Regular bolus vitamin D supplementation was associated with less severe COVID-19 and better survival in frail elderly.
— Read on pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33147894/
Month: November 2020
Even a Military-Enforced Quarantine Can’t Stop the Virus, Study Reveals – AIER
“The lockdowners keep telling us to pay attention to the science. That’s what we are doing. When the results contradict their pro-compulsion narrative, they pretend that the studies do not exist and barrel ahead with…
— Read on www.aier.org/article/even-a-military-enforced-quarantine-cant-stop-the-virus-study-reveals/
False-positive COVID-19 results: hidden problems and costs – The Lancet Respiratory Medicine
False-positive COVID-19 results: hidden problems and costs – The Lancet Respiratory Medicine
— Read on www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(20)30453-7/fulltext
Sir Desmond Swayne: British people do not worry too much about their liberties
This speech right here by conservative MP Sir Desmond Swayne says it very well. Many, like me, have realised early on that by intentionally mismanaging the pandemic with dictatorial acts typical of unfree countries like China, the real goal of western governments was to test how ready their citizens were to be treated as the cattle globalists need them to be. And the results are in; and it’s not looking good for freedom.
Selective and cross-reactive SARS-CoV-2 T cell epitopes in unexposed humans
Preexisting immune response to SARS-CoV-2
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/370/6512/89.full
Robust T cell responses to the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus occur in most individuals with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Several studies have reported that some people who have not been exposed to SARS-CoV-2 have preexisting reactivity to SARS-CoV-2 sequences. The immunological mechanisms underlying this preexisting reactivity are not clear, but previous exposure to widely circulating common cold coronaviruses might be involved. Mateus et al. found that the preexisting reactivity against SARS-CoV-2 comes from memory T cells and that cross-reactive T cells can specifically recognize a SARS-CoV-2 epitope as well as the homologous epitope from a common cold coronavirus. These findings underline the importance of determining the impacts of preexisting immune memory in COVID-19 disease severity.
AAPS considers the possibility of a ‘casedemic’
Latest in a growing list of sceptics with regards to “a second wave of Covid” is the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, which says:
Will the huge rollout of COVID tests help end the pandemic—or assure that it will never end?
We have had pseudo-epidemics before. In 2006, much of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center was shut down, and 1,000 employees were furloughed or quarantined, because whooping cough was thought to be spreading like wildfire based on 142 positive PCR tests.
The employees also had cultures taken, and a couple weeks later not a single one had a positive culture for the slow-growing bacteria, Bordetella pertussis. There had simply been an outbreak of some other ordinary respiratory disease, not the dreaded whooping cough. Gina Kolata wrote in The New York Times: “Faith in Quick Test Leads to Epidemic That Wasn’t.”
It is not so easy to culture a virus, and cultures of SARS-CoV-2 are not routinely done. Unlike in previous epidemics (SARS-CoV-1, H1N1 influenza, Ebola, or Zika), World Health Organization (WHO) guidance has no requirement or recommendation for a confirmatory test in COVID-19.
There is surprisingly little information on the false positive rate of PCR tests for COVID. That all lab tests have false positives should not be controversial, but this idea “has been entirely rejected by governments and the medical establishment, writes Mike Hearn.
For all tests, the predictive value of a positive test depends on the prevalence of disease. If most of the persons tested are free of disease, a positive test may be more likely to be a false than a true positive. This could at least partially explain the reports of large numbers of asymptomatic carriers of SARS-CoV-2.
Failure to recognize the problem of false positives has consequences—such as possible quarantining of uninfected with infected individuals.
The dreaded “second wave” might be a surge of false positive tests that are inevitable in mass screenings of healthy persons.
If you get a positive PCR result, you might want to get a confirmatory test, for example antibodies, especially if you are not sick. Positive or not, you might want to be sure you have adequate levels of vitamin D and zinc, and access to a physician willing to prescribe early home treatment.
For more information:
“What Does a Positive PCR Test Mean?”
“COVID-19 Statistics and Facts: Meaningful or a Means of Manipulation?”
“COVID-19 Diagnosis”