Category: Covid-19 and Vaccine News

All the Covid-19/ SARS-Cov-2 headlines around the world

Another Study Confirms the Rise of IgG4 after the mRNA shots

Posted on by Jesse Santiano, M.D.

This article presents another study showing that the immune-tolerant IgG4 rises after COVID-29 mRNA injections. The International Society for Infectious Diseases published The Appearance of Anti-spike Receptor Binding Domain Immunoglobulin G4 Responses after Repetitive Immunization with Messenger RNA-based COVID-19 Vaccines in November 2023. The authors are from the Department of Microbiology & Immunology of the  Fukuoka…

Janssen (J&J) COVID-19 shot Lot numbers with the most deaths

Posted on by Jesse Santiano, M.D.

There is much interest in this article, Lot Numbers of Pfizer and Moderna mRNA Vaccines with the Highest Deaths, published in November 2021 and updated in April 2022. This article is an update for the Janssen (Johnson and Johnson) COVID injection only. I separated the three manufacturers and sorted the Lot numbers in ascending order (A→Z,…

Monkeypox: Time for disinfection again

Posted on by Jesse Santiano, M.D.

The explosion of monkeypox cases in Europe, the US, and Australia are concerning. It is not natural. There’s no point source, and many cases are being diagnosed within days of each other in countries outside Africa where monkeypox is endemic. Furthermore, the affected countries are separated by borders and oceans. There is no report that…

Pfizer and Moderna shots increase all cause mortality: Denmark study

Posted on by Jesse Santiano, M.D.

Vaccines modify the immune system. Those changes may protect or increase the risk of acquiring unrelated infections. Also, the body’s response to immune diseases is altered. A good example is the effect of the anti-tuberculosis vaccine, Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine. Neonates who received BCG have a lower mortality rate. Is this the same for the COVID-19…

Pfizer BNT162b2 adverse events as of February 28, 2021

Posted on by Jesse Santiano, M.D.

The data for this article is taken from the Pfizer document, 5.3.6 CUMULATIVE ANALYSIS OF POST-AUTHORIZATION ADVERSE EVENT REPORTS OF PF-07302048 (BNT162B2) RECEIVED THROUGH 28-FEB-2021. The pdf link is embedded in the title. In it are the adverse events that are listed in The Complete List of the Pfizer Adverse Events of Special Interest that…

US government issues guide on how to prepare for nuclear explosion

Posted on by Jesse Santiano, M.D.

Yesterday, Vladimir Putin put placed all of Russia’s nuclear armaments on high alert. In response, the US government updated Ready.gov to include nuclear preparedness. This article is reproduced from the U.S. website Ready.gov. This is new on their website. Many of you probably know that I worked in the emergency room for more than a…

More COVID jabbed dead from COVID-19 than the unvaxxed in Scotland

Posted on by Jesse Santiano, M.D.

Public Health Scotland released the COVID-19 Winter Report. It is 62 pages long, but I will go straight to the point. Table 15 on page 47, shown below, summarizes it all. The table shows the confirmed COVID-19 related deaths among the unvaccinated and three vaccinated groups. (One, two, and three (booster) doses). Table 15 of…

Kaiser Permanente study shows myopericarditis is 43 times higher than VAERS reports

Posted on by Jesse Santiano, M.D.

Kaiser Permanente Northwest studied 65,785 members aged 18-39 who received a COVID-19 vaccine booster shot at least five months following the primary series. They looked for the ‘myocarditis’ and ‘pericarditis’ diagnosis codes in all outpatient and inpatient encounters until January 18, 2022. Myocarditis is the inflammation of the heart muscles, and pericarditis is the inflammation…

The beneficial effects of the Wim Hof Method on arthritis

Posted on by Jesse Santiano, M.D.

Plos One published a study on whether the Wim Hof Method can clinically improve arthritis. The Wim Hof Method (WHM) comprises a breathing technique with hyperventilation, cold therapy, and meditation. The breathing method is described below. A previous article, Secrets of the Ice Man: Voluntary control of adrenaline and the effect on the immune system,…

Rapid Progression of a Lymphoma following Pfizer booster shot

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A 66-year-old man with no significant medical history except for hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, and type 2 diabetes presented on September 1, 2021, with lymph node enlargement on his neck. The increase in size became apparent after a recent flu-like syndrome. He has no history of cancer. He had two doses of BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine (Pfizer) 5…

Secrets of the Ice Man revealed: How he tolerates the cold and produce body heat while in icy temperatures

Posted on by Jesse Santiano, M.D.

Yesterday I posted Secrets of the Ice Man: Voluntary control of adrenaline and the effect on the immune system. This article features “Brain over body”-A study on the willful regulation of autonomic function during cold exposure that gave the scientific explanation on how Wim Hof can tolerate prolonged exposure to icy environments.  Wim Hof, also known as…

How ordinary mouthwashes kill the SARS-CoV-2

Posted on by Jesse Santiano, M.D.

This article is about the efficacy of Cetylpyridinium chloride (CPC) in killing SARS-CoV-2 viruses. The research,  Virucidal activity, and mechanism of action of cetylpyridinium chloride against SARS-CoV-2  is from The University of Miyazaki in Japan and is a preprint at medRxiv.  The authors tested the antiviral activity of cetylpyridinium chloride or CPC against SARS-CoV-2. CPC…

The COVID-19 virus attacks protective airway cells

Posted on by Jesse Santiano, M.D.

The COVID-19 virus attacks protective airway cells and how mouthwashes can stop it This article talks about a preprint study that came out yesterday at medRxiv. The first is from Yale University shows how the  SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 infects the ciliated cells of the respiratory tract. Greaney and colleagues from Yale found that…

SARS-CoV-2 spike proteins detected in the plasma following Moderna shots

Posted on by Jesse Santiano, M.D.

The goal of COVID-19 vaccination is to make the body produce the SARS-CoV-2 spike proteins anchored in the outer membrane of the skeletal muscle cells. The body will then make antibodies and other immune cells against it to protect future SARS-CoV-2 infections. A study from Harvard detected spike proteins in the blood produced following a…

145 countries with higher COVID-19 cases and deaths after the COVID shots

Posted on by Jesse Santiano, M.D.

145 countries with higher COVID-19 cases and deaths after the COVID shots Any immunization program aims to provide more protection to the people against a particular infection. And that should reflect on the lower the number of cases and deaths after the program started. Kyle Beattie discovered the opposite in 145 countries in his paper,…

Vaccine-induced deaths in the US and Europe are way higher than the VAERS reports!

Posted on by Jesse Santiano, M.D.

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…

Omicron can evade antibodies from vaccinated and COVID convalescent people

Posted on by Jesse Santiano, M.D.

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…

Study: Pfizer COVID shots are good for 90 days only. Booster shots every 3 months

Posted on by Jesse Santiano, M.D.

The UK’s Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) recently recommended that booster shots be given every three months. Greece is also recommending booster shots every three months. The emergence of the omicron variant influenced the recommendation. However, research published in the British Journal of Medicine may have provided the scientific background. The study done…