The Omicron variant (B.1.1.529) is currently the dominant variant of concern of SARS-CoV-2. Its mutations confer it higher contagiousness but less disease. Some people can still be hospitalized with an Omicron infection, but who? That question is answered by a South African study released yesterday by the Journal of American Medical Association. The study is…
July 9, 2022 update: The FLCCC Early Treatment Protocol is now The FLCCC I-CARE Early COVID Treatment Protocol This article is updated with new information on Dec. 31, 2021. The Omicron is more infectious but less deadly than the Delta variant. This protocol should also work for the Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2. Why treat…
Update July 14, 2022: The featured study in this article is now published in Clinical and Translational Medicine. A preprint study from Hong Kong University shows that an Omicron infection elicits an immune response against several SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern. As a snapshot, the study involved two previously vaccinated people who had an omicron infection….
Bromhexine is an over-the-counter drug that is recommended to dissolve mucus. It has several brand names worldwide that can be found at this link. c19bromhexine.com gathers medical studies about the use of bromhexine for COVID-19 and presents them together in a meta-analysis. The table below is from c19bromhexine.com and presents five studies using bromhexine for…
The preprint study, COVID vaccination, and age-stratified all-cause mortality risk showed that the CDC estimates of vaccine-induced fatality rates (VFR) of 0.002% are underreported by a factor of 20. Spiro Pantazatos from Columbia University and Herve Seligmann, an independent researcher with 194 publications, made the study. Snapshot COVID shots increase deaths from all causes 0-5 weeks…
The Syrian golden hamster is used for COVID-19 research. That’s because its reaction to SARS-CoV-2 is similar to humans. Early in the pandemic, Hong Kong University investigated the effects of the SARS-CoV-2 on Syrian golden hamsters. It concluded that hamsters are an essential tool for studying transmission, pathogenesis, treatment, and vaccination against SARS-CoV-2. Since then,…
What is amyloid? Amyloids are tube-like proteins that are small in size. About 7-13 nanometers in diameter. One centimeter is 10,000,000 nanometers. One inch is 25,400,000 nanometers. Amyloid and diseases Amyloids are linked to diseases. The most well-known condition associated with amyloid protein accumulation is Alzheimer’s disease, where progressive memory loss occurs. Amyloids are seen…
What type of COVID shot results in the most myocarditis? What are the age and sex affected? These are the question answered by scientists from different institutions in the UK including Oxford University, King’s College London, and the British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence. It was published yesterday as a preprint as Risk of…
Can a booster shot stop the omicron variant? That is is the question answered by this paper. This research is essential because it is a clinical investigation, and what happened to people is better than a laboratory simulation between antibodies and pseudotyped (assembled) viruses. That’s because there is more to the immune system than measuring…
“Out of life’s school of war—what doesn’t kill me, makes me stronger.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, The mutations in the omicron variant allow it to escape the immune response, but its entry into the lung cells becomes impaired. This explains the higher transmission but lower mortality rates in South Africa. The higher…
If you want to know if death rates and hospitalization will increase when omicron hits your location, look at what happened in South Africa, where the omicron variant started and is now the dominant variant comprising 95% of the cases. Analysts from the South African Medical Research Council and National Institute for Communicable Diseases in…
Circulation, a well-respected medical journal widely read by internists and cardiologists, published a study showing a temporal relationship between COVID-19 shots and myocarditis in teenagers and young adults. The authors used the criteria set by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to diagnose myocarditis. Study Findings White Males developed the most myocarditis The study…
A study showed that Echinacea purpurea, also known as purple coneflower, effectively prevents several viral upper respiratory tract infections, including COVID-19. A team of international scientists from Virtus Respiratory Research, National Heart Lung Institute, Imperial College London, Clinical Research Center in Bulgaria, Charité – Universitätsmedizin in Berlin, Italian Ministry of Defence, Precision Oncology Network (IPPON)…
This post highlights people who developed eye complications after mRNA (Pfizer, Moderna) or adenoviral-vectored COVID-19 vaccines. (AstraZeneca, Janssen, J&J). The case series were peer-reviewed and in the Vaccines and the Journal of Ophthalmic & Vision Research. The retina is at the back of the eye and receives visual stimuli. The image below represents an eye…
A rare form of a blood clotting disorder called cerebral venous sinus thrombosis started to rise among recipients of the AstraZeneca and Johnson and Johnson (Janssen) COVID vaccines. What is the cerebral venous system? Blood and cerebrospinal fluid are drained from the brain by the cerebral venous system. Let’s call it CVS for now to…
The FRONT LINE COVID-19 CRITICAL CARE ALLIANCE includes aspirin in its I-MASK+ protocol for the early treatment of COVID-19. Why is aspirin included in the protocol? Aspirin regulates inflammation, prevents clot formation, and has antiviral effects. The anti-clotting effects of aspirin Blood clots inside the blood vessels are found in severe COVID-19 and compromise blood…
This article highlights the results of the preprint research showing the effectiveness of Ivermectin against COVID-19.[1] Itajaí, a city in the Southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, initiated a population-wide government program for COVID-19 prophylaxis from July 2020 to December 2020. Population studied A total of 133,051 of these people (60.3% of the population) received…
Recent studies are starting to say that the neutralizing antibodies elicited by prior COVID-19 infections and vaccinations are ineffective against the omicron variant. I talked about them at Study shows absence of omicron neutralization with the Pfizer and AstraZeneca shots, and Omicron can evade antibodies from vaccinated and COVID convalescent people. But, there is more…
Omicron can evade antibodies from vaccinated and COVID convalescent people Nowadays, a burning question in everybody’s mind, whether they are vaccinated or not, is, “Am I protected against the omicron variant?” Research from the Institute of Virology of the Medical University of Innsbruck, Australia, answered that question. At least partially. The study is SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.529…
New research from the University of Oxford, Reduced neutralisation of SARS-COV-2 Omicron-B.1.1.529 variant by post-immunisation serum, showed that Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccination antibodies are ineffective against the omicron variant. It is available as a preprint from medRxiv. They studied serum among people given the Pfizer BNT162b2 shot (n=21) and the AstraZeneca AZD1222 jab (n=22). The…
