How to prepare for the inevitable COVID-19 reinfection

No. I’m not scaremongering. There is a high likelihood that the Omicron variant will reinfect many.

According to Scientific American, the BA.4 and BA.5 accounted for about 70 percent of new COVID cases in the U.S. as of July 2.

Yahoo Finance interviewed Emergency Medicine Attending Physician Dr. Calvin Sun. He said,

BA.5 is the most transmissible variant we’ve ever seen and on par with measles, which was the most transmissible disease before COVID.

R0 — also known as R naught — is a metric used by epidemiologists to measure the transmissibility of infection.

The R0 for the original strain of the virus was 4, which meant that “for every one person that got infected, three to four people in the room who were unvaccinated would get infected,” Sun explained. The R0 for the BA.5 variant is 18. (The measles R0 ranges between 12-18.)

I would add that the R0 of 18 will apply to both unvaccinated and the vaccinated. You will see why below.

Omicron evades immunity

Immunity acquired from the previous SARS-CoV-2 variants in the COVID jabs may not be 100% protective against the BA.4 and BA.5. Their spike proteins have evolved to evade the antibodies. [3]

A recent Omicron COVID-19 may not be protective either. A study published in Science shows that while the Omicron elicits antibodies against the other variants of concern like the Alpha, Delta, and Beta, it does not produce effective antibodies against itself. [1]

Another study from the Biomedical Pioneering Innovation Center from Peking University in China concurs. The subvariants BA.2.12.1, BA.4, and BA.5 escape antibodies elicited by Omicron infection.[2]

Omicron-directed booster shots won’t work either. An animal study published in Cell about that mRNA-Omicron booster shot concluded,

These data show that mRNA-1273 and mRNA-Omicron elicit comparable immunity and protection shortly after the boost.[3]

At first reading, it sounds like it is effective, except when you know that the current Moderna mRNA-1273 does not prevent Omicron. Thousands of Moderna recipients who had COVID after getting their shots can attest to that.

The study from China also came to the same conclusion that Omicron-derived vaccine boosters may not provide protection. [3]

Together, our results indicate that Omicron may evolve mutations to evade the humoral immunity elicited by BA.1 infection, suggesting that BA.1-derived vaccine boosters may not achieve broad-spectrum protection against new Omicron variants.

Returning to the Yahoo interview with Dr. Sun, he gave us some good news. Hospitalization has remained flat, and the death rate is low.

The risk factors for developing severe COVID-19 are still the same. Obesity, hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, and other chronic ailments.

So what do people do?

Preventing Severe COVID-19

The standard advice is that people wear masks, social distance, isolate themselves at home, and use hand sanitizers. But those are all external.

A better way to lower the risk of developing severe COVID-19 is to lessen the level of inflammation in the body. The first step is to identify if you the risk factors for developing severe COVID-19. (Obesity, hypertension, diabetes, heart disease)

Comorbidities have chronic inflammation as a common denominator. Omicron, in its severity, is like a small lighted matchstick. If you touch it on wet wood, nothing happens. That’s like someone without comorbidities.

However, if you bring that match to a room with a gas leak, you get an explosion. That is the analogy of an Omicron variant to someone with a risk factor like obesity.

Intermittent Fasting

A simple and inexpensive way is intermittent fasting. Pro-inflammatory cytokines from white blood cells are responsible for the inflammation. In a mice experiment [4], white blood cells decrease by about 28% during intermittent fasting.

This results in a lower level of inflammation. The white blood cells decrease due to autophagy, where the body recycles abnormal and useless cells to reuse their amino acids. It is not only the old white blood cells that get recycled but also stem cells.

After the resumption of eating, the amazing thing is that the new stem cells and white blood cells that form are stress resistant.

In the experiment, the mice fasted for 48 hours. Not all people can fast that long. However, you can slowly lengthen the fasting period. In the meantime, the visceral fat melts away, blood pressure and sugar normalize, and triglycerides lower.

Update July 16, 2022. In another study, a 19-hour fast is enough to lower the total lymphocyte count in 70% of multiple sclerosis patients undergoing a fasting-mimicking diet (FMD). FMD is done by keeping the carb, protein, and calorie intake low and your fat intake high. The amount of calories consumed is at 40% of regular intake.

In addition, less inflammation improves the functions of the endothelial cells lining the inside of the blood vessels. This makes them less prone to clot formation, which is common in hospitalized patients with COVID-19.

Learn more about the study that showed that intermittent fasting lowers COVID-19 risk at this LINK

Nasal Rinsing and mouth washing

Another inexpensive way is to decrease the viral load in the nose and the mouth. Those are the areas where the viruses settle in and start to multiply. The higher the viral load, the worse COVID-19 becomes.

Let us say you came back from an indoor gathering where the risk of getting the virus is high. Nasal rinsing with saline and povidone-iodine kills the viruses in 20 seconds. Learn more about them at

Vitamin D

You won’t find a COVID-19 patient in the intensive care unit with adequate Vitamin D3.

Adequate Vitamin D Prevents Severe COVID-19

The rest of the COVID-19 prevention can be found at

The I-PREVENT COVID Protection Protocol

Early Treatment

What if you still get the COVID? Get early treatment. Not all interventions need a prescription.

The FLCCC I-CARE Early COVID Treatment Protocol

Now you are ready.

Truth heals. Lies kill. Don’t Get Sick!

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References:

Reynolds et al. Immune boosting by B.1.1.529 (Omicron) depends on previous SARS-CoV-2 exposure. SCIENCE. 14 Jun 2022.
Cao, Y., Yisimayi, A., Jian, F. et al. BA.2.12.1, BA.4 and BA.5 escape antibodies elicited by Omicron infection. Nature (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04980-y
M. Gagne et al. mRNA-1273 or mRNA-Omicron boost in vaccinated macaques elicits similar B cell expansion, neutralizing responses, and protection from Omicron. Cell 185, 1556–1571.e18 (2022)
Cheng CW, Longo VD et al. Prolonged fasting reduces IGF-1/PKA to promote hematopoietic-stem-cell-based regeneration and reverse immunosuppression. Cell Stem Cell. 2014 Jun 5;14(6):810-23. doi: 10.1016/j.stem.2014.04.014. Erratum in: Cell Stem Cell. 2016 Feb 4;18(2):291-2. PMID: 24905167; PMCID: PMC4102383.

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