing evidence of sustainability that may influence post-pandemic planning.”

Cure-Hub data47 confirm that while COVID shots can generate higher antibody levels than natural infection, this does not mean vaccine-induced immunity is more protective. Importantly, natural immunity confers much wider protection as your body recognizes all five proteins of the virus and not just one. With the COVID shot, your body only recognizes one of these proteins, the spike protein.

A June 2021 Nature article48 points out that “Wang et al. show that, between 6 and 12 months after infection, the concentration of neutralizing antibodies remains unchanged. That the acute immune reaction extends even beyond six months is suggested by the authors’ analysis of SARS-CoV-2-specific memory B cells in the blood of the convalescent individuals over the course of the year.

These memory B cells continuously enhance the reactivity of their SARS-CoV-2-specific antibodies through a process known as somatic hypermutation. The good news is that the evidence thus far predicts that infection with SARS-CoV-2 induces long-term immunity in most individuals.”

Another June Nature paper concluded that “In the absence of vaccination antibody reactivity [to the receptor binding domain (RBD) of SARS-CoV-2], neutralizing activity and the number of RBD-specific memory B cells remain relatively stable from 6 to 12 months.” According to the authors, the data suggest “immunity in convalescent individuals will be very long lasting.”

What Makes Natural Immunity Superior?

The reason natural immunity is superior to vaccine-induced immunity is because viruses contain five different proteins. The COVID shot induces antibodies against just one of those proteins, the spike protein, and no T cell immunity. When you’re infected with the whole virus, you develop antibodies against all parts of the virus, plus memory T cells.

This also means natural immunity offers better protection against variants, as it recognizes several parts of the virus. If there are significant alternations to the spike protein, as with the Delta variant, vaccine-induced immunity can be evaded. Not so with natural immunity, as the other proteins are still recognized and attacked.

Not only that but the COVID jabs actually actively promote the production of variants for which they provide virtually no protection at all, while those with natural immunity do not cause variants and are nearly universally protected against them.

If we are to depend on vaccine-induced immunity, as public health officials are urging us to do, we’ll end up on a never-ending booster treadmill. Boosters will absolutely be necessary, as the shot offers such narrow protection against a single protein of the virus. Already, Moderna has publicly stated that the need for additional boosters is expected.49

Ultimately It’s About Wealth Transfer, Power and Control

Government agencies typically don’t issue recommendations without ulterior motives. Since current recommendations make absolutely no sense from a medical and scientific standpoint, what might the reason be for these illogical and reprehensibly unethical recommendations to inject people who don’t need it with experimental gene modification technology?

Why are they so hell-bent on getting a needle in every arm? And why are they refusing to perform any kind of risk-benefit analysis?

Data already indicate these COVID-19 injections could be the most dangerous medical product we’ve ever seen, and a June 24, 2021, peer-reviewed study published in the medical journal Vaccines warned we are in fact killing nearly as many with the shots as would die from COVID-19 itself.50

Using data from a large Israeli field study and two European drug reactions databases, they recalculated the NNTV for Pfizer’s mRNA shot. To prevent one case of COVID-19, anywhere between 200 and 700 had to be injected. To prevent a single death, the NNTV was between 9,000 and 50,000, with 16,000 as a point estimate.

Meanwhile, the number of people reporting adverse reactions from the shots was 700 per 100,000 vaccinations. For serious side effects, there were 16 reports per 100,000 vaccinations, and the number of fatal side effects was 4.11 per 100,000 vaccinations.

The final calculation suggested that for every three COVID-19 deaths prevented, two died from the shots. “This lack of clear benefit should cause governments to rethink their vaccination policy,” the authors concluded.

As has become the trend, a letter expressing “concern” about the study was published June 28, 2021, resulting in the paper being abruptly retracted July 2, 2021, against the authors’ objections. They disagreed with the accusation that their data and subsequent conclusion were misrepresentative, but the paper was retracted before they had time to publish a rebuttal.

Based on everything we’ve discovered so far, it seems a pandemic virus industrial complex is running the show, with a goal to eliminate medical rights and personal freedoms in order to centralize power, control and wealth.

By the looks of things, the COVID-19 mass psychosis and loss of any rational thinking by nearly half the population will continue to persist as long as the propaganda continues. Fear will continue and if need be, other engineered viruses may be released, for which they’ll create even more gene modification injections.

I believe the truth will eventually be so overwhelming, it’ll sweep away the confusion and the lies. Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola August 18, 2021

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kny111 · 5 years ago

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An epidemic curve has a relatively predictable upslope and once the peak is reached, the back slope can also be predicted. We have robust data from the outbreaks in China and Italy, that shows the backside of the mortality curve declines slowly, with deaths persisting for months. Assuming we have just crested in deaths at 70k, it is possible that we lose another 70,000 people over the next 6 weeks as we come off that peak. That's what's going to happen with a lockdown.

As states reopen, and we give the virus more fuel, all bets are off. I understand the reasons for reopening the economy, but I've said before, if you don't solve the biology, the economy won't recover.

There are very few states that have demonstrated a sustained decline in numbers of new infections. Indeed, as of May 3rd the majority are still increasing and reopening. As a simple example of the USA trend, when you take out the data from New York and just look at the rest of the USA, daily case numbers are increasing. Bottom line: the only reason the total USA new case numbers look flat right now is because the New York City epidemic was so large and now it is being contained.

So throughout most of the country we are going to add fuel to the viral fire by reopening. It's going to happen if I like it or not, so my goal here is to try to guide you away from situations of high risk.

Where are people getting sick?

We know most people get infected in their own home. A household member contracts the virus in the community and brings it into the house where sustained contact between household members leads to infection.

But where are people contracting the infection in the community? I regularly hear people worrying about grocery stores, bike rides, inconsiderate runners who are not wearing masks.... are these places of concern? Well, not really. Let me explain.

In order to get infected you need to get exposed to an infectious dose of the virus; based on infectious dose studies with other coronaviruses, it appears that only small doses may be needed for infection to take hold. Some experts estimate that as few as 1000 SARS-CoV2 infectious viral particles are all that will be needed (ref 1, ref 2). Please note, this still needs to be determined experimentally, but we can use that number to demonstrate how infection can occur. Infection could occur, through 1000 infectious viral particles you receive in one breath or from one eye-rub, or 100 viral particles inhaled with each breath over 10 breaths, or 10 viral particles with 100 breaths. Each of these situations can lead to an infection.

How much Virus is released into the environment?

A Bathroom: Bathrooms have a lot of high touch surfaces, door handles, faucets, stall doors. So fomite transfer risk in this environment can be high. We still do not know whether a person releases infectious material in feces or just fragmented virus, but we do know that toilet flushing does aerosolize many droplets. Treat public bathrooms with extra caution (surface and air), until we know more about the risk.

A Cough: A single cough releases about 3,000 droplets and droplets travels at 50 miles per hour. Most droplets are large, and fall quickly (gravity), but many do stay in the air and can travel across a room in a few seconds.

A Sneeze: A single sneeze releases about 30,000 droplets, with droplets traveling at up to 200 miles per hour. Most droplets are small and travel great distances (easily across a room).

If a person is infected, the droplets in a single cough or sneeze may contain as many as 200,000,000 (two hundred million) virus particles which can all be dispersed into the environment around them.

A breath: A single breath releases 50 - 5000 droplets. Most of these droplets are low velocity and fall to the ground quickly. There are even fewer droplets released through nose-breathing. Importantly, due to the lack of exhalation force with a breath, viral particles from the lower respiratory areas are not expelled.

Unlike sneezing and coughing which release huge amounts of viral material, the respiratory droplets released from breathing only contain low levels of virus. We don't have a number for SARS-CoV2 yet, but we can use influenza as a guide. Studies have shown that a person infected with influenza can releases up to 33 infectious viral particles per minute. But I'm going to use 20 to keep the math simple.

Remember the formula: Successful Infection = Exposure to Virus x Time

If a person coughs or sneezes, those 200,000,000 viral particles go everywhere. Some virus hangs in the air, some falls into surfaces, most falls to the ground. So if you are face-to-face with a person, having a conversation, and that person sneezes or coughs straight at you, it's pretty easy to see how it is possible to inhale 1,000 virus particles and become infected.

But even if that cough or sneeze was not directed at you, some infected droplets--the smallest of small--can hang in the air for a few minutes, filling every corner of a modest sized room with infectious viral particles. All you have to do is enter that room within a few minutes of the cough/sneeze and take a few breaths and you have potentially received enough virus to establish an infection.

But with general breathing, 20 viral particles minute into the environment, even if every virus ended up in your lungs (which is very unlikely), you would need 1000 viral particles divided by 20 per minute = 50 minutes.

Speaking increases the release of respiratory droplets about 10 fold; ~200 virus particles per minute. Again, assuming every virus is inhaled, it would take ~5 minutes of speaking face-to-face to receive the required dose.

The exposure to virus x time formula is the basis of contact tracing. Anyone you spend greater than 10 minutes with in a face-to-face situation is potentially infected. Anyone who shares a space with you (say an office) for an extended period is potentially infected. This is also why it is critical for people who are symptomatic to stay home. Your sneezes and your coughs expel so much virus that you can infect a whole room of people.

What is the role of asymptomatic people in spreading the virus?

Symptomatic people are not the only way the virus is shed. We know that at least 44% of all infections--and the majority of community-acquired transmissions--occur from people without any symptoms (asymptomatic or pre-symptomatic people). You can be shedding the virus into the environment for up to 5 days before symptoms begin.

Infectious people come in all ages, and they all shed different amounts of virus. The figure below shows that no matter your age (x-axis), you can have a little bit of virus or a lot of virus (y-axis). (ref)

The amount of virus released from an infected person changes over the course of infection and it is also different from person-to-person. Viral load generally builds up to the point where the person becomes symptomatic. So just prior to symptoms showing, you are releasing the most virus into the environment. Interestingly, the data shows that just 20% of infected people are responsible for 99% of viral load that could potentially be released into the environment (ref)

So now let’s get to the crux of it. Where are the personal dangers from reopening?

When you think of outbreak clusters, what are the big ones that come to mind? Most people would say cruise ships. But you would be wrong. Ship outbreaks, while concerning, don’t land in the top 50 outbreaks to date.

