Showing posts with label pre-existent immunity. Show all posts
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Monday, July 12, 2021

Covid-19 and the Corruption of Science, State Directed Medical Terror, and Media Censorship

By Eshani M. King

Dear Editor

The British Medical Journal, November 13, 2020 (Reproduced without permission): Congratulations on your editorial highlighting the depressing levels of “corruption” taking place in the name of “beating the pandemic”. Scrutiny certainly deserves to be directed towards conflicts of interest within members of SAGE and scientific/medical advisors as examined by Dr Zoe Harcombe PhD, a Cambridge mathematics/economics graduate[1,2]. Aided by mainstream media and censorship by tech giants, this group controls the scientific narrative on which Government action has been based, even when the “science” relied upon is at complete odds with the views of many other world-class scientists.

Suppression of science and lack of open debate has impinged enormously on three issues of fundamental significance. Firstly, public fear of Covid has been elevated to levels that are completely out of proportion to the actual danger. A recent peer-reviewed paper by one of the world’s most cited and respected scientist, Professor John Ioannidis of Stanford University, quotes an infection fatality rate (IFR) for Covid of 0.00-0.57% (0.05% for under 70s), far lower than originally feared and no different to severe flu [3]. This paper is published on WHO’s own Bulletin but ignored by UK mainstream media.

Secondly, although deaths are currently running at normal levels, fear is being driven by inflation of Covid “cases” caused by inappropriate use of the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) test [4-7]. This test is hypersensitive and highly susceptible to contamination, particularly when not processed with utmost rigour by properly trained staff. Case inflation also occurs from use of excessive number of rounds of amplification cycles (termed CT) which amplifies non-infectious viral fragments and cross-reacting nucleotides from non-Covid coronaviruses/other respiratory viruses. These become mis-labelled as Covid. Even Dr Fauci confirms that a positive result using CT above 34 is invalid (Twitter thread, Jeff Nelson @vegsource 30 October 2020) but in the UK CTs may go up to 45, as confirmed by Professor Carl Heneghan of Oxford University’s Center for Evidence-Based Medicine: (House of Commons Science & Tech Committee, 17 Sep, 2020 YouTube.) An obvious improvement is to immediately halt any use of CTs above 34 and ensure that for CTs between 25 and 34, two consecutive positive results are required before confirming a case as Covid positive.

According to Professor Brookes, a Health Data Scientist from the University of Leicester, the UK’s official data shows no excess deaths due to respiratory infections this season (talkRadio, 'The number of people dying today is the same as it would be any other year', 17 November 2020 YouTube). Instead, excess total deaths have been driven by lack of treatment due to hospital closure/lockdowns and have occurred mostly at home. Whilst there is no question that the first wave of Covid, a then novel virus, was lethal to many, there is no sound evidence of any second wave.

The third and possibly the most consequential suppression of science relates to the narrative that people do not develop immunity following a Covid infection. We know that immunity to SARS-CoV-1 is very durable, persisting for at least 12-17 years [8-10]. Immunologists know that immunity to SARS-Cov-2 is no different. This is confirmed by many eminent scientists including Beda M Stadler, the former Director of the Institute for Immunology at the University of Bern and Professor Emeritus (Ivor Cummins, Ep91 Emeritus Professor of Immunology...Reveals Crucial Viral Immunity Reality, 28 July 2020, YouTube), and Sucharit Bhakdi, former Chair of Medical Microbiology at the University of Mainz [11]. The human population has encountered and co-existed with myriad coronaviruses throughout evolution. Most of us therefore have cross-reacting T-cells, B cells and antibodies derived from encounters with cold coronaviruses that can recognise SARS-CoV-2 [12-14], in the same way that people “immunised” with cowpox became less susceptible to serious illness from smallpox - as Edward Jenner discovered in 1796. This is why we do not generally die from cold coronaviruses and precisely why so many of us were not susceptible to falling severely ill from Covid earlier this year. Even the chance of passing Covid to your spouse at the height of the pandemic was as low as 17%! [15 ].

