Tag: ChAdOx-1

Autoimmune antibodies and diseases after COVID-19 disease and injections

Posted on by Jesse Santiano, M.D.

A newly released study, Autoantibodies linked to autoimmune diseases associate with COVID-19 outcomes, discovered elevated autoantibodies in patients with moderate to severe COVID-19 infections.[1] The study included 248 adults from five states of the USA. One hundred seventy-one of them had COVID-19 symptoms and tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 by PCR testing. Seventy-seven are healthy controls. The…

Two studies show why the Omicron variant has low fatality and high infectivity

Posted on by Jesse Santiano, M.D.

“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…