Ignoring the terrible outbreaks in nursing homes, we find that the biggest outbreaks are in prisons, religious ceremonies, and workplaces, such as meat packing facilities and call centers. Any environment that is enclosed, with poor air circulation and high density of people, spells trouble.

Some of the biggest super-spreading events are:

Meat packing: In meat processing plants, densely packed workers must communicate to one another amidst the deafening drum of industrial machinery and a cold-room virus-preserving environment. There are now outbreaks in 115 facilities across 23 states, 5000+ workers infected, with 20 dead. (ref)

Weddings, funerals, birthdays: 10% of early spreading events

Business networking: Face-to-face business networking like the Biogen Conference in Boston in late February.

As we move back to work, or go to a restaurant, let’s look at what can happen in those environments.

Restaurants: Some really great shoe-leather epidemiology demonstrated clearly the effect of a single asymptomatic carrier in a restaurant environment (see below). The infected person (A1) sat at a table and had dinner with 9 friends. Dinner took about 1 to 1.5 hours. During this meal, the asymptomatic carrier released low-levels of virus into the air from their breathing. Airflow (from the restaurant's various airflow vents) was from right to left. Approximately 50% of the people at the infected person's table became sick over the next 7 days. 75% of the people on the adjacent downwind table became infected. And even 2 of the 7 people on the upwind table were infected (believed to happen by turbulent airflow). No one at tables E or F became infected, they were out of the main airflow from the air conditioner on the right to the exhaust fan on the left of the room. (Ref)

Workplaces: Another great example is the outbreak in a call center (see below). A single infected employee came to work on the 11th floor of a building. That floor had 216 employees. Over the period of a week, 94 of those people became infected (43.5%: the blue chairs). 92 of those 94 people became sick (only 2 remained asymptomatic). Notice how one side of the office is primarily infected, while there are very few people infected on the other side. While exact number of people infected by respiratory droplets / respiratory exposure versus fomite transmission (door handles, shared water coolers, elevator buttons etc.) is unknown. It serves to highlight that being in an enclosed space, sharing the same air for a prolonged period increases your chances of exposure and infection. Another 3 people on other floors of the building were infected, but the authors were not able to trace the infection to the primary cluster on the 11th floor. Interestingly, even though there were considerable interaction between workers on different floors of the building in elevators and the lobby, the outbreak was mostly limited to a single floor (ref). This highlights the importance of exposure and time in the spreading of SARS-CoV2.

Choir: The community choir in Washington State. Even though people were aware of the virus and took steps to minimize transfer; e.g. they avoided the usual handshakes and hugs hello, people also brought their own music to avoid sharing, and socially distanced themselves during practice. They even went to the lengths to tell choir members prior to practice that anyone experiencing symptoms should stay home. A single asymptomatic carrier infected most of the people in attendance. The choir sang for 2 1/2 hours, inside an enclosed rehearsal hall which was roughly the size of a volleyball court.

Singing, to a greater degree than talking, aerosolizes respiratory droplets extraordinarily well. Deep-breathing while singing facilitated those respiratory droplets getting deep into the lungs. Two and half hours of exposure ensured that people were exposed to enough virus over a long enough period of time for infection to take place. Over a period of 4 days, 45 of the 60 choir members developed symptoms, 2 died. The youngest infected was 31, but they averaged 67 years old. (corrected link)

Indoor sports: While this may be uniquely Canadian, a super spreading event occurred during a curling event in Canada. A curling event with 72 attendees became another hotspot for transmission. Curling brings contestants and teammates in close contact in a cool indoor environment, with heavy breathing for an extended period. This tournament resulted in 24 of the 72 people becoming infected. (ref)

Birthday parties / funerals: Just to see how simple infection-chains can be, this is a real story from Chicago. The name is fake. Bob was infected but didn't know. Bob shared a takeout meal, served from common serving dishes, with 2 family members. The dinner lasted 3 hours. The next day, Bob attended a funeral, hugging family members and others in attendance to express condolences. Within 4 days, both family members who shared the meal are sick. A third family member, who hugged Bob at the funeral became sick. But Bob wasn't done. Bob attended a birthday party with 9 other people. They hugged and shared food at the 3 hour party. Seven of those people became ill.

But Bob’s transmission chain wasn’t done. Three of the people Bob infected at the birthday went to church, where they sang, passed the tithing dish etc. Members of that church became sick. In all, Bob was directly responsible for infecting 16 people between the ages of 5 and 86. Three of those 16 died.

The spread of the virus within the household and back out into the community through funerals, birthdays, and church gatherings is believed to be responsible for the broader transmission of COVID-19 in Chicago. (ref)

Sobering right?

Commonality of outbreaks

The reason to highlight these different outbreaks is to show you the commonality of outbreaks of COVID-19. All these infection events were indoors, with people closely-spaced, with lots of talking, singing, or yelling. The main sources for infection are home, workplace, public transport, social gatherings, and restaurants. This accounts for 90% of all transmission events. In contrast, outbreaks spread from shopping appear to be responsible for a small percentage of traced infections. (Ref)

Importantly, of the countries performing contact tracing properly, only a single outbreak has been reported from an outdoor environment (less than 0.3% of traced infections). (ref)

So back to the original thought of my post.

Indoor spaces, with limited air exchange or recycled air and lots of people, are concerning from a transmission standpoint. We know that 60 people in a volleyball court-sized room (choir) results in massive infections. Same situation with the restaurant and the call center. Social distancing guidelines don't hold in indoor spaces where you spend a lot of time, as people on the opposite side of the room were infected.

The principle is viral exposure over an extended period of time. In all these cases, people were exposed to the virus in the air for a prolonged period (hours). Even if they were 50 feet away (choir or call center), even a low dose of the virus in the air reaching them, over a sustained period, was enough to cause infection and in some cases, death.

Social distancing rules are really to protect you with brief exposures or outdoor exposures. In these situations there is not enough time to achieve the infectious viral load when you are standing 6 feet apart or where wind and the infinite outdoor space for viral dilution reduces viral load. The effects of sunlight, heat, and humidity on viral survival, all serve to minimize the risk to everyone when outside.

When assessing the risk of infection (via respiration) at the grocery store or mall, you need to consider the volume of the air space (very large), the number of people (restricted), how long people are spending in the store (workers - all day; customers - an hour). Taken together, for a person shopping: the low density, high air volume of the store, along with the restricted time you spend in the store, means that the opportunity to receive an infectious dose is low. But, for the store worker, the extended time they spend in the store provides a greater opportunity to receive the infectious dose and therefore the job becomes more risky.

Basically, as the work closures are loosened, and we start to venture out more, possibly even resuming in-office activities, you need to look at your environment and make judgments. How many people are here, how much airflow is there around me, and how long will I be in this environment. If you are in an open floorplan office, you really need to critically assess the risk (volume, people, and airflow). If you are in a job that requires face-to-face talking or even worse, yelling, you need to assess the risk.

If you are sitting in a well ventilated space, with few people, the risk is low.

If I am outside, and I walk past someone, remember it is “dose and time” needed for infection. You would have to be in their airstream for 5+ minutes for a chance of infection. While joggers may be releasing more virus due to deep breathing, remember the exposure time is also less due to their speed. Please do maintain physical distance, but the risk of infection in these scenarios are low. Here is a great article in Vox that discusses the low risk of running and cycling in detail.

While I have focused on respiratory exposure here, please don't forget surfaces. Those infected respiratory droplets land somewhere. Wash your hands often and stop touching your face!

For The Full article with the helpful illustrations and charts visit: The Risks - Know Them - Avoid Them by Erin Bromage

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The politics of a pandemic, how not to manage coronavirus

No man is an island, Entire of itself, Every man is a piece of the continent, A part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less. As well as if a promontory were. As well as if a manor of thy friend's Or of thine own were: Any man's death diminishes me,

Because I am involved in mankind, And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls.

It tolls for thee.

John Donne

1624

The poet John Donne warned of the dangers of isolation and imagining oneself as self-sufficient, without need of community. It was true 500 years ago; it still holds true today. No man is an island…every man is a part of the main. As wave upon wave of SARS-CoV-2 reached every continent, even Antarctica, most of us have tried to isolate ourselves on this crowded planet - with mixed results.

As of May 30, 2021, by every metric, the United States was leading the world in the number of cases and deaths from COVD-19. Brazil and India are catching up quickly. In the US, the underlying tension between public health and personal liberty has had disastrous consequences. As successful as the vaccine roll-out has been, and even with the numbers of new cases, hospitalizations, and deaths dropping, this is no time to be complacent.

India, with a population of over 1 billion, and Brazil, a pariah among countries in Latin America for its poor response to the pandemic, cause or should cause great concern to everyone everywhere. Not having the resources of rich countries, they will require help to manage the tragic situation their leaders have put their populations in and it is in our interest to do so because...the bell tolls for thee.

India

When the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a global pandemic in March 2020, there had been 330,000 cases and 30,000 deaths from SARS-CoV-2 reported worldwide. In the early days of the pandemic, India was considered a model of how to manage the worst public health crisis in recent memory. India responded with a strict lockdown. International flights and exports of masks, ventilators, and certain medicines were banned. As a result, India did not see the same initial explosion in new cases and deaths compared to other countries.

Three months later, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi began easing lockdown restrictions - like the American football player who does the end-zone dance on the two-yard line—not a good idea. When the lockdown lifted, many Indians stopped taking precautions. Mr. Modi allowed large gatherings, including campaigns in state elections that he attended, without wearing a mask, at rallies of thousands of mask-less supporters, to help his governing Bharatiya Janata party. Large religious festivals resumed drawing millions of people as well. By July 2020, India had seen 600,000 cases and 17,834 deaths due to COVID. An editorial from The Lancet, said that Mr. Modi “seemed more intent on removing criticism” on social media than “trying to control the pandemic.” Sound familiar?

As recently as March 2021, India’s health minister assured the public that they had reached the pandemic’s “endgame”.