In line with expectations, mediators of robust long-term immune memory, memory B and T-cells have both been firmly established to be produced following even a mild a Covid infection [17,18]. Pouncing on a handful of examples of apparent second Covid infections is irresponsible of the media but suits the false [18] narrative that falling antibody levels lead to loss of immunity. The evidence that immunity lasts is all around us - if this were not so we would see as many people dying of and falling seriously ill with Covid now as we did in March/April, including doctors and nurses.

Pfizer’s vaccination trial data provides further confirmation of the now low rates of prevalence. 94 participants were apparently infected based on PCR positive results (of unknown CT so we cannot be sure they are all genuinely Covid). The placebo group must comprise around 22,000, half the total trial number. This yields an infection rate of, at the very most, 0.4% and makes the chances of escaping infection greater than 99.6% during the trial period. The vaccine might well be 90% “effective” - although we are yet to learn exactly how this is measured - but the risk of contracting Covid in the first place is self-evidently low. The risk of both contracting and dying from Covid using an IFR of 0.57 (the worst case) was a mere 0.002% based on pessimistic assumptions. Of course, the elderly and other high-risk categories face greater risk, but it is still far less than it was early this year and it will continue to reduce as population immunity builds further.

Hijacking of science by vested interests has resulted in immeasurable harms to society. Lockdowns, meant to save lives but being pushed by narratives that have little basis in science, have themselves caused loss of life, livelihoods, dignity, and humanity. We need to ask how we have got to this sorry state. It seems that only the extrication of science from industry by introduction of independent sources of funding for scientific research institutions, perhaps by levying a brand-new tax on industry, will allow the nation’s best scientists an independent voice and put an end to the suppression of good science, together with the mistrust and conflict it generates.

References:

1. Dr Zoe Harcombe PhD. 9 November. SAGE conflicts of interest. https://www.zoeharcombe.com/2020/11/sage-conflicts-of-interest/
2. PM Hails “ herculean efforts” of life science companies to defeat coronavirus. 10 Downing Street Press Release. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pm-hails-herculean-effort-of-life-sci...
3. John P A Ioannidis Infection fatality rate of COVID-1937 inferred from seroprevalence data. Publication: Bulletin of the World Health Organization; Type: Research Article ID: BLT.20.265892 Page 1. 14 October 2020 https://www.who.int/bulletin/online_first/BLT.20.265892.pdf
4. Elena Surkova, Vladyslav Nikolayevskyy, Francis Drobniewski. False positive Covid-19 results:hidden problems and costs. Lancet Respir Med 2020.September 29, 2020 https://doi.org/10.1016/S2213-2600(20)30453-7
5. Dr M Yeadon. Lies, damned lies and health statistics: the deadly danger of false positives. 20 September.
6. Dr Clare Craig FRC Path. How Covid Deaths Are Over-Counted. 27 October 2020. Updated 29 October 2020.
7. PCR positives: what do they mean? The Oxford Centre for Evidence-based Medicine, University of Oxford.23 September https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/pcr-positives-what-do-they-mean/
8. William J.Liuabc et al. T-cell immunity of SARS-CoV: Implications for vaccine development against MERS-CoV. Antiviral Research. Volume 137, January 2017, Pages 82-92 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.antiviral.2016.11.006
9. Le Bert N, Bertoletti A et al. SARS-CoV-2-specific T cell immunity in cases of COVID-19 and SARS, and uninfected controls. Nature. 2020 Aug;584(7821):457-462. doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2550-z. Epub 2020 Jul 15. PMID: 32668444.
10. Guo, Z. Guo, C. Duan, Z. Chen, G. Wang, Y. Lu, M. Li, J. Lu. Long-Term Persistence of IgG Antibodies in SARS-CoV Infected Healthcare Workers. MedRxiv (2020) 2020.02.12.20021386 doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.12.20021386 11. Dr Karina Reiss, Dr Sucharit Bhakdi. Book, Corona False Alarm? Facts and Figures. Pages 101-108.
12. Peter Doshi. Covid-19: Do many people have pre-existing immunity? 17 September 2020 BMJ 2020; 370 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m3563
13. E. King. Letter to BMJ: T-cells really are the superstars in fighting COVID-19 - but why are some of us so poor at making them? 21 Sep 2020 https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3563/rr-6
14. Kevin W NG et al. Preexisting and de novo humoral immunity to SARs-CoV-2 in humans. 6 Nov 2020 DOI: 10.1126/science.abe1107
15. Frederik Plesner Lyngse et al. COVID-19 Transmission Within Danish Households: A Nationwide Study from Lockdown to Reopening. medRxiv 2020.09.09.20191239; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.09.09.20191239
16. Phuong Nguyen-Contant et al. S Protein-Reactive IgG and Memory B Cell Production after Human SARS-CoV-2 Infection Includes Broad Reactivity to the S2 Subunit. mBio Sep 2020, 11 (5) e01991-20; DOI:10.1128/mBio.01991-20
17. Isabel Schulien et al, Characterization of pre-existing and induced SARS-CoV-2-specific CD8+ T cells, Nature Medicine (2020). DOI: 10.1038/s41591-020-01143-2
18. Tyler J Ripperger, Deepta Bhattacharya et al. Orthogonal SARS-CoV-2 Serological Assays Enable Surveillance of Low Prevalence Communities and Reveal Durable Humoral Immunity. Immunity Volume 53, Issue 5, 17 November 2020, Pages 925-933.e4 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.immuni.2020.10.004

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Meantime, Google censors pandemic science that fails to support the terror narrative. Thus for example a search for the Youtube video by Professor Sucharit Bhakdi, M.D. explaining the evidence of almost universal pre-existent immunity to Covid-19 yields the message: 
This video has been removed for violating youtube's community guidelines.
This followed by a link inviting one to "Learn more," which prompted the person to whom I had sent the video link to remark:
I love the irony of exhorting me to learn more while preventing me from doing so.

But let us give thanks where thanks is due: To the unsung heroes who clear the piles of dead bodies from the streets each night. 

Friday, July 9, 2021

"Proof that puts an end to the Sars-CoV-2 Narrative" | Professor Sucharit Bhakdi, M.D.

Wow, flushed by Google's U-Tube already. Here it is from BitChute:

Dr. Bhakdi explains, based on new scientific evidence, why he believes:
* Your immune system is your best defense against SARS-CoV-2, and indeed all coronaviruses.
* If you have been infected, even if you experienced no symptoms at all, you are immune to all variants.
* We have already reached herd immunity.
* There is no scientific reason to vaccinate against SARS-CoV-2. There is simply no benefit and the rollout must be stopped.

Scientific literature references for Dr. Bhakdi’s presentation:

and

In this interview with The New American magazine’s Senior Editor Alex Newman, world-renown German-Thai-American microbiologist Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi warns that the COVID hysteria is based on lies and that the COVID “vaccines” are set to cause a global catastrophe and decimation of the human population. Starting off, he explains that the PCR test has been abused to produce fear in a way that is unscientific.

Related:
ZH: People Who Recover From COVID-19 At "Very Low Risk" Of Re-Infection: Study -- Wow, who'd have thunk it. Perhaps someone would tell that madman Fauci?
IW: Lunatic Fauci's CDC: Kids not vaccinated will need to wear masks and undergo weekly testing this school year

Friday, May 7, 2021

The Covid "Vaccine": The Harm It Can Do, and Why Most People Don't Need It

First, let's be clear what this "vaccine" is. 

The "vaccines" currently being dispensed do not induce full-spectrum, lifelong immunity. They merely induce the production of antibodies to the SARS2 (aka Covid19) spike protein. This they do by inducing the cells of the vaccinated person to produce the SARS2 spike protein. The foreign protein thus produced, activates the immune system to produce SARS2-specific neutralizing antibodies—neutralizing, in this context, meaning protecting from infection, as opposed to merely resisting the consequences of infection. 

The down side is that the antibodies thus produced soon fade away. Thus the immunity of the "vaccinated" individual is transient, lasting no more than a year. What the vaccine does not do is induce robust and durable (probably, life-long) T-Cell immunity. 

So who needs the untested Covid19, aka SARS2, "vaccine".