The New York Times reported in May 2021 that India was responsible for more than half of the world’s daily COVID cases, setting a record-breaking pace of 400,000 new cases in one day. Researchers believe the B.1.1.7 variant and the delta variant, which are also major variants in Britain and the US, are to blame for the surge. Clinics across India report desperate shortages of hospital beds, protective equipment, and oxygen.[1]

Just to add to the global disaster, India is one of the world’s leading vaccine manufacturers. It is struggling to inoculate its own citizens; less than 10% of Indians have gotten even one dose.[2] In September 2020, Serum Institute of India (SII) received $150 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation to accelerate production of Oxford University’s AstraZenica (AZ) vaccine and the American vaccine Novavax as soon as the WHO granted regulatory approval. Under the original terms of the agreement, 50% of vaccines would be earmarked for India and the remainder would go to other low- and middle-income countries.[3]Currently, exports of vaccines from India have been shut down.

Brazil

In an editorial from The Lancet, dated May 9, 2020, the president of Brazil, Jair Bolsanoro, was criticized for allowing the SARS-CoV-2 virus to spread widely while presenting himself as a “messiah” touting unproven medicines like hydroxychloroquine, with support from his rightwing allies.

At the time, Brazil had the most cases (105,000) and deaths (72,88) in Latin America. Estimates suggest the death rate was doubling every five days. When asked by a reporter about the rapidly increasing numbers of COVID-19 cases, Mr. Bolsanaro responded: “So what? What do you want me to do?”[4]

In March 2021, Brazil’s pandemic spiraled out of control. Its Latin American neighbors grounded flights, closed land borders, and regional sports events were canceled in attempts to stop the P.1 variant (and approximately 90 other variants) from spreading to their populations.

The British Medical Journal reported that 400,000 Brazilians have died from COVID-19—13% of deaths worldwide.[5] Some models predict the death toll in Brazil will reach half a million this month. That trajectory could be an indicator for what is to come for its neighbors. As Paraguay’s director of health surveillance, Guillermo Sequera, has said: “When Brazil sneezes, Paraguay gets a cold.”[6]

COVAX

With a fast-moving pandemic, no one is safe, unless everyone is safe.

author unknown. Retrieved from: https://www.who.int/initiatives/act-accelerator/covax

COVAX is an initiative dedicated to equitable access to a vaccine, particularly to healthcare workers and those most at risk. To date (5/31/2021), COVAX has shipped more than 77 million COVID-19 vaccines to 127 participants. It is co-led by[7]:

CEPI-Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations. The governing board has 12 voting members; four investors and eight independent members with competencies in industry, global health, science, resource mobilization, and finance—and five observers (17 total). Financial support comes from public sources including US Agency for International Development (USAID).

Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance-a public/private partnership which has helped to vaccinate 760 million children in the world’s poorest countries.[8] It ensures that infrastructure is in place and technical support is available to make sure that COVID-19 vaccines can be safely delivered to support the participation of 92 lower-middle and lower-income economies. It is part of the health systems work of Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator effort, focusing on areas where it has expertise and experience, such as keeping vaccines at the correct temperature.

World Health Organization (WHO)

United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF)

COVAX hopes to get 280 million doses of vaccines to Latin America but has been hit with delays to eight manufacturers (including SII) it has deals with and does not expect to deliver them until the end of 2021.[8]This has led South American nations to look to China’s Coronavac and Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine supplies. One study found that Coronovac was only 50% effective after a single dose. The Biden administration has pledged to purchase 500 million doses of Pfizer BioNTech vaccine to give to COVAX; the first 200 million doses will be distributed this year, with the subsequent 300 million in the first half of next year.[10]

My Take

In what can only be called being one step ahead of the game, armed robbers in Hong Kong stole $16,000 worth of toilet paper as coronavirus sparked panic-buying of essential goods a month before WHO declared a global pandemic in March 2020.[11] (Good times)

In July 2020, President Trump formally notified Congress and the United Nations that the US was withdrawing from WHO because of course he did.

Several articles, including one from the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)[12] have compared weekly deaths in the US that would be expected from historical trends with COVID and non-COVID deaths from March 2020 until January 2021. There was an increase of 22.9% of all-cause mortality. This far exceeds expectations. Excess deaths attributed to non-COVID causes could be the result of deaths that were, in fact, COVID but misclassified. They might also be due to delayed care, an overwhelmed healthcare system, or behavioral health crises. On the other side of the ledger, no doubt at least some of the deaths that would have been anticipated from non-COVID causes might have died from the coronavirus instead. Which is to say, these are at best estimates of the mortality rates. During surges in various parts of the US, deaths from several non-COVID diseases like heart disease and Alzheimer’s increased. Either way, the excess deaths could have been helped with a better response to the pandemic early on.[13]

For those “give me liberty, or give me death” fans, do I really need to point out that Patrick Henry was referring to his own death, not the deaths of millions all over the world? My parents’ generation made many sacrifices during WWII, including blood and treasure, and considered it worth the price to defeat Hitler. Wearing a mask to defeat a virus? Really? Who have we become?

It comes as a surprise to no one that the countries with the largest death tolls to date, the US, India, and Brazil, are also countries in which partisan politics was the priority over public health measures. It isn’t a good idea. Why don’t we just stop?

[1] What to know about India’s coronavirus crisis. What is behind the explosion of new coronavirus cases that is overwhelming the South Asian country? NY Times, May 25, 2021. Retrieved from: https://www.nytimes.com/article/india-coronavirus-cases-deaths.html

[2] ibid

[3]Raghavan, P. 2020. $150 million dollar shot for serum production of COVID vaccine, India Express.

[4]Lancet editorial. September 19, 2020. COVID-19 in Brazil: “So what?”, Lancet, 395: 1461. doi: 10.1016/s0140-6736(20)31095-3

[5]Taylor, L. 5/20/2021. COVID-19: How the Brazilian variant took hold of South America, BMJ 2021, 373: n1277. doi: 10.1136/bmj.n1277

[6]ibid

[7]World Health Organization: COVAX Working for global equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines. Retrieved from: https://www.who.int/initiatives/act-accelerator/covax

[8]Raghavan. Op cit.

[9]Taylor. Op cit.

[10] Page, T, Rauhala, E. Jun 9, 2021. Biden administration to buy 500 million Pfizer coronavirus vaccine doses to donate to the world, Washington Post, retrieved from: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-vaccine-donate/2021/06/09/c2744674-c934-11eb-93fa-9053a95eb9f2_story.html

[11]www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article1

[12]Woolf, SH, Chapman, DH, Sabo, RT, Zimmerman, EB. May 4,2021.Excess deaths from COVID-19 and other causes in the US, March 1 2020, to January 2, 2021,JAMA, 325(17): 1786-1789. doi: 10.1001/jama.2021.5199

[13]ibid

#COVID-19 #Brazil #India #COVAX #vaccine #AstraZeneca #PfizerBioNTech

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Thermosense Thermometer As of April 24, in excess of 190,000 individuals worldwide have kicked the bucket of COVID-19, the exceptionally irresistible respiratory sickness brought about by the coronavirus. The quantity of individuals who have tried positive for COVID-19 has arrived at 2.7 million, as indicated by information ordered by Johns Hopkins University. Very nearly 750,000 individuals have recouped. As indicated by the World Health Organization (WHO), coronaviruses are a group of infections that cause ailments extending from the basic virus to increasingly serious ailments, for example, extreme intense respiratory disorder (SARS) and the Middle East respiratory disorder (MERS).hese infections were initially transmitted from creatures to individuals.

SARS, for example, was transmitted from civet felines to people while MERS moved to people from a sort of camel. Thermosense Thermometer The name coronavirus originates from the Latin word crown, which means crown or radiance. Under an electron magnifying instrument, the infection seems as though it is encompassed by a sunlight based crown. The epic coronavirus, distinguished by Chinese experts on January 7 and since named SARS-CoV-2, is another strain that had not been recently recognized in people. Little is thought about it, albeit human-to-human transmission has been affirmed.

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Time to hold China accountable.

As the internet brought the world closer together, international logistics connected the dots between supply and markets to create an intricate network of global business transactions. A new world order of commerce has taken shape whether we like it or not.

The abundance of lower cost-of-labor goods and materials, and the freedom to operate in less regulated countries has driven major manufacturing from the west to offshore operations in Asia and other parts of the world.

China has been the single largest benefactor of this evolution and has done so by implementing aggressive tactics that at first, appear favorable to foreign companies to operate in the country. The caveat to this favorable business environment is the Chinese policy requiring mandatory local ownership, leveraging the company’s proprietary technologies while pushing other countries to open their markets for tax free Chinese goods. The American public has remained blissfully unaware of the potential vulnerabilities of this new world order as they continue to fill their carts with cheap merchandise from their local major box stores, pharmacies and supermarkets.

The outbreak and spread of Corona virus (Covid-19) and its impact on the world’s economies has exposed the weaknesses of this new world order. In trying to control the spread of this disease, America now finds itself facing a shortage of pharmaceutical and medical products that are urgently needed during this current heath crisis.

The United States remains the global leader in drug research and development. However, about 60 percent of factories manufacturing drug ingredients and finished medicines for U.S. patients are located overseas, with China and India accounting for 40 percent. Chinese pharmaceutical companies now supply more than 90 percent of U.S. antibiotics, vitamin C, ibuprofen, hydrocortisone, and other medicines as well as 70 percent of acetaminophen.

For the past two decades, China has well taken advantage of these new opportunities for commerce to become the second largest economy in world. However, with this success, the Chinese government has ignored or refused to engage in human rights, implement or maintain consumer safety policies or environmental stewardship. China has often exported tainted food and pharmaceutical products with little to no accountability.

The China One policy advocated by its President Xi Jinping to bring all of China under a single leader is about world dominance thru consolidation of power and economic dependencies. The Chinese have used their amassed wealth from trade to push an agenda of territorial expansion and geopolitical influence in developing nations. They are leveraging massive loans to many small, developing nations to secure territorial assets and increase their military footprint. These countries, when they can’t afford to repay these loans become captive to Chinese policies.

The current Chinese Authoritarian Government, President Xi Jinping can dictate how they spend their national wealth and implement programs with great speed to achieve their objectives. They are in control of 1.2 billion people’s minds with their message. China is experiencing viral health crisis, but authorities are more focused on managing political damage and controlling the perception of their masses, in order to divert attention away from any potential uprising within the country. Their most recent propaganda informs the Chinese people that the U.S Military developed and spread the virus in China. The Chinese Government is nervous and acutely aware that the recent unrest in Hong Kong will resurface once the pandemic begins to wane.

As of this writing, the Chinese government has refused to allow the CDC into the country and has ignored offers of assistance from the WHO to conduct onsite investigations. In an article published last week in Xinhua, the state-run media agency, was the claim that China could impose pharmaceutical export controls on America at its discretion. This threat highlights the actual control China has on the world’s supply chain and what they may be willing to do. This is the new norm when it comes to China’s economic and military strategies. To suffocate nations with economic and/or geopolitical leverage where their native populations become rebellious to their own governments. China is a master of this craft after many years of well-oiled communist ideology.

To date, there are over 132,000 confirmed cases and over 5000 deaths worldwide from the Covid-19 virus that originated in Wuhan, China. As these numbers continue to grow for the foreseeable future, the world’s governments have not yet come out to address liability for this pandemic. The official name of this specific virus is SARS-CoV-2 and the disease it causes is the Coronavirus disease 2019 or COVID-19. Coronaviruses are a family of viruses that are common within humans and various different species of animals, including camels, cattle, cats, dogs and bats.

Trillions of dollars and thousands of lives are now being lost in this new world order and China should be held accountable. This pandemic originated in the local Wuhan street markets where vendors sell raw meat, much of it tainted, from a variety of animals in unsanitary conditions. The practice of selling live animals such as dogs, cats and rats at these markets is prevalent throughout the country. The poor or non-existent sanitary conditions are perfect for incubating many diseases. The world has witnessed several pandemics originating from China, including, the Hong Kong Flu, Russian Flu and more recently the SARs virus. China has done very little to address the health and well-being of their own people with no consideration to the worldwide effects that result from their lack of action.

The Chinese authorities’ focus is on economic growth over consumer safety, comes at a steep cost to the rest of the world. In America and many other countries, businesses must comply with compulsory safety standards and are held accountable for their actions. There is a substantial cost to business to maintain compliance and abide by rules and regulations, knowing what the consequences might be if they fail to do so. China has side-stepped many of these requirements without penalty or serious consequences. The Chinese one-party authoritarian government is notorious for maintaining total control over their industries and people. But why have they neglected basic food safety standards?

The Chinese are masters at copying and counterfeiting manufactured products from the United States in an effort compete with America on the world market. They avoid regulations and compliance over dominance and profits. To this end, they do not accept the responsibility to safeguard the food, medicine or product safety for their own people. This negligence and its resulting effects on the population has now traveled outside of China and the whole world is at risk of economic and social collapse from this outbreak.

The United States and others must now hold accountable the government of China and the people responsible for this crisis. The world’s response to China should be an economic “shot-across-the-bow” to reconsider its current policies. A warning that you can’t reap the benefits economic development at the cost of humanity. To do so, invites economic or criminal retribution to those responsible. Governments that fail to manage their economic development and social responsibilities should be restricted from participating in the world’s markets as responsible countries do. There needs to be serious penalties in place to reign in and force retribution to those countries and individuals that do not comply with established health, safety and environmental practices and regulations

This should also be a clarion call for consumers who have increasingly relied on cheap “Made in China” goods for the past twenty plus years, at the risk of losing our local industries, skills and know-how. We are now relying not only on trinkets from China but many of our life-saving medicines.

The World should react to this pandemic as a crime against humanity. The message sent to China should be that they owe the world compensation for losses incurred from their violations and neglect of basic human rights and principles. In the interim, the depletion of our national reserves and additional expense resulting from the Corona virus will need to be compensated and this compensation should come from a “Corona tax” levied against all Chinese imported products. While this action will certainly meet with some resistance from consumers for increased prices, it will also force the Chinese to reconsider their current actions in ignoring basic principles in the health and welfare of their own and the world’s citizens. The immediate and long-term security for the United States can only be assured by rebuilding the country’s manufacturing infrastructure and reducing our dependence of foreign imports.

About the author: Ron Atapattu is the founder and President of the ShipOCI group of companies that include, Overseas Cargo, Inc, a third party logistics service provider specializing in the handling, storage, importation and export of perishable food products, Star Warehouse, one of the largest dry and temperature controlled warehouse facilities in the Southeastern United States and A Star Suppliers, makers and distributors of the elephantea™ line of organic tea products. Ron has over thirty years of experience in international supply chain logistics and has witnessed first-hand the practices of Chinese industries’ and Government that have led to the imbalance in trade and product safety failures that the world is experiencing today.

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opedguy · 4 years ago

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Biden’s Covid Vaccine Mandates Illegal

DEADWOOD, S.D. (OnlineColumnist.com), Sept. 29, 2When President Joe Biden ordered Sept. 9 some 100 million Americans to take Covid-19 vaccines or lose their federal employment or be forced to take weekly Covid-19 tests, he didn’t know it violated the 1991 Self-Determination Act. Self-Determination Act gave all patients the right to refuse medical treatment. Forcing millions of patients for public health reasons to take Covid-19 vaccines violates patients right to decide what kind of medicines or treatment they wish to put into their bodies. Biden thinks that without increasing vaccinations in the population, the Covid-19 crisis will continue indefinitely, hampering the U.S. economy. But beyond a drag on the economy, the U.S. death toll continues to rise now near 680,000 and climbing. But there’s no guarantee that with more vaccines the country will achieve the herd immunity necessary to ending the Covid-19 crisis.

Novant Health CEO Carlos Amato announced that the hospital system would fire 175 employees refusing to take Covid-19 vaccines. Amato says it only represents 1% of the total Novant workforce but feels it’s important to send a message that he backs Biden’s mandates, he’s exposing Novant Health Care of legal challenges. Whether vaccines are good for public health or not, forcing citizens to get vaccines violates the 1991 Self-Determination Act, giving patients the right to refuse any medicine or treatment at their discretion. Biden’s decision to impose vaccines mandates forces citizens to lose their lose their medical decision-making. Democrats support 1973 Roe v. Wade giving women, regardless of age or ethnicity the right to choose abortion as a birth control option. Recent laws passed in Texas takes medical-decision making out of women’s hands.

Biden has done the same thing on a federal level imposing vaccines on millions of citizens without respecting their right, under the Self-Determination Act, to decide what to put in their bodies. Biden and the scientific community cannot answer any questions about what Covid vaccines do the long-term health, not to mention adverse side effects of Covid vaccines. Recent breakthrough infections among double-or-even-triple vaccinated patients raise questions. Some anti-vaxxers question whether the vaccines are effective, especially against the Delta variant. Public health officials insist vaccines prevent severe Covid symptom, hospitalizations and even deaths. But there’s no data that validates the benefits of vaccines. Biden calls the current Covid crisis an “epidemic of the unvaccinated.” Health officials know that they have no data proving that vaccines prevent the disease or hospitalization.

Vice President Kamala Harris said yesterday that she wanted to create a global fund to prevent future pandemics. Harris knows that there’s a very real possibility that the deadly novel corona virus was created in a Chinese bioweapons’ lab, then spread to Wuhan, China and all over the planet. How’s creating a billion-dollar pandemic fund going a to stop a future pandemic when the current outbreak came from lab-leak. Biden asked Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines May 26 to get to the bottom of the origin of the novel coronavirus. Five months later, Haines won’t reveal which scientists she asked their opinion about the origin of the virus. Haines has refused to reveal her underlying sources, despite reports that she’s relied on scientists tied to Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance, someone known to oppose the lab-leak theory.

Mandating vaccines violates the 1991 Self-Determination Act giving patients the right to refuse medical treatments. It’s not a public health issue when the virus originated in a Wuhan Institute of Virology lab, did not occur naturally as Biden’s chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci has said since the beginning of the pandemic. Fauci knows the SARS CoV-2 is nothing like 2003 SARS CoV-1 that only infected 8,000 worldwide, with only 700 deaths. Only “gain-of-function research, where scientists enhance the lethality of the virus, could account for differences between SARS CoV-1 and SARS CoV-2, where 219 million and 4.55 million deaths have occurred. Until the Biden administration levels with the public about the origin of the virus, he should not mandate Covid vaccines, knowing that the global pandemic was entirely preventable by containing China’s deadly experiments.

Biden’s vaccine mandates violate the 1991 Self-Determination Act, giving every patient the right to refuse medical treatment. No one at the FDA or Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC] can say with certainty that current Covid vaccines prevent the disease or prevent severe symptoms and hospitalizations. As long a DNI Haines cannot come clean about the origin of the deadly novel coronavirus, no citizen can have confidence with U.S. public health authorities. Companies like Novant will wind up in court firing employees who refuse Covid-19 vaccines. Biden breached his Article I authority mandating vaccines, when the Self-Determination Act gives all patients the right to refuse medical treatment. Whatever problems convincing citizens to take vaccines, Biden has no right under his presidential authority to force citizens to take vaccines.

About the Author

John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.

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How a Zoo Decides Which “High-Risk” Animals Should Get a COVID VaccineBY

MOLLY OLMSTEAD

JULY 28, 2021

Earlier this month, the Philadelphia Zoo announced that some of its animals would soon receive an experimental COVID-19 vaccine for some of its “high-risk” animals. Several other zoos have already begun to vaccinate their animals, with no sign of any major issues. To understand how a zoo comes to decide which animals are high-risk and how to balance the concerns about a new vaccine with the risk of COVID, Slate spoke with Dr. Keith Hinshaw, the director of animal health at the Philadelphia Zoo. This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity.

Slate: Can you explain how this came about?

Keith Hinshaw: We have lots of very endangered primates here at the zoo that are closely related physiologically to human beings and so are susceptible to many of the same viruses and bacteria and parasites. In January of 2021, there was an outbreak of COVID-19 in the gorilla troop at the San Diego Wild Animal Park. To protect the other troop of gorillas that live at the actual San Diego Zoo, they had obtained a small amount of an experimental vaccine from the Zoetis Farm Animal Health company. When we found out that information, we contacted Zoetis directly. Those discussions happened in February. After learning about their vaccine, we asked if we could be put on a list of zoos and other facilities that would be interested in using it on their animals. So we submitted a list to them of the animals that were highest up on our list of priorities.

Which animals did you decide were at risk?

All of our primates. We also submitted our carnivores, which in our case is bears, animals in the weasel families such as otters, animals in the canid families such as our maned wolf, and then a few other miscellaneous carnivores, such as the red pandas, the meerkats, and a thing called a fossa. We did not submit our list of bats because our bats are behind glass, so there’s not really any air exchange with guests. And we didn’t think that they would be as susceptible to actual illness. So 81 primates and 37 carnivores. In their press release, Zoetis said they’re donating 11,000 doses to zoos and sanctuaries and other institutions, so two doses for each of the animals that I mentioned is 236 doses.

How did you determine what the at-risk animals were?

There are actual studies where they would see if they could demonstrate that an animal could get infected with the COVID virus. And then there was also a paper published where they did computer modeling to see if the actual shape of the receptor on the lung cells of different species of animals would match up with the shape of the spike protein on the SARS CoV2 virus. It is very theoretical, but it did predict, as you might expect, primates would be susceptible, and cats were up there.

So you presented all of these animals as equally at risk, as equal priorities?

For our request to obtain the vaccine, we simply submitted the list, not in any particular order. In reality, once we obtain the vaccine, there is probably a logical order: the great apes—gorillas and orangutans—and then the big cats—lions, tigers, leopards, jaguar—because those are the animals that we know have already been infected at other zoos.

We’re constantly monitoring both the lay and the scientific press for stories about animals that could potentially be susceptible. And every zoo has to make their own decisions. Some zoos may not use it at all. And some have decided to use it in an even wider-ranging group of animals. If evidence came up that other species appeared to be susceptible, we would certainly add them to that list.

Is this vaccine different from human COVID vaccines?

Yes. This is what I would call a standard vaccine for animals. It does not contain a live virus in it. And it doesn’t contain mRNA. It just contains the antigen, which is a synthesized version of that spike protein from the SARS CoV2 virus, and then a chemical that’s added to make your body’s immune system pay more attention. There’s no virus in there or anything else that might cause any sort of illness. The Zoetis people are recommending two doses three weeks apart, which is pretty standard.

Would you administer different doses to, say, a gorilla and a lemur?

No, they get the same dose. For most vaccines we use in the zoo, it’s the same dose no matter what size the animal. There are some exceptions—the rabies vaccine, for example—but in general, it’s a set amount. You’re using the vaccine to get the attention of the immune system, and you don’t necessarily need to use a lot.

What have you heard from other zoos that have already begun vaccinating their animals?

I haven’t heard anything bad. I do know that they’ve done safety trials. And I know they did those trials with dogs and cats and demonstrated that you get an antibody response. The American Association of Zoo Veterinarians has a very active listserv, and there is a lot of interest from the veterinarians to know how things are going with zoos that are starting to implement this vaccine. And when I communicated with Zoetis last week about this, they had not received any reports from anyone of adverse reactions.

If there were adverse reactions, would you reassess?

Exactly. We will always be paying close attention to whether or not there’s any problems with this vaccine or any other medication in zoo animals. One of the things that makes veterinary medicine interesting is that other than maybe a few parrots—and we’re not totally clear on what is going on there—they can’t tell you what they’re feeling. But I will say that the animal keepers are very observant and will pay very close attention to their animal’s behavior. They’ll know what side of the mouth the animal chews food on, how fast they blink, how fast they stand up and lie down. And so if they see anything that seems different, they’ll give us a call.

What would it take for you to call off the vaccinations?

Say we gave an animal this vaccine, and for a day, it only ate half as much food as it normally would eat, and then from that point on, it was back to normal again—I would not consider that a serious side effect. If we gave the vaccine and the animal went off food completely and seemed like it was in a lot of discomfort, then we would think more carefully. Or say it developed an abscess at the vaccine site, like a severe kind of localized reaction. That would be a little bit concerning, and we would have to think carefully about using this vaccine in that species. But other zoos are implementing the vaccine and have not reported any severe side effects. So, so far, so good. And then the more tricky ones, I guess, would be longer term side effects; you might not know for a long time if there’s an issue. But given the technology of the vaccine, which is a fairly standard animal vaccine, I don’t anticipate that we will see those effects either.

Did you have to have a serious conversation about risk before you agreed to do this?

We did have the conversations. We have a weekly meeting with the zoo veterinarians, the nutritionists, the curators, the director of the zoo, our records people, and so on. We felt it was important to talk about it. Every zoo is going to have to make their own decision. Like if you’re in an area of the country that has low community transmission of COVID, and your keeper force is fully vaccinated, and if you’re in a climate where a lot of the animal housing and activities happen outdoors, you may not see that as necessary.

There was an outbreak of COVID-19 in a group of lions at a zoo in India in May with the delta variant. The outbreak that you heard about in the Bronx Zoo in April 2020 was with the original strain. Those cats went off feed for a little bit; there was some coughing and some nasal discharge, but they didn’t really require any intervention. These lions in India got really sick, and two of them died. So now if you’re a zoo veterinarian, and before you weren’t too worried about this, now maybe the delta variant is a little more of a potential hazard. That could sway your opinion.

Is your concern just about the animals getting sick?

There’s been little evidence that animals can transmit the virus back to people, at least from domestic dogs and cats and so on. The CDC says that pets are not really considered as a major source of the virus. But there were some issues when this virus got into mink farms in Europe, and they detected the virus was going back into the workers at those farms. We don’t have mink here, and we’re not ever planning on having them, but we do have otters and they’re in the same family as mink. So one of my concerns is that if we did have an infection in our animals, does that put our keepers at any risk? So that would be a second reason. The third reason is that anytime that a virus infects a person or an animal, you can get more variants created, so we want to minimize that.

How hard will it be to actually administer the vaccines?

We do have a vaccination program already in place. At our zoo, a tiger for example would normally get three vaccines every year. Most of the cats and the great apes—the gorillas and orangutans—are trained for voluntary vaccination, so they will be easy to vaccinate. And then the smaller animals are trained to go into a little mesh box, so those will be fairly easy. The trickier ones are going to be some of the mid-sized primates that maybe aren’t so interested in voluntarily being injected and are also super smart. In our case—other zoos may have better behaved ones—our gibbons are ridiculously smart, and they have not responded as well to the operant conditioning for training voluntary injections. So if I would have to pick [the hardest] one, I would say the gibbons. For those animals, we would probably do the vaccine as part of a regular physical exam under anesthesia.

So where do things stand now for your plans?

We submitted our list of animals that we were interested in vaccinating in late February. Zoetis needs to get approval from each individual state Department of Agriculture. In our case, it’s the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, and there are some forms and paperwork that they need to complete. When I communicated with them a couple of weeks ago, I think they said they were working on 85 different approvals. We’re hoping to receive our first doses some time in the next month or so.

Is there anything else that you wanted people to know?

We would love it if more people would get vaccinated. The virus is actually on the upswing because of the delta variant, and so we’re a little concerned that we could still have our animals exposed one way or the other. So here’s one more person telling you that if you are eligible to get the vaccine, and you haven’t gotten it yet, please do so because it’s going to also protect our animals here at the zoo.

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US: BREAKING: Number of Americans hospitalized with COVID-19 tops 90,000

Kentucky: More Kentuckians currently in ICU battling COVID than ever before during pandemic LINK

Washington: BREAKING: K-12 school teachers and staff must be vaccinated in WA by Oct. 18 or face losing their jobs. The applies to public, private, and charter schools. @GovInslee is live on #KOMONews right now

Canada: 553 new cases of #COVID19 in B.C., as the rolling average increases slightly, but may be beginning to plateau. Active cases up to 5,580 (highest since May 13), hospitalizations down to 107 but ICU cases to 53, one new death.

World: Researchers find that COVID-19 patients who only suffered mild infections can be plagued with life-altering and sometimes debilitating cognitive issues LINK

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Experience power and performance in your palm with the Redmi Note 7. Every picture that you click comes out beautiful, thanks to its (12 MP + 2 MP) dual-rear camera and the 13 MP front camera. While 16-cm (6.3) FHD+ Dot Notch Display revolutionises your viewing experience, features such as AI Scene Detection, Face Unlock and IR Remote Control make your user experience as convenient as possible.

Product Description

Hold the Redmi Note 7 in your hand and get ready to revel in an efficient and luxurious smartphone experience. A powerful 2.2 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 AIE octa-core processor, a (12 MP + 2 MP) dual-rear camera, a massive 16-cm (6.3) FHD+ Dot Notch Display and features such as AI Scene Detection, Face Unlock, and IR Remote Control come together to provide you with a transcendental smartphone experience.

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The Redmi Note 7 features a 2.2 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 AIE octa-core processor and 3 GB of RAM which pave the way for seamless gaming or multitasking. It also comes with 32 GB of storage capacity which allows for easy storing of your media files.

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AI Scene Detection

This feature recognizes scenes over several categories on the rear and front cameras, and makes your pictures look more vibrant and real.

13 MP AI Front Camera

Make every selfie you click Instagram-worthy with the Redmi Note 7’s 13 MP front camera. It also comes with AI Beautify 4.0 and the AI Portrait mode which lets you take stunning bokeh selfies effortlessly.

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Type-C with Qualcomm Quick Charge 4

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IR Remote Control

With this feature, you can use the Redmi Note 7 as a universal remote controller for TVs, set-top boxes, ACs and more.