No one who has already had the virus, certainly. Such people will already have undergone a full-spectrum immune response including the production of short-lived neutralizing antibodies and long-lived SARS2-recognizing T-Cells. 

And how many people is that? 

In October last year, the WHO estimated that it was one in ten of the World's population, or 767 million people.  So the number today must be well in excess of a billion, maybe two billion, or one person in four. 

And among the uninfected, there is absolutely no justification for "vaccinating" children. SARS2 is less dangerous to children than the seasonal flu and probably much less dangerous than the experimental "vaccines" themselves. 

54 children in the Land of the Free have died from COVID (according to CDC data through April 28).

Given that there have been roughly 4 million confirmed COVID cases among children, this implies a survival rate of 99.999%.

For kids, even the Chicken Pox is more fatal, not to mention a variety of other common illnesses ranging from the flu to strep throat.

Yet the world never closed schools due to the chicken pox.

Curiously, his grace, Lord Protector Anthony Fauci, noted back in 2009 during the Swine Flu epidemic that “we have already 76 children dying from the 2009 H1N1 virus, and it’s only the beginning of October.”

Yet his eminence did not demand schools close. And the CDC specifically recommended NOT closing schools.

(Fauci also stated then, “you can’t isolate yourself from the rest of the world for the whole flu season. . .”)

Then there’s the Holy See of the World Health Organization, of whom no one is worthy to question. Yet the WHO says that “diarrhea kills around 525,000 children under five” every year.

Yet did anyone ever close the schools to prevent the spread of the diarrhea-causing rotavirus?

Source

If infected, children are rarely symptomatic and, like asymptomatic adults, they do not spread the disease. However, as a result of infection, children get full spectrum SARS2 immunity, including long-lasting T-Cell immunity from infection. 

"Vaccinating" children is thus a very bad idea. Indeed, vaccinating children seems like a criminal enterprise. It denies the child the chance of gaining the most robust and durable possible immunity from future SARS2 infection, instead condemning them to annual if not twice yearly "vaccine" jabs plus the risk of an adverse "vaccine" reaction, including possible death.  

"Vaccination", which is promoted as a means to achieving "herd immunity," is in fact a means of preventing attainment of herd immunity, which condemning billions of people to needless and costly annual or more frequent "vaccinations," which in themselves constitutes a significant risk to health.  

Among adults under the age of 65, SARS2 is rarely fatal. Furthermore, those most at risk are in the great majority of cases clearly identifiable. They include the overweight and the obese. Thus of Americans admitted to hospital with SARS2, 78% were overweight or obese

Other risk factors include diabetes, which is often associated with obesity, and diseases of the heart and lungs, including bronchitis, emphysema and asthma. For most adults, therefore, the case for "vaccination" is weak or non-existent. Infection, often asymptomatic, entails little risk and provides the benefit of long-term future immunity. 

Moreover, according to a British Medical Journal article by associate editor Peter Doshi, it is likely that around one third of adults have pre-existing immunity to SARS2 as the result of previous infection with a corona virus, such as strains causing the common cold.

For the over 65's, the main factor elevating the risk of death from SARS2 is age, or more specifically, a decline in heart and lung capacity. As physical activity declines, heart and lung capacity declines also. As a consequence, the additional strain on heart and lungs due to any infection, including SARS2, that clogs the lungs and airways with mucus is likely to overwhelm the system and result in death. That being the case, one of two things may save an elderly person in the event of exposure to SARS2: one is preexistent T-Cell immunity, which may approach 50% of the population among the old; the other is the experimental "vaccine."  

Related:

PNAS: Exhaled aerosol increases with COVID-19 infection, age, and obesity
Bruno, et al.: SARS-CoV-2 mass vaccination: Urgent questions on vaccine safety

NOW Banned by U -Tube: 
*****Tucker Carlson: How many Americans have died after taking the COVID vaccine? (Answer, to May 4, 2021: 3,722 people, at least. More than have died from all other vaccines over the previous fifteen years. And the real number? Possibly many times higher, i.e., the deadliest mass vaccination event in history. And millions of American may derive no benefit whatsoever from Covid "vaccination".) 


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