Specifications

General

In The Box

Handset, SIM Ejector Tool, Soft Case, Manual, Adapter, Cable

Model Number

MZB7263IN

Model Name

Redmi Note 7

Color

Onyx Black

Browse Type

Smartphones

SIM Type

Dual Sim

Hybrid Sim Slot

Yes

Touchscreen

Yes

OTG Compatible

Yes

Quick Charging

Yes

Sound Enhancements

Speaker – Single (Bottom Opening), Microphones – 2 (For Noise Cancellation), Smart PA

SAR Value

India SAR 1g limit: 1.6W/Kg, Head SAR: 0.962W/Kg (0mm Separation), Body SAR Value: 0.838W/Kg (15mm Separation)

Display Features

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Display Size

16.0 cm (6.3 inch)

Resolution

2340 x 1080 pixels

Resolution Type

Full HD+

GPU

Adreno 512

Display Type

IPS (In-cell), RD

Other Display Features

Contrast Ratio – 1500:1, NTSC Ratio – 81.41%, 2.5D Glass (In-front), Corning Gorilla Glass 5 (Front and Back), Dot Notch Display

Os & Processor Features

Operating System

Android Pie 9.0

Processor Type

Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 AIE

Processor Core

Octa Core

Primary Clock Speed

2.2 GHz

Secondary Clock Speed

1.8 GHz

Operating Frequency

GSM – B2, B3, B5, B8, WCDMA – B1, B2, B5, B8, LTE TDD – B40, B41, LTE FDD – B1, B3, B5, B8, CA – 1C (Only DLCA), 3C, 40C, 41C

Memory & Storage Features

Internal Storage

32 GB

RAM

3 GB

Expandable Storage

256 GB

Supported Memory Card Type

microSD

Memory Card Slot Type

Hybrid Slot

Camera Features

Primary Camera Available

Yes

Primary Camera

12MP + 2MP

Primary Camera Features

12MP – f2.2, 1.25micrometer, 2MP – f2.2, 1.75micrometer, Primary 5P Lens, Secondary 3P Lens, AI Dual Camera, PDAF

Secondary Camera Available

Yes

Secondary Camera

13MP Front Camera

Secondary Camera Features

Aperture – F2.0, Pixel Size – 1.12micrometer, AI Front Camera

Flash

Rear Flash

Dual Camera Lens

Primary Camera

Connectivity Features

Network Type

3G, 4G VOLTE, 2G

Supported Networks

GSM, WCDMA, 4G VoLTE, 4G LTE

Internet Connectivity

4G, 3G, Wi-Fi

Bluetooth Support

Yes

Bluetooth Version

v5.0

Wi-Fi

Yes

Wi-Fi Version

802.11 a/b/g/n/ac

USB Connectivity

Yes

Audio Jack

3.5mm

Map Support

Google Maps

GPS Support

Yes

Other Details

SIM Size

Nano SIM + Nano SIM

User Interface

MIUI 10

Graphics PPI

409 PPI

Sensors

Rear Fingerprint Scanner, Ambient Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, E-compass, Accelerometer, Gyroscope

Other Features

Processor – 4 x Gold 2.2 GHz + 4 x Silver 1.8 GHz, eMMC v5.1, Body – 2.5D Glass Back, USB Type-C, IR Blaster, Charger – 5V/2A, Super Low Light Mode, Splash Proof Protected by P2i, Quick Charge 4.0, Dual VoLTE

GPS Type

A-GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou

Dimensions

Width

75.21 mm

Height

159.21 mm

Depth

8.1 mm

Weight

186 g

Warranty

Warranty Summary

Brand Warranty of 1 Year Available for Mobile and 6 Months for Accessories

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Terrific

Writing after 7 days of use. Thanks flipkart for faster delivery 🚚 Black colour is not that shines than other but look official. Device build is nice although front and back are gorilla glass protected and side bezels are plastic but not feels like plastic. Preinstalled camera app is garbage, Camera is excellent only if you use gcam port of pixel 3 xl, working perfectly for me. Display is bright and vibrant but in sunlight reflection is very high. Performance is very good because of good pro…

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Certified Buyer, Bid

Mar, 2019

Mind-blowing purchase

1) Display is nice. Full HD+ screen is very bright and Colors are accurate and crisp. 2) glass back feels premium. 3) notch is very tiny, it looks nice but as of now while writing this review miui has no option to hide the notch yet. I know many people would like to disable the notch. In future through software update may be Xiaomi would fix this. 4) sound quality is okay. not great and not bad. 5) software : Android pie out of the box with miui 10. 6) security patch level is of 5-1-2019 o…

Parbati Chakraborty

Certified Buyer, Balurghat

Mar, 2019

Awesome

Best In Range Product!

Splash Proof, Shock Proof as it comes with Gorrilla Glass 5 Protection, Awesome Looks, Preety Good Camera, I had Gifted 3 GB + 32 GB Model to my mother as a thanks giving gesture on womes day, she is happier than ever, its having good quality screen, also this notch display looks very cool & glass back design in this price gives very premium feel,

Great In hand feel, Type-C Port with fast charging, It has everything We Need!

A Complete package in very low prices a…

Okkk Ok

Certified Buyer, Meerut

Mar, 2019

Very Good

Good mobile for this price. Pubg is running smoothly at HD it doesn’t support HDR. Build quality is average in Camara depth of fild effects not great its total value for money. Battery life is good.

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Certified Buyer, Chennai

Mar, 2019

Worth the money

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Mar, 2019

Delightful

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Design: premium looks

Battery: awesome backup + supports super fast charging (checked with Motorola fast charger)

Ui: Easy and convenient UI

Camera: This phone is enough for camera lovers, No need of pro version which has a fake 48mp selfie camera: portrait shorts are super good and sharp images.

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Certified Buyer, Hyderabad

Mar, 2019

Just wow!

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Mar, 2019

Good choice

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Salman Jan

Certified Buyer, Srinagar

Mar, 2019

Wonderful

this phone takes some really cool pics in the daylight. it works fast and gives a good battery life. at this price range this would be best 1.

UMAIR

Certified Buyer, Pune

Mar, 2019

Terrific

Phone camera is good for a normal user. The dynamic range of the phone is good. PUBG Mobile can be played at high FPS and it supports HD graphics in PUBG Mobile. Overall best device in this price range.

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Certified Buyer, Kolkata

Mar, 2019

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Questions and Answers

Q:Does it have face unlock?

A:Yes, it has AI face unlock. Redmi Note 7 has a fingerprint sensor on the back, too.

SuperComNet

Flipkart Seller

Q:What version of Android does it have?

A:Redmi Note 7 runs MIUI 10 based on Android 9.0.

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Flipkart Seller

Q:slow motion are available in this phone

A:Yes here is slow motion mode

Kuntal Bhattacharya

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Q:Does it have a notificafion light

A:Yes both note 7 and note 7 pro has a notification light

Saurabh Saraswat

Certified Buyer

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Q:Can I use two apps on the same screen?

A:Yes, using the split screen option, you can use two apps at once.

SuperComNet

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mr-psci · 4 years ago

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AstraZeneca Vaccine: Blood Clot Danger? Think again...

So for those of you who’ve been living under a rock this last year, since November 2019, the threat from COVID-19 has been very real, putting the world into lockdown, wrecking the economy, turned politics into a war-ground and, much closer to home, has led to severe mental health implications for countless people since we’ve all been trapped indoors for over a year.

In Europe, the UK has been spearheading the biggest vaccination program its ever undertaken, with three different vaccines from three big Pharma companies: the Pfizer Vaccine, the Moderna Vaccine and the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.

It’s that final one that is probably the most well-recognised one, given the notoriety it’s gained in the media these last few weeks. Now why is that?

Well, to understand why many are opposed to this COVID-19 vaccine, we need to understand why this vaccine has been surrounded by so much controversy.

At the start of the pandemic, the University of Oxford, in conjunction with AstraZeneca, worked day and night to develop a vaccine quickly because in the early days of the pandemic COVID-19 had not yet begun to mutate into genetically distinct strains. This window of opportunity was critical because SARs-CoV2 is a virus whose genetic material is encoded by RNA rather DNA (like humans) and because of this, the COVID-19 genome is more liable to mutate quickly, as RNA does not come equipped with the ‘proof-reading’ mechanisms that DNA comes with. So, when AstraZeneca had completed the clinical trials, in line with government requirements, the BBC reported that the UK government approved the vaccine on December 30th 2020, after carefully reviewing all the evidence from the trials.

Now at this point, the Pfizer Vaccine had already been approved and, in the South East of England, a new, much faster-spreading variant of COVID-19 had arisen in Kent, because (as we feared) the virus’s genome had mutated in a position in a way that caused the time between when a person was infected and when they became infectious to decrease significantly. This new variant then warranted another lockdown, because it was faster than the original virus and, eventually, it took its place as the new ‘apex predator’.

The AstraZeneca vaccine was rolled out from Monday 4th January 2021 and soon people began to speculate, leading to cruel (and untrue) rumours that the vaccine had been rushed and that the government had waived some of the assessment criteria out of desperation. In fairness, 2020 had been a crazy year, and given the desperate situation, the rumours weren’t totally insane...

But they were still untrue. The BBC released a statement from the University of Oxford which revealed that they had, in fact, been developing a new type of vaccine that was more effective than traditional vaccines since the Ebola crisis ended in 2016. Using this technique, they began studying coronaviruses such as SARs and MERs and had even successfully created one of these new vaccines to target MERs because they had realised that all coronaviruses have a vital weak spot: the spike protein that gives coronaviruses their name. The fact that they were able to develop a vaccine for SARs-Cov2 in 10 months (a process that does take 10 years usually) is because they already had a molecule to target (which usually is why vaccine development takes so long because scientists need to study the virus for longer to learn which physical features it has that would make a good vaccine target) and because of the amount of help they had: Oxford gained a tremendous amount of funding and support across the UK to help in their research centres and take part in their clinical trials.

So to reiterate: the AstraZeneca vaccine’s fast development was not due to cut corners. It was because everyone chipped in. Everyone pulled their weight together giving more time, money, effort and attention than has ever been given to any vaccine before. And instead of recognising the unprecedented amount of co-operation and effort that went into developing this vaccine, all the public could say about it was: “we don’t believe it”.

It didn’t help that the AstraZeneca Vaccine can occasionally cause side-effects in 1 in more than 10 people - which if you think about the number of people in the UK, that is a lot of people who were complaining about side-effects, so unsurprisingly the public learnt about this quickly and immediately rushed to criticise the vaccine further.

However, the side-effects are not severe, as the UK government’s Public assessment of the vaccine summary states, those who’ve had the vaccine’s first dose may feel “tenderness, pain, warmth, itching or bruising where the injection is given, generally feeling unwell, feeling tired (fatigue), chills or feeling feverish, headache, feeling sick (nausea), joint pain or muscle ache”. Or to put it simply, you feel a bit poorly for 1-3 days (maximum) and then you feel fine. You may feel like this because either you are allergic to some of the vaccine serum ingredients - which the nurses will ask before the injection and will take precautions as appropriate - or, the most likely explanation is that it’s just your immune system doing what it’s supposed to be doing.

One thing that is commonly overlooked when it comes to viral infections is that, unlike bacteria - which release toxins to cause cell damage which causes the symptoms of illness - the symptoms experienced when infected with a virus is purely down to your body’s immune response. If you have a temperature, it’s because the hotter your body is, the faster the essential chemical reactions and protein interactions that go into ridding the body of an infection can occur. Symptoms of illness that arise from the AstraZeneca vaccine are no different - your body is just practicing what it would do if it met the actual virus for the first time - once its done that, you will very unlikely suffer any symptoms in the future should you be exposed to the virus again because your body remembers how to deal with an infection and will do it so quickly, you will be virus-free before you can say “achoo”.

So, now that the first myth about the AstraZeneca vaccine has been busted (don’t believe us? Read the listed sources!), let’s talk about the current problem: the blood clot rumour.

So, not to inflame rumours, but yes it has been found that very rarely a blood clot in the brain (Specifically a Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis or CVST) which can be fatal if it goes undetected - the UK’s Medical Regulation body (the MHRA) have reported that in a survey of 79 people (two-thirds women) who had the first dose and suffered a blood clot, 19 people died. However there was not enough evidence to say that the vaccine was the cause of a CVST. Just because something coincided with something, doesn’t mean that it was the cause. The likelihood that the vaccine was the direct cause for a blood clot in these people is further diminished by the fact that CVSTs only affect 5 in 1,000,000 (1 million) people! So those of you who roll your eyes when you hear that “birth control is more likely to give you a blood clot”, it’s true! And on top of that the vaccine has not even been proven to cause blood clots.

So in conclusion, does the vaccine have side-effects? Yes. Are you going to die from them? No. Does the vaccine cause blood clots? There’s not enough evidence to say yes or no, but the type of blood clot that the vaccine has coincided with is so rare, that it shouldn’t be an issue. The bottom line, is that the AstraZeneca vaccine shouldn’t be refused or suspended just because there might be a problem. The MHRA will review the safety and they’ll let us know if they find anything of concern. In the meantime, if people want this pandemic to finally end after nearly 18 months of death and misery then we need to start listening to health professionals and scientists who’ve worked long and tirelessly to return things to normal and trust that they know what they’re doing.

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COVID19 Updates: 07/29/2021

Oklahoma: There are no pediatric hospital beds in the state of Oklahoma due to the #DeltaVariant. Children are being transferred out of state to Texas. Doctors are calling for a state of emergency.

Japan: Two Games-related COVID-19 cases hospitalised -organisers LINK

Israel: Israel's two-week window to halt the 4th COVID-19 wave - analysis LINK

World: Some individuals vaccinated against coronavirus can have a much lower level of antibodies than other inoculated individuals and are therefore more at risk to get infected. LINK

Japan: For the third day in a row, a new single day Covid record is set in Tokyo. This time, 3,865 new cases have been reported in the metropolitan area. Clearly, the Delta Variant has taken hold. (MP) #Tokyo #Covid #Pandemic #DeltaVariant

China: Why Sinovac’s foreign customers are watching Chile’s COVID-19 experience amid Delta variant concerns LINK

China: Beijing recorded its first Covid-19 case in nearly six months on Wednesday, as Chinese authorities scramble to prevent the spread of the Delta variant amid an outbreak linked to an airport in the populous eastern city of Nanjing. LINK (first in 6 months? I call bullshit!)

US: Tucker Carlson escalates feud against Anthony Fauci by claiming he ‘created’ Covid “If the vaccine works as well as they claim it does, why are so many vaccinated people getting Covid?” LINK

Philippines: Pres. Duterte: “Those who do not want it, well, for all I care, you can die anytime.” President Duterte warns that Filipinos who refuse COVID vaccines will be confined to their homes.

Israel: Israel's #COVID19 data dashboard provided by the Health Ministry apparently no longer shows breakdowns of hospitalizations and deaths by vaccination status. (coverup much?)

Japan: Pole vaulter Sam Kendricks tests positive for COVID-19, will miss Olympics LINK

Japan: NHK has learned the Japanese government plans to expand the coronavirus state of emergency to Chiba, Kanagawa and Saitama, which neighbor Tokyo, as well as the western prefecture of Osaka. #COVID19 LINK

Indonesia: Indonesia has set another record for Covid-19 deaths in a single day: 2,069 people died in the country on July 27.

Michigan: Wow. 60% of the white-tailed deer sampled in Michigan during the pandemic had antibodies for SARS-CoV-2.

Florida: Disney World to require masks indoors for everyone 2-years-old & up, regardless of vaccination status starting Friday - WLFA

US: U.S. COVID update: Biggest one-day increase in cases since February, number in hospital continues to surge - New cases: 88,376 - Average: 66,633 (+4,222) - In hospital: 42,610 (+3,322) - In ICU: 10,463 (+612) - New deaths: 488

Georgia: NEW: Atlanta announces mask mandate

US: 3 major companies have announced COVID-19 vaccine mandates: - Google - Facebook - Netflix

Japan: NEW: Tokyo reports 3,865 new coronavirus cases, the biggest one-day increase on record

Thailand: Thailand reports 17,669 new coronavirus cases, the biggest one-day increase so far, and a record 165 new deaths

Mexico: Mexico reports 19,028 new coronavirus cases, the biggest one-day increase since January, and 537 new deaths

Australia: New South Wales, which includes Sydney, reports 239 new coronavirus cases, by far the biggest one-day increase on record

India: India's Kerala state orders lockdown as COVID-19 infections rise LINK

Australia: Australian military to help enforce Sydney COVID-19 lockdown as cases rise LINK

Indonesia: Indonesia's regional COVID-19 deaths higher than national tally - data monitor LINK

RUMINT (Arkansas): Covid related death in AR that won't be reported as a Covid death... Hubby's family member lived in El Dorado area. Had medical emergency & needed intensive care. Had to be transferred to Fayetteville (~5hrs)...died in route. How many others are in the same boat?

Arkansas: #BREAKING: @uamshealth says it will be opening a third COVID-19 unit tomorrow morning as cases explode across Arkansas. Hospital officials are also looking at opening a fourth soon. #ARNews #COVID19

UK: United Kingdom Daily Coronavirus (COVID-19) Report · Thursday 29th July. 31,117 new cases (people positive) reported, giving a total of 5,801,561. 85 new deaths reported, giving a total of 129,515.

Louisiana: 33-year-old fully vaccinated woman reportedly dies from COVID-19 complications in breakthrough case LINK

UK: COVID-19: UK's daily coronavirus data 'looks a bit fishy' - as major symptom study suggests cases on the rise LINK

US: Danny Meyer’s Union Square Hospitality Group to require indoor diners show proof of Covid shots LINK

US: Covid-19: CDC. Reverses Testing Advice for Fully Vaccinated LINK

Louisiana: 33% of all new COVID19 cases in Louisiana are CHILDREN.

World: Pfizer's vaccine-supply contract has leaked. It stands out for its neocolonial terms that extend beyond no liability for adverse effects. The buying state cannot terminate the contract, even if Pfizer fails to deliver on time or an effective drug is found. LINK

Iceland: Iceland’s chief epidemiologist has suggested that some COVID-19 lockdown restrictions may remain in place for as long as fifteen years. LINK (dripdripdripdrip)

World: Experts turn to antibody treatment following swarm of breakthrough COVID-19 infections LINK

US: NEW: Number of Americans hospitalized with COVID-19 tops 43,000, highest since April

District of Columbia: Mandatory mask policy for Capitol Grounds , published 7/28/2021 and effective immediately.

Arkansas: Gov. Hutchinson: "We are in a public health emergency. For that reason, I am reinstating the state public health emergency as of today. ... The emergency is in effect today."

Florida: Broward County school students will be wearing masks when school starts, board decides

Florida: What a disaster. Florida is averaging 17,000 new cases a day over the past two days. Six weeks ago we were seeing just 1,500 new cases a day. We're now seeing some of the worst numbers we've seen since the start of the pandemic. #COVID19 #FlaPol

Texas: About 43 fully vaccinated people from Texas have died of COVID-19, according to the state's Department of State Health Services (DSHS). Between the dates Feb. 8 and July 14 of this year, the health department reported that 43 people who contracted the coronavirus have died despite being fully vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2. LINK

US: Two Navy sailors have died due to complications from COVID-19, amid growing concerns about the deadly Delta variant. LINK

Louisiana: Louisiana judge allows people to opt out of community service if they get vaccinated LINK

US: NOW - Biden administration is not ruling out new lockdowns and school closures in the U.S., the experts at the CDC are in charge.

World: Study- Those previously infected are at increased risk of side effects when they take vaccine "prior COVID-19 infection was associated with increased risk of any side effect" as well as "increased risk of severe side effects, leading to hospital care." LINK

Iceland: We have almost one thousand active cases in Iceland at the moment and most of them are fully vaccinated. They are all infected with the Delta variant. We have been seeing vaxed individuals infecting up to 6-7 people.

World: Researchers are concerned about the possibility that COVID-19 might lead to dementia LINK

US: NOW - Biden on #COVID19 vaccines: "It's still a question if the federal government can mandate the whole country, I don't know that yet."

Arizona: COVID-19 cases rise in younger age groups as Arizona students return to class LINK

US: CDC Director Walensky says new masking advice was largely based on soon-to-be-published data showing that virus can thrive in the airways of vaccinated people, even if they're asymptomatic - NYT

Italy: NEW - Chaos erupts in the Italian parliament over new COVID "Green Pass" rules.

Tennessee: Titans quarterback says NFL is going to make unvaccinated players' lives "miserable" LINK

Mississippi: 'Hospitalizations skyrocketing': 1,908 new COVID-19 cases, 4 additional deaths in Mississippi

US: Breaking: US President Biden has suggested Americans may have to be fully-vaccinated if they want to fly abroad

US: "With freedom comes responsibility": Biden says Americans who choose to not get vaccinated are putting others are risk and could lead to a shortage of hospital beds for people who need them LINK (The thing is, it is not the unvaxxed. You can still get seriously ill and pass it on if you are vaccinated)

Massachusetts: CDC mask decision followed stunning findings from Cape Cod beach outbreak LINK

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vikrantbhagat · 5 years ago

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7 Reasons Why Covid-19 Is Nothing Like The Flu ?

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At this point, you've most likely experienced critique comparing the COVID-19 pandemic to the occasional influenza. Now and again it's about the numbers influenced by the two maladies, and once in a while it's about the genuine ailment, manifestations, and results. On a post about my own COVID-19 recuperation, a colleague stated, "Sounds like you had a terrible instance of seasonal influenza

COVID-19 and this season's flu virus are totally different conditions and the two infections that cause them, SARS-CoV-2 and flu an or b, individually, share little practically speaking. The correlations are not just erroneous, they're risky, quite often intended to limit the danger presented by one of the most perilous viruses we've at any point confronted.

7 Reasons Why Covid-19 Is Nothing Like Flu

1)Symptoms-The occasional influenza and COVID-19 have totally different symptomatologies. Both for the most part include a hack, sore throat, and fever, yet these present in an unexpected way. For instance, this season's flu virus causes chest clog, the hack is "beneficial," and there are additionally upper respiratory (nasal) manifestations, for example, sniffling and runny nose. With COVID-19, there are typically no nasal side effects, the hack is frequently dry, and there isn't a great deal of bodily fluid when all is said in done (though bodily fluid is the sign of influenza). Cerebral pains, body throbs, and weariness are likewise basic to both, however those are felt in basically all contaminations, as these are reactions of safe framework proteins called cytokines. COVID-19 likewise includes helpless oxygen conveyance and windedness, and, peculiarly, loss of taste and smell. These are not normal indications of this season's cold virus.

2)Seriousness and span. By and large. While this season's flu virus will in general last 5-10 days, instances of COVID-19 are estimated in weeks. I was wiped out for three weeks, longer than I've at any point been sick with seasonal influenza or whatever else. A work associate of dig has been debilitated for two entire months. Our sitter has been debilitated for about a month and a half and was hospitalized twice for a few days each. My uncle has been in the medical clinic, all through the ICU, for five weeks. Another work partner was debilitated for seven days before being admitted to the emergency clinic and going through almost three weeks in the ICU before at long last losing his fight.

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3)Mortality. This is an intense issue since we don't yet have strong measurements for COVID-19. A few nations like Belgium have announced that 15% of cases are deadly, while in India . death rate drifts somewhere in the range of 2 and 5%. Yet, these numbers mirror the way that solitary the most serious cases were being tried as of not long ago. The genuine death rate has all the earmarks of being simply underneath 1%, however is a lot higher in those with co-morbidities, for example, corpulence, hypertension, diabetes, congestive coronary illness, asthma, malignancy, kidney disappointment, and so forth., and that is many individuals, particularly in the U.S. The death rate starts to seize around age 70, executing 10-15% of those in their eighth decade. For those above age 80, over 20% who become sick will pass on, predominating the death pace of flu.

In the most recent 10 years of occasional Flu , the death rate has never penetrated 1%, even in the 65 or more age gathering. In aggregate, COVID-19 is more deadly than influenza over all age gatherings however is 10 to multiple times more deadly in the older. I haven't actually known any individual who kicked the bucket of flu, yet I know five individuals who have passed on of COVID-19 in the previous two months.

4)Infectiousness. How quick an irresistible illness can spread through a populace is a significant factor for understanding its risk, yet this measurement is a moving objective, particularly when precautionary measures are set up to lessen the spread we're attempting to gauge.. For as far back as 10 years or something like that, the BRN for occasional influenza has been somewhere in the range of 1 and 2. Infectious, yet sensible. During the 2009 influenza pandemic, the BRN was almost 2. During the worldwide flu pandemic of 1918, the BRN was 2.8. Most estimations for COVID-19 are somewhere in the range of 3 and 5, making it more infectious than SARS, Ebola, and Smallpox (yet less so than Measles, Mumps, and Chickenpox).

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5)Socioeconomics. Much has been made of the age inclination of SARS-CoV-2 by those wishing to limit its perils. While the facts confirm that this infection preys most seriously on the older and those with basic wellbeing conditions, that is valid for actually every irresistible malady, in light of the fact that the adequacy of our invulnerable framework disappears with age and is hampered by certain co-morbities. Not to lose all sense of direction in this conversation is the stunning number of in any case sound individuals in their 30s, 40s, and 50s who have gotten fundamentally sick with COVID-19. I've had seasonal influenza previously and never missed in excess of a few days of work. I'm 41 and COVID nauseated me for three weeks.

6)Long haul inability. It is enticing to imagine that COVID-19 resembles seasonal influenza or a cold in that, when you recuperate from it, you are actually as you were previously. However, there are numerous infections that leave patients with long haul handicaps. Polio patients stay incapacitated long after the infection has been cleared. Numerous patients with terrible instances of West Nile infection create Parkinsonian quakes, neurodegeneration, and other psychological disabilities. Indeed, even chickenpox can prompt difficult shingles for a considerable length of time to come, because of the reactivation of torpid infections inside tangible neurons. Since it is so new, we don't yet have the full image of long haul issues COVID-19 may leave afterward, yet the early signs are inauspicious.

7)Blood clumps, including deadly pneumonic embolisms, are currently a perceived confusion of COVID-19. On a possible related note, medical clinics around the globe are revealing a surprising number of strokes in any case sound patients in their 30s and 40s experiencing a gentle or asymptomatic instance of COVID. The infection has additionally been appeared to cause changeless liver harm in certain patients. Recall the loss of taste and smell? That is a neurological side effect (!), one of a few that COVID-19 can create including turmoil, seizures, and even cerebrum harm. COVID-19 unleashes destruction all through the body and can prompt a condition called various organ disappointment, which is as wrecking as it sounds.

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We likewise realize that many recuperated COVID-19 patients (counting yours genuinely) have relentless joint torment and those with rheumatoid joint inflammation report enduring flare-ups of their indications. This is likely because of the misrepresented safe reaction, yet what is not yet clear is whether the joint harm is changeless or simply difficult. The fact of the matter is that we are simply beginning to learn of the foundational harm the infection causes all through the human body, something we don't frequently observe with flu.

Thinking Of The Future

COVID-19 and seasonal influenza are totally various diseases. Beside some covering manifestations and inclination to spread everywhere throughout the globe, they are not promptly practically identical. The explanation they present such unmistakable difficulties is that they are brought about by altogether different infections

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I don’t land on the conspiracy theory side of things quite so much, but the first point is TOTALLY valid. There was an H1N1 vaccine that was used in Europe that activated narcolespy in several children who carried the narcolespy gene. I’m not planning to be first in line for the vaccine, but will likely get it once it has been determined to be safe.

As far as the vaccine being rushed, I know they claim that the corners being cut are more administrative than scientific. Since I’ve not followed any other vaccine development this closely, I can’t speak to the truth of that. It does make me a bit wary about being first in line. However, there are people where the possible benefit outweighs the possible risk of taking the vaccine. If someone wants to be part of the first group to get the vaccine, more power to them. It just won’t be me.

As to the science, they haven’t actually proved the vaccine is effective. I believe the vaccine out of Oxford has produced 100% immune response, but the Moderna vaccine has not. It is still not proven if the anti-bodies produced will actually protect you from getting COVID-19, or if they will decrease the severity of symptoms if you get it. That’s what the next trial phase will prove/disprove.

I don’t know a ton about the research into other corona virus vaccines. Not sure that a cold vaccine is top priority, but I don’t know what research has actually been done. I think there was some good forward movement on SARS, and possibly MERS vaccines, but that they may have been pushed to the side since there aren’t any current outbreaks that would allow the vaccines to be tested.

As to the last point, I absolutely agree that some people want to hold everyone hostage until there is a cure. Not everyone, but some. I think there are ways to minimize risks that will allow many people to continue on with some degree of normalcy. Mask wearing, working from home when possible, those plastic panels that have been installed in any industry that involves face-to-face customer service. I have a baby on the way, and am so grateful that I actually get to work and earn some money before the baby comes. I am able to socially distance and wear a mask at my job, so I feel pretty safe. I really feel for people in a higher risk environment. At the same time, there are so many risks in life that people aren’t focused on right now. I believe in being cautious, but not living your life in fear. COVID could get you, but so could a car accident.

I'd like to know what your reasoning is behind not wanting to get the covid vaccine when it's available? I'm skeptical about it too, just wondering how you reached that conclusion

1. Generally speaking I wouldn’t take a “new” vaccine until it had been around for a few years so we could see long-term effects. The common vaccines like chicken pox, MMR, etc have been around long enough for us to have good data on how safe and effective they are, so parents can make informed decisions for their kids.

It’s why I didn’t get the HPV vaccine as a teenager when my doctor tried to push it. I didn’t need it (I wasn’t at any particular risk for contracting HPV) and there wasn’t enough data. Now we know that there are problems with that vaccine, at least the version that was around at the time, so I’m very glad I didn’t get it.

So even if there were no other issues with it, I would wait at least a year or two before getting it.

2. It’s being rushed. They started it in January, and in March they were already saying they could have it by the end of the year. That’s suspicious and means at least one of the following:

- They’re cutting corners on safety testing

- They were working on it earlier than anybody knew (conspiracy theory, I know, but at this point...)

- They’re fudging data on safety and effectiveness to rush it through

3. COVID-19 is a coronavirus, the same class of virus as most common colds. Scientists have never been able to make a coronavirus vaccine before - and now suddenly it’s achievable within a year? Not only that, but recent news reports are saying that the first round of human testing resulted in 100% of participants having an immune response.

So let me get this straight: they’ve never been able to create a coronavirus vaccine. Then we get this new virus, and suddenly not only can they make a vaccine on a deadline but it’s 100% effective with the first round of human trials? HIGHLY suspicious.

4. The narrative is pushing this vaccine as the key to reopening a little too hard. It feels like we’re being held hostage - get this vaccine or suffer the economic and societal consequences. There has been talk about making it mandatory, about vaccine record cards to prove your vaccination status, even wristbands or microchips being required before you can go back to work/school/etc.

5. Bill Gates has been WAY too involved and vocal about this vaccine. He is a supporter of “population control” and “population reduction” (modern day euphemisms for eugenics) and has in the past listed vaccines as one of the steps to reducing the global population. Now, one explanation for this is that families might have fewer children if they expect all of their children to live to adulthood. But if your goal is to reduce the global population, can you depend on that? In fact, we’ve already seen vaccines used as cover for sterilization of women without their consent.

We’re now seeing Bill Gates partner with Mastercard to test a “Trust Stamp” system in rural communities in Africa that combines identification, financial information (credit card, etc), and vaccination records in one convenient biometric profile.

So the idea of a microchip or other method of tracking people based on their vaccination status, test results, and so on is not only realistic, it’s already undergoing a test run.

#covid 19 #science #vaccines